Voice, facial recognition and animatronic face now run on a Raspberry Pi; beamforming mic array next
natesiggard · x · 2026-10-12
A maker shares progress on a Raspberry Pi-based desktop robot: voice-to-voice conversation, facial recognition, and an animatronic face are all working. The remaining challenge is noise from dogs and kids drowning out speech, so the next step is building a microphone array with beamforming — "it's not what you hear, it's what you ignore."
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