Bloop, a Muse gadget

What is this?

A Muse Gadget you build yourself

Bloop is a Muse Gadget: an open-source device that connects to your Muse through the Muse Gadget SDK. A skill tells Muse what the device can do and how to use it well: which commands are available, when to react, personality, and settings.

Built on

The Muse Gadget SDK for ESP32

Running on

A Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-1.8

Guided by

The Bloop skill, which teaches Muse how to use it

Learn about Muse Gadgets

Follow the build

Posts from along the way, as Bloop learns new tricks.

What Bloop can do

Everything goes through your Muse, so you just ask. Here's all of it, today.

Every answer comes with a face

Muse picks a reaction to match what it's about to say. Bloop plays it while the spoken reply is prepared, switches to its talking face when the voice starts, and can close with another one: a laugh after the punchline, confetti after good news.

0.0 s

You ask

Tell me a joke
1.2 s

Bloop thinks

Muse works on the answer

Writing a reply…
4.4 s

A reaction to match

excited now
9.7 s

Bloop speaks

Why did the scarecrow win an award?

Because he was outstanding in his field.

Captions follow the voice
12.7 s

A follow-up reaction

laugh once the reply is spoken

Pick Bloop's voice

Choices you can tap, or just say

When Muse offers options, Bloop reads them out and puts them up as big buttons. Tap one and it's sent as your reply, exactly as the Muse app would. Or answer out loud like any other question.

Lemon Skies

Night Bus

Your iPhone's music, and a dance partner

Paired over Bluetooth, Bloop shows what's playing on your iPhone, with the album cover, and swipe over for play, pause and skip. Muse can control it too, volume included. While music plays, Bloop dances to it.

Weather you can see

Ask about the forecast and Bloop acts it out: beaming under the sun, sheltering under an umbrella, startled by lightning, bundled in a scarf, or under a rainbow when it clears up.

50 reactions, and counting

Every reaction Muse can play on Bloop, drawn as pixel art and animated on the device. Tap a filter to browse.

The hardware

Bloop runs the Muse Gadget SDK on a Waveshare ESP32-S3 board with a crisp round-cornered AMOLED touchscreen.

Board: Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-1.8
Screen: 1.8" AMOLED, 368 × 448, capacitive touch
Chip: ESP32-S3, 8 MB PSRAM, 16 MB flash
Audio: Speaker and microphone (ES8311)
Power: Battery with AXP2101 power management
Wireless: Wi-Fi and Bluetooth LE