As a society, we need an open source device for reading. Books are among the most important documents of our culture, yet the most popular and widespread devices we have for reading are closed objects, operating as small moving parts in a set of giant closed platforms whose owners' interests are not always aligned with readers'.

The Open Book aims to be a simple device that anyone can build for themselves. The Open Book should be comprehensible: the reader should be able to look at it and understand, at least in broad strokes, how it works. It should be extensible, so that a reader with different needs can write code and add accessories that make the book work for them. It should be global, supporting readers of books in all the languages of the world. Most of all, it should be open, so that anyone can take this design as a starting point and use it to build a better book.

Check out the promo video as well:
https://youtu.be/vFD9V8Hh7Yg

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[–] Heratiki@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean those Echo Dots come with a huge hit to your privacy as a cost. Not to mention how susceptible the Echo Dot has been in the past. Hell some expeditious hackers even got the Echo Dot to hack itself.

[–] cwagner@lemmy.cwagner.me 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

As I said, subsidized. But luckily, Home Assistant finally added the last pieces I needed to make a second attempt at building my own. I have the microphones, an old PI3, and some cheap USB speakers to make a proof of concept, if everything works, I’ll get some Pi Zero 2’s or comparable devices, more speakers, and replace the Echo’s.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I installed that update just minutes ago! What are you using for your voice satellites?

[–] cwagner@lemmy.cwagner.me 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As I said, PoC will be done with a Pi3 (which currently has Rhasspy installed from my last attempt :D), if everything works I’ll get Pi Zero2s or something similar.

[–] seang96@spgrn.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd be interested in how well it turns out for you haha

[–] cwagner@lemmy.cwagner.me 1 points 1 year ago

Same ;) one thing that was a big issue with Rhasspy, was that I want to play the audio from the device I requested it from (though technically I could live with hard coding the audio player as I only need the kitchen to play music), I'll see how that works with ha.

[–] Heratiki@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I have an Rpi Zero for interfacing cheaper devices with HomeKit so I feel you. I’m just not going to use an Echo Dot when I already have a bunch of HomePods lol.