davidsproule
Canada
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Hi Folks
I am a new member, a retired clergyman going back to my earlier vocation in electronics. I have had a lot of fun with Arduino and was intrigued by the current Make magazine article on Teddy Ruxpin and Chip. Unfortunately Chip will not ship until June. So I thought I would look at doing it with Photon. I found a pristine Ruxpin of the non tape recorder variety (it just speaks a couple of sentences), but am stymied as to the 7 wire cable to mouth and eye control. Has anyone identified what wire goes where. I hope I will not have to do the ghastly neck surgery done to one of my bear's uncles. Looking forward to my adventure with you.
Dave
I also saw the recent hack in Make magazine (as I have a subscription ;D) and I too thought that there was a lot missing in terms of actually doing the physical hack. While I don't have the wiring specifications that you are looking for I can say that DJ replaced the existing mouth and eye motors with 2 servos and got his Teddy Ruxpin working in the course of a night.
I don't have a Teddy Ruxpin myself but I hope to own 1 one day. It was a great show that I grew up watching at 6AM before school lol.
I've been contemplating a Teddy R. project myself...
Steve
The site has a lot of good info. One of the problems is that Teddy Ruxpin appeared in several models. The good Dr. is showing the cassette player model. Mine is a simpler one without a player. The PC board has some audio storage. Teddy says two sentences and might originally have said more. My Ted has upper & lower jaws that work together - some had separate servos/motors. The eyes seem to be controlled separately from the mouth. There are 7 wires entering the head from the chest PC board to control eyes and mouth.
I will send Dr. Eeyore a note and see if he can help.
Dave
I notice that you are also a Canadian. I am in Toronto. Any chance you are close and able to meet me at Tims (of course) to convince me of the merits of ez robot?
Dave