I built the world's first real, working Pokédex

[@abetoday]

For anyone interested in creating your own Pokedex, here's some useful links (some are affiliate links which help support the channel)... 3D Models on Tinkercad - www.tinkercad.com/things/9yxuwHykYHM-pokedex Seeed Studio XIAO Sense (Camera / Microcontroller) - amzn.to/3wkJFim Fialect 8ohm Speakers - amzn.to/3SGis0Y MAX98357 (Audio Amp / i2s Board) - amzn.to/3OM5i1l Grayscale 1.5" OLED - www.adafruit.com/product/4741 2.5m Screw Kit - amzn.to/48mmDoD If you're interested in playing with this idea without doing a custom build, check out Adafruit's MEMENTO - www.adafruit.com/product/5420 It is the same microcontroller as this project, but built with a screen and camera in a nice shell. It's everything you need to recreate this project and would also be easier to code as it's designed to work with Python, not C. The only downside is that it's just not red. For the code, as mentioned in the video it is not in a good enough state to release, but with the instructions I outlined, I believe you could recreate it with a bit of research! Have fun!

[@badpanda8856]

Thx man! Loved how your project came out.Earned a sub

[@Sanscripter]

i stumbled upon this as I was about to start my app version. well wish me luck!

[@bryanjohnson322]

can you share the code?

[@kuroyuki919]

sued by nintendo

[@Sanscripter]

@@kuroyuki919 for real?

[@Rykyuby]

If the voice worked perfectly this would be something i’d honestly buy

[@VanisherXP]

Imagine if companies like Nintendo and GameFreak actually cared to make cool products and not rehashed crap, with all the resources they have they could make a better version of this with a bigger full-color display, the Pokémon stats data, injection molded shell, etc... it would sell like hotcakes.

[@Antonio_Otter]

@@VanisherXP they used to sell pokedexs that worked they didnt have a camera but they had databases with all the pokemon entrys and stats and other things but the stopped making them due to not selling well enough.

[@icebearsans]

unfortunately nintendo would definitely shut that down

[@gigaslave]

An open-source scanning pokedex app that ran on Android would be amazing lol, I'd get the APK and load it into an old phone.

[@chwdp997]

I feel like the voice is the easiest fix. The AI speech generators work a bit wonky and sometimes you just have to generate a specific sentence a couple of times or spell it incorrectly to get the right result.

[@clay_geo]

For V2 get a nice big blue LED wired up in parallel with the speaker to get the flashing "speaking" indicator going :)

[@Glauco.gloster2007]

Ultrakill

[@blaze.kimbie]

Yes. That thought was obsessing me for the entire video

[@WhoTheDev]

Please let this live up to the hype Edit: Lives up to the hype

[@TealTechie]

All of his videos have lived up to the hype for me.

[@flytheburger2182]

Dudes living up to the hype that Pokémon could never achieve

[@caseyhamm4292]

SPOILER?!? actually i came from the short so i know it’s hype already lol

[@Planetmango48]

Cool.

[@ZatoichiBisch]

Yeah it did!

[@Solinaru]

That was incrediable! Even if the end result had bugs in it, the fact that it actually works when everything is just right means that it can only improve from there :D

[@zixea3318]

I forgot technology has bugs (despite literally being interested in tech) for a second and I was like “IT HAS BUGS???”

[@tirea277]

How did you get the little goat at the end of your name?

[@Solinaru]

@@tirea277 I pressed the join button and signed up to be a member of the channel!

[@kenetlibuit8781]

Incrediable

[@isaactejada2757]

If this man goes missing, it was gamefreak

[@LoneWolfLegendOfficial]

no it was nintendo

[@Stars4mydemise]

​@@LoneWolfLegendOfficialit's game freak blud

[@_WiZ420]

@@Stars4mydemise no, it would be nintendo. Game Freak may be the group for making the series, but they aren't the ones with a tyrannical mindset.

[@MachtPlays]

Mario about to kick down his door. “Youa made a this all by yourself huh? Those hands must be a talented to engineer such a device a? Would a be a shame if those hands a went a missing.”

