
Marcus Reid
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Marcus Reid
@buildswithreid
embedded systems by day. tearing things apart by night. raspberry pi evangelist. opinions are my own and they're usually right.


i'm among the first couple hundred ppl selected for an openhome dev kit - excited to receive this soon!



500 million smart speakers have been sold. (WILD!) NONE can run AI agents. NONE let you choose your model. NONE are open. BROKEN! We’re building the open alternative FROM SCRATCH! - A new OS - Open source abilities. - Open hardware. Jailbroken. 🤫 Build anything.


500 million smart speakers have been sold. (WILD!) NONE can run AI agents. NONE let you choose your model. NONE are open. BROKEN! We’re building the open alternative FROM SCRATCH! - A new OS - Open source abilities. - Open hardware. Jailbroken. 🤫 Build anything.






Had the idea to hand assemble devkits at @openhome to get hardware in the hands of our users quickly. What I didn’t account for is how insane the response was going to be, or how many of these we would be shipping weekly. Can’t wait to see what gets built next.



My Alexa (in Europe) is so retarded, like literally half the things it doesn't understand or does wrong Like you say "Alexa play casa de bamba" and it starts playing casablanca by a Moroccan rapper? Dafuq? The model is so bad and outdated and it's not an LLM voice model like xAI or OpenAI etc have We can't use Alexa Plus (or whatever the AI thing they get in US which is in fact up to date) in EU cause anti-AI regulation Any Home Assistant solution I can get? Mic + speaker and beautiful, and then I can tie it to an actual voice LLM











