[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 8th alpha release. Yes we skip a couple of releases… Alpha7 was released on the Mycroft A.I. forums, but that was already some time ago.
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[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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[DEV] MycroftOS – A bare minimal OS based on Buildroot – PART 4

A first (very) early alpha release is ready. Still a lot of things to fix/change/create/etc however it looks like I have all Mycroft stuff working one way or the other. I could use some feedback, both positive as negative. So if you have some free/spare time and a spare SD card, please give it a
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[DEV] MycroftOS – A bare minimal OS based on Buildroot – PART 3

October went by (time flies when you are having fun!), hence the first week of November is also already gone so it is about time to update you all about the progress on MycroftOS. In my last update I mentioned that the git commit history was a complete mess. Last month I took the time,
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[DEV] MycroftOS – A bare minimal OS based on Buildroot – PART 2

In my previous first blog post about the MycroftOS project, I informed you all about the start of the project. Now I did mention in that blog post that it was most likely a bit premature to already blog about it. However in the last few weeks I have been able to work on the
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[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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[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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[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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[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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