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For Maker Faire Detroit 2011, I displayed a hack I made to a FurReal Friends Butterscotch Pony. My fellow LVL1 Hackers and I had taken control of the ...
At one time, Butterscotch and S'more ponies both sold for around $300, but they seem to be discontinued. I would never suggest someone pay this much...
The tools you will need vary in this project. I will try to tier it based on what you want to accomplish with your FurReal pony. Hardware you will n...
Before you get into the really fun parts, you will need to skin your pony. I started at the head as it already has a zipper. Move the mane out of ...
Now we are going to remove the skin from around the face. The face is attached in 4 areas: the ears, eyes, nose, and mouth. Pull the skin up the bac...
The last step of peeling your ponies face off is to removed the skin from the mouth. The the skin on the upper and lower jaw are both connected in th...
Removing the skin from the body is a lot of the same. there is a few more places that they sew the fabric to the plastic. I followed the seem in mos...
There is an inner seem along each leg. Snip the stitch and tear down each of them till you get to the feet. The feet are held on with a different fa...
The very last step is to remove the part that is holding the fabric to the neck. I did this by cutting through the lighter, fur-less fabric at the ne...
To get to the main circuit board in the head, you need to removed the left side of the face (the pony's left, not yours) There are quite a few screws...
I removed every screw I could find from the pony and still could not get the body open. I could not see any clips I could open, or anything else I co...
To take control of the pony we will cut the power and the ground to the Micro-controller that is currently controlling the pony. There are two contro...
Now we need to power our Arduino, but there is no need to add another battery when we already have the 6 C cells powering the pony itself. Tapping in...
You will need to tap into the the lines coming out of the motor control circuit coming out of the micro-controllers. We will do this at 4 spots on ea...
There are 4 encoders that will tell you the position of the head. Two of them are located in the head and 2 of them are located in the body. The two...
For the current code you will want to have the pins as such Resistor label --- Pin on the Arduino R14 Pin 23 R15 Pin 25 R27 Pin 27 R28 P...
Now you will need to connect the Wii nunchuck breakout board from adafruit. If you want to run the wii nunchuck at 5v you can just use the .1 pitched...
The code should be loaded on the arduino mega using the arduino IDE. Before doing so, you will need to put the modified wii nunchuck file into your a...
The fuel we are using for the fire is automobile starter fuel. This can be purchased at most any store that sells automotive supplies. To attach th...
The ignition system is an electric grill ignitor that has had the leads on it extended. Just over the mouth (or wherever you want the fire to come ou...
The Remote fuel trigger uses a bowden cable to pull down on a sheet of hinged plexi glass, which pushes the spray nozzle on the fuel can. A bowden ca...
I know that I covered a lot and I am sure I missed something. If something was not clear feel free to ask a question and I will try to clear it up or...
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