An AI assistant - not entirely sure what the difference to e.g. MyCroft is - but seems a little newer, coming along well. Can be integrated with a variety of TTS and STT services, and skills created for it

How to track your own position with GPS and use the data in interesting ways -

I am especially fond of the 'magic clock' pointing to your current location (Home, Travelling, Shopping, Pub, ...) which strongly reminds me of Harry Potter wizardry. Put it in a nice enclosure and it's a really neat thing for home.

Very neat new TTS engine, works in a wide variety of languages (e.g. English UK/US, German, Afrikaans) and with different inflections and voices.

Also works locally and (once the generator is downloaded the first time) super fast (on my pc takes around 10 seconds for generating a minute of speech in German). Since you will usually have shorter speech snippets will work even faster.

Can be used in client/server setup, through the local cli or as part of the mycroft engine. Neat!

A blog entry of how somebody got access to an echo and reprogrammed it with his own command interface instead of Alexa.

Very advanced assortment of pre-trained and trainable voice commands. Embeds perfectly in unix pipe flows.

This seems like a real interesting project to glue words and intents together as soon as a voice snippet is available.

I am not sure if it does wake word detection on its own.

Here's how I used Ansible to make my Mycroft AI project work smoothly with my Raspberry Pi.

A versatile and extensible platform for home and life automation with hundreds of supported integrations - GitHub - BlackLight/platypush: A versatile and extensible platform for home and life automation with hundreds of supported integrations

Seems really interesting, like a lighter-weight, more programmatic alternative to e.g. HASSio.
Has a lot of plugins and connections and the blog is very inspiring.

Using some (simple) machine learning to create a really robust smart home presence detection.

Seems like a fun little idea and, combined with e.g. phone mac address and wi-fi signal strength could even identify specific people.

Ready-made stack with installation scripts, making use of docker to install a fully working and nicely integrated stack of containers on your Pi.

Adds additional niceties (like turning off swap, writing logs to memory) that improve Pi performance (and life-time of SD cards) - most of which can be adapted reading through the source.

Especially interesting for things like NodeRED which are not just interesting for IOT.

NEW Stack migrated here: https://github.com/SensorsIot/IOTstack

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Setting up WLED on ESP8266

WLED library gets native Home Assistant API integration. This post walks you through everything you need to get up and running.