xyzulu
12-19-2003, 04:06 AM
THE latest target for hackers is none other than Big Mouth Billy Bass, the animatronic singing-and-wriggling fish that had a nanosecond of popularity in the 1990s.
Now that Billy Bass has joined the gift stalls' remaindered shelves, where he can be had for a few dollars, the nerds have moved in to use the gimmick for other things than singing the blues.
A website, bigmouth.here-n-there.com, gives instructions on how to gut Billy's tiny preprogrammed chip, that enabled him to sing just one or two songs, and replace it with a open-source Linux microprocessor.
Once this is installed, with Wavesurfer, a phonetic transcription program, the fish can be made to say almost anything, still with co-ordinated lip-synch and wriggly tail.
The website has some video clips of Billy.
They include the fish imitating Homer Simpson's voice: "Mmmm, forbidden doughnuts!", Richard Nixon insisting "I am not a crook" and Bill Clinton saying "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms Lewinsky."
http://bigmouth.here-n-there.com/
Now that Billy Bass has joined the gift stalls' remaindered shelves, where he can be had for a few dollars, the nerds have moved in to use the gimmick for other things than singing the blues.
A website, bigmouth.here-n-there.com, gives instructions on how to gut Billy's tiny preprogrammed chip, that enabled him to sing just one or two songs, and replace it with a open-source Linux microprocessor.
Once this is installed, with Wavesurfer, a phonetic transcription program, the fish can be made to say almost anything, still with co-ordinated lip-synch and wriggly tail.
The website has some video clips of Billy.
They include the fish imitating Homer Simpson's voice: "Mmmm, forbidden doughnuts!", Richard Nixon insisting "I am not a crook" and Bill Clinton saying "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms Lewinsky."
http://bigmouth.here-n-there.com/