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Bornon the 25th of July 1978 in Leiderdorp - The Netherlands. A "geek" who is working 15+ years in the Oil & Gas industry. As a result of that, visited many parts of the world. His strong affinity with ICT matters has earned him certain online recognition and got him involved in multiple interesting projects. Was a co-founder of "The Little Black Box", a multimedia streamer based on XBMC / Kodi. A device that was brought available to big retail shops in the Netherlands such as MediaMarkt, BCC and many big online webshops as bol.com as an end result.

However as I am getting close to something that will be downloadable and to be flashed onto a SD card, I would like to open this second topic dedicated to the MycroftOS project that I am running on my blog/website.

What MycroftOS is NOT

MycroftOS is NOT suitable as a development platform. Development requires you to installl development headers/libraries/dependencies which all are not included within MycroftOS nor easily be installed. MycroftOS should be considered a production type of release for end consumers.

In my previous first blog post about the MycroftOS project, I informed you all about the start of the project. Now I did mention in that blog post that it was most likely a bit premature to already blog about it. However in the last few weeks I have...

A first (very) early alpha release is ready. Still a lot of things to fix/change/create/etc however it looks like I have all Mycroft stuff working one way or the other. I could use some feedback, both positive as negative.

So if you have some free/spare time and a spare SD card, please give it a go and let me know your thoughts. However please have a look at the information section as this is like I said a very early release and still have some quircks.

If you are interested in the development, or want to check or build it yourself. All sources are available on github;

GitHub j1nx/MycroftOSMycroftOS is a bare minimal linux OS based on Buildroot to run the Mycroft A.I. software stack on embedded devices. The software stack of Mycroft A.I. creates a hackable, privacy minded, open sourc...

The filesystem is 1GB in size and the plan is to have this to be auto-expanded at first boot. However, that part is still one of the quircks. However you can run the script manually and then it works ?!? SSH into the device and run the command;

Bare in mind that at the very first boot, Mycroft does start but also is downloading all the default skills. So first boot takes a bit longer. The default 3.5 jack of the RPi is configured as default and Mimic is available locally, so at some point you will hear the famous robotic words; I need to be activated, blah blah.

Progress, well not much or nothing at all. At the moment my daytime job is consuming most of my time. The small bits of time left are spent on the family and getting my Home Assisant installation up to specs.

I need a bit of help, because I think my RPi development board has a broken WiFi/BT of some kind. Never ever used the WiFi so far, other then some quick testing with raspbian when the PI arrived. Quickly switched to a LAN conection and did not look back.

With Buildroot 2019.11.x there is also Raspberry Pi 4 support. I compiled it blind for the RPI4, so untested. If you feel adventurous you could give it a go. Again, please report back, both positive and negative.

EDIT: IMages can also be downloaded from github

This take a few minutes to fully complete. Runningh the mycroft-cli-client before this process is finished will give an error about some sort of python package not being found. This will resort itself as soon as everything is installed.

With the last Buildroot upgrade, Python also got upgraded to 3.8 however a lot of wheels are not present for 3.8 yet. And as we do not have any compilers and such within Buildroot at run time, we can not install from sources (for the C related packages that it is)

Jinx was started as a home business in 1999 by web developers Sean Gailey and Tim Norris. The company remained a side-project of the two founders until 2003, when they partnered with Jason Kraus and decided to work full-time, using video game themes for the majority of their pieces.[2] The following year the company moved out of Gailey's bedroom and into their first office.[3] Gailey describes the multiple themes that Jinx uses in its apparel as including, "video games, art, geek culture, Internet memes, giant robots, gadgets and comics."[1]

Jinx produced multiple official product lines, including products licensed to Blizzard Entertainment[3] , Minecraft,[4] Supercell, and Star Wars.[5] The company hired gamers as its employees in order to remain closely linked to the video gaming community.[6] and hosts an online community

In early November, 2022, Jinx announced the closure of its online website after 23 years in business. On January 1, 2023, Jinx.com took down their online store and replaced it with a splash page containing a "thank you" video and message from Jinx.com CEO Sean Gailey.[7]

JXN Water is changing for the better. JXN Water is a local Mississippi water utility that is run by an interim third-party manager, Ted Henifin (authorized by a federal court order) to reestablish water infrastructure, operations and put the Jackson Water system on a sustainable path forward.

We are pleased to present our latest 2022 Water Quality Report (WQR). JXN Water completes ongoing water quality tests to keep you safe and ensure that your water meets or exceeds all state and federal drinking water standards.

JXN Water is working hard to make water and sewer repairs to provide clean, safe and accessible water to all Jacksonians. JXN Water has 24 priority projects in the works so far. View our Priority Projects and see how JXN Water is changing for the better.

Bigshot Toyworks is an award-winning creative agency focused on the design, development and production of unique characters, illustrations, toys and art objects. Our work can be seen in national print and TV advertising campaigns, toy stores, and art galleries around the world.

We LOVE Rick and Morty and when our friends at J!NX asked us to develop and produce a line of collectible mini figures for them we jumped at the chance. We had a blast taking this project from concept to mass production and are super stoked to see that the fans are loving this line. Looking forward to more amazing projects with our friends and creative partners in the new year.

These are about 2" tall and are available now through J!nx and their network of retail partners.