ALAlexITC·Aug 11, 2023
This is the closest I have found, unfortunately, devices have been out of stock in many stores: https://github.com/espressif/esp-box
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The ESP-BOX is a new generation AIoT development platform released by Espressif Systems.
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That's actually another great thing about the ESP BOX - the hardware is open as well. Schematics, BOM, Gerbers, etc have been made available by Espressif[0].
We don't currently have plans to get too involved on the hardware side but that could certainly change down the road.
[0] - https://github.com/espressif/esp-box/tree/master/hardware/es...
In Show HN: Willow – Open-source privacy-focused voice assistant hardwareShow HN: Willow – Open-source privacy-focused voice assistant hardware
As the Home Assistant project says, it's the year of voice!
I love Home Assistant and I've always thought the ESP BOX[0] hardware is cool. I finally got around to starting a project to use the ESP BOX hardware with Home Assistant and other platforms. Why?
- It's actually "Alexa/Echo competitive". Wake word detection, voice activity detection, echo cancellation, automatic gain control, and high quality audio for $50 means with Willow and the support of Home Assistant there are no compromises on looks, quality, accuracy, speed, and cost.
- It's cheap. With a touch LCD display, dual microphones, speaker, enclosure, buttons, etc it can be bought today for $50 all-in.
- It's ready to go. Take it out of the box, flash with Willow, put it somewhere.
- It's not creepy. Voice is either sent to a self-hosted inference server or commands are recogni
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zed locally on the ESP BOX.
- It doesn't hassle or try to sell you. If I hear "Did you know?" one more time from Alexa I think I'm going to lose it.
- It's open source.
- It's capable. This is the first "release" of Willow and I don't think we've even begun scratching the surface of what the hardware and software components are capable of.
- It can integrate with anything. Simple on the wire format - speech output text is sent via HTTP POST to whatever URI you configure. Send it anywhere, and do anything!
- It still does cool maker stuff. With 16 GPIOs exposed on the back of the enclosure there are all kinds of interesting possibilities.
This is the first (and VERY early) release but we're really interested to hear what HN thinks!
[0] - https://github.com/espressif/esp-box