How It Works
Bill of Materials
Read morePageParrot is powered by a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W single-board computer and a USB webcam. It runs a Python script that waits for a button press, then snaps a picture of the book with the webcam. The image is then sent to Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash large language model, along with a prompt instructing it to tell me all the text contained in the image. The text it returns is then fed into Piper to synthesize speech, which is played on a Bluetooth speaker.
Media- 1 x Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W
- 1 x USB webcam
- 1 x Bluetooth speaker
- 1 x Push button
- Aluminum extrusions, wire, twist ties, and hot glue
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