{"id":1296,"date":"2015-09-13T15:32:18","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T14:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quantum-bits.org\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2022-08-12T17:28:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T16:28:33","slug":"say-hello-to-e-v-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/?p=1296","title":{"rendered":"Say hello to E.V.E"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been (yet again) a very very long time since I posted news on “Jarvis”, my pet project on Raspberry Pi. So long I would consider Jarvis project to be almost dead (although it spawned a project internally used at work<\/a>, but re-baptized “Moshi-Moshi<\/a>“).<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, home automation, voice recognition, new forms of human-machine interactions, and generally speaking, IoT<\/a>,  are still very much in my mind. So much it is now part of my day to day job.<\/p>\n

\"rasbperrypi-hacks\"<\/p>\n

Since a got bored this summer, I bought myself a Raspberry Pi 2 at my local electronic shop<\/a> and started messing up with it. Mostly back-porting what I did with the old Jarvis project (Google API changes, etc.), trying to connect it to a few home equipment, and getting myself a little more fluent with hand gesture recognition.<\/p>\n

\"raspberry-pi-2\"<\/p>\n

Since Google voices (at least for “en_us”, “en_uk” and “fr_fr” locales) are now of female gender, I had to change Jasper’s gender. And find a less “Marvelish” name.<\/p>\n

The “Jarvis project” will from now on be known as the “E.V.E project”: Experimental Voice Enabled project.<\/p>\n

Yet, I am that bad at choosing names. And I am aware of Disney\/Pixar’s “Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator” sweet character from Wall-E.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Right now, E.V.E doesn’t do much, but at least she can introduce herself:<\/p>\n

But the real kick-starter was this week’s announcement<\/a> : an official Raspberry Pi touch display is on sale, priced as low as $60 :<\/p>\n

\"rpi-touchscreen\"<\/p>\n

Since my first tries with hand gesture recognition were a little disappointing (at least for now), I needed another way of interaction, and I didn’t want to rely on an external tablet to drive the project I had in mind. This announcement was right on time, and I feverishly  ordered one – along with a nice stand- this Saturday night at Swag Shop<\/a>. Disco pun intended, of course.<\/p>\n

\"raspberry-screen-black\"<\/p>\n

Both the touchscreen and the stand should arrive in a few days. So I fired up today my good old Inkscape<\/a> and and drew a few interface sketches.<\/p>\n

A a proof of concept, I designed something easy to implement and test with a touchscreen and a couple of scripts, like a basic home screen:<\/p>\n

\"eve-home-screen-sketch\"<\/p>\n

and simple radio functionalities :<\/p>\n

\"eve-radio-sketch\"<\/p>\n

For now, it’s pretty much inspired by iOS \/ WatchOS designs. It’s simple enough to be quickly tested. Next steps in a few days !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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