My pet robot plan

ok so i'm building a little robot buddy and i'm kinda hyped lol

basically it's inspired by Dorian Todd's Sesame robot (go check his stuff, it's so good). mine's gonna be more of a pet but also like an assistant, so u can talk to it and it does stuff.

btw here's the plan:

• speech: it listens for "Sesame!" oe smth similar and then understands around 100 keywords and 25 phrases. no cloud, all on the board

• movement: servos + distance sensors so it doesn't walk into stuff

• responses: droidish chirps and bloops, plus little body wiggles so it feels alive

• owner recognition: a separate camera board handles face detection and tells the robot when u're around

• the board: Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W, all software in MicroPython, because i'm doing this the fun way

ngl the hardest part is gonna be the speech stuff, cause it has to hear u right even in a noisy room. wish me luck

hardware comes later. software first. i'll post updates as i go, so if u wanna follow along follow me.