[DEV] MycroftOS – A bare minimal OS based on Buildroot – PART 1

This is a very early post (probably way to soon anyway, but…) in the [DEV] MycroftOS project blog series. MycroftOS is a bare minimal OS based on Buildroot which has only one purpose which is running Mycroft without any further additional packages and / or overhead. At the end of the project, it could be
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Compiling WPE Webkit for the RaspberryPi

Recently I became aware of a very nice project that makes it possible to run a complete fullscreen borderless hardware accelerated webbrowser on the Raspberry Pi. As you might have read in one of the blog posts in the [DiY] Personal A.I. Assistant series, I would like to run it on the device and making
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(Cross)Compiling software for Raspbian in a chroot environment.

By using the Raspbian distro on the Raspberry PI (or any debian / main stream distro for that matter on any embedded device), most of the software packages that you would want to install are available within the package manager of the distribution. Sometimes there some small / medium sized programs missing, or you want
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[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (Installing HASS) – PART 8

On to installing Home Assistant on our device. Like with the KODI installation, this is mostly information widely available on the internet, yet again included within this series for compleness sake. So let’s get started with installing the dependencies if not yet installed. (Not really sure anymore, sorry for this) Next we need to create
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[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (Installing KODI) – PART 7

Next on the list is to install KODI on our device. This of course is optional, but as my device will end up close to the TV within the livingroom and I would like to have a great mediaplayer that plays all my offline content as well as a lot of online content (the upcoming
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[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (Intermediate Roadmap) – PART 6

As mentioned in my previous blog post, this next blog post is about where we are at and what lies ahead. There are still so much things that I would like to do, create and / or implement at the Home Personal A.I. Assistant project. The next two items where already on the list and
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Orbital Case – Titanium White is in!

In one of the previous blog post I wrote about my plan to contact the people of Orbital Case – Polypodis Shop about the possibilities of having the case ordered straight from them and have it delivered to The Netherlands. Well during the website overhaul I did and their response was suprisingly, well…. Great! They
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Orbital Case – Some modding ideas

As already mentioned in the “ordering some goodies” blog post, the nice case I want to use as housing for our [DIY] HOME (PERSONAL AI) ASSISTANT project is the Orbital case from Polypodis – Germany. Now I have not yet ordered one as of yet as I still need to contact them about shipment possibilities
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[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (Preparing the HDMI) – PART 5

Our Personal AI Assistant, of course is more then just a smart speaker. We have a HDMI port on the device, and as explained in my first post where I shared with you my vision about the Personal Assistant. We are going to use the HDMI port as well. A default install of Raspbian however
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