Building a personal AI assistant device, looking for ideas
Hey all. I am building a personal AI assistant device and I am looking for input from anyone who has tried/seen something similar. The idea: a small computer that is always on, that I can talk to like a normal person, back and forth, not just one question one…
Hey all. I am building a personal AI assistant device and I am looking for input from anyone who has tried/seen something similar. The idea: a small computer that is always on, that I can talk to like a normal person, back and forth, not just one question one answer. It should also do real work in the background, notes, search, Notion, email, calendar, files. My phone can not do this well. It sleeps, kills background processes, and will not listen for a custom wake word unless the screen is on. So I want dedicated hardware instead. What I want it to do: Wake up on one spoken word, no button Hear me across a room, let me interrupt it while it talks Small screen for showing data Camera so I can show it things Simple tasks run locally and fast, even offline, harder thinking goes to Claude's API Act as a hub other future projects of mine can connect to Parts I am considering: Raspberry Pi 5 16GB + something to boost AI ability, a mini mic, active cooler, battery, small screen and camera module. Thinking of this as a custom wearable hardware strapped to my phone. Anyone built something like this? Any tips on software and hardware to use?
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nah, homelab is full with people building weird hardware stuff like this
thank you, I will look it up
right, I thought about adding AI HAT but it does not seem to work well at all
Look at Home Assistant with the wyoming pipeline. Openwakeword for wake word, whisper for stt, piper for tts. Runs local on the pi and you send the hard stuff to the api.
That could be good, thank you!
not sure what you could put on the pi to make this work. those AI hats certainly wont do it. you need something pretty decent to do that stuff.
Not exactly what you're looking for, but I think I remember youtube channel "Dad, the engineer" had a video running through something very similar...
there is nothing except dozens of people vibecoding their own and offering it "for free open source!!" with 0 real support you are essentially asking for something that you can run locally that matches the utility offered by google gemini, with google being one of the most advanced software companies in the world with virtually unlimited resources and it mostly sucks at what you're wanting
Go to kickstarter. There are at least 10 of these devices bring kickstarted every week. Pick the one that looks least likely to be a dud
You need something way more beefy than a pi for what you are thinking.
Does anyone know how to boost the CPU/GPU, could you add RAM power in some way?
wrong sub