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Not a vendor brochure. A laundry list of devices, OS scars, and agent seats actually lived — Jetsons to GPIO to Hermes on a Pi.
Compute & boards
NVIDIA JetsonOrin / Xavier-class edge GPU work, JetPack paths, when to stop fighting legacy clusters
Raspberry PiPi 4/5 fleets, NAS edge brain, wall kiosk appliance, always-on Hermes
Linux boxesUbuntu → CentOS/RHEL-ish ops, desktop factories, headless servers
Coral / NPUEdge TPU acceleration for detect/embeddings when drivers behave
Cameras & sensing
PoE / ONVIF / RTSPNetwork cams into detect + vault event paths
USB / CSI / serialBring-your-own glass, not one vendor’s app
Wireless camsNative alerts + local correlation (stampede lessons included)
ESP32-CAMCheap eyes for DIY heads who accept tradeoffs
GPIO / sensorsHacking pins for presence, motion, and home automation hooks
Lights & IoTGovee and similar — agent/HA control without cloud theater
Storage, network, house brain
NAS / vaultMulti-TB receipts, Immich/PhotoPrism-class media, justified clips
Pi-holeDNS as a security signal, not just adblock
Home AssistantActuators, sun/light automation, binary sensors for agents
MQTT / mesh ideasEvent buses for edge ↔ host without renting the porch
Intelligence & agents
Hermes CLIPi edge brain + Mac factory profiles, skills, cron, modes
Local LLMsOllama / Gemma privacy lanes; route family data off the public cloud
Edge visionYOLO/MobileNet/RF-DETR-class doctrine — detect on device, narrate later
Desk + phone + Grok seatsLaptop workshop, pocket approve, chat as remote — Pi keeps actuators
Use cases touched
- Home guardian / family briefs / calendar wall kiosk
- Local CV path toward killing camera subscriptions
- Office / SMB after-hours presence patterns
- Vehicle / robotics / transit-style edge detect (fleet DNA; enterprise detail TBD later)
- DIY builder mapping: BOM, false-positive hunting, train vs don’t-train
1 hour mapping call — $200
Researched against 2026 edge/AI freelance bands (~$150–$275/hr for hands-on edge; higher for pure CV strategy). Clean intro rate for DIY and journey builders. Remote. You keep the gate.