OrcaOS v1.0 — Day 30 capstone

Unified Textual TUI that runs gesture sensing (MediaPipe + webcam), live microphone levels (PyAudio), system stats (psutil), and Ollama LLM reasoning in one process. Background threads act like RTOS tasks; the UI drains a central queue.Queue on a timer tick (scheduler analogy).

Prerequisites

• Python 3.10 or 3.11 (MediaPipe has the most reliable wheels here).
• Webcam (for gesture / head pose).
• Microphone (for audio meter; app still runs if PyAudio fails).
• Ollama installed and running (ollama serve), with at least one model pulled (e.g. ollama pull qwen2.5:3b).

PyAudio on Windows

If pip install PyAudio fails, try a prebuilt wheel for your Python version, or:

pip install pipwin
pipwin install pyaudio

Install

cd "D30 OrcaOS"
python -m venv .venv
.\.venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1
pip install -r requirements.txt

Run (single command)

python run.py

Same as python main.py; run.py only ensures the project directory is on sys.path.

Controls

Key / input	Action
Ctrl+C	Quit
Ctrl+R	Clear LLM panel
Ctrl+L	Clear task log
Command bar	ask: your question — sends prompt to Ollama
	status — bus / thread info
	help — command summary
	clear — clear LLM + log