Christmas is fast approaching, many people are starting to buy nougat and prepare everything for one of the biggest festivities of the whole year, the atmosphere is getting ready for the arrival of Christmas carols as well as Christmas trees. Christmas and other types of decorations. There are always ways to mix our passion with a party, and if we talk about IT it is clear that one of the solutions we have is to try to create a type of decoration that can do more than just offer an aesthetic change, like a TREE of Christmas controlled by a AI so that it is interactive.
We can often find on the Internet a large number of projects created thanks to a Raspberry Pi which hold our attention, and it is clear that there is always a use that can be given to this type of SBC so that it can offer a festive atmosphere very different from that to which we are accustomed. If you want your Christmas to be unique and everyone who comes to your house to be completely surprised by your ingenuity, you can always use these devices to create interactive decorations that will leave all your visitors speechless.
A very different, interactive and original Christmas tree powered by a Raspberry Pi
Every year is different, and for this reason there are always ways to ensure that the festivities have something that we will remember both ourselves and the people we can invite into our home to spend the days celebration. Decorating in a festive atmosphere is something really important, and achieving the most original possible is something that many people want to achieve, it is something that we can achieve at Christmas if we carry out a project such as creating a TREE of Christmas interactiveimplementing a Raspberry Pi that we configure with artificial intelligence to be able to interact with it, sing Christmas carols or even control the lights on the tree itself.
Before you start configuring the Raspberry Pi It should be borne in mind that we need several additional parts for it to have the desired function, the main thing being that we need an audio amplifier, a mini speaker and a microphone USB, in addition to basic components like a case for the Raspberry, power supply and microSD. The project is not easy to carry out but many users create various projects and then offer a tutorial on how to do it, as is the case with TechMakerAI, below we leave you the video of how you can convert this device into a virtual assistant that uses Google's AI, Gemini, to answer any questions.
If you don't want to complicate your life too much, try doing this
Another simpler way to do this would be to buy a virtual assistant like the one offered by Amazon with the smallest possible device as well as smart LED lights that allow us to link them to Alexa and place them around the tree, while we hide the speaker. inside or under the tree itself. This would save us from having to configure the Raspberry Pi with the additional steps that need to be done, but it would not have the power that the AI from Google, so it will depend on whether we prefer something increasingly simple or a project that is more complicated to carry out but also offers more possibilities.
