Building a “Sentient” Robot with Gemini AI and Arduino Uno Q: From Plastic Parts to Digital Personality

[ptillisch]

Thanks for sharing your project @extender777!

@extender777

Gemini might respond with: "Sure! Here is your command: { ... }". This extra text breaks json.loads(). I had to write a Robust JSON Extractor using regex that searches for the first { and the last } to strip away any conversational "fluff."

Did you look into specifying the use of structured output:

Structured outputs  |  Gemini API  |  Google AI for Developers

This should impose a hard requirement on the data format of the response (which, as you discovered, is not guaranteed if you instead specify the format via the prompt).