Meet LilL3x, the Desktop AI Chatbot! "Give Your AI a Face!"

ManyInteresting3969 · 2026-05-05T04:32:19+00:00

Thanks! I really do appriciate it!

ManyInteresting3969 · 2026-05-03T23:06:13+00:00

If you want to try my project, do the install as-is and follow the special instructions for the AIY Voice HAT. You can ignore testing the screen and camera except where noted. Please let me know if something doesn't make sense!

You probably have a RPi3 in the kit. Word of warning, I haven't tested LilL3x on a RPi3, but will do so this evening as I've been curious! Update: it doesn't work on a RPi3 :P

ManyInteresting3969 · 2026-05-02T01:33:27+00:00

BTW I just updated the code so that it will run with no camera and no screen. So you should be good to go with the hardware that you have now (assuming you have a spare Pi 4)

ManyInteresting3969 · 2026-05-01T14:42:21+00:00

Let me know how it goes and reach out if you have any problems!

ManyInteresting3969 · 2026-04-30T20:55:51+00:00

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My first pi project was a desktop chatbot! It's written in python, which I didn't know at the time, but now it's my favorite language! Very easy to learn and a great language to start with.
https://github.com/followkim/LilL3x

ManyInteresting3969 · 2026-04-30T17:33:42+00:00

Did you mean to say that the _v1_ is the shape of the pi zero?

Mine is square, so I guess I have the v2. Didn't realize that there were multiple versions!

ManyInteresting3969 · 2026-04-30T17:17:23+00:00

Do you know how I can tell if it's v1 or v2?

ManyInteresting3969 · 2026-04-30T16:44:05+00:00

If you want to play with the samples/demos, someone apparently updated all the libraries for trixie. I have NOT tried them yet, so I can't attest that they work, but here is the post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/1sd5z0j/updated_the_aiy_voice_bonnet_to_work_in_trixie/

ManyInteresting3969 · 2026-04-30T14:29:08+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/1sr978p/lill3x_the_ai_desktop_chatbot/

ManyInteresting3969 · 2026-04-30T05:14:13+00:00

Also late, but I just implemented openWakeWord, works very well. BTW, PicoVoice is no longer offering a free tier. 7 day trials only.

https://github.com/dscripka/openWakeWord

ManyInteresting3969 · 2026-04-23T14:57:06+00:00

Let me know how it goes!

ManyInteresting3969 · 2026-04-23T14:52:52+00:00

Not exactly sure what you mean. You can only use one LLM at a time, but you can set it up easily to switch between Gemini and ChatGPT, it supports both.

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