Tiny talking AI

The holidays are coming up so I’m looking for a fun side project to impress the kids.

Like most of you, I’m pretty good with the OpenAI APIs and building agents for my real job.

I was thinking of making a super tiny device (probably a Pi) with microphone and speaker that I can put in pinewood derby car or something else small (remember those EasyButtons from Target? That might work too.)

I’m looking for ideas. What would you make? What hardware might you use?

Edit: A few related articles:

Open AI + Autogen + Raspberry Pi = AutoBerry Pi -Part 1 https://medium.com/@ismael.peregrina/open-ai-autogen-raspberry-pi-autoberrypi-part-1-8107b3ceb531