Category: Lizzie

  • Building Lizzie – IV

    Building Lizzie – IV

    Another post about Lizzie. I started off with a Raspberry Pi 3 to build a personal assistant for my car and I have come a long way both in terms of the concept and the functionality. Most importantly I have formalized the application flow and also extended the scope from one device to almost all…

  • OBD-II with Raspberry Pi3

    OBD-II with Raspberry Pi3

    I am writing this article in response to a question posted on my YouTube channel. Here I would be talking about communicating to an OBD-II device (ELM327 chip with Bluetooth) hooked into your car’s OBD-II port. The OS I am using is Windows 10 IoT core. This information is important because it makes a difference…

  • Building Lizzie – III

    Building Lizzie – III

    As mentioned in previous article today I would be talking about OBD-II integration in Lizzie using a Bluetooth serial communication with an ELM327 adapter that fits on a OBD-II port in your car. OBD stands for On Board Diagnostics which is connected to the ECU (Engine Control Unit) and provides a ton of information (both…

  • Building Lizzie – II

    Building Lizzie – II

    In the previous post I described my experiments around building an intelligent artificial personal assistant – Lizzie. The pseudo intelligent agents available today around us (Siri, Cortana or Google Next) are all great feats of engineering given the fact that they reside on small devices like mobile phones and are able to do powerful things…

  • Building Lizzie – I

    Building Lizzie – I

    Recently I have been busy building a personal assistant that I would be fitting in my car. Currently I am in experimentation mode and I am experimenting with speech capabilities. I would start with a description of my journey so far. First let me show off a little bit with these videos that I created…