Question about Arduino’s…
I’m working on a small project involving an Arduino-powered box. I’m curious if it’s possible to integrate a Python-based virtual assistant into this project. The idea is to create a compact, Arduino-powered device that includes a virtual assistant capable of performing various tasks. Is this something that can be achieved?
Most Arduinos don’t have enough horsepower to run a full assistant stack. They’re designed as limited resource microcontrollers.
Basically, here are some choices, depending on what your priority is:
Depending on what you want to do, I’d suggest the easiest is #2, as a frontend to HomeAssistant, with the assistant running either on a beefy server or on the cloud.
Edit: “Arduino” actually can reference three different things:
If you have a classic Arduino board, they usually have very limited power and run on a basic Atmel processor. An ESP-32 processor is a bit beefier and can run Arduino software (as well as FreeRTOS). And to make things even more confusing, Arduino the company sells an Arduino-branded board that runs the Arduino software stack, but on top of different processors, including an ESP-32: https://docs.arduino.cc/hardware/nano-esp32/
You may want to watch out which version of “Arduino” you want to work with.