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shelldon
A tiny e-ink AI creature that writes its own tools.
By elliotboney
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Overview
An AI pet for the Pi Zero 2W that you text over Telegram. It thinks with a remote LLM, shows its mood on an e-ink face, remembers you and writes its own tools on request.
How it works
Pi Zero 2W systemd service + pluggable chat transport + remote LLM + Waveshare e-ink.
Hardware
- Raspberry Pi Zero 2W
- Waveshare V4 e-ink
- PiSugar2 battery HAT
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