Notes from the bench
Build log
OCTOBER 7, 2026
The model was the easy part: turning a Pi into a desk assistant
The shared RAM budget, original notes, local PDFs and honest failure reporting: what turns a running model into a desk appliance.
read → AUGUST 2026 · UPDATED SEPTEMBER 30Running a private AI assistant on a Raspberry Pi 5
The Raspberry Pi hardware and local voice stack, the 8 GB memory budget, dated performance evidence, an unedited hardware clip and repeatable privacy checks.
read → AUGUST 2026The mini-PC I returned: choosing hardware for a local AI appliance
No AVX2. An ACPI interrupt storm. Why "similar specs" is a marketing sentence, and why production units are built on the Raspberry Pi 5.
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