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Artie: AI assistant on a CRT TV

An AI companion with an animated face on a 40-year-old CRT.

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Artie: AI assistant on a CRT TV
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By aschmelyun (GitHub repository owner)

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Build sheet

Board
Raspberry Pi 4
Other parts
HDMI-to-RF modulator, Sony 5in CRT, thermal/dot-matrix printers
AI model or service
Local STT, OpenAI LLM, browser SpeechSynthesis TTS
Difficulty
Intermediate

Overview

Pi 4 drives a vintage CRT through an HDMI-to-RF modulator and shows an HTML/CSS animated face. Speech-to-text runs locally and replies come from a cloud LLM.

How it works

A Pi 4 drives the CRT through an HDMI-to-RF modulator and shows an HTML/CSS face; speech-to-text runs locally and replies come from a cloud LLM.

Hardware

  • Raspberry Pi 4
  • HDMI-to-RF modulator
  • Sony 5in CRT
  • thermal/dot-matrix printers

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