Making a Smart Speaker - Part 6

Calvin has been on my desk for far too long now. I really want to just, you know, finish this project. Obviously, the software will be continuously evolving, but the hardware will be packed away in this nice package and will not be in wires and parts on my desk as it has been for many months. But I think that Calvin's design - as well as his codebase, isn't what I want it to be. Maybe I should start from scratch? Let's design a whole system architecture that allows us to make a whole smart home based on Calvin.

Turning A Broken Chromecast Into An Audio Chromecast

The Chromecast reinvented the way we share media with those around us. It baffles me that it took so long for a company to make a device that turns dumb TVs into smart TVs. It's also amazing the power they pack in their tiny form factor. The small Chromecast 1 was way ahead of its time. It's a miracle that it can do what it does and do it so well. But because they're so compact, they can fail very easily. For example, I recently got my hands on one that produces very strange video artifacts. Like, very very strange.