Hobbyist Builds Retro Voice Assistant Artie

Andrew Schmelyun built Artie, a 1970s-styled desktop voice assistant that pairs modern LLMs with a vintage CRT TV interface and Raspberry Pi 4. The Pi transcribes voice locally, sends requests to a cloud LLM, converts responses to synthetic speech, and can print via a hacked dot-matrix printer, demonstrating a hardware-hacking approach to integrate legacy peripherals with contemporary models.