Physical Hardware & Smart Gadgets · Standard
The box that tells stories
Press the button and it listens. Ask it for a story about a dragon who is afraid of heights, and it tells you one, out loud, in a voice you chose.
- Parts
- $55
- Effort
- 8 days
You end up withA finished box you can hand to someone, and the rules you wrote for what it will and will not say.
What you will use
- ESP32-S3
- I2S microphone
- Speech to text
- Claude
Grounded in
xiaozhi-esp32MIT-licensed, 28.9k stars. Runs the whole wake word, speech to text, model and speech pipeline on an ESP32. Proves the hard part is done.
Enroll and build this — $950
You make the real choice at the end of week one.