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  Conducting a seance

🔮 SeanceGPT

SeanceGPT bridges the gap between the living and the dead using local models to conduct seances.

📣 What it does

Users speak questions out loud and get answers from beyond without the need for internet.

🏗️ How we built it

We use whisper to listen to users as they connect with otherworldly spirits. When they ask questions, a transcription of their text is sent through gpt-oss in order to get a response. That response is then fed to our pen plotter over a serial port. The pen plotter uses the magic of magnets to spell out the message to users.

😓 Challenges we ran into

Using whisper and gpt-oss was the easy part. Building the pen plotter and hacking it so the plotter could push the planchette across the board was challenging. The other issue is the pen plotter doesn't have enough range to reach the edges of the board. 😳

🎉 Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're happy that we got everything working and put together before the deadline!

🔬 What we learned

• Our MacBooks can run gpt-oss-20b but slowly
• Grbl makes it relatively easy to programmatically control a pen plotter
• Pen plotters rule

🎃 What's next for SeanceGPT

We're counting down the days until Halloween so we can connect with the ghosts and stuff! 👻

Built With

• codex
• gpt-oss
• grbl
• javascript