r/LandofGrundo

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Building a tool and need sample tracks

Hi everyone,

The post from u/mxkara yesterday kicked my interest back into gear for a project that I've had sitting on the shelf gathering dust for several years now. Got Claude to rewrite my broken-ass code and managed to get it up and running within an evening.

So far I've got the Teddy Ruxpin encoding/decoding working, but I'm looking for Mother Goose and Mickey MP3 rips so that I can add those too. Would anyone have anything from those talkers?

The tool has several modes already.

Manual: let's you move the sliders around to control Teddy and Grubby.

Playback: Load a precorded Teddy track in to control Teddy. The sliders will automatically update their positions in accordance with the control track.

Random: Let's you load in prerecorded voice lines. The tool will then pick a sound at random and convert it to a PPM signal for Teddy's mouth based on the amplitude. He'll also blink randomly. You can set the min/max times for how often he talks and blinks. Will add support for Grubby too (not that I have one to test with).

I also want to do a scripted mode that lets you compose and export your own track to an MP3 file. Won't be anything fancy. You'll basically write a text document that references the sound files you want and when they should play. Will support a background track for music and atmosphere too.

The tool will be free and can be compiled for Windows, Mac and Linux. Could potentially do mobile too.

u/Turkeyplague — 6 days ago

Idea for another toy revival that goes in a bit of a different direction

Focus on appealing a little more to the older fans and collectors by making a Teddy animatronic doll that's the same size as the original WOW one and compatible with original WOW-era tapes, but it has more robust and durable modern mechanics and servos and the ability to read audio files off of an SD card

It'd also be compatible with both vintage Grubby dolls and a matching modern one with similar modernized mechanics

Given how niche this is unlike past revivals, it'd probably have to be some kind of crowdfunded project

In addition to this, there could be a figure line based on the cartoon and live-action pilot, matching stuff like NECA's TMNT material and their recently-announced DuckTales and Ren & Stimpy product

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u/SgtJackVisback — 7 days ago

One Of The Rarest WOW Items?

In 1987, Teddy, Mother Goose, and Mickey, all got a second/third wave of story tapes. across all bots, these second waves are beyond rare and hard to find, (Quiet please, Kite caper, Ant/Grasshopper) ect. I always forget this even exists, and get startled when I see it haha. I always think it's an edited fan book LMAO!

u/BlooFoster07 — 7 days ago

Test Pattern 140-190hz

Due to a dearth of published information regarding the right channel independent eye and mouth control I've been letting Google Gemini take control of an original 1985 Teddy Ruxpin via Bluetooth cassette.

This is one of the best test patterns prior to holding a pretty decent conversation in live mode with spot-on mouth control... But not enough luck keeping the eyes open during moments that they appropriately should be or being able to generate lifelike blinking patterns.

If anyone has prior published specs on any information regarding the audio to DC conversion patterns, pulses, frequencies, or amplitude shifts needed for independent motor control it could help accelerate the process of developing a live speech system for unmodified T-10000s.

u/mxkara — 9 days ago

My Teddy Ruxpin cuts out while playing tapes and I don't know how to fix it; it's not the cassette, and the batteries were bought just yesterday.

u/elmo_teddy_grubby — 11 days ago