Hardware

8 articles about hardware.

Building a $17 Local Voice Assistant with ESP32 for AI Agent Input

·3 min read

An ESP32 microcontroller with a microphone becomes a cheap voice bridge for AI agents. Build a local voice assistant for under $17 that feeds commands to

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GPU Selection for Local AI Agent Workloads

·7 min read

Concrete benchmark data comparing Apple Silicon M4, NVIDIA RTX 5090, and AMD for local LLM inference. What tokens-per-second numbers actually mean for agent responsiveness.

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What MacBook for Web and React Native Dev - M2 Air 16GB Is Enough

·2 min read

The M2 MacBook Air with 16GB RAM handles web and React Native development perfectly. The M3 Pro is overkill unless you are running simulators and Docker

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The Best AI Device Is Your Laptop With a Good Agent on It

·2 min read

Dedicated AI hardware is overpriced and underpowered. The best AI device is the laptop you already own - paired with a capable desktop agent.

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The Ideal Hardware Setup for Running Parallel Claude Code Agents

·3 min read

M3 Max MacBook Pro with 64GB RAM running 5 Claude Code agents in parallel via tmux - the hardware and workflow that makes multi-agent development practical.

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Mac Studio M2 Ultra for Agentic Coding - 192GB RAM Running Everything

·3 min read

A Mac Studio M2 Ultra with 192GB RAM runs Xcode, iOS simulators, Rust builds, and multiple AI agents simultaneously. Here is why high-end Apple Silicon

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Open Source AI Wearables Beat Closed Source - You Can Actually Debug Them

·4 min read

Why open source AI wearables like Omi give you the power to debug issues yourself - inspect the firmware, fix Bluetooth stack bugs, and customize behavior - instead of waiting in a closed-source support void.

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Why Mac Hardware Beats Raspberry Pi for Desktop AI Agents

·2 min read

We went the opposite direction from most agent projects - Mac instead of Raspberry Pi. Apple's accessibility API gives you a structured UI tree that no Pi

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