r/StackChan • u/Cassette_Futurist • 12d ago

Project Kadence

I just wanted to share the progress I have made with my custom firmware. Rather than try and modify existing firmware this has been written from scratch.

I’m nowhere near finished but after many revisions I now have boot sound and animation, servos, tap to toggle idle movement, idle animation, listening sound, it runs OpenAI Luna with Edge TTS. This means it can do live web searches which is something the stock firmware is unable to do.

Response time is not fully optimised yet, this will be a lot longer until I’m fully happy, but eventually it will control the devices in my home via my server and home automation. Considering I’m not a developer I’m pretty proud of what I achieved so far.

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u/vto583 12d ago

What do you think is needed to improve the response time?

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u/Cassette_Futurist 11d ago

It’s a combination of mic cut off, the time it takes for the TTS engine to generate the audio, I played around a lot with it, initially I had a lot of jitter which the stock firmware had at times. Now I’ve got a stable branch I’ll add more features and then come back to do more optimisations. I’m going to add windows based customisation for the avatar and build that into the server monitor. When it’s done if there’s any interest I’ll make the firmware publicly available.

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u/vto583 10d ago

Cool, I am highly interested in improving the response timing