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June 6, 2024 AUTHOR: Donald Bell CATEGORIES: News Tags: AI, Bit, CAD, Carving, Chat GPT, Dremel, Gears, Keycap, Keystep Pro, Music, Patch Bay, Pattern, PCB, plants, sensors, Shutdown, Synthesizer, Voice, Voronoi, WLED

Chard GPT [Maker Update]

This week on Maker Update: talking with your plants, 3D printed light sculpture, building a blinky patch bay, magic shutdown, custom gears, and a crash course on every Dremel bit.

July 27, 2023 AUTHOR: Donald Bell CATEGORIES: News Tags: AI, Artificial intelligence, Cabinet, Cable TV, Character, Computer Vision, Cosplay, crank, CV, EVA, Foam, GPT, Hand, hinge, Industrial Design, kitchen, Machine Learning, ML, Network, Puppet, Reinforcement Learning, Retro, RL, Servo, Shadow, Shadow Lines, Sound, Stable Diffusion, Synthetic, Toy, TV, Valkyrie, Voice

From the Shadows [Maker Update]

This week on Maker Update, AI shadow stories, your own retro cable TV simulator, a relaxing cosplay project, and building your own toy robot.

July 6, 2023 AUTHOR: Donald Bell CATEGORIES: News Tags: AI, Artificial intelligence, ATOM Lite, Clone, Cloning, Companion, Contest, Cosplay, cyberdeck, cyberpunk, Dot Matrix, ESP32, Home Alone, M5Stack, Minima, ML, Pickup Truck, Printer, Relay, Rubik’s Cube, sci-fi, Servo, Solenoid, Synthesis, Talkboy, Toy, Track, Uno R4, Valve, Voice, Voice Changer, water, Wearable, WLED

I Think I’m a Clone Now [Maker Update]

This week on Maker Update: 90s toy tech with an AI upgrade, return of the cyberdecks, body bots, a Rubik’s cube that solves itself, and a pickup truck that writes.

June 15, 2023 AUTHOR: Donald Bell CATEGORIES: News Tags: AI, Art, Artificial intelligence, Block, Chat GPT, Computer Vision, Crankie, CV, Dust proof, Eco, Ecological, ElevenLabs, Fiction, Fungus, Gatekeeper, GitHub, GPT4, Guard, Hand Crank, IP Rating, Machine Learning, Modular, Mycelium, Never Ending Story, Nose, Outdoors, Prompt, Python, Renewable, Rugged, security, Sentry, Storybook, Structure, sustainable, Synthetic, Text to Speech, Vibraphone, Voice, Waterproof

A Nose for Details [Maker Update]

This week on Maker Update: a descriptive nose, a scrappy gatekeeper, laser cut Crankies, and never ending stories.

February 28, 2018 AUTHOR: Donald Bell CATEGORIES: News Tags: 28BYJ-48, AI, Alexa, Amazon, Animatronics, Audio, Board, Capacitor, Card, Counter, Cover, CR80, Display, Fan, Foam Core, Furby, Grille, Hack, Kit, Letters, Linux, Microphone, Motor, Pack, Pi Zero W, Pimoroni, PVC, Resistor, Speaker, Split Flap, SplitFlap, stepper, Toy, Transistor, Utility Knife, Value, Veneer, Vinyl, Voice, Walnut, Wi-Fi

Split-Flap Attack [Maker Update #73]

This week on Maker Update, rolling your own split-flap display, the unholy union of Furby and Alexa, customized fan grilles and a walnut box with a foam core secret. This week’s Cool Tool is the Joe Knows Electronics Resistor Starter Kit.

Learn how to hack a Billy Bass signing fish to animate the voice of Amazon's Alexa.

November 18, 2016 AUTHOR: Donald Bell CATEGORIES: Project Tags: Adafruit, Alexa, Amazon, Arduino, Arduino Uno, Billy Bass, Echo, Echo Dot, Hack, Hardware, Motor Shield, Mouth, Speaker, Voice

How to Hack Alexa into a Billy Bass Talking Fish

As many of you know from watching my Maker Update video series, I’ve been obsessed with hacking together a Billy Bass novelty talking fish and Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant. About a month ago, an artist named Brian Kane published a viral video showing a Big Mouth Billy Bass novelty singing fish, seemingly voiced by Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant. The internet went nuts for it, and so did I — but mostly I just wanted to know how it worked so that I could make my own.

After a few weeks tinkering with it and collecting the components I needed, I’ve come up with a workable hack. The project documentation and code are available on Instructables. I encourage you to provide feedback and ideas on how to improve it.
Make an Amazon Alexa talk through an animatronic Billy Bass singing fish.

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