{"id":20563,"date":"2020-09-13T13:00:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20563"},"modified":"2020-09-13T08:17:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T07:17:40","slug":"vintage-radio-hacked-to-produce-raspberry-pi-controlled-aiy-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20563","title":{"rendered":"Vintage radio hacked to produce Raspberry Pi-controlled AIY game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=20565\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20565\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20565\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/F9I57OQKDRDXLYY.png?resize=560%2C315&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/F9I57OQKDRDXLYY.png?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/F9I57OQKDRDXLYY.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/F9I57OQKDRDXLYY.png?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/F9I57OQKDRDXLYY.png?resize=560%2C315&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/F9I57OQKDRDXLYY.png?resize=260%2C146&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/F9I57OQKDRDXLYY.png?resize=160%2C90&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dane, over at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/8BitsandaByte\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">8bitsAndAByte<\/a> has taken a West German Telefunken radio and retrofitted it with a Raspberry Pi and a <a href=\"https:\/\/thepihut.com\/products\/aiy-voice-kit-v2-includes-raspberry-pi-zero-wh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google AIY Voice HAT<\/a> and microphone (this is made from the original version, but I&#8217;m sure the new version would work too!). He&#8217;s then used a piece of software called <a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/dialogflow\/es\/docs\/tutorials\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DialogFlow<\/a> which integrates with the AIY software to create a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Decision_tree\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">decision tree<\/a>&#8221; for his very own spy-themed choose-your-own-adventure game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=20564\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20564\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20564\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/FKVVMWBKDRDXLX4.png?resize=560%2C315&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/FKVVMWBKDRDXLX4.png?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/FKVVMWBKDRDXLX4.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/FKVVMWBKDRDXLX4.png?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/FKVVMWBKDRDXLX4.png?resize=560%2C315&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/FKVVMWBKDRDXLX4.png?resize=260%2C146&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/FKVVMWBKDRDXLX4.png?resize=160%2C90&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all voice controlled and works very well as you can see in the video below:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/smQBHZZrqBM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dane, over at 8bitsAndAByte has taken a West German Telefunken radio and retrofitted it with a Raspberry Pi and a Google AIY Voice HAT and microphone (this is made from the original version, but I&#8217;m sure the new version would&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20563\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[368,4,21,50,63],"tags":[939],"class_list":["post-20563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aiy","category-audio","category-games","category-making","category-retro","tag-8bitsandabyte"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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