Retrogadgets: Butler in a Box
You walk into your house and issue a voice command to bring up the lights and start a cup of coffee. No big deal, right? Siri, Google, and Alexa can …read more Continue reading Retrogadgets: Butler in a Box
Category Archives: voice control
Anime Inspired Holographic Virtual Assistant
[Jessp] has created a very cute and endearing DIY virtual assistant called Maria. The build combines a 3D printed housing that uses a “Peppers Cone” effect to render a virtual, …read more Continue reading Anime Inspired Holographic Virtual Assistant
An Impressively Functional Tacobot
We’re big fans of useless machines here at Hackaday, there’s something undeniably entertaining about watching a gadget flail about dramatically without actually making any progress towards a defined goal. But …read more Continue reading An Impressively Functional Tacobot
Consoles, Consoles On The Wall, Can Alexa Help Me Play Them All?
If you’ve got a collection of classic game consoles, finding the space to set them all up can be a challenge. But the bigger problem is figuring out how to …read more Continue reading Consoles, Consoles On The Wall, Can Alexa Help Me Play Them All?
Voice Controlled RGB LEDs Go Big
When we see RGB LEDs used in a project, they’re often used more for aesthetic purposes than as a practical source of light. It’s an easy way to throw some color around, but certainly not the sort of thing you’d try to light up anything larger than a desk with. …read more
Voice Controlled Sofa Meets Your Every Beverage Need
It’s often taken for grated, but the modern world is full of luxuries. Home automation, grocery delivery, and even access to the Internet are great tools to have at hand, but are trivial to most of us. If these modern wonders are not enough for you, and the lap of …read more
Continue reading Voice Controlled Sofa Meets Your Every Beverage Need
Using Voice Commands To Start A Jeep
If you’ve got a car built in the last 5 years or so, it’s quite likely it’s started by the push of a button when in the presence of a keyfob. Older vehicles make do with the twist of a key. Of course, starting a car by voice command would …read more
Google voice Assistant gets new privacy ‘undo’ commands
Google’s controversial voice Assistant is getting a series of new commands designed to work like privacy-centric ‘undo’ buttons. Continue reading Google voice Assistant gets new privacy ‘undo’ commands
Voice Chess Uses Phone, Arduino, And An Electromagnet
[Diyguypt] may be an altruist to provide the means for people who can’t manipulate chess pieces to play the game. Or he may just have his hands too busy with food and drink to play. Either way, his voice command chessboard appears to work, although it has a lot of …read more
Continue reading Voice Chess Uses Phone, Arduino, And An Electromagnet
Televox: The Past’s Robot of the Future
When I read old books, I like to look for predictions of the future. Since we are living in that future, it is fun to see how they did. Case in point: I have a copy of “The New Wonder Book of Knowledge”, an anthology from 1941. This was the …read more