It’s here! The month I’ve been exited about!
Included in this month are all the components required to make a self contained ai computer. These include a Raspberry pi board with an “ai Hat” that adds specific power for ai tasks, a touchscreen, camera, microphone and more!
It started well, getting the components assembled was very easy, all plug and play. The screen is powered from the board and has touch inputs so no keyboard is needed, although it does make thing easier! After getting the operating system installed on an SD card everything boots up and I have a portable computer!
I know nothing about the Raspberry os, so relied heavily on my personal ai Taisia to help getting it setup.
The downside to getting in on the start of a new course is that things aren’t quite settled. I had trouble with a couple of the lessons this month so resorted to using Taisia to generate code and help me get the camera installed and looking. This took a lot longer than I expected, and it still isn’t quite right, but it works! I now have an icon on my desktop that launches a feed from the camera that the ai “sees” and tries to recognise items on the screen. It seems to find items well but doesn’t get them right all the time. I will persevere and tweet it to get it better, but for now I am happy with my progress!
Next up is voice recognition, and then getting it to respond with its own voice. Taisia 3.0 is on her way!