Show HN: BillAI Bass, an AI-Powered Big Mouth Billy Bass Using Strands Agents

mtw14

I built BillAI Bass just because I could. It’s powered by a Raspberry Pi and Strands Agents with bidirectional streaming, and the repo includes the code and hardware setup. Happy to answer questions about the implementation!

dinkleberg

This is great! I remember the commercials for these things as a kid. Imagine telling that kid that in the future Billy Bass will have the world's collective knowledge and you'll be able to talk to him about anything.

trevoragilbert

What a great name for a project

relium

Reminds me of Mike Neil's FishHack at the 2000 MacHack. https://tidbits.com/2000/07/03/the-machax-best-hack-contest-...

zuckerborg0101

I love that you put the Amazon Shopping list in the readme.md. Hacking this together is not intuitive

reactordev

+10 points for giving it context that it's nailed to a plaque. -10 points for using Amazon Bedrock instead of a local conversational model that can run on the Pi without a subscription fee. Replace the bedrock setup for a gemma-4 E2B one.

fortran77

Get a proper wire stripper! Don't strip wires with a diagonal cutter.

smusamashah

If there is a small model that can run on a low powered device you might be able to use that too so that it is all self contained. It will think (generate tokens) throughout the day, then convert that to voice and save it and will keep generating so on. Every time it is poked, it will play one of the saved recordings.