Hardware
Curated collection of thoughts and builds centered around Hardware.
Written Content
500 Days and 30,000 Miles
Five hundred days ago I pointed a Raspberry Pi at my car and started keeping every mile it drove. It has captured 10.4 million data points without missing a beat I did not cause, and somewhere along the way it stopped being a logger and became something I can ask questions of.
Financially Air-Gapping A Raspberry Pi AI Swarm
How I turned a Pi 5 into a localized orchestrator using an MCP router and isolated OpenClaw worker networks to slash API costs.
Hello, Ollama: Local Inference is Your Architectural Insurance
Running LLMs on a Raspberry Pi isn't just a hobby; it's a fallback strategy for system resilience.
The Mac Mini M4: The Un-official Local LLM King
Why unified memory architecture is the only way to run 70B parameter models without a data-center budget.
The Raspberry Pi Master: Your 24/7 Lab Assistant
Why my Pi isn't just for hobbyist projects, but serves as the always-on utility and IoT bridge for the Gekro Lab.
Daily Briefings 8
- OpenAI's Jalapeño inference chip outperforms Nvidia on throughput and efficiency; IBM releases Granite 4.2 open-weight models
- NVIDIA Releases Cosmos 3 Edge; Google's Frozen v2 Chip Targets 6-10x TPU Efficiency Gains
- Anthropic proposes five-band AI jailbreak rubric; Claude goes GA on Azure Blackwell Ultra
- OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 Sol for approved partners; Anthropic Mythos export block eased
- OpenAI and Broadcom debut Jalapeño chip; GPT-5.6 previews three-tier model family
- DFlash block-diffusion decoding reports 15x Blackwell throughput; Mistral ships OCR 4
- OpenAI and Broadcom unveil Jalapeño inference chip targeting late-2026 deployment
- Langflow under attack at 7,000 servers; Qualcomm eyes Tenstorrent for up to $10B