| ▲ | Show HN: BillAI Bass, an AI-Powered Big Mouth Billy Bass Using Strands Agents(github.com) |
| 37 points by mtw14 4 hours ago | 16 comments |
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| ▲ | mtw14 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I built BillAI Bass just because I could. It’s powered by a Raspberry Pi and Strands Agents with bidirectional streaming, and the repo includes the code and hardware setup. Happy to answer questions about the implementation! |
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| ▲ | relium 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Reminds me of Mike Neil's FishHack at the 2000 MacHack. https://tidbits.com/2000/07/03/the-machax-best-hack-contest-... |
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| ▲ | mtw14 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | That’s awesome! Billy bass has always been a fave for this sort of thing I found a couple of guides that were similar to mine when I was working on it too |
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| ▲ | reactordev 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| +10 points for giving it context that it's nailed to a plaque. -10 points for using Amazon Bedrock instead of a local conversational model that can run on the Pi without a subscription fee. Replace the bedrock setup for a gemma-4 E2B one. |
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| ▲ | mtw14 an hour ago | parent [-] | | You can actually run a local model with strands using Ollama pretty easily so you could just swap the model provider out in like 4 lines of code. So this would not be hard to do. Good idea! | | |
| ▲ | ryandrake 5 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Yea, I like the idea of hooking this up to a local model running on my homelab and having no external calls. This project seems to provide a pretty good hackable foundation! I also wonder if it can be done with something smaller form-factor like a raspberry pi zero so it can be fully encased in the Bass plaque. This is a site to bookmark for later! |
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| ▲ | dinkleberg 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This is great! I remember the commercials for these things as a kid. Imagine telling that kid that in the future Billy Bass will have the world's collective knowledge and you'll be able to talk to him about anything. |
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| ▲ | mtw14 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yess a nice dose of nostalgia. I want to download the original songs so he can still sing those too and just load them up as audio files it can play. I had it reading the news and giving me a summary but it just ultimately was too silly for that use case lol | | |
| ▲ | dylan604 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | > was too silly for that use case lol I don't know, some of the news today is so preposterous that it could only be delivered by a BillyBass. |
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| ▲ | zuckerborg0101 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I love that you put the Amazon Shopping list in the readme.md. Hacking this together is not intuitive |
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| ▲ | mtw14 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yes I agree! not intuitive at all. I tried to lay out everything I did so someone could easily recreate it. | | |
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| ▲ | trevoragilbert 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| What a great name for a project |
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| ▲ | fortran77 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Get a proper wire stripper! Don't strip wires with a diagonal cutter. |
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| ▲ | mtw14 an hour ago | parent [-] | | Hahaha it was my first time!!! I am but a mere software person. You wouldn’t want to see my soldering joints… it wasn’t pretty but it got the job done |
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