Total conversion as Mycroft physical entry point

[guyou]

Hi,

I still have a working Nabaztag:tag. The Nabaztag was a good project, but it seems that its main idea is revived as the new movement of Home Assistants (Google Home, Amazon Echo...).

All this services are closed, all but one: Mycroft.

Do you think it is possible to continue your project in order to convert the Nabaztag as the physical device of the Mycroft project? I imagine we will need to:

• record and redirect the recorded stream to the dedicated API
• offer an API on the bunny to play response
• offer an API on the bunny to give visual feedback

Reading the status of the project, I think all of this seems possible. Do you see any difficulties?

[guyou]

Humh, I realise that the effective question is: how is transported the recorded sound?

[gagarine]

That would be very elegant... The nabaztag will simply send and receive audio but is capabilities will be extended dramatically.

[gagarine]

This is also another way https://www.hackster.io/bastiaan-slee/nabaztag-gets-a-new-life-with-google-aiy-e9f2c8

[andreax79]

I think creating a Frankenstein Nabaztag (replacing the "brain" with a raspberry pi) is much easier then patching the original firmware. Unfortunately the original hardware&firmware are not documented and it's quite difficult to debug.

[pho]

There is a project about porting the firmware to gcc and there are some audio functions in there so, this might be actually doable

https://github.com/RedoXyde/nabgcc