Open source, Echo-like gizmo is halfway to Kickstarter gold

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Rick Lehrbaum
Aug 20, 2015

A Kickstarter campaign is seeking funds for developing Mycroft, an open source, Snappy Core Linux- and Raspberry Pi 2-based alternative to Amazon’s Echo.

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Rick Lehrbaum

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