Pretty upset about this. Apple has been so good about privacy, please for the love of god don't erode that good will for the sake of AI https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/apple_enhanced_visual_search/
Here's the mostly-final results! It's basically 10 headphone jacks attached to an arduino.
It's missing an LED, but I'm waiting to see how I'm gonna mount that in the final project.
Next step is to design and print an enclosure for this thing.
This has been a great learning project. I've tried a bunch of different connection types. Headers, ribbons, colored wires, stripped wires...
I would definitely make different choices if I was making this again, but I'm glad I've tried all these different options.