DIY AI plush toy runs fully offline using Raspberry Pi and a local LLM

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A developer has built an open-source AI-powered plush toy capable of holding philosophical conversations entirely on a local network without any internet connection. The toy uses a Raspberry Pi Zero WH paired with a USB microphone, camera, speaker, and a servo motor to move its head, with all processing handled by a connected computer running a local AI inference server. It can recognize multiple faces, detect emotions, remember past conversations, and respond with customizable personalities in English or Spanish. The full hardware build costs approximately €110, excluding the computer and inference server, and the project recommends at least an 8-billion-parameter language model. The source code is publicly available on GitHub under an MIT license, and the creator states the project is non-profit and collects no user data.

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