Build guides, code, and dev logs from getting machine learning off the cloud and onto hardware you own — SBCs, Raspberry Pis, edge accelerators.https://brettsophus.com/https://brettsophus.com/blog/gbdts-for-the-pi-zero/https://brettsophus.com/blog/gbdts-for-the-pi-zero/Picking gradient-boosted trees over a neural net for liten's on-device router, and the constraints that made the choice easy.Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTblogedge-aigbdtraspberry-pilitenhttps://brettsophus.com/blog/hello-edge/https://brettsophus.com/blog/hello-edge/I rebuilt this site around what I've actually been doing for the last year — running ML on hardware I own.Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTblogmetaedge-aihttps://brettsophus.com/blueprints/elderly-guardian/https://brettsophus.com/blueprints/elderly-guardian/A privacy-first fall detector. YOLOv8 Pose runs through the Voyager SDK on an Axelera Metis M.2 attached to a Rockchip RK3588. When a fall is confirmed, a TP-Link Kasa smart plug pulses on the LAN — which kicks off an Alexa routine on a nearby Echo Dot. No cloud, no camera stream leaves the house.Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTblueprint