HAL 9000 Google Assistant Using A Raspberry Pi

In this video I show you how I made a Google Assistant using a Raspberry Pi. I went a step further and made it look like the HAL 9000 from the science fiction film 2001 A Space Odyssey. For more information check out the article on my website.
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[@rangjungyeshe]

Awesome work, mate! The response you got from HAL to your request at 7:23 was priceless. He's mellowed....

[@krishnaprasath]

I'm a sci-fi fan and DIY person, Really inspired and enthused by your work. Superb 👍

[@tophlaw4274]

Awesome build, @Zack! It would've been cooler if there was secondary way of triggering HAL remotely. Perhaps a clap sensor (or a software solution) so that you don't have to be physically near it.

[@phunkissartisticcreations2316]

Love the retro look of HALexa or is it GooHAL... anyway, great project!

[@bytesizedengineering]

Thanks Henry and Paula! HALexa and GoogHAL, those are brilliant names! Did you come up with that your own? I may steal that.

[@phunkissartisticcreations2316]

@@bytesizedengineeringyou can have them at no charge😁

[@criticized.mp4265]

Dude nice job on this just wondering how did you make that voice for hal? I would love to use it if possible

[@johnbacho8952]

I’m pretty sure he is using the “Pink” voice for google home. To do this all you need to do is download the google assistant app go to settings find assistant voice and change it over to pink.

[@bytesizedengineering]

I just chose one of the standard voices included in Google assistant

[@Kimchi_Studios]

You did great with what you had to use. I like the format of this vid it worked great.

[@bytesizedengineering]

Thank you Kimchi

[@jillianeddy]

I love this Zach, especially when Hal tells you to use the spare key under the flower pot. Hilarious

[@SuperOldShows]

Great work! I'm not gonna get Alexa or similar until it can accurately speak either like HAL9000 or Holly from Red Dwarf!

[@ArnoWelzel]

Nice work! JFTR: Windows 10 now also has ssh as command - no need any longer for PuTTY, just create a cmd-script with "ssh pi@raspberry" in it.

[@pauliboo2]

Just read the write-up for you project in this month’s MagPi magazine, and so found your KZbin channel.

[@bytesizedengineering]

I appreciate your interest! Hopefully you find some more stuff on here that you enjoy!

[@gianluca.g]

Connect the button gpio to an audio noise sensor. This way your HAL will always listen, like the real one!

[@bytesizedengineering]

That's an interesting idea. I don't think I want it to listen every time there's a noise in the room!

[@makemodhack3279]

Looks awesome Zach, well done!

[@bytesizedengineering]

Thanks Nick!

[@manuelpavan1647]

Bellissimo!!non vedo l'ora di vedere il prodotto finito al 100%

[@bytesizedengineering]

Thanks! This is the finished product for now. Thanks for watching.

[@NathonDalton]

Awesome job! It looks great. I think a nice touch would have been to smoke paint the bubble over the LED, like people do with their car tail lights.

[@bytesizedengineering]

Thanks for the suggestion I'm not familiar with smoke paint. Is that like a frosted finish to help diffuse the LED? From what I can tell in the movie the dome is pretty clear and not frosted.

[@NathonDalton]

@@bytesizedengineering It's been a while since I've seen the movie so it's very possible that I'm wrong. The paint is a semi-opaque black coating. It diffuses the light a little, but mostly it just blocks a portion of the light, causing a tinting effect. It's like tinted windows, but paint instead of vinyl (or whatever material that is).

[@eugenerusselnash]

Genius! Just Out Curiosity- what sort of house are you living in? It Looks Like a 19c Mid West Farm House with Double Aspect Windows? The Radiator Upstairs Looks Pretty Antique? The reason why I’m asking is because researching these builds for a planned project? Best

[@johnwang9914]

I'm surprised no one has made a HAL 9000 voice for these smart speakers. Most of HAL's voice is just a depressed tone so someone should be able to imitate it.

[@nathanjaffrey]

Any chance you would be interested in uploading the stl files to thingiverse?

[@bytesizedengineering]

I'm working on cleaning them up so I can upload them

[@nathanjaffrey]

@@bytesizedengineering awesome! I really appreciate it.

[@Jamesmonstre]

@@bytesizedengineering Are they (stl-files) already on Thingiverse or other place, please?

[@bytesizedengineering]

@@Jamesmonstre not yet

[@TheLukemcdaniel]

You can also power the pi through the host usb ports as well.

[@bytesizedengineering]

Really!? I didn't know that. I'll have to look into that more. Thanks for the tip 😁.

[@TheLukemcdaniel]

@@bytesizedengineering they didn't add it till the 2, or 3. But yours should have that.

