AI702-FA26-FR-NTN-Vinci AI Creator

Program Description

Course Details: • Name: Vinci AI Creator • Date: September 14, 2026 – January 24, 2027 • Time: Fridays, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM • Location: Newton Classroom • Grades: G7+ • Prerequisite: None What if you could create an AI companion that talks with you, sees the world, remembers your conversations, and has a personality of its own? In Vinci AI Creator, students build a personalized Raspberry Pi AI Companion using Python and modern AI technologies. They combine large language models (LLMs), voice AI, computer vision, memory, and cloud services to create an intelligent physical device that can listen, speak, see, remember, and interact naturally. Students learn how modern AI components connect through APIs and work together as a complete system while following a professional process of design, build, test, debug, and refine. Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to: Build an AI Companion using Raspberry Pi and Python. Integrate AI models and cloud services through APIs. Use LLMs to create conversational intelligence and personality. Implement speech recognition and text-to-speech. Add computer vision for visual understanding. Build memory and personalization features. Integrate voice, vision, LLMs, and memory into one AI system. Test, debug, refine, and present a portfolio-quality AI product.