It has been a while since I dedicated myself to my projects. I had been working on the Baby Monitor project with a friend. It was his idea, and he was driving it. That is why I only got so far with it. I was able to take pictures with the web cam and filter out all the red with OpenCV and that was going to lead to figuring out the volume of noise the baby monitor was experiencing to notify the parent. I had a great time doing that project, but it just wasn't mine.
Currently, I have a few project I am working on. The Prison Rideshare project had been in ASP.Net Core before, and now have moved it to use Django. It is very far from being anything, but I had wanted to expand my horizons and learn Python a lot better. Django is a wonderful beast, too.
This past weekend, I was working on my Python and PyAudio project to have two Raspberry Pis talking together using AI. I saw a little project someone put out there to interface with Character.AI.
It is also in Python, so the thing would interface well.
I have the two Raspberry Pis and I bought Audio HATs for each of them:
I have Google Speech to Text working with PyAudio on the one Pi. I am attempting to get the text from the Microphone to show up on the SSH prompt in StdOut. It is almost there. I just am having difficulty with PulseAudio or whatever needs to process the signal and pipe it to PyAudio. I have the little program for the Respeaker working that records audio, so I imagine that it is something silly and stupid that is happening. I don't see what the issue is because I am creating the audio interface the same way in the Speech to Text script as the program that saves the WAV file. I will have this working out in a week or two. My day job and family keep me pretty busy, and writing these blog posts.
I have been wanting to experiment more with the Phaser 3 gaming engine to create the Vesuvius project and then the Orkastra project. It is very time consuming to work with javascript with all the debugging it entails. I am very excited about the projects though, and it will definitely hone my skills. Little men being thrown in a volcano seems really fun, and fish that make music seems very interesting. The Vesuvius project seems a lot more simpler and it really doesn't need to be that complicated at first. It makes the most sense to use the Box2D extension for the engine. Then, it would have some really cool physics like Angry Birds!
I am getting more dedicated with doing tech projects on my own. My day job has given me a lot more confidence in my skills.