2025
Operation Pinocchio
My AI co-host was a skull on a shelf with a borrowed voice. This is the build where Little Timmy got a body, a locally-hosted brain, and a butane flame he can actually aim. No cloud, no API keys — the whole stack runs in the shop.
- brain
- Locally-hosted LLM via Ollama, with persistent memory
- hearing
- faster-whisper STT, fine-tuned on my voice
- voice
- Piper TTS, fine-tuned on my own Skeletor impressions
- jaw
- ESP32 running an FFT, opening on phoneme formant peaks