pyfurby 0.1

Controlling the various parts of the Furby with Python and a Pi Zero

# PyFurby Control a Raspberry Pi Zero enpowered furby via a served Jupyter notebook or via a restless API.

The victim, looking scared…

[<br/>(click to enlarge)](images/fear.JPG)

## Module details and functionality

See [API notes](API.md)

The objective is to make the furby easy to control and customise. Say in a Furby served Jupyter notebook within the local network:

from pyfurby import Furby furby = Furby() furby.wait_until_squeezed() furby.say(‘Get your filthy hands off me’) furby.wait_until_moved() furby.say(‘Put me down you degenerate’)

It contains several methods, ranging from the comical

furby.flutter() # it flutters its eyelids

to the useful

furby.recite_ip()

And can be set commands remotely:

furby.restless()

## Background

The idea and the majority of the setup came form [a blog post](https://howchoo.com/g/otewzwmwnzb/amazon-echo-furby-using-raspberry-pi-furlexa) However, there were lots of problems and differences. Namely

• the code here is different

• the components are squeezed in differently

• gyroscope

## Project This project can be divided into:

• [hardware](hardware.md)

• [software](software.md)

On the software side, I was disappointed that Alexa not on an Echo cannot play music. However, making it serve a jupyter notebook and having a nice API (pyfurby) mean that it’s rather fun. As a result it is not a Furbexa, but a pyfurby. What do you reckon Furby?

from pyfurby import Furby furby = Furby() furby.say(‘I rather have my fur back on, you creep!’)

In fact, I am going to find someone who can sew to make it a lab coat so it can give instructions at open days.