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I love local LLMs!

Here's the new #Gemma 3 270M param model running on a 2GB Rasbperry Pi 4

I love the iPhone 6(s) Plus Plus! what a great device it was

(these are always fun little things to tinker with lol)

#RaspberryPi#LLM#AI#LocalAI#Google

So proud of my little #WeekendProject: after long without a decent LAN because I cancelled my home Internet subscription in favor of tethering from my mobile phone I finally took the matter in my hands.

I turned my #RaspberryPI into a router who takes my iPhone's Internet connection trough USB tethering and shares it to Wi-Fi and Ethernet clients.
Why I did this instead of just using iPhone's built in Wi-Fi hotspot? Well, it boils down to two reasons:
- Some devices and operating systems struggles with Wi-Fi or may be completely incompatible with it.
- iPhone Wi-Fi enforces client isolation impeding an actual LAN between connected devices. On the Raspberry I'm free to set my own rules for routing, DHCP, DNS... so I put all the devices connected trough both Wi-Fi and Wired under a single subnet where they can easily communicate and share data.

I then installed and configured Avahi (an open source equivalent of Apple's "Bonjour") on devices who didn't had it preinstalled allowing them to find each other using hostnames, without the need of a central DNS.

So proud of my little #WeekendProject: after long without a decent LAN because I cancelled my home Internet subscription in favor of tethering from my mobile phone I finally took the matter in my hands.

I turned my #RaspberryPI into a router who takes my iPhone's Internet connection trough USB tethering and shares it to Wi-Fi and Ethernet clients.
Why I did this instead of just using iPhone's built in Wi-Fi hotspot? Well, it boils down to two reasons:
- Some devices and operating systems struggles with Wi-Fi or may be completely incompatible with it.
- iPhone Wi-Fi enforces client isolation impeding an actual LAN between connected devices. On the Raspberry I'm free to set my own rules for routing, DHCP, DNS... so I put all the devices connected trough both Wi-Fi and Wired under a single subnet where they can easily communicate and share data.

I then installed and configured Avahi (an open source equivalent of Apple's "Bonjour") on devices who didn't had it preinstalled allowing them to find each other using hostnames, without the need of a central DNS.

I just gave up on the VPS and the #pihole

I'm even considering to move away from my #synology#NAS and use a "clean" cloud service. Drive, photos backup, contacts/calendar/tasks (but my mail being on #mailfence, I could already have those 3 on my current subscription).

I would be grateful to hear your suggestions about that live, and about decent service that could help me.

Thanks for the great articles!

I'm really looking forward to the release of #Debian#Trixie (Debian 13). Going to be simplifying my setup by moving all our computers (2 Geekom mini pc's, 1 laptop and various #RaspberryPi ) to the same OS. The only exception will be the RaspberryPi5 running #HomeAssistant which runs it's own Linux.

I want to start homelabbing, so should I get a Raspberry Pi 5 and a Raspberry Pi 4 or a second hand ThinkPad i5 6th gen?

#Linux#Unix#Homelab#Technology#Tech #raspberrypi

This dual-screen, Raspberry Pi-powered cyberdeck has a 3D printed body, three custom circuit boards, a mechanical keyboard and two 9 inch touchscreen displays that can rotate for portrait or vertical orientation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cigAxzQGeLg#Cyberdeck#RaspberryPi#DualScreen

DreamHAT+ for the Raspberry Pi 4/5 brings 60 GHz mmWave Radar support for detecting motion for things like presence detection, gesture recognition, and motion tracking without a camera. #Radar#DreamHATPlus#RaspberryPihttps://www.cnx-software.com/2025/07/27/dreamhat-60-ghz-mmwave-radar-hat-brings-high-precision-motion-sensing-to-raspberry-pi-4-5/

This open source Raspberry Pi HAT adds a microSD Express card reader for PCIe SSD-like speed (read speed anyway, write is less impressive). MicroSD Express cards are expensive & rare though, so this board won't be mass produced, but you can make your own from the designs. https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/07/28/raspberry-pi-5-gets-a-microsd-express-hat/#RaspberryPi#MicroSDExpress

DreamHAT+ for the Raspberry Pi 4/5 brings 60 GHz mmWave Radar support for detecting motion for things like presence detection, gesture recognition, and motion tracking without a camera. #Radar#DreamHATPlus#RaspberryPihttps://www.cnx-software.com/2025/07/27/dreamhat-60-ghz-mmwave-radar-hat-brings-high-precision-motion-sensing-to-raspberry-pi-4-5/

RP2350pc RISC-V / ARM dual core computer with 4 USB hosts, DVI/HDMI output, Audio, UEXT, Lipo charger, SD-card. now have nice plastic box https://olimex.wordpress.com/2025/07/22/rp2350pc-now-have-plastic-box/ #rp2350 #raspberrypi

RP2350pc RISC-V / ARM dual core computer with 4 USB hosts, DVI/HDMI output, Audio, UEXT, Lipo charger, SD-card. now have nice plastic box https://olimex.wordpress.com/2025/07/22/rp2350pc-now-have-plastic-box/ #rp2350 #raspberrypi

The pigg project continues to produce high quality releases of #p2p remote control for #raspberrypi:
https://github.com/andrewdavidmackenzie/pigg
11/x

The pigg project continues to produce high quality releases of #p2p remote control for #raspberrypi:
https://github.com/andrewdavidmackenzie/pigg
11/x

Trying #NetBSD 10.1 on a #RaspberryPi Zero.

Nerves will be using Raspberry Pi tryboot to resist bad kernel upgrades and more. It is nice to see that we can bring Raspberry Pi ever closer to parity with the more commercially focused boards as so many get their start on these lovely boards:

https://elixirforum.com/t/supporting-more-robust-recovery-on-raspberry-pi/71725

#raspberrypi #elixir #linux

Nerves will be using Raspberry Pi tryboot to resist bad kernel upgrades and more. It is nice to see that we can bring Raspberry Pi ever closer to parity with the more commercially focused boards as so many get their start on these lovely boards:

https://elixirforum.com/t/supporting-more-robust-recovery-on-raspberry-pi/71725

#raspberrypi #elixir #linux

New blog post: https://blog.mei-home.net/posts/tinkerbell-5-hookos-direct-boot/

I'm trying to directly boot Tinkerbell's HookOS without using EFI/iPXE. I'm failing to, but I have a plan.

This post is mostly a bit of detective work on why HookOS' initramfs is not booting properly. The answer is: The Raspberry Pi's firmware.

#Blog#HomeLab #raspberrypi #tinkerbell

New blog post: https://blog.mei-home.net/posts/tinkerbell-5-hookos-direct-boot/

I'm trying to directly boot Tinkerbell's HookOS without using EFI/iPXE. I'm failing to, but I have a plan.

This post is mostly a bit of detective work on why HookOS' initramfs is not booting properly. The answer is: The Raspberry Pi's firmware.

#Blog#HomeLab #raspberrypi #tinkerbell