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Custom Wake Word Part 1: Capturing Data
One of the biggest complaints about many home assistants (like the Amazon Echo) is the inability to create custom wake words. Sure, you can select from a list of pre-existing wake words, but to create your own is quite a technical challenge. Sometimes, it might be fun to say something other than “Alexa” or “OK…
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How to Install TensorFlow on Windows
This tutorial will show you how to install TensorFlow on Windows. You do need need any special hardware. Although, you should be running Windows 10 on a 64-bit processor. TensorFlow maintains a number of Docker images that are worth trying if you do not want to fight with version numbers. Read about how to use…
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How to Install TensorFlow with GPU Support on Windows
This tutorial will show you how to install TensorFlow with GPU support on Windows. You will need an NVIDIA graphics card that supports CUDA, as TensorFlow still only officially supports CUDA (see here: https://www.tensorflow.org/install/gpu). If you are on Linux or macOS, you can likely install a pre-made Docker image with GPU-supported TensorFlow. This makes life much…
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How to Use C++ with STM32CubeIDE
While C may be the preferred language of many embedded programmers, C++ does have a place, especially if you want to use certain libraries, like TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers. In this tutorial, I will show you how to get started making a program (blinky) for an STM32 microcontroller using C++ on STM32CubeIDE. I will use…
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How to Create a Web Server (with WebSockets) Using an ESP32 in Arduino
A few months ago, I created a video showing how to use WebSockets with an ESP32. WebSockets have proven to be very fast (relatively speaking) at controlling hardware over WiFi. They still rely on TCP, but they have little overhead, so the latency is much less than other methods (e.g. using separate web pages). However,…
