Project Alias, the newest creation of Amsterdam-based maker Bjørn Karmann, allows you to rename your home assistant and, more importantly, paralyse the device’s always-on listening function — for better security.
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Disable ‘always-listening’ on your smart home assistant
It is a truth universally acknowledged…that everyone wants their own Star Wars droid.
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Build your own Solo: A Star Wars Story L3-37 droid
MyBroadband Build your own Google Home using a Raspberry Pi MyBroadband If you need a project for the Raspberry Pi you have lying around, you could always turn it into a DIY Google Home.
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Build your own Google Home using a Raspberry Pi – MyBroadband
As more and more digital home assistants are appearing on the consumer market, it’s not uncommon to see the towering Amazon Echo or sleek Google Home when visiting friends or family. But we, the maker community, are rarely happy unless our tech stands out from the rest
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Marvellous retrofitted home assistants
Geeky Gadgets Gladys Raspberry Pi Home Assistant Available To Download Geeky Gadgets Hobbyists, students, developers and Raspberry Pi enthusiasts looking to create a home assistant may be interested in a new open source program which runs on a Raspberry Pi and communicates with all your devices providing a virtual assistant to help you …
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Gladys Raspberry Pi Home Assistant Available To Download – Geeky Gadgets
If, like me, you’re a pretty poor time-keeper with the uncanny ability to never get up when your alarm goes off and yet still somehow make it to work just in time — a little dishevelled, brushing your teeth in the office bathroom — then you too need Gladys. Raspberry Pi home assistant Over the last year, we’ve seen off-the-shelf home assistants make their way onto the Raspberry Pi. With the likes of Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and Siri, it’s becoming ever easier to tell the air around you to “Turn off the bathroom light” or “Resume my audiobook”, and it happens without you lifting a finger.
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Gladys Project: a Raspberry Pi home assistant