Peter Steenbergen (J1nx) – Tag – Embedded

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 […]

[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 […]

[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (Installing & Configuration) – PART 4

We have identified all the software requirements and we have ordered the goodies. Now it is time to start installing the different components and start the configuration of all different packages. After following this installation instruction we should have a basic system up and running with the latest MyCroft version using the ReSpeaker microphone array […]

MyCroft AI – Open Source Voice Assistant

MyCroft AI – The world’s first open source voice assistant was created and launched by a startup with the same name. The company MyCroft was set up in 2015 with the aim; “AI for everyone” open source installable on every piece of hardware from computers, to refrigerators, wearables, TVs, cars and so on. What is […]

Ordering some Goodies

As discussed in Part-2 of the [DIY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant blog post series we decided we needed some hardware to buy. Basically a Raspberry Pi, ReSpeaker 4-Mic Array and a nive looking case. Well, that’s what I did! Here is what I specifically ordered, where and a quick glance at all the parts. I […]

[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (The software stack) – PART 3

With the base system hardware decision out of the way, we need to decide which software we are going to use. In this blog post we are going to talk about which underlying OS we are going to use. Which Home Automation software package to use and for the “Heart” of the whole system, which […]

[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (How I see it) – PART 2

In my previous post I wrote about my ideas to automate my home with an important part to be a A.I. personal assistant. There are smart speakers out there that can be used to do more, but my vission is to have it all in one device if possible. So in this post I would […]

Howto optimize Linux – SD card as rootfs

The write performance of a SD card is a little bit different then using a conventional spinning disk under Linux. The main problem is that a SD card can not write data over existing data. So whenever it want to write something it has to delete the content of that section first. To add to […]