Paul Valente
Automotive Engineer
Someone needs to do this. Bob Brown, maybe? I hope everyone saw this video of this guy in Texas that turned his Billy Bass into an oracle for his Alexa and also taught it to respond to "BillyBass" instead of Alexa. Check it out.
So I was thinking, a more clever guy than I could make his X1/9 into the BillyBass and teach it to respond to whatever the name of the car is. Picture it...you are at the local cars and coffee and someone asks you who was the last American born driver to win an F1 race was and you could turn to your car:
You: "Giovanna"
Car: Headlights pop-up. "Yes"
You: "Who was the last American born driver to win an F1 race?"
Car: "Peter Revson" Headlights close.
Since the car doesn't have a mouth that moves, you could put red LEDs in the grille and have them pulse to the words it was speaking like the robot in the old "Lost in Space" TV show. Also, you could add a speaker to the car behind one of the horn grilles for better audio. The 74 has the best front end for the project.
Not sure how you could do it. It would have to be blue-toothed to your cell-phone and be more like Siri than a home-based system like Alexa. Maybe an Arduino would facilitate it. You'd have to tell it to use the mic in the phone and the speaker in the front of the car somehow. Both things I know little about.
It sounds silly but I would laugh my a$$ off if I was the unaware cars and coffee guy.
...maybe I'll just take half a pill tomorrow.
You: "Giovanna"
Car: Headlights pop-up. "Yes"
You: "Who was the last American born driver to win an F1 race?"
Car: "Peter Revson" Headlights close.
Since the car doesn't have a mouth that moves, you could put red LEDs in the grille and have them pulse to the words it was speaking like the robot in the old "Lost in Space" TV show. Also, you could add a speaker to the car behind one of the horn grilles for better audio. The 74 has the best front end for the project.
Not sure how you could do it. It would have to be blue-toothed to your cell-phone and be more like Siri than a home-based system like Alexa. Maybe an Arduino would facilitate it. You'd have to tell it to use the mic in the phone and the speaker in the front of the car somehow. Both things I know little about.
It sounds silly but I would laugh my a$$ off if I was the unaware cars and coffee guy.
...maybe I'll just take half a pill tomorrow.