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STEM Box Circuitmess : Spencer
Spencer is a handyman voice assistant that talks, turns on, connects to the internet and understands simple voice commands. He also has a funny personality, tells jokes and finds new ones online. Spencer has a microphone and understands what you are saying. You can code new functions that will be triggered when you say certain phrases or words.
Get the complete STEM Box #1 and the tools to create Spencer, your voice assistant. You will learn electronics, code, artificial intelligence, speech recognition and much more.
STEM Box 1 by CircuitMess: Spencer the voice assistant
Spencer is a handyman voice assistant that talks, turns on, connects to the internet and understands simple voice commands. He also has a funny personality, tells jokes and finds new ones online. Spencer has a microphone and understands what you are saying. You can code new functions that will be triggered when you say certain phrases or words.
The LED display on its belly features a 128 pixel colorful RGB grid that can display data, custom icons, animations and scrolling text.
Ready-made things that Spencer can do as soon as you put it together:
- Read the news
- Inform you of the weather forecast for your region
- Memorize the things you say
- Triggering an alarm or reminder
- Inform you of upcoming meetings on the calendar
What you can do with the finalized voice wizard :
- Getting Spencer to go online to get news and read it in his funny robot voice.
- Encode spencer to display a funny 8-bit image of a banana on its LED screen every time someone tweet something funny
- Teaching Spencer to recognize basic voice commands
- Make Spencer happy or sad (CircuitMess has implemented a little bit of anxiety in its basic firmware, so you'll have to talk to him)
What you'll learn from Spencer:
- How to weld and assemble your own personal voice assistant
- How to code a microcomputer and make it do smart things like speech recognition
- What is IoT and how to connect your microcontroller to the internet
- How to use an RGB LED grid to display things
- What is artificial intelligence and how to make Spencer smart...
- How to use text-to-speech to make Spencer talk
- How to teach Spencer to make jokes
- Spencer’s circuit board that includes a pre-soldered 128-pixel RGB LED grid
- The brain board – does smart stuff and includes a dual-core processor, an SD card socket, and power-management circuitry
- 4GB Micro SD card needed for Spencer to work properly
- The sound board – has a 32-bit DAC and a 3W class D amplifier
- 3W speaker – Spencer uses this to talk
- Acrylic casing – this protects spencer’s innards from the outside world
- A big red button
- A bag of other small components such as resistors, pushbuttons and a microphone
- An instruction booklet – ready for your offline knowledge consumption
