Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
Project to take an animatronic skeleton I previously used, give it the ability to hear, speak, think, see, and remember. Most importantly, changed it from a "helpful AI assistant" to my foil that constantly makes fun of me as a cohost on upcoming live streams.
In this video, I am transitioning his propane and ignition system to butane and an ignition system with lower electromagnetic interference.
STT: openai faster-whisper
Brains: pgvector, ollama, llama3.2 3B
TTS: piper
Vision: opencv and home rolled facial detection, webrtc turn/stun streaming, IMX 708 Arducam
Motors: servos and a serial wombat on a raspberry pi 4
Led eye: esp32 and addressable led
Jaw: custom phoneme-to-openness code on esp32
Project to take an animatronic skeleton I previously used, give it the ability to hear, speak, think, see, and remember. Most importantly, changed it from a "helpful AI assistant" to my foil that constantly makes fun of me as a cohost on upcoming live streams.
In this video, I am transitioning his propane and ignition system to butane and an ignition system with lower electromagnetic interference.
STT: openai faster-whisper
Brains: pgvector, ollama, llama3.2 3B
TTS: piper
Vision: opencv and home rolled facial detection, webrtc turn/stun streaming, IMX 708 Arducam
Motors: servos and a serial wombat on a raspberry pi 4
Led eye: esp32 and addressable led
Jaw: custom phoneme-to-openness code on esp32
