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I've been wondering this. I have multiple of the older (non-Dot, the tall, cylindrical ones) Echoes. I hate using them. But I do like the form factor and sound quality.
It probably can't be too hard to gut everything but the speakers, microphone and DC port, then wire in a Pi / Pi Zero, right...?
I assume their motherboard is a write-off. The form factor in speaker are probably all we have to start with. For a few bucks you could turn it into a decent Bluetooth speaker. Want to get a little more intense if you want to do anything interesting like voice control.
I'd really like to find a way to drive the display and touch screen on the shows
There's projects that fully replace the Google Home Mini mobo. No reason you couldn't do that with Alexa
Yeah that's kind of the direction I was thinking. I really want to have access to the screen and the touch controls on the shows though. It'll all come in time.
There's another really wicked side project I saw running on pis. You put a Bluetooth enabled device in every room and it tracks where your items are. So you could ask where your keys aren't to triangulate which room in your house they were in.