[@Hyperion62]

or from the GPIO pins

[@delakota555]

@@bytesizedengineering bear in mind that there is a polyfuse on the micro USB power input circuit. I don't think there is any similar protection on GPIO and I think the polyfuses were removed from the USB type A ports quite early on in the various iterations of the Pi. People used to solder resistors on the circuit to circumvent limitations caused by them if I remember correctly. I think if you go down the route of powering via GPIO then you are best to get a dedicated power HAT. This shows the polyfuse on the Pi 3 circuit: raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/61302/does-raspberry-pi-zero-have-a-polyfuse Next project...TARS and CASE from Interstellar! 😉

[@riythemusicguy7696]

Missed chance to say hal as the activation word

[@dervxerox]

The original Hal used a Nikon fisheye lens. Peter Jackson owns it now.

[@bytesizedengineering]

I was reading about that Nikon lens fact. Very interesting

[@m3rdpwr]

Good stuff.

[@bytesizedengineering]

Thanks Mario

[@cybershadow]

This dude looks like Tom Hardy lol :) Nice stuff, love it!

[@valerianteritron4424]

A W E S O M E ! ! !

[@ephestione]

Only real touch of class to add to that project was to glaze or otherwise make opaque-ish the inside of the transparent dome, so that the red led would have a more diffuse light effect, adding to the realistic aspect

[@nonickname1104]

Great video! Is there a way i can change the voice? Or a way to alter its default voice?

[@bytesizedengineering]

Yes you can change the Google assistant's voice setting. A simple Google search will show you how

[@trollingday7124]

Nice video. I have an answer, could you change the voice type of a Google Assistant for others?

[@bytesizedengineering]

Are you asking if it's possible to change the default voice of the google assistant? Yes, it's found in the voice settings of the google assistant app.

[@fabriglas]

Doe this mean all your data goes back to google ? Is there a way to opt out of this?

[@jaredbzdok5155]

Zacks of things awesome I would love to buy one

[@bytesizedengineering]

I'm considering selling the enclosures on my website but there's the issue of licensing the rights. I don't want to get in trouble. Maybe I can sell the 3D printing STL files? I'm not sure

[@drwilyecoyote5357]

Is there an app ifandownload to get a Half 9000 voice?

[@Bylga]

🤯

[@akirathearchibald7958]

Can this be a alternative to google home?

[@SevenSixTwo2012]

Your DIY version of HAL9000 needs Kevin Spacey to narrate some lines for it, lol.

[@edwardnihal248]

Can that be an offline assistant?

[@jhasank9238]

Which app do u use for pcb designing

[@michaelkress3907]

Redo the LED connection move the whole circuit to the left and you better plug your stuff in instead of having to do all the side connections that you could’ve saved by Just starting an answering Billy D if you had it soldered in not sure if you just used a USB port whatever.. Yes that’s somewhat disappointing by how slow my 3-D printer is to even though it’s supposed to be pretty quick still seems pretty slow when you take four or five hours to do a simple part print out

[@chiraldude]

This needs to be updated to use Chat GPT!

[@NavySeal2k]

So, you didn't go for a hal 9000 look?

[@brightgarinson3099]

That is cool but how practical is it compared to an actual Google home or Alexa?

[@bytesizedengineering]

There is nothing practical about this. Honestly that was not even in the design criteria. This was purely for fun and enjoyment!

[@brightgarinson3099]

@@bytesizedengineering Oh ok, well thank you for sharing. I might try it someday.

[@cyberneticinterfacemodular3996]

You must have a fail safe just in case the robotic interface decides to malfunction.This what i do in all my programmes.

[@soutrikgupta8972]

Did you just press the button and activate the assistant ?? for sure it didnt wake up to hotword on video.

[@bytesizedengineering]

Yes the button press activates the assistant. No no need to say "okay Google"

[@AntonShagaev]

@@bytesizedengineering Right, because new Google Assistant SDK does not support hotword activation :)

[@NA0533]

Which printer are u using?

[@bytesizedengineering]

Artillery Sidewinder X1

[@snark69]

Actually that's only the audio and camera interface of Hal-9000

[@bytesizedengineering]

I believe you're right. There is another portion of the HAL console shown in the film. I built this part because it's the more recognizable part.

[@op_bread920]

Only if it had the voice of Douglas Rain. RIP man...

[@alexhacker6412]

Bro. Sell these. I don't care what it costs I want one!

[@sanjayahlawat2826]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@cv507]

does dave insämminate hal ? daisy plus nö helmet ? i mean cöme ön kubrick blödlinäce n nrj xD v v i wondäre häv gr8 id ice ^ ^ höme öttömäshün xD werrce zäh 20k k käetz v v

[@kimsfamily5491]

You mean a fake HAL 9000 ???

[@metaversepirate]

Watching this video 🙀 how adavanced wil HAL 9000 (chatgPT4 omni) become ❓ I finaly turned chatGPT plus into HAL 9000 🙀