[@yunk786]

4:01 "It hast 4 screws..." *drops a screw.. "3 screws.." I laugh too hard

[@Adri9570]

7:18 - Ben Kenobi: use the Pokedex Luke! - Pokedex: (finds the D3ath Star weakest point without even having to download the plans from R2D2) 👌

[@FokkerBoombass]

Adaptive dynamic engineering.

[@zaneassefa7711]

German auto-correct at its finest.

[@natsandin5466]

This is so cool! I actually think that the problem with the Fuecoco plush was ChatGPT, not your pokedex. I'm pretty sure ChatGPT's date cutoff is before the release of Scarlet and Violet, so it has no idea what any of the newer pokemon are. On the plus side, this means that your Pokedex works really well, it's just limited by the quality of ChatGPT's database. It should be able to accurately recognise anything up to Gen 7 and maybe some of the more popular Gen 8 Pokemon, but definitely not Gen 9.

[@Hexagonal_Goblin]

This was exactly my thought regarding the Fuecoco plush, yeah. I'd love to see it tested on a plush of an older gen pokemon!

[@joosh65]

I'm pretty sure that's right - I remember someone trying to build a team in SV with ChatGPT when it first got popular but it didn't know anything about the new Pokemon or Terrastalization.

[@hugopistarelli4118]

I think gpt4 has access to content after 2019, but I may be wrong

[@MD.Akib_Al_Azad]

Paid 3.5 has, free and GPT 4 dont​@@hugopistarelli4118

[@xjunkxyrdxdog89]

Gpt-4 now has access to real time internet searches.

[@FranMG]

What if you show it a picture of a Pokemon with a text below saying “This is a Pikachu”. Which Pokemon will it show?

[@PliskinYT]

A ditto wrote this comment

[@retrokoh]

A Zorua wrote the reply😊

[@toolatetothestory]

And a Mew needs add on :p @@retrokoh

[@CsnlGuy_Da_Goadt]

​@@retrokoha zoroark wrote the reply's reply

[@TheTacroach72]

A Pokémon showdown metronome battle blissley wrote this reply’s reply’s reply.

[@JuanRodriguezNushio]

Now imagine doing this offline, using a pre-trained model, and a tensorflow gpu haha. Great job, I really like your dex!

[@t0m_fr]

I agree! In v2 the voice could be pre recorded on the SD for all pokemon and a dedicated classifier could be trained to run on TF Lite... Your channel is fantastic, love the tone and the content. Keep up the good work Abe!

[@igorgiuseppe1862]

it will be trick to find an portable device capable of runing it even if its pre trained... but its portable if he use the internet from his phone via thetering or something like that

[@somdudewillson]

@@igorgiuseppe1862 The thing is, a model actually designed to just recognize Pokemon would be wayy tinier.

[@igorgiuseppe1862]

@@somdudewillson i dont think so because you need to deal with false positives

[@igorgiuseppe1862]

@@somdudewillson but yeah you might be right, the issue is that we have 1000+ pokemon nowadays, with many different forms

[@LelandHasGames]

I think Nintendo and the Pokemon Company should be taking notes. Like, if Nintendo made a real Pokedex like this, I'm so sure it would fly off the shelf. I would definitely buy one. Imagine if they could have made something like this back in 2004.

[@xjunkxyrdxdog89]

Why 2004 specifically?

[@Saber_Nico]

2004? can't imagine since we didnt have AI's like chatgpt and good quality cameras to pick things out so nobody couldnt make a real-life pokedex. even if we did, we'll just have the same reaction as we did watching this in 2024

[@degenera7039]

​@xjunkxyrdxdog89 bc that's the year I was born so it was a super cool year 😎

[@LelandHasGames]

@@xjunkxyrdxdog89 I guess, I should say 1999 but, idk. In 2004, pokemon and pokemon merch was a big deal. I mean, I guess it still is but, idk

[@madnessarcade7447]

@@LelandHasGames​​⁠also it’s not feasible to make it with perfect tech that would probably cost like 100 or 200 dollars

[@BigRigCreates]

I'm impressed how much that ESP device can do for that size. Time to stockpile a few of them....

[@-._YourAverageDinosaurFan_.-]

Just a few...

[@le9038]

I like how open you are when it comes to things failing to work. not everything is going to work on the first try and that's okay, you just have to figure out why (as miss frizzle would say).

