MiciMike's drop-in PCB replaces the guts of a first-gen Google Home Mini with a fully local voice assistant built on Home Assistant, so the dead speaker in your drawer becomes a private, cloud-free voice remote again. The board drops in without soldering, keeps the original mic and speaker, and responds through your own automations instead of someone else's servers. It is the rare e-waste rescue that upgrades the hardware. Local voice control for the price of a spare evening.
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