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Show HN: AI toy I worked on is in stores

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156 points Sean-Der | 1 comments | 12 Oct 25 14:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | 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.

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joshu ◴[13 Oct 25 22:43 UTC] No.45574120[source]▶
already gone. anywhere else to get it?

how hard is it to reprogram?

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Sean-Der ◴[14 Oct 25 01:08 UTC] No.45575135[source]▶
I would DIY it, I think you will have a lot more fun/enjoy the end result more https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45575106

If you do I would love to help!

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1. joshu ◴[21 Oct 25 04:40 UTC] No.45652531[source]▶
i'm already DIYing a esp32-based robot...

also, the form factor of the toy is pretty charming!