Read My Chest: This Hoodie Subtitles Everything I Say

Speech-recognizing AI, Raspberry Pi, and a wearable screen mounted chest-high.
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I've built countless Internet-of Things, yet I rarely use Web APIs. Today, something changed my mind - filthy lucre. There's also some 3D printing - I need to say that for search-engine optimization. Forget the fourth wall - we break the second wall here at Voidstar Lab. That's the one between the stage and the writer's room.

Downloads:
🍝 Code + STLs: https://github.com/ZackFreedman/DeepgramSubtitleHoodie
👕📺 Shirt-mounted display: https://bit.ly/3yKoPrV
👕🥧 Wearable Pi 3B+ case: https://bit.ly/3PmqgTf

Deepgram wanted a speech-recognizing project, so I got to combine my very favorite things: wearable technology, Python, and being a public nuisance. A hoodie that transcribes my every word is a unique fashion statement that says "the place where my soul should be is a sucking chest wound that will drag me into a sunless oblivion unless I get constant validation from strangers."

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Cool stuff from this episode:
🔊 Codec Zero sound card: https://bit.ly/3sAOXkY
📸 DJI RSC2 gimbal: https://bit.ly/3PnIkMB
🥜 Chicago nuts: https://amzn.to/3ljAMww
🅱 Old-Skool OSD font (free): https://bit.ly/3MoyCrp
⚡ Power bank: https://bit.ly/38voK0p
📺 Stretched-bar display: https://bit.ly/3yDnnra
🥃 Stranahan's Colorado Single Malt: https://bit.ly/3Nflfde

Thanks to Micro Center for letting us film this project in action!
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Browse Micro Center’s Amazon store filament: https://micro.center/67190a

Timetable:
00:00 - 01:49 Right from the Gecko
01:49 - 03:30 Zack is a Shill
03:30 - 05:09 Materials + Micro Center
05:09 - 06:05 Printing + Electronics
06:05 - 06:13 Content Warning
06:13 - 09:39 WARNING! CODE!
09:39 - 11:02 Hacking a Hoodie
11:02 - 12:35 Micro Center Invasion!!
12:35 - 13:25 Damage Report
13:25 - 15:30 Thankies

Interference SFX by Partners in Rhyme
Widget Workshop footage blatantly thieved from LGR. He's the only one who got the end-of-run sound! Yeah, the Widget Workshop equivalent of the Return statement makes, not one, but two very, very loud noises. I'm so nostalgic rn hnnnnnnnnggggg

I can't believe I never made it say 'my eyes are up here'