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tl;dr

Firmware that turns a Rockchip RK3506 board into a button activated voice assistant that records a question, sends it to an AI service over WiFi, and shows the answer on an LCD screen.

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  root((repo))
    What it does
      Button triggers recording
      Uploads audio over WiFi
      Shows AI reply on LCD
    Tech stack
      Pure C
      CMake
      ALSA and libcurl
    Use cases
      Kids Q and A device
      Kitchen voice helper
      Elderly voice companion
    Audience
      Embedded developers
      Hardware hobbyists
    Hardware
      RK3506 board
      Microphone
      SPI or RGB LCD
    Design
      No dynamic memory
      Single threaded loop
      Five state machine

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what do people make with this?

VIBE 1

Build a hands free voice Q and A gadget for kids to ask simple questions out loud.

VIBE 2

Set up a kitchen voice assistant to look up recipes without touching a screen.

VIBE 3

Create a simple voice first device for elderly users who find smartphones difficult.

VIBE 4

Build a quick desk assistant for checking things like weather or exchange rates by voice.

what's the stack?

CCMakeALSAlibcurlFreeType

how it stacks up fr

uiseries/ai-robotlinuxoid-cn/cve-2026-43499-poc-analysissorryhumans/clawdmeter-plus
Stars848386
LanguageCCC
Setup difficultyhardhardhard
Complexity5/54/54/5
Audiencedeveloperresearcherdeveloper

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how do i run it?

Difficulty · hard time til it works · 1day+

Requires an RK3506 dev board, cross compilation toolchain, and a remote AI server endpoint.

Use freely for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

in plain english

This project turns a small Rockchip RK3506 development board into a voice controlled AI companion. You press a physical button, ask a question out loud, and a few seconds later the AI's answer appears as text on an attached LCD screen. The whole flow is button press, voice recording, WiFi upload to a remote AI service, and then a display of the reply. The README lists several everyday scenarios this could serve: a child asking simple questions like how dinosaurs went extinct, someone in the kitchen looking up a recipe while their hands are messy, an older person who prefers speaking over using a smartphone, or someone at a desk wanting a quick answer about exchange rates or the weather. The target is for the reply to appear within about three seconds after the recording finishes. Under the hood, the whole thing is written in plain C with no dynamic memory allocation at runtime, meaning all memory is set aside ahead of time rather than requested while the program runs. It works as a single threaded loop that polls hardware every 50 milliseconds. A state machine moves the device through five states: idle while waiting for a button press, recording while capturing up to 60 seconds of audio, processing while it checks WiFi and uploads the recording, then either a result state showing the AI's reply or an error state if something failed, such as an audio, WiFi, HTTP, timeout, or server problem. To build and run it you need a Rockchip RK3506 board running Linux, a compatible microphone, an SPI or RGB LCD screen, a WiFi module, and a physical button and LED wired to GPIO pins. Setup involves installing several C libraries, cross compiling for the ARM processor with CMake, downloading a Chinese font file for on screen text, editing a configuration file with your WiFi credentials, and then copying the resulting binary onto the board to run. The project is released under the MIT license, based on the badge shown at the top of the README.

prompts (copy fr)

prompt 1
Walk me through cross compiling this project for an RK3506 board using CMake and the aarch64 toolchain.
prompt 2
Explain the five state machine states this voice robot uses and what triggers each transition.
prompt 3
Help me wire up the button, LED, microphone, and LCD screen this project expects on GPIO.
prompt 4
What do I need to change in app_config.ini to connect this device to my WiFi network?
prompt 5
Explain how this project avoids dynamic memory allocation and why that matters on embedded hardware.

Frequently asked questions

what is ai-robot fr?

Firmware that turns a Rockchip RK3506 board into a button activated voice assistant that records a question, sends it to an AI service over WiFi, and shows the answer on an LCD screen.

What language is ai-robot written in?

Mainly C. The stack also includes C, CMake, ALSA.

What license does ai-robot use?

Use freely for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

How hard is ai-robot to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated hard, with roughly 1day+ to a first successful run.

Who is ai-robot for?

Mainly developer.

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