The Austin Python Meetup

New location at Brazos Place @ 800 Brazos st. us the entrance on brazos street not 8th.
This is a Hybrid event both in-person and virtual. The in-person event is hosted at Antler downtown Austin.

Address:
Brazos Place @ 800 Brazos st,
The entrance is off of Brazos st.

Talks: Vincent (Jiahua Zhou): Spotpredator: An off-grid, AI-powered early-warning system for the farm predators

Description: SpotPredator is an AI detector that runs entirely on its own — no WiFi, no power grid, no subscriptions. Built on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W with a Camera Module 3, it scans the surroundings, runs a custom-trained YOLO11-nano model right on the device to spot predators like Texas coyotes, foxes, and raptors, and radios an instant alert to the user over long-range LoRa radio.

Bio: Vincent (Jiahua Zhou), a full-stack software developer who loves learning new things the hard way — by building them. This project pushed him into AI, electronics, 3D modeling, and 3D printing for the first time, he is excited to keep expanding into the AI & hardware side of tech.

Antler
Antler works with founders through our signature founder residency, adding value immediately, and taking no equity up front. We receive over 160,000 applications each year to build companies with us, and have grown to 18 funds with residencies in 30 cities around the globe. Founders also have the opportunity to pitch our Investment Committee to receive an up to $500K investment, allowing them to build for 12-18 months rather than attempting to raise before they have real traction.

New location at Brazos Place @ 800 Brazos st. us the entrance on brazos street not 8th.
This is a Hybrid event both in-person and virtual. The in-person event is hosted at Antler downtown Austin.

Address:
Brazos Place @ 800 Brazos st,
The entrance is off of Brazos st.

Talks: TBD

Antler
Antler works with founders through our signature founder residency, adding value immediately, and taking no equity up front. We receive over 160,000 applications each year to build companies with us, and have grown to 18 funds with residencies in 30 cities around the globe. Founders also have the opportunity to pitch our Investment Committee to receive an up to $500K investment, allowing them to build for 12-18 months rather than attempting to raise before they have real traction.

New location at Brazos Place @ 800 Brazos st. us the entrance on brazos street not 8th.
This is a Hybrid event both in-person and virtual. The in-person event is hosted at Antler downtown Austin.

Address:
Brazos Place @ 800 Brazos st,
The entrance is off of Brazos st.

Talks: Zombie Radio AI - Theatrical improvisation by LLM actors and Human quality Text-to-Speech for a Halloween party

By: Alfredo Valles

Description: Abstract:
A Python CLI Application that performs an audio-only theater play with several LLM voice actors that improvise along the story of 4 persons trapped in a lab with Zombies.
The result is a stream of audio dialog that resembles a radio program from the 30s. (In the spirit of Orson Welles' 1938 Halloween episode: "The War of the Worlds").
In contrast with radio, the user can interact with the AI actors via voice in certain key moments.
To run the Text-to-speech Model locally you need a beefy CUDA graphic card, but we will also provide scripts / Dockerfiles to install the required AI models in a cloud provider.
This project is perfect for a Halloween party booth.

Bio:
Alfredo Valles is a backend engineer with years of experience. I love Python, Linux and open source. Alfredo is also a Physicist. Way back he used machine learning in research (before it was cool). Now he is dipping his toes in the brave new world of Transformers AI models.

Antler
Antler works with founders through our signature founder residency, adding value immediately, and taking no equity up front. We receive over 160,000 applications each year to build companies with us, and have grown to 18 funds with residencies in 30 cities around the globe. Founders also have the opportunity to pitch our Investment Committee to receive an up to $500K investment, allowing them to build for 12-18 months rather than attempting to raise before they have real traction.