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!

EDIT: Looks like modern versions of Billy have a motion sensor too--that could be fun to hack as well.

I’ve seen other people hack Billy bass using other tech but they 3D printed a new casing for it. I looked for it again but couldn’t find it to send you a link though.