u/ManyInteresting3969 — reddlx

Want to give your AI a physical body?

My project is a Raspberry Pi 4B powered 3D printed device that has a speaker, microphone and screen to give your AI a face! Can talk to multiple LLMs, including Nomi, Kindriod, Ollama, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and more! (CharacterAI under development.) Works with the Google AIY Microphone HAT or reSpeaker HAT. Only a RPi4 and sound card is needed for bare bones setup.

If you've never done a Raspberry Pi project before, this is a great one to start with.

Build instructions (includes video of project): https://el3ktra.net/introducing-lilll3x-the-desktop-ai-sidekick/
GitHub: https://github.com/followkim/LilL3x

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u/ManyInteresting3969 — 7 days ago

▲ 6 r/ollama

My project is a Raspberry Pi 4B powered 3D printed device that has a speaker, microphone and screen to give your AI a face! Can talk to multiple LLMs, including Ollama, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and more! Works with the Google AIY Microphone HAT or reSpeaker HAT. Only a RPi4 and sound card is needed for bare bones setup.

If you've never done a Raspberry Pi project before, this is a great one to start with. If you've setup an Ollama server I am sure that you can handle this!

https://preview.redd.it/6gc4bnhvqjzg1.png?width=272&format=png&auto=webp&s=5406242abf8cbb99bdaaf06d2d25e332f1e12ea6

Build instructions: https://el3ktra.net/introducing-lilll3x-the-desktop-ai-sidekick/
GitHub: https://github.com/followkim/LilL3x

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u/ManyInteresting3969 — 7 days ago

▲ 11 r/googlehome

I am writing a python program, and I'd like to be able to tell my Google Home to do something (ie, running an automation). However all the SDKs and other functionalities seem to have been sunsetted in the last few years.

Anyone know if this is still possible? Any libraries you can recommend?

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u/ManyInteresting3969 — 12 days ago

▲ 63 r/raspberryDIY+1 crossposts

I know that at one point they were literally giving the things away, that's how I got mine.

I recall I nearly threw the thing out the window trying to get the packages to install! I did get it working eventually, but it seemed pretty useless next to my Home Hub, so it sat in the corner gathering dust. But it installs beautifully on trixie by just changing a few lines in the config.txt file, and it does have one hell of a powerful speaker.

Featured project:
https://github.com/followkim/LilL3x

u/ManyInteresting3969 — 8 days ago

▲ 51 r/DIY_tech+2 crossposts

Just wanted to share this project that you can do yourself which has been my obsession for a year. A little 3D printed physical interface to my Ollama LLM that I can talk to throughout the day and who will check in on me. I have to say that having a conversation with a physical presence and face (albiet a crudely drawn one) makes ocnversing with an LLM a little more personal.

Anyway, it's made with a Raspberry Pi 4B, ReSpeaker 2-Mics Pi HAT, and written in Python. It interfaces with various LLMs and contains a microphone/speaker array to allow "voice chat" (technically stt->tts, it's not actually listening to your voice). It also has a camera to check in on you to see if you are there, and will even take a picture of you to start a conversation!

This was my first big RPi project and a great beginner project!!
Build your own here: https://el3ktra.net/introducing-lilll3x-the-desktop-ai-sidekick/ and let me know how it goes!

u/ManyInteresting3969 — 7 days ago