[@WakoDoodle]

I always wish nintendo kept making the pokedex toys but also added a unique code you can see in the games and merchandise to scan with the pokedex. This though is a whole new level! Sure it's not perfect but it's able to scan so much more than a code!

[@shaiky1681]

Wait a second, a few years ago on the 3DS era every Pokemon was getting its own qr code or something. Wonder if that system is still working somewhere else like PoGo

[@animeloveer97]

@@shaiky1681 that was exclusive to gen 7 and was just for getting island scan pokemon iirc ( and seen versions of dex entries)

[@davidsimmons6812]

This was AWESOME, and I'd like to thank Gizmodo for clueing me in. I was not a Pokémon player until Pokemon Go, so I have NO knowledge of the franchise or its lore. Despite that, the craft and the love behind this is adorably fantastic, and I would absolutely buy one if it were available, just to have it with me for kicks out in the world. Superb work, sir! Hoping to see version 2.0 sometime!

[@abetoday]

Thanks so much for the kind words, David! Glad you enjoyed!

[@jackpaxton9391]

Seeing the concept art part made me so happy! I just love doing the same thing, down to the bubble letters.

[@AMONGUSLOVER42069]

when pikachu gets identified i want the pokemon yellow "PIEEKAAH" intro voice in *EXTRA* crispy quality

[@StrangerMoontail]

"I set out to do what I've accomplished." NEW MOTIVATIONAL CATCHPHRASE

[@shriram5494]

This will be analysed in English classrooms 50 years from now

[@me.ko.i1279]

That's amazing. Just print the label on the back or inside the cover "it needs wifi connection with xyz name and abc password" and u can give it to anyone and it would work i suppose.

[@Otome_chan311]

Since he's using online services you also need to pay the fees and have your own api key.

[@me.ko.i1279]

@@Otome_chan311 And that's a possible business idea.

[@animeloveer97]

@@me.ko.i1279 thats terrible because very few people would want to do that lol

[@gooose7]

This has to be one of the coolest homemade projects I have seen on KZbin in a while!!

[@TakaTahuNuva]

Loved the editing, pace, whole vibe. Great job man!!!

[@gresh1134]

Super cool project!! I've always wanted to see one of these built irl. If you ever develop this further in the future, it would be super cool to have a custom image recognition ML model trained for this, to replace the dependency on ChatGPT

[@qtfoxe]

This was incredible my man, I'm astounded by your determination to see it through and I can only imagine how hard those bugs must have been to squash. Nice work, I can't wait to see more.

[@soniccinos]

The part were you talk about the bugs and problems you stumbled upon is the best part!! We see many projects online, but those who talks about the difficulties are the best imo, because we all know it's a natural part of any project and when we get to see it, It just feels more complete.

[@charleshardesty1828]

The most surprising thing (for me) in this video is that dude is a big enough fan of pokemon to make this, but had to go to the store to get pokemon to test the pokedex

[@bubblegumplastic]

Maybe he just wanted to test it in the wild

[@charleshardesty1828]

@@bubblegumplastic he didn't, he bought stuff brought it home then tested it...

[@itsLantik]

10:50 "I think I set out to do what I accomplished" bro's one step ahead 😂

[@BlathersIsAHoot]

Wow... Idk how to do literally any of the things in this video but the explanations & pacing made it totally watchable and entertaining anyway. Great video!

[@brandon_raby]

That's amazing man. Great job! Please continue to refine this project!!

[@malachitewallace5312]

abe, you never fail to absolutely stun me with your project ideas & execution! I aspire to have this sort of nature when doing my own creative projects. Keep it up! I also love your little drawn pieces you do before working on each project! They feel so very authentic, and explain everything they need to in as simple a form as possible. Have you considered selling them as prints?

[@abetoday]

Thanks for the kind words!! I have considered doing something with them... starting with this one I will make sure to save them going forward. Prints would be cool, or a big project book or something! I'm not sure but your interest is noted!

[@Kris-TheChupacabraSlayer]

@@abetoday​​⁠could you possibly post more information about the software? I want to try to make this but see if it can be modified to be used for other applications.

