Show HN: BillAI Bass, an AI-Powered Big Mouth Billy Bass Using Strands Agents
70 points by mtw14
by mtw14
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I built BillAI Bass just because I could. It’s powered by a Raspberry Pi and Strands Agents with bidirectional streaming, and the repo includes the code and hardware setup. Happy to answer questions about the implementation!
I love that you put the Amazon Shopping list in the readme.md. Hacking this together is not intuitive
by dinkleberg
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This is great! I remember the commercials for these things as a kid. Imagine telling that kid that in the future Billy Bass will have the world's collective knowledge and you'll be able to talk to him about anything.
by reactordev
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+10 points for giving it context that it's nailed to a plaque. -10 points for using Amazon Bedrock instead of a local conversational model that can run on the Pi without a subscription fee.
Replace the bedrock setup for a gemma-4 E2B one.
by smusamashah
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If there is a small model that can run on a low powered device you might be able to use that too so that it is all self contained.
It will think (generate tokens) throughout the day, then convert that to voice and save it and will keep generating so on. Every time it is poked, it will play one of the saved recordings.
by trevoragilbert
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What a great name for a project
by fortran77
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Get a proper wire stripper! Don't strip wires with a diagonal cutter.
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