| ▲ | _spduchamp 8 hours ago |
| How about a button? I'd prefer to physically press a button on an intercom box than having something churning away constantly processing sound. |
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| ▲ | hamdingers 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| If I have to go to a thing and push a button, I'd rather the button do the thing I wanted in the first place. Voice assistants are for when my hands are full or I don't want to get up. (I wrote more about my home automation philosophy in another comment[1]). Also I have all my voice assistant devices mounted to the ceiling 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47399909 |
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| ▲ | tomComb 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The pebble index seems like the optimal form for this. https://repebble.com/index Could be pressed even if your hands were busy. |
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| ▲ | stavros 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | If you want to relax some constraints, I made something similar for $10: https://www.stavros.io/posts/i-made-a-voice-note-taker/ | | |
| ▲ | CurleighBraces 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Did you have any luck with the power issues on the new board? | | |
| ▲ | stavros 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | The new board hasn't come yet, but a friend gave me a great idea, to power the mic from a GPIO, which powers it off completely when the ESP is off. Hopefully the new boards will be here soon, but another issue is that I don't really have anything that can measure microamp consumption, so any testing takes days of waiting for the battery to run down :( I do think these clones are the issue, though. They had a LED I couldn't turn off, so they'd literally shine forever. They don't seem engineered for low quiescent current, so fingers crossed with the new ones. | | |
| ▲ | CurleighBraces 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Makes a lot of sense :) thanks for the update. I'll try to remember to creepy stalk you for updates as the device sounds great! | | |
| ▲ | stavros 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | You can sign up to my mailing list to get emails if you want! It's at the end of each post. |
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| ▲ | croes 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Time for a real life Star Trek comm badge |
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| ▲ | pwillia7 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I'm in if I can embed it into my forearm |
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| ▲ | kortilla 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Rules out a bunch of cases where your hands are busy handling ingredients in the kitchen, etc |
