Say “Hey Pebble” and ask it anything. It answers out loud, and its little face reacts while it talks. Put a different figure on top and you're talking to someone else entirely.
We're two makers building Pebble on a breadboard right now. The waitlist hears everything first.
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Every figure has a small NFC tag hidden in its base. Pebble reads it, fetches that character's personality and voice from the cloud, and a second later it's someone new.
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Each one has its own way of talking, its own face on Pebble's screen, and its own job.
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Pebble glances up while it thinks, squints when it laughs, and tilts a question mark at you when it didn't quite catch that. The eyes are drawn live, 25 times a second, so they never feel like a looping GIF.
Right now the prototype has orange eyes on a 1.77" screen. They blink. We're very proud of the blinking.
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It's meant to live next to your keyboard, not take over your desk. No app to open, no screen to stare at. You talk, it talks back, and it plugs into a USB-C charger like your phone does.
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Pop the mushroom chef on and Pebble becomes a sous chef that reads you the next step when you say so, converts grams to cups, and doesn't mind being asked the same question three times.
Official characters are locked: the dragon bard always sounds like the dragon bard, wherever you take it. Or print a blank figure, design a character in the app, and share it with everyone else.
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Community characters arrive after launch. Every character, official or not, goes through the same safety checks.
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Pebble is a breadboard on our desk today. Here's what's on it:
The thinking happens on our server, so Pebble itself never holds an AI password or key.
We haven't settled on a shape. These are the ones we keep going back and forth on. Tell us your favourite when you join the waitlist.
We're Darren and Viky, and we're pretty new to electronics. We wanted something on our desks that felt more like a character than a speaker, so we started building one. Pebble has taught us about I2S audio, solder bridges, and how long a single wire one hole to the left can take to find.
We post the build as it happens, mistakes included.
Follow along on Instagram →Not yet. Pebble is a working prototype, not a product. Join the waitlist and you'll hear about early units before anyone else.
We don't know yet. It depends on the final parts and how many we make. The waitlist will hear first.
It listens for one thing: “Hey Pebble”. Only after hearing that does it send what you say to its brain to work out an answer.
No. It joins your Wi-Fi and talks to its brain over the internet by itself.
English first. We'd love to add more after launch.
That's the plan: print a blank figure, stick in a tag, and set up its personality in the app. Official figures stay locked to their own character.
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