Teleology After 5+ years of using Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant, I was left unsatisfied. Alexa is annoying at best. Google is constantly removing features from their Assistant. Enter Home Assistant - with its built-in Assist platform, I set out to create a custom, local voice assistant. It is worth noting that HASS announced this year that they are working on their own local/cloud-integrated LLM system. I decided to do this project long before that was announced....
overview Home Assistant is essentially a home automation platform designed to be both accessible to users and powerful for enthusiasts. It is hosted on local hardware using software created by Nabu Casa (who also maintain ESPHome, a project I fully intend to utilize in the future). Home Assistant boasts a dedicated enterprise community that have developed a robust ecosystem of hardware and software compatible with Home Assistant right out of the box....
Description: This is the collection of my code projects that I’ve done over the years. Project List: PDP-11 Instruction Set Simulator: PDP-11 Instruction Set Simulator DriveTime: DriveTime Image Classification AI: Image Classification AI Low-Cost Universal Camera Array: LUCA Archive website (the website you’re on) Homepage graph view: Graph Rendering
What kind of projects do I do? I’m interested in a lot of different stuff! This collection will hopefully become an archive of my various projects, both for my personal reference and to document for future employment purposes. The types of projects here will include: Code, programming, and related projects -> Code Projects DIY stuff Music And potentially more…