Hardware and software

Products.

Each product graduates from "stable here" to "stable everywhere" before it ships. What's already shipped, what's targeted for release, and what's in early development.

Coming to Kickstarter

Aria Standalone

A single-device Aria — Pi 5 + Hailo-8, ReSpeaker XVF3800 mic array, optional pan-tilt gimbal, HyperPixel 2.1 round display — for households that want voice AI without running a home server. Voice and vision stay on-device. Only text queries leave the unit.

Form factor
Desktop unit, ~6 in × 4 in × 2 in
Compute
Raspberry Pi 5 (8 GB) + Hailo-8 — 26 TOPS edge inference
Audio
Seeed reSpeaker XVF3800 — far-field 4-mic array, AEC, beamforming
Vision
Optional Seeed reCamera Gimbal — 360° tracking, on-device YOLO + face ID
Display
HyperPixel 2.1 Round 480×480 with animated avatar (audio-driven lip sync in dev)
Local STT/TTS
Whisper.cpp small + Piper voices — voice never leaves the device
Target price
$500–$700 retail
Status
aria-1 reference unit operational. Phase 4 complete (systemd + pre-action dispatch + timer tick). Phase 5 (telemetry, watchdog, speaker ID) in progress.
Open source · v0.1.0 released 2026-05-01

EPOCH Android Cam

Turn any Android phone into a webcam, screen mirror, microphone, USB HID controller, or recorder for a Linux desktop. GTK4 + libadwaita app with a CLI surface that external agents can drive. Built on scrcpy. No cloud, no telemetry, no daemon.

License
MIT
Acceptance tests
15 / 15 passed on Galaxy Z Fold 7
Sister tool
EPOCH Cam — sensory-layer feed for Aria (private repo)
Open source · Available now

Batmobile FKM40 Controller

An open-source replacement controller for the Mattel Justice League Ultimate Batmobile R/C (FKM40), after Mattel pulled the original app from Google Play in March 2024. Drive your bricked toy from a phone, browser, or AI assistant — including Aria.

Firmware and protocol docs are open-source on GitHub. Pre-assembled bundles ship through our eBay store.

In development

Personal Knowledge Base (PKB)

RAG system for personal documents — zoning law, custody settlements, equipment manuals, property records. Pattern-A MCP server with pgvector and on-device nomic-embed-text embeddings. Tier-based access so your phone can ask the public stuff and your robot can ask the private stuff.

Planned

OpenStream Android

An open-source Android-side server speaking the DroidCam OBS plugin protocol. Protocol research is complete; build pending. Designed to free Android users from closed-source camera-streaming clients.

Want to know when something ships?

Follow the Salient Concepts org on GitHub for source releases. Hardware bundles for currently-shippable products are listed on our eBay store.