#i am NOT a programmer/coder 😭 i just want my teddy ruxpin to have brown eyes.......

[agentjazzy]

OH MY GOD I FINALLY DID IT

okay, so, for context, as you guys may know, I LOVE Teddy Ruxpin

however, the only one I own is the 2017 version with digital eyes - digital blue eyes

as a brown-eyed person, this made me sad :(

I ALWAYS wanted to see if there was a way to edit the image files in the story bins, as, pretty early on, this specific Ruxpin was hacked at a defcon conference - and, wouldn't you know it, they even provided a handy github link to let anyone at home hack their own Ruxpins!

the only thing was, that after a very short period of the github being live (like, maybe a day if I'm remembering right), it was taken down :(

and so I just sadly had my Teddy, cursed to live with blue eyes....

until, this year the people at Adafruit decided to hack their Ruxpins! learning from my mistakes, I immediately made a copy of their tool/script to host on my own computer!

except... it was in Python

I'm no noob to opening a command line and following simple instructions (ty my best friend yt-dlp <3), but I don't have... any experience using something like this

but BY GOD was I gonna stumble my way around until I got those damn image files

SO

I downloaded Python for Windows (3.11.4)... then had to uninstall bc I did it wrong somehow and it was not working...

so then I reinstalled it, making sure to tick the add to PATH checkbox, then I launched the exe again to modify python and possibly add more things bc I don't think pip installed possibly? idk I just clicked modify and let it install whatever was already checkmarked

THEN I opened the command line, typed (pip install Pillow), got that downloaded, then upgraded it

THEN I right-clicked the ruxalyzer.py file I had in my downloads (making sure I had my previously saved and copied file of the Idle.bin from Teddy himself in the downloads folder as well), and clicked open with IDLE

okay, this is the home stretch, now I clicked on the handy little RUN on the top of this exciting new window, clicked Run Module from the dropdown menu, then...

it worked!!!!! It finally worked!!!!!!!!

so! I'm gonna photoshop (aka photopea) these images to be brown instead of blue, even though, admittedly, I don't.. really... know how to put them back in/replace the og files in the bin file 😅

that's a problem for another day - though, if anyone knows how to help, I'd really appreciate it!

for now, I'm gonna work on these images, and watch through the few Adafruit videos concerning Teddy on their youtube to hopefully see if they have any helpful info

(though, looking rn, it looks like the ruxalyzer.py was taken down from their github 😬 .... good thing I backed it up.........)