Using Grok Bot to investigate a hidden camera in a kid's toy
A toy that made noises at night turned out to hide a lens behind one eye, and the author used Grok Bot to figure out why it had an upload queue.
I BOUGHT MY KID A TOY. A WEEK LATER, I WAS USING GROK BOT TO FIGURE OUT WHY IT HAD AN UPLOAD QUEUE The purple one with the enormous ears. We picked it up at Walmart. My kid loved it immediately. I spent the next few days wishing it faced the other way. It would make little noises after everyone had stopped playing with it. One night, I heard it from the next room and went back to check. Nothing. Just that ridiculous face on the shelf. I figured something was wrong with the switch. So I removed the batteries and opened it. A speaker. Wires. A circuit board. Pretty much what I expected. Then I followed a thin cable into the face. It ended at a lens behind one eye. I cleared a space beside my keyboard. What I thought would be a quick repair took the next seven evenings. Here’s what I found ↓
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