Picked up a XIAO 1.28″ round display to use with the Seeed XIAO ESP32S3 Sense chip. It piggybacks beautifully.

So now I have a tiny round capacitive screen that has a built-in camera, mic, Wi-Fi, and low-power Bluetooth.

I’m thinking maybe of putting it into the lid of a little wooden chest I have to make it some kind of “mother box,” something I can get artsy-craftsy with, a little burn or carve on the lid to hide the camera and mic. I’d put a lightweight vision model on it and have it react in some way to events in the room.

Maybe flash it a peace sign to get a weather report… or have the mic detect  a knock pattern to give little visual responses?

Facial recognition? Voice commands?

Seeed Studio’s SenseCraft AI platform has a bunch of pre-trained offline models (like face detection and simple object detection)

https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/sensecraft-ai/overview/

Possible display elements