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July Wu
July Wu

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๐Ÿง Meet Wally โ€” Your Bilingual AI Penguin Buddy!

Hey everyone! Iโ€™m building Wally, a voice-powered, bilingual AI assistant packed into an adorable penguin form

Itโ€™s powered by an LLM backend (Qwen/Deepseek/GPT-4o) runs on ESP32, and can:

  • Wake up when you say โ€œHi, Wallyโ€
  • Chat in English & Mandarin
  • Speak replies instantly
  • Show emotions via an OLED display
  • Be easily configured via onboard network tools

Wally isnโ€™t just a chatbot โ€” itโ€™s a real, talkative, empathetic companion you can carry around. Perfect for reminders, productivity, daily convos, and even emotional support.

It's till a prototype, but I'm planning to mass produce it soon โ€” check out the repo and please please please drop a star on Github if you think itโ€™s cool!

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July Wu

Also if you find it cool yourself, it would reaaally help if you can promo it to others. Thanks!