July 19, 2026
A couple of weeks ago I wrote up my hardware voice assistant for OpenClaw, an ESP32-S3-BOX-3 running a custom ESPHome firmware fork, feeding a Home Assistant […]
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July 6, 2026
Published by Darren Robinson on July 6, 2026
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I’ve been using OpenClaw since February this year and whilst the multitude of interfaces are great, I wanted a hardware voice assistant at home. And I […]