Maker Creates Rick and Morty-Inspired Raspberry Pi Wearable for Smart Home Control

Maker builds Raspberry Pi-powered Rick and Morty watch to remotely control smart home

I turned myself into a Raspberry Pi, Morty! Boom! Big reveal! I'm a Pi! Raspberry Pi controlled smart homes are cool enough on their own but Donutsorelse has kicked things up a notch with this awesome Rick and Morty-themed wrist watch control system! This Raspberry Pi wearable is integrated with AI for a seamless experience, enabling Donutsorelse to control a variety of smart home services in his home -- as well as a few Rock and Morty easter eggs, like an awesome Mr. Meeseeks box. According to Donutsorelse, this was part of a Halloween costume in which he was dressed up as Rick. The idea was to create something that wasn't just useful but also complimented the costume with features that would behave just like one of Rick's many inventions. This meant the integration of AI to help with sentence interpretation when registering voice commands. Donutsorelse is using the word "butler" as a keyword to trigger commands. The Raspberry Pi is working alongside a DFRobot Unihiker board which is responsible for listening for audio input. It's connected to a Blues Notecarrier F card, adding remote support which means you can use the device pretty much anywhere as long as it has a signal -- presumably in this universe, at least. There is also a Flask server at play that manages the various requests and integrates the AI API. The Raspberry Pi used in this project is a Compute Module 4 as part of an M5Stack CM4Stack Development Kit but Donutsorelse insists you could use a Raspberry Pi 3 B instead. It's working alongside the DFRobot Unihiker which has a touchscreen and the BluesNotecarrier F that provides the cellular wireless support. A Python script is responsible for managing much of the overall workflow. It utilizes OpenAI to help with understanding voice requests. This makes it possible to say things like "Butler, turn on all of the lights." instead of requiring specific explanations like "Butler, turn on the living room light, turn on the hallway light, turn on the kitchen light." If you want to get a closer look at this Raspberry Pi project, you can check out the build details over at Hackster. There you'll also find lots of information about its assembly as well as the source code.

This genius built a Rick and Morty-themed smart home wrist controller with a Raspberry Pi

Key Takeaways This Raspberry Pi wrist wearable uses AI for smart home convenience. The innovative project allows commands in a format understood by devices. It relies on Blues Wireless Notecarrier F board to contact devices from long distances. ✕ Remove Ads There are a lot of good things to like about November, but one of the lesser-explored elements is when someone gets a bolt of inspiration from their Halloween costume and spends the next month fleshing it out further. Such is the case of one Rick and Morty fan, whose October 31st outfit became the start of something better. They've designed their very own smart home controller with a Raspberry Pi, and it lives on their wrist for that extra mad scientist feel. ✕ Remove Ads Related Raspberry Pi AI Kit hands-on: An affordable way to enhance the SBC's performance in AI tasks Unless you're a developer, there's not a lot you can do with the AI Kit right now. This Raspberry Pi wrist wearable uses AI to control a smart home As spotted by Tom's Hardware, this cool idea was the invention of donutsorelse on YouTube. The device began as part of a Rick costume from Rick and Morty, and donutsorelse wanted to make a device that both fitted the sort of thing that the titular mad scientist would make, while also being helpful in daily life. The solution was a Raspberry Pi-powered wearable that could understand what he was saying and use AI to control his home. ✕ Remove Ads The project has some really cool elements to it. For example, he set up the AI to give commands to his smart devices in a format that they'd understand, meaning that he could add pretty much any device he likes to his system. Then, he used a Blues Wireless Notecarrier F board to allow the board to contact his smart home from long distances. This means he can tell his computer to turn on while walking home and have everything ready and waiting for him by the time he returns. And finally, he tackled the trickiest part; making an SBC comfortable to wear on your wrist for long periods of time. ✕ Remove Ads Fortunately, the project was a success, and donutsorelse showed off all the cool tricks he can do with it in the video above. And if you want to see more Pi projects that started life as a Halloween costume, check out this T-45 power armor helmet from Fallout.