[@Josue-handle]

@@abetodaywhat markers do you use? I like them!

[@SverreJohannBjrke]

Great stuff! You are quickly becoming one of my favorite makers to watch.

[@abetoday]

Thanks man I appreciate that!!

[@acer1kylesf943]

You should add a feature where you can add entries like the national dex It would keep track of the pokémon you've seen and tell you how many you have so far

[@v0xl]

tbh i think a custom pre-trained ai would actually perform better than a generic one like gpt4 here

[@zandar_117]

2:23 That sweet Sea of Thieves chicken! It brings back good memories of better times when the game launced! And the project turned out as great as always!

[@RolandKoller90]

I’d be all in on whatever version down the road is built out of metal, with proper working lights, proper size screen, etc. This is great work!

[@Naevedyam]

Imagine seeing a random pokemon in the show, Going "Hey what pokemon is that" but too lazy to actually search it up so you just pull this thing out and "Oh wow it's a ___".... Now THAT'D be awesome

[@champion_ofcloud-var]

like ash

[@kpowerbg]

Thank you so much for taking the time to share your knowledge with us!

[@ogfire6]

Nowadays, the iPhone’s camera works like a Pokédex. It can tell you what plant or animal is in the photo you take.

[@EpokPotato]

Pretty sure everyone knows that...

[@Dragon-kx6eb]

@@EpokPotato I didn’t

[@EpokPotato]

@@Dragon-kx6eb Skill issue

[@cesaraugustomarcelinodossa5138]

This was a lesson of system engineering, and even being a hobbyist project, issues always come along the way, and you found your way on researching and fixing. Good job!!! Really liked the video :)

[@abetoday]

Thank you so much!!

[@TealTechie]

Woohoo! A new Abe's project video is always exciting!

[@ConnorAsher]

Excellent project! Would love to see an advanced, continued version of this.

[@aerotraveldji]

We're really proud of of you too 11:10

[@ajmal_pro07]

Make part two : more refined design with lights and voice and sound and look more like the actual pokedex ❤❤

[@Bread-qz3ht]

Road to 100k!! keep going, great stuff here

[@Tappwuztaken]

2:55 "you'll notice i'm being very delicate with these screens" *proceeds to dump everything else out of the model without a care literally 3 secs later*

[@priyanshuchoudhary35]

My dawg bringing fantasies to to RL , k33p it up mate love your projects 🤠

[@Pc118Gamer]

the ultimate flex would be to have Image identification, the Pokemon Index, and vocal synthesis running locally on the device. A local model for Pokemon identification probably wouldn't be too resource intensive I'd imagine.

[@eliseocaballero9669]

Maybe cause I got some good smoke. But that line you whispered... "I broke one." Has me rolling

[@metallisgames]

That dumping parts transition from case v0.1 to more finely modeled case was clever as hell!

[@toast_cat2265]

Chat I'm going to give this handsome man his own studio and funding he deserves it fr don't stop man you make some interesting stuff

[@Optimism247]

Cheers to this video skyrocketing to an easy 1M+ views! You deserve it for all the hard work you put into making our childhoods come to life. Just glad I could be here early! ❤

[@NikoJokipalo]

Awesome work. I'm guessing the AI service detects drawn Pokémon better as that (the images on the internet) is the dataset they've stolen of off the WWW. As someone previously mentioned, would be even cooler if the PokéDEX had offline models for the detection and voice generation. Still, very great job and great video

[@onidaaitsubasa4177]

Me when watching this "Couldn't this also be made into a phone app?" A lot of people that couldn't buy or make a physical version would love to have a phone app version.

[@mark1A100]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHPQfXmDg5WZmtksi=qoPwYwaofU-nzVDP

[@nonchip]

from "a real working pokedex" to "a clunky interface for a phone app and also i have not the slightest clue why i'm using those buzzwords i'm saying" in UNDER 2 minutes? that's a record!

[@ShitpostingArchive]

having a walking library like this is super cool imagine scanning real animals / bugs or plantlife with something like that. this could be a real product

[@kleko]

I figure you did not get the voice actors permission to clone his voice since you did not mention it in the vid. Most VA have come out strongly against people using their work and voices without consent.

