As a geek father, I have a reputation to uphold. And BearDuino has helped me maintain some shred of credibility with my kids... while creeping them out a bit in the process.
The BearDuino is a hardware-hacked Teddy Ruxpin -- the infamous animatronic talking story-time teddy bear unleashed in all its uncanniness on the world in the 1980s -- that has been turned into a kit for use with an Arduino microcontroller, ready for would-be makers to use for good or evil.
I've been itching to do something with the open-source Arduino for a while. I like to break things to figure out how they work and then reconstruct them, and I have a closet full of projects completed or in progress -- and the associated debris to prove it. But for the most part, I've shied away from electronic hardware hacks.
By: Sean Gallagher,
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-08/1/bearduino
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