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Google Voice Kit is an awesome little cardboard DIY project that guides you through setting up a Google Home-like device that leverages the Google Speech API.

I encountered a small issue when setting up our Voice Kit, and am documenting it here just in case someone runs into the same issue:

If you are at the point in the setup where you are instructed to double click the "Check Cloud" icon on your Pi desktop, and the result is that you see a terminal window quickly open and close without any further result, the problem may that the script that is trying to execute needs to run in a virtual environment.

To set up a virtual environment for this script to run in, open up a terminal window on your Pi and run this command:

source env/bin/activate

Then you should be able to run the script right from that same terminal session:

~/AIY-voice-kit-python/checkpoints/check_cloud.py

Here's the output from my terminal:

(env) pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ~/AIY-voice-kit-python/checkpoints/check_cl…

After maintaining a blog platform and content since 2002, I decided it might be time to start over.
Why? Much of the old content had simply become outdated, irrelevant, or overly-cluttered. Like junk that had collected in the attic and garage, it was time to get a dumpster and clean house.
Also, maintaining a WordPress instance on a sub-par web hosting service was getting to be a waste of time. After the latest mysterious crash of my site at the hands of my web hosting service, I decided it was time to press the button. What now? The initial thought was to import all my old content from WordPress to the Blogger platform. However, after about 7 careful minutes of thought, I decided it would be better to simply start over. So, here we are. :)
Maybe I'll write more.