A product designer at Microsoft shares how she built Opal, a personal AI pet in the form of an animated bunny running on a Raspberry Pi. Opal uses GPT-4 for voice transcription and Claude models for reasoning, and can browse the web, retrieve Hacker News stories, find recipes, post summaries to Discord, and even update her own GitHub-hosted recipe book site. The project was built in 2-3 months using open-source agent tooling and custom Figma-designed sprites. The creator encourages designers to build their own agents to understand the infrastructure behind AI-powered interfaces.
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