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Inside Wake Words and VAD for Offline AI Plush Assistants
An offline plush wake word is a local keyword detector that lets a smart stuffed toy stay mostly asleep until it hears a specific phrase.
Primer on glTF Assets and Compression for VR Toy Worlds
glTF compression for VR toy worlds should start with textures and reuse, not with a hunt for the smallest .glb.
Deep dive: BLE pairing and bonding flow for kid-safe smart toys
By Priya Sharma BLE pairing on a smart toy is a one-time Security Manager Protocol (SMP) exchange that produces a Long Term Key (LTK), and bonding is the.
Walkthrough: running on-device TinyLlama on an RP2350 for offline toy dialogue
TinyLlama 1.1B quantised to a low-bit K-quant still weighs hundreds of megabytes on disk. An RP2350 ships with a few hundred kilobytes of on-chip SRAM.
Eilik Desktop Pet 2.0.7 Emotion Engine Update Drops Battery Life to 4.2 Hours
Dated: February 28, 2026 — Eilik firmware 2.0.7 Energize Lab has rolled out a firmware update for the Eilik desktop pet that adds a rebuilt emotion engine.
Running OpenAI Whisper on a $30 ESP32 AI Pet Robot
Overview Hardware Bill of Materials for a Sub-$30 Build Wiring the I2S Microphone and Audio Output ESP32 Firmware: Capturing and Streaming Audio Setting.
Miko Mini Teardown: Dumping the Claude Haiku System Prompt via ESP32 UART Pin 17
TL;DR: The Miko Mini ships with an ESP32-S3 module whose secondary UART (TX on GPIO17) streams debug telemetry at 921600 baud, including the full Claude.
LEGO Mindstorms Robot Inventor Discontinued What Owners Should Do Next
The 51515 Robot Inventor kit left LEGO’s catalog at the end of 2022, and the Mindstorms brand went with it after 24 years.
Moxie Shutdown Refund Deadline Hits April 2026 Owners Hard
What actually triggered the moxie robot shutdown refund window Embodied Inc., the Pasadena-based company behind the Moxie social robot, told families on.
AI Companion Robots for Kids in 2026: What Years of Moxie, Cozmo, and Vector Use Have Taught Us
The pitch for AI companion robots aimed at children has been the same for almost a decade: a small physical character that talks to your kid, plays games.