This guide documents the setup of OpenClaw on a Raspberry Pi 5 w/ 8GB RAM and how to give it access to a TFT display, temperature/pressure sensor, USB camera, and NeoPixels. It uses eSpeak text-to-speech and Whisper Small speech-to-text to enable speech based communication with the bot.
Microsoft has open-sourced MarkItDown, a state-of-the-art application designed to convert various file types into Markdown format for seamless integration, collaboration, and accessibility. The tool supports multiple file formats, including PDFs, PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, images, audio, HTML, text-based formats, and ZIP files, making it a versatile utility for users across different domains.