BillAI Bass - Real-time AI voice assistant for Big Mouth Billy Bass
Show HN: BillAI Bass, an AI-Powered Big Mouth Billy Bass Using Strands Agents
Transform a novelty Big Mouth Billy Bass into a responsive real-time voice assistant using a Raspberry Pi 5. Powered by Strands Agents bidirectional streaming and Amazon Nova 2 Sonic on Amazon Bedrock, this project enables the fish to listen, process audio, and reply with synchronized head movements and lip-syncing. The guide requires no robotics or soldering expertise, allowing beginners to build a talking fish in a weekend. It leverages AI assistants to guide the build step-by-step, handling debugging and hardware variations effortlessly.
The person this guide is based on had never plugged in a Raspberry Pi before and got a talking fish in a weekend.
- mtw14
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!
- relium
Reminds me of Mike Neil's FishHack at the 2000 MacHack. https://tidbits.com/2000/07/03/the-machax-best-hack-contest-...
- dinkleberg
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.