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Show HN: AI toy I worked on is in stores

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156 points Sean-Der | 2 comments | 12 Oct 25 14:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.408s | source

Alt link: https://mrchristmas.com/products/santas-magical-telephone

Video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z7QJxZWFQg

The first time I talked with AI santa and it responded with a joke I was HOOKED. The fun/nonsense doesn't click until you try it yourself. What's even more exciting is you can build it yourself:

libpeer: https://github.com/sepfy/libpeer

pion: https://github.com/pion/webrtc

Then go do all your fun logic in your Pion server. Connect to any Voice AI provider, or roll your own via Open Source. Anything is possible.

If you have questions or hit any roadblocks I would love to help you. I have lots of hardware snippets on my GitHub: https://github.com/sean-der.

1. Jaxkr ◴[13 Oct 25 22:12 UTC] No.45573876[source]▶
This is an amazing product. I don't have kids yet but I would buy this for them if I did!

However, since this is Hacker News, I must say I'd probably enjoy building this myself using TTS and LLM APIs...

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2. Sean-Der ◴[14 Oct 25 01:20 UTC] No.45575212[source]▶
Build it :)

It's the most fun I have had in a long time. Building a character and having it sit on your desk and chatter/say things you don't expect.

I love absurdism humor. This hits the spot for me.