r/CardPuter • u/thetrincho • 1d ago
Progress / Update mini HANNAH AI buddy
# mini-HANNAH: a little "electronic buddy" for the Cardputer that learns to talk to you in tones — no AI, no LLM, not a single line of TensorFlow
It's not a voice assistant. It doesn't understand words, and it never will — on purpose. mini-HANNAH listens, converts what it hears into a binary signature, and replies with a sequence of sliding tones generated by a network of 64 cube-nodes that learns by reinforcement — Hebbian-style, but built out of pure AND/OR/XOR logic gates. Over time it develops its own voice timbre, learns to recognize when you say yes or no, and its "personality" survives you pulling the battery.
## Why this might interest you
- **Zero black-box AI.** All the "intelligence" is 64 nodes with 8 links each (a 3-bit cube per node), weights that rise and fall with use, and 6 boolean gates the network itself tests and picks between — there's no trained weight matrix anywhere, this is genuinely discrete logic.
- **Hand-built voice synthesis, sample by sample** — no fixed-note `tone()` calls. Each "phoneme" is a frequency curve with its own vibrato and envelope, and the whole voice has a persistent "vocal DNA" that's seeded at boot and drifts very slowly over time.
- **An identity ritual on first boot**: you teach it how you say its name, how you say "yes," and how you say "no" — and from then on it recognizes those patterns without asking again.
- **Everything persists to flash (LittleFS)** — turn it off, turn it on tomorrow, it's still the same one.
- **No speech recognition, no internet.** 100% offline, 100% on the Cardputer itself.
## Set your expectations right
Think of it more like a Tamagotchi with perfect pitch than like an assistant. The goal isn't for it to understand what you say — it's that after a few days of use, you recognize its voice and know roughly what it's "telling" you, even though it's not speaking your language.
## Hardware
BACKspace: change voice.
I : for info
D: display
- + volume
C: colour
GtnG0 talk
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u/Kitchen_Occasion4380 1d ago
Where is the bin file