Any news or building interest on/for Google Nest (smart speakers) drop-in PCB replacements like Onju Voice with added XMOS chip as an alternative to Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition?
Do you think we will any time soon see justLV or some other talented electrical engineer(s) design and publicly release fully open-source PCB designs and schematics that works the same as Onju Voice by being made to be a drop-in replacement circuit-board for Google Nest Mini / Google Home Mini (smart speaker) series but having the same ESP32-S3 and XMOS xCORE chip as the Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition reference hardware from Nabu Casa?
As most of you probably already know; Nabu Casa development team together with other ESPHome and Home Assistant core developers have made progress by leaps and bounds over the last year and with the release of their official Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition reference hardware.
The concept of the Onju Voice drop-in PCB replacement is at least in theory showing more promise than ever and better user case for a larger audence, its lack of an XMOS DSP MCU chip and missing dual I2S bus makes the current PCB design obsolete as that the improved user experience you get with the XBMOS chip added is a night and day difference:
The optimal goal would be a PCB design that anyone could make themselves or order pre-assembled PBC-replacement-boards for Google Nest Min (and Google Home Mini) directly from PCB-manufacturing-service such as for example PBCWay, OSHPark, or JLCPCB, that offers “shared projects” community designs, (hence wish for an open-source license without commercial restrictions clause), that will enable people to re-puropse their existing Google Nest / Google Home smart speakers within their enclouses.
There are already huge stock of those out there and users who might be incline to migrate on a budget can be willing to thinker with such a project of such a PCB is designed released by electrical engineer(s) with the skills, time and interest to make this happen.
Any one here perhaps got contacts at any one of those PCB-manufacturing-services that might be willing to run and sponsor a contest or similar effort to speed up such a development effort?
PS: Slightly off-topic but be aware that many Amazon Echo users have requested the same, see: