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Re:Show HN: BillAI Bass, an AI-Powered Big Mouth Billy Bass ... by reactordev on Monday July 13, 2026 @03:57PM (#48897941)
+10 points for giving it context that it's nailed to a plaque. -10 points for using Amazon Bedrock instead of a local conversational model that can run on the Pi without a subscription fee.

Replace the bedrock setup for a gemma-4 E2B one.

Re:Show HN: BillAI Bass, an AI-Powered Big Mouth Billy Bass ... by mtw14 on Monday July 13, 2026 @04:56PM (#48898732)
You can actually run a local model with strands using Ollama pretty easily so you could just swap the model provider out in like 4 lines of code. So this would not be hard to do. Good idea!
Re:Show HN: BillAI Bass, an AI-Powered Big Mouth Billy Bass ... by ryandrake on Monday July 13, 2026 @06:18PM (#48899660)
Yea, I like the idea of hooking this up to a local model running on my homelab and having no external calls. This project seems to provide a pretty good hackable foundation! I also wonder if it can be done with something smaller form-factor like a raspberry pi zero so it can be fully encased in the Bass plaque. This is a site to bookmark for later!

EDIT: Looks like modern versions of Billy have a motion sensor too--that could be fun to hack as well.

Re:Show HN: BillAI Bass, an AI-Powered Big Mouth Billy Bass ... by mtw14 on Monday July 13, 2026 @06:53PM (#48900015)
I’ve seen other people hack Billy bass using other tech but they 3D printed a new casing for it. I looked for it again but couldn’t find it to send you a link though.
Re:Show HN: BillAI Bass, an AI-Powered Big Mouth Billy Bass ... by reactordev on Monday July 13, 2026 @07:48PM (#48900515)
My point entirely