What’s inside the 2023 Furby?

Welcome to another teardown! Furby 2023 edition. This new edition of the classic interactive toy is more reminiscent of the original than the 2012 version, which I also took apart at the time.

In addition to its classic touch interactivity with buttons and sensors, this new Furby also has voice recognition, differentiating between three different phrases.

It’s so friendly and not at all creepy like the last one, in my opinion, anyway. I found it almost too cute to take apart. Almost.

Thanks to David Cranor for lending his EE expertise and to Lumafield for the 3D scan.

Tools used in this teardown:

Taking apart Furby starts with the fur. The fabric is sewn to these little plastic tabs that fit into the enclosure. Nothing is glued here.

Once it’s fabric free, it becomes apparent that a few screws hold the front and back of the plastic enclosure together. Removing them and the plastic revealed even more screws.

I managed to remove all the various circuit boards like the main one that everything else plugs into, the one holding the LED in the ear and switches inside the face.

I disassembled the rest of her by undoing as many screws as I could find until I got to the sticky motor area. Since my friends at Lumafield put this thing in their CT scanner before I took it apart, I let my urge not to get motor grease all over the place express itself.