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From: adam@cbmvax.UUCP ( CATS)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Animatronics toys
Summary: Understand interface scheme?
Keywords: Teddy Ruxpin, Grubby, Worlds of Wonder
Message-ID: <7055@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jun 89 13:44:46 GMT
Reply-To: adam@cbmvax.UUCP (Adam Levin - CATS)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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Remember those story-telling animated toys that were popular last season?
Two of them, Teddy Ruxpin and his pal Grubby could be interconnected 
to tell stories together.  Teddy contained a cassette player, motion
control and an audio speaker.  Grubby had just the motion control and
speaker.  When interconnected, grubby would receive animation commands
and audio from Teddy.  The connector used was a 4-conductor 1/8" audio jack.

Has anyone discovered the protocol Teddy uses to control Grubby?
Does anyone have a Teddy Ruxpin audio cassette (or Teddy himself)
I could borrow to study the encoding scheme?

I bought Grubby at a steep discount and would like to build an
interface box so he'll move to any audio input.

Thanks for any insight,  Adam


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