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Google Makes AI Easy as (Raspberry) Pi with New DIY Google Assistant Kits

  • April 22, 2018
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Google’s do-it-yourself AIY kits released last year are already a great way to learn the ins and outs of designing a smart home speaker powered by Google Assistant, but they always came with a caveat: You needed to bring your own Raspberry Pi to the party. But with an update available today, Google is giving you everything you need right in the box.

Once again available in two flavors, Voice and Vision, Google’s new kits are a one-stop solution for building the next-generation of AI devices, and include a Raspberry Pi Zero WH, micro USB connection cable, and pre-provisioned SD card.

Read: Dropbox and Google Cloud Partner to Deliver Cross-Platform Integrations

Each kit also comes with the appropriate hardware you’ll need to get your smart device up and running:

Google’s AIY Voice Kit includes everything you need to make a smart speaker.

AIY Voice

  • Speaker
  • Voice bonnet
  • Push button
  • Mechanical hardware
  • Button harness

Google’s AIY Vision Kit includes everything you need to make a smart camera.

AIY Vision

  • Raspberry Pi camera
  • Vision bonnet
  • Push button
  • Electrical hardware
  • Button harness
  • Long flex cable

As you might expect, the Voice Kit lets you build a voice-controlled AI speaker, while the Vision Kit allows you to make a camera the learns to recognize people and objects. Google’s push with the new AIY kits is for kids and schools, with simpler documentation and STEM lesson plans, but adults will no doubt enjoy making the projects as well.

Google’s AIY kits are compatible with a new AIY companion Android app for wireless setup and configuration, and iOS and Chrome support are on the way. Google says the kits also work with standard monitor, keyboard and mouse setups.

The new Voice AIY and Vision Kit AIY kits are available at Target for $50 and $90, respectively, with full retail availability rolling out soon.

Why this matters: By its own admission, Google has shifted from being a “search first” company to an “AI first” company, so it makes sense that it would want to teach a generation of programmers all about Google Assistant. These new complete kits are an excellent way to do that, with a sharp focus on kids, schools, and STEM learning. Who knows, the next big breakthrough in AI could start with a kid playing around with one of these kits.

 

This article originally appeared on the IDG Network by Michael Simon

Image source: Google 

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