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I built a pocket AI pet on an ESP32 that talks back and gets hungry

He built a pocket AI pet over a weekend on a Waveshare ESP32-S3 board with a 1.8 inch AMOLED touchscreen in a small case, running firmware he wrote, and you push to talk and it answers out loud in its own voice while the text shows on screen. Under the voice there is a pet layer: it gets hungry, reacts when you tap it, has moods, and runs on a small battery inside the case.

How it works

  1. Take a Waveshare ESP32-S3 board with a 1.8 inch AMOLED touchscreen
  2. Put it in a small case with a battery
  3. Write custom firmware
  4. Push to talk and it answers out loud with text on screen
  5. Add a pet layer that gets hungry, reacts to taps and shows moods

Why it’s worth knowing

The agent now lives in a pocket sized body that gets hungry and moody, and works away from a phone or computer.

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Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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