[@abetoday]

This is actually a fair point which I didn’t consider! I’ll be more careful about this in future projects.

[@kleko]

Glad to hear it @@abetoday

[@YujiUedaFan]

@@abetoday That isn't even what the Pokédex even sounded like in the anime. Instead it sounded more like that one robot from M.A.S.K.

[@sparky4845]

This was such a cool project. I would love to see a version 2 at some point in the future. 👀

[@LostParadise_]

This is so cool. I would 100% buy a working pokedex like this, even in its current state. Or even if it was an app... a separate device is more special though. I think everyone who watched the older animes would've loved a real Pokedex.

[@lourier3]

When you have a solid version of this you should make videos on the street at Pokemon events or something, that'd be really cool

[@bottols]

I remember bulding this in Lego a few years ago. I still have it. It was my first freestyled Lego build

[@NatchBox]

This was so cool!!! Great work. Loved watching you make it

[@esmeestevens4018]

This is soo cool. At my design course we just started doing bits and bops with Arduino, and it just amazes me how much things you can make with it, even a pokedex! Very inspiring!

[@justinrazon7200]

That was actually awesome that you made a legit working pokedex. Far from perfect obviously but you basically did something that you can pretty confidently say no one else in the world has done and imo that's an incredible achievement right there already.

[@Webbsy]

This project needs to continue, this is sooo sick

[@Wiwcac]

Point it at random flora and fauna! Well done. But some 11 year old is about to come steal one of your prototypes, so get some animals to help some kid track the thief down. They may need help so get them a companion that might be useful for them to pick. Maybe a tracking dog, a pony for transport, or perhaps a venomous snake for defending themselves as they throw it at weirdos.

[@mattkainlewandowski7832]

Another incredible project! Loved seeing all the bugs that you had to face and how you overcame them. Can't wait to see this hit 100K views!!!

[@abetoday]

Thanks so much cousin :D

[@malixcrash4126]

Gotta be honest, The fact that this is even possible to be real, let alone actually *is* real, is a testament to just how far technology has come since the start of pokemon This is honestly kinda insane, and

[@duraeusentenu]

OMG THE OG TIGER ELECTRONICS VERSION OF THE TOY!!!!.....;-; nostalgia....I had one, loved it dearly.

[@ofthamist]

You dont have to recode just run it though an ai. Have it run simulations continuously optimizing the code. Over time it will get more and more refined. You can also have the ai simulate 2 seperate personas (pokemon masters or proffessors in this case) and have them learn from eachother aswell as the internet. Then all you have to do is leave the program running for a couple weeks while checking in occasionally to input your own optimizations.

[@Zellboy91]

I'm really curious to see what this project would look like with the voice rendering at perfection, and am curious about other things, like its range of recognition. This is crazy even without the perfection. My 90s childhood self is screaming for one, lol. VERY impressive!! You've got yourself a new subscriber!

[@game_zone_wi]

I've never seen any of the shows and only played Scarlet and Violet so don't know much about this, but this is FREAKING awesome!

[@MrFirecasters]

Not everything needs to be perfect, Abe. That's the most valuable lesson I learned from doing DIY things. This thing is amazing btw, my childhood-self rejoices!

[@tvmanstan6933]

I love the Pokédex, that’s why I have a working one from 1997 it’s super cool. It will read out any Pokédex entry from the first game and show you an image.

[@Uh_khakis]

Top tier editing, humor, and skill set for an amazing build. As a data analyst wanting to branch into hardware work, this is an inspiring project!

[@abetoday]

Thanks friend!! Really glad you enjoyed!!

[@DSBOY33]

This device has a lot of potential in the future especially when it comes to the ever expanding Pokemon game universe

[@sichaelmott]

Very cool! I love your dedication. I'd like to see the same thing, but for real animals in real life! The advantages of playing pokedex with real animals is that they are more plentyful than Pokemon, and more varied, so you can play longer! In Pokemon there are 1025 species, which is A LOT. But on earth there is 8.7 million! Also they are more real, compared to Pokemon. That means you can see them with your eyes, as well as through the camera, and sometimes touch them. Another aspect is that the looking for them would be more of an adventure. You would need to know a bunch of stuff about eagles to be able to find one. Or you might need to explore a creepy basement to find the last spider on your list. The difficulty of finding rare poke.. animals is a bit higher, but I'm sure the effort will be a lot of fun 🌟

[@hamzah6251]

Nice job! Looking forward to version 2 :)

[@frdsofficial]

That's awesome! I want to see this Pokedex working 100%.

