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ChatGPT, Raspberry Pi-Powered Furby Plans World Domination

In “Things I didn’t know ChatGPT would work” Furby was at the top of the list. But a Raspberry Pi and a bit of Python seem to be enough to add some cute faces to Skynet’s distant cousins.This project from jessica card Combine a skinned Furby with a Raspberry Pi 4 to create an interactive chat buddy with a voice reminiscent of Resident Evil’s Red Queen AI.

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From 1998 to 2018, Furby was a popular series of robotic electronic toys resembling DNA experiments on hamsters and owls. Nonetheless, they were extremely popular, and avid makers and hackers loved to tear them apart for their projects. , I was able to capture the user’s query using a USB microphone and a Python speech recognition module. These queries are sent to her OpenAI Whisper speech-to-text library, and ChatGPT responds as text her prompts. The text was converted to speech using Narakeet’s text-to-speech narration library. Audio Her files are played using USB powered speakers. The mouth, eye, and ear movements that accompany it are controlled using an H-bridge motor controller (on the breadboard in the video), which isolates the higher current required by Furby’s motors from her Raspberry Pi.

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