Peter

Steenbergen

Open-Source Advocator & Innovator | Voice AI Developer | Co-Founder of OpenVoiceOS

ReSpeaker 4-Mic Array HAT Mycroft A.I. Skill

ReSpeaker 4-Mic Array HAT Mycroft A.I. Skill

A while ago I created a Mycroft A.I. skill for the ReSpeaker 4-Mic array HAT. It was originally only published on their skill-feedback section, however since I pushed a couple of changes a few days ago and I am not able to test it myself because of a possible hardware failure, I thought I share […]

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[DEV] MycroftOS – A bare minimal OS based on Buildroot – PART 5

[DEV] MycroftOS – A bare minimal OS based on Buildroot – PART 5

It has been a while once again since the last update. The previous blogpost on this topic mentioned a second alpha version being available. This blogpost is actually about the fourth alpha release. Yes we skip the third. It has been released on the Mycroft A.I. forums in between, but that was already some time […]

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[Update] Busy, busy, busy….

[Update] Busy, busy, busy….

Holy crap ! The last blog post here is already more than half a year old … Time flies, when you are… No hang on, that was not having fun. Just rather busy with the day time job. Family life, and more of those excuses. Oh well. Found some time, to send a “I am […]

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[Update] My plans for 2019

[Update] My plans for 2019

It has (again, yeah I know) been a while since my last blog post. The new year has already been here for almost a month and I even didn’t wish you all of the best for 2019. So for anyone that feels offended by that; All the best for the new year ! 2019 will […]

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[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (Some more ideas) – PART 9

[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (Some more ideas) – PART 9

Some Mycroft A.I. Ideas I developed over time It has been a while now since I came into contact with Mycroft A.I. Till then I have been playing around with it and started the blog post about how to create your own Personal A.I. Assistant blog series. I will shortly continue with that blog series, […]

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[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (Installing HASS) – PART 8

[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) [bash] sudo apt-get install python3 […]

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[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (Installing KODI) – PART 7

[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

[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 – Some modding ideas

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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