There are tons of new toys out there that have huge vocabularies and complex programming functions. Amazing Ally is one of these new toys.

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She tells stories, has a built in clock/calendar, asks questions and remembers your answers (you answer by pressing a "yes" or "no" button on her wrist).

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When She is glitched, it triggers an endless cycle of random words and phrase fragments followed by bursts of static.

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I installed her circuit into the housing of an old piece of test equipment. There was a big hole in the face plate where a meter had been, so made a speaker grating out of aluminum and mounted a powerful speaker behind it.

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I printed the words "volume" and "pitch" underneath the two knobs, but all other text is from its previous life. I like that a control labeled "soak" has become a glitchbabyfreakout button.

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Loud...distorted...random