Tap and talk.
A small M5Stack CoreS3 screen shows the time, battery and connection. Its microphone and speaker let you ask a question and hear the answer.
A SMALL COMPANION WITH A BIG VOICE
Meet Sashmo.
A little screen that sits by your computer, shows useful updates and talks back when you ask it a question. The cheerful black Lab is its mascot.
HELLO, HUMAN.A 3D PALACE SIDE PROJECT
What is Sashmo?
Sashmo is a homemade desk companion. It shows the time and whether your computer is connected, and it can answer simple questions out loud when you tap its microphone button. If you use Codex, the coding assistant, it can also show how much of your reported usage is left.
It lives here because we like making things at 3D Palace. You do not need Sashmo to use the 3D Palace Workshop, and there is nothing to sign up for on this page. If you want to build one yourself, the free code and setup instructions are on GitHub.
HOW IT WORKS
Your desk, your device.
Keep control nearby.
A Windows app does the work behind the scenes. You can open its dashboard to see what is connected or change settings.
Connect more, if you like.
Google Calendar and Gmail are optional extras. They need separate permission from you, and you can disconnect them whenever you want.
GOOGLE ACCOUNT ACCESS
Read-only, by choice.
If you connect Google Calendar, Sashmo reads a limited set of upcoming primary-calendar events to show an event count and answer questions. If you connect Gmail, it reads inbox metadata such as unread count, sender, subject and date. It does not read message bodies, send mail or change events. These connections are separate and can be revoked in your Google Account or removed in the Sashmo dashboard.
Google information stays on your Windows PC. The CoreS3 receives counts, and spoken replies containing Calendar or Gmail information use local Windows speech. See the privacy policy for the exact data flow.
Build your own companion.
Sashmo is open source and still in active development. The public repository includes a copyable Easy mode setup prompt, code, hardware instructions and current limitations.