You’ve made it to the final challenge of Month 3—and now it’s your turn to shine. This capstone project is your opportunity to customize, complete, and present your very own AI assistant using everything you’ve built this month.
🏁 Your Final Project:
Create and demo a working AI assistant that:
✅ Detects a person using the Pi camera
✅ Greets them with Text-to-Speech
✅ Accepts voice or typed input
✅ Uses a local LLM to generate responses
✅ Speaks the answer aloud through your speaker
🎯 Project Goals:
This is your chance to apply all your new skills:
- Vision-based detection
- Speech recognition and audio input
- Offline AI text generation
- Real-time audio output
- Modular, integrated code design
🔧 Bonus Features (Optional but Encouraged):
- Add jokes, greetings, or personalized phrases
- Control GPIO hardware (lights, buzzers, etc.)
- Use your custom-trained model from Lesson 7 to trigger specific actions
- Include wake words, idle timers, or personality quirks!
🎥 How to Submit Your Showcase:
- Record a 1–2 minute video showing your assistant in action
- Briefly introduce your assistant by name and explain what it does
- Post the video in the #month3 Discord channel
🎬 Tips for a Great Submission:
- Keep the assistant loop responsive—add timeouts or greetings
- Be creative! Funny, useful, quirky… your assistant is a reflection of you
- Use expressive speech responses and engaging voice tones
- Don’t stress over production quality—a phone recording is totally fine!
📅 Deadline:
There’s no strict deadline, but we recommend submitting within 7 days to stay on track and be considered for community highlights or newsletter features.
🎉 Wrap-Up:
This month, you built an AI assistant that can:
- See the world
- Listen to your voice
- Think with a local LLM
- Speak back intelligently
That’s a serious achievement—and it’s only the beginning.
🚀 Next Month:
We take your assistant into the real world with smart home automation, Zigbee devices, and sensor-based decision-making.
Until then, enjoy building, personalizing, and showing off your assistant. We can’t wait to see what you create!