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Lookie.
http://www.sciam.com/explorations/2002/012102aibo/
Hehe. Aibo-hacking. I wonder how long it would've taken for the "killer" software package to come out. A whole generation of robotic guard dogs...
Yeesh.
The short of it is that a guy called AiboPet reverse-engineered the inner workings of the Aibo's electronic "brain"... you know, architecture-specific instructions, stepper motor commands, the works. Then he wrote and released free add-ons for the thing, that taught it to do new stuff. The same basic thing Sony was selling, except free. Eventually Sony told him to stop, and he did, but it pissed a lot of people right off.
quote:One of AiboPet's biggest hits was the program that teaches Aibos to two-step. Like Kevin Bacon in the movie Footloose, he won gratitude for the gift of dance—and Sony discovered what the town fathers in that film learned: forbidding dancing is really, really bad for public relations. |
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