"Smartphones were never really meant to be your AI sidekick. They juggle notifications, social feeds, and a dozen background services before they ever get around to being "smart." Meanwhile, the first wave of dedicated AI gadgets from companies like Humane and Rabbit showed up with big promises, closed ecosystems, and short lifespans. When the money dried up, so did the hardware."
"A little Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W with a Whisplay HAT quietly sidesteps all of that. It is a DIY AI chat device that you own outright, that you can fix, reflash, or repurpose, and that can talk to Gemini, Claude, or ChatGPT without caring which startup is still solvent this quarter. Instead of betting on a single company's cloud, Whisplay treats AI as a replaceable part. The hardware gives you a screen, mic, speaker, and buttons, and leaves the "brain" up to you."
Smartphones carry notifications and background services that interfere with acting as focused AI companions. Early dedicated AI devices arrived with closed ecosystems, short lifespans, and reliance on startup funding. A Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W combined with a Whisplay HAT provides an owned, DIY AI chat terminal that can be fixed, reflashed, or repurposed and can connect to Gemini, Claude, or ChatGPT. Whisplay treats the AI model as a replaceable component so backends can be swapped via configuration or code. The HAT supplies a 1.96-inch color LCD, audio codec with onboard microphone and speaker, an RGB status LED, and programmable buttons, producing a compact, purpose-built conversational interface that matches the Pi Zero footprint.
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