Notes from the bench

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HONEST ENGINEERING NOTES · WRITTEN BY THE BUILDER

AUGUST 2026 · UPDATED SEPTEMBER 30

Running 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.

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The 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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