[@TimSheehan]

Really cool project and well presented - easy to follow and entertaining. I had to pause and giggle at "has four screws *clatter*... three screws"

[@MazerTime]

For those of you not up to date in the pokemon lore, the pokedex is a phone app now! Still hyped for the OG pokedex though

[@sneakattack879]

This was sooo cool! I'm not really much of a pokemon fan, but I can still really appreciate the design process and the end product, awesome work!

[@lizardcrimson2439]

I'd love to make this. I think I'd make the case larger, the door have some buttons too, a big led light, and run all the computer vision natively. I think my goal would be no need for wifi. It just works on its own

[@frostbite3820]

That's pretty damn cool! V2 should be more like the national dex in the games, scroll through a list of all the Pokemon and each time you scan one it fills it in.

[@hunghoangmusic]

Amazing work! you worked so hard on this but it's worth every bit of effort

[@caseyhamm4292]

4:02 ‘four screws…three screws’ had me dead. also awesome build and video ofc

[@Edward-Not-Elric]

This is honeslty incredible. It's like a childhood fantasy come true. And I love how out of all of the insanely difficult things he had to do, he only used one clip for the voice synthesizer. 😅

[@abetoday]

lmao - ya know, sometimes you get focused in one area and by the end you're like... I am too tired to go back and redo that other thing

[@ved.shankar]

This is amazing and looks incredibly complex. I wish I had thought of this for my engineering projects

[@doc34thfist]

@abetoday the segments are the chunks your browser or webkit or what ever is pulling down the audio data stream. It does so in bite size chucks from the cdn/host. What ever your using to stich the clips back is causing it the ticks. see if you can pull the whole file down instead of streaming maybe?

[@pudgeballproductions]

Hey Abe, I’m currently making an espcam based pokedex aswell, but I am struggling with the image detection. How exactly did you upload your image to gpt4 vision from the xiao. If you could link your code, that would be great!

[@abetoday]

I actually upload the image to Google Cloud Storage for Firebase then invoke GPT with the URL to the hosted image rather than attempt to base64 the image in the JSON. Hope this helps!

[@pudgeballproductions]

@@abetoday thank you for help, I actually got the functionality to work through GPT and pokeapi exclusively. My device encodes the image into base64 and uses gpt 4o Vision API. Once its all done, i’ll be sure to send you the demo. Thanks for your help.

[@oxob3000]

Hehe as a kid I could never imagine something as advanced as a pokedex to ever excist. And now it's been made by a random youtuber

[@ΙΩΑΝΝΗΣΣΤΑΘΑΣ-ρ6σ]

Congratulations my friend! You 've made a great and inspiring work! Well done!

[@Thomas2Lotton2]

What MicroController do you use for this? Trying to make something similar

[@Ushi_archive]

Unrelated to this video but today I made a Bluetooth speaker at school, I feel like that’s worth sharing. I learnt allot about how speakers work and it has deepened my love for music and sound even further.

[@jollyopossum]

I haven't watched the video yet. It just came in my recommendations. DON'T LET ME DOWN!

[@taeviongilmore1381]

Imagine one that you could put on any animal and it would tell you what it was.

[@George-q6y3g]

Those audio ticks are artifacts created by quantization errors when audio is converted incorrectly, or unmatching bit depth or resolutions

[@AbcVids]

someone may have said this already but it would be really cool if you could trigger the camera by opening the door

[@crimsonstormsurge]

Ok this is incredible I wish Nintendo officially sold these

[@StefenHudson]

That is really neat. It also needs that little ding sound before it talks if possible, but for what it is, wow.

[@somehelluvafanboy8357]

3:05 the transition is so simple but so smooth, I literally had to double-check lmao

[@Pabloossoo]

Here before 1 million views! This is dope and it's gonna blow up. Newer and better versions will come one after the other until one day an official one will be made, and this here is the first chapter of that story. Good job bro!