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Emily

An AI companion robot split across three ESP32-S3s.

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Emily
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By broml (GitHub repository owner)

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Build sheet

Board
3Ă— ESP32-S3 (Brain, CamCanvas, InputPad)
Other parts
camera, servos, speaker, display
AI model or service
Venice.ai LLM + multimodal vision + Whisper STT + Kokoro/Venice TTS + image gen, emotional model
Difficulty
Advanced

Overview

Tabletop companion split across Brain / CamCanvas / InputPad ESP32-S3 nodes with servo head, camera, speaker, and display. Venice.ai supplies LLM, vision, Whisper STT, TTS, and image gen; emotional arousal/valence model drives behavior and interactive adventures.

How it works

Brain, camera and input-pad ESP32-S3 nodes share a servo head, display and speaker; Venice.ai supplies LLM, vision, STT, TTS and image generation, and an emotional model drives behavior.

Hardware

  • 3Ă— ESP32-S3 (Brain, CamCanvas, InputPad)
  • camera
  • servos
  • speaker
  • display

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