Ready for the Camera
Polish week before filming: hands-free voice control, video on the round face, gated movement, 37 expressions, and self-view vision.
Read the log →Making It Hear and Speak
NEURA can finally hear and speak: local transcription out, ElevenLabs in, and the first real answer out loud.
Read the log →The Robot Wakes Up
The whole NEURA brain finally runs on the physical robot, booting to a round wakeable face that restarts itself.
Read the log →Never Going Silent
This week NEURA got an offline brain, a circuit breaker, and a rule floor so it never goes silent.
Read the log →Personality and a Smarter Brain
This week NEURA stopped being a chat window and became something with attitude, memory, and hands.
Read the log →Neura Cloud, Part Two
Finished the optional cloud backend: a cloud brain on your own keys, a real-time phone-to-bot relay, and a hard security review.
Read the log →Neura Cloud, Part One
This week I started the optional cloud layer for NEURA, beginning with accounts and an encrypted vault for your keys.
Read the log →Neura in Your Pocket
This week NEURA left the desk and moved into my pocket, same face and personality, backed by home.
Read the log →The Nervous System
This week NEURA stopped being only software and started reaching toward a body, one careful contract at a time.
Read the log →Teaching It to Act, Not Just Talk
The week NEURA stopped just answering and started acting: a local skills system, plus split robot and computer modes.
Read the log →Giving Neura a Face and a Voice
This was the week NEURA stopped feeling like a program and started feeling like someone I know.
Read the log →Pitch, Jira, and the Final Design Doc
The pitch, a Jira roadmap, and a final design doc that surfaced hidden gaps and handed me a clear map.
Read the log →Building Toward OpenClaw Security
This week was about locking down how community skills run, so extending NEURA never means opening a hole.
Read the log →Upgrading the AI Layer with Ollama
This week I made NEURA model agnostic, so it can reach for the best cloud brain or run private and local.
Read the log →Locking In the Architecture
The unglamorous week I gave NEURA a clean monorepo and a real split between its brain and front end.
Read the log →Shipping the Core Engine
The week NEURA stopped being diagrams and notes and turned into a real engine I could open and run.
Read the log →Picking the Hardware and the Stack
Week one is all decisions: what NEURA is, and the Raspberry Pi and round screen it will run on.
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