Tom Fenton moves from local AI concepts to hands-on tools for matching LLMs to hardware, running local chatbots with Ollama and benchmarking AI performance.

Security tooling is not written in a single language. Python powers most automation. C sits at the exploit layer. PowerShell ...

Lapse… so does this $25 Raspberry Pi Zero! Tiny, lightweight, and incredibly versatile. Mount it anywhere—from rooftops to ...

Jupyter Notebook is a tool to run and write Python code easily, showing results right away, and allowing you to combine code, charts, notes, and files in one place. You can start Jupyter Notebook ...

My $35 server works harder than some PCs.

The humble Raspberry Pi is a staple in the tech DIYer community, but you can use one to leverage some cost savings when it ...

What does this project do? A USB camera connected to a Raspberry Pi continuously captures frames. OpenCV encodes each frame as a JPEG and sends it to the CircuitDigest Cloud Face Detection API via ...

For such an inexpensive, tiny little SBC, it certainly gives me a lot of fun and assistance in a number of projects ...

Programming small electronic systems is easier than ever. MicroPython makes it simple to program affordable microcontrollers, from the Raspberry Pi Pico to Wi-Fi-enabled ESP32 boards. MicroPython is a ...

Linux devices and mini PCs have become increasingly popular over the past few years, especially among developers, tinkerers, and cybersecurity enthusiasts. Now, a new Raspberry Pi-powered device ...

Even an older workstation-class eGPU like the NVIDIA Quadro P2200 delivers dramatically faster local LLM inference than CPU-only systems, with token-generation rates up to 8x higher. Running LLMs ...