LLMs accelerated with eGPU on a Raspberry Pi 5

Orion O6 ITX Arm V9 board - temper your expectations When I first heard about Radxa's Orion O6, it was being compared to Apple's M1 silicon, and the product page has extraordinary claims: Jeff Geerling February 3, 2025

How is Deepseek R1 on a Raspberry Pi? OpenAI, which is only really open about consuming all the world's energy and half a trillion of our taxpayer dollars, just got rattled to its core. Deepseek, a new AI startup run by a Chinese hedge fund, allegedly created a new open weights model called R1 that beats OpenAI's best model in every...

Don't pay $800 for Apple's 2TB SSD upgrade Apple charges $800 to upgrade from the base model M4 Mac mini's 256 GB of internal storage to a more capacious 2 TB. Pictured above is a photo of a standard 2230-size M.2 NVMe SSD (one made by Raspberry Pi, in this case), and Apple's proprietary not-M.2 drive, which has NAND flash chips on...

CaribouLite SDR HAT for SDR on a Raspberry Pi A couple years ago, after I heard about the CaribouLite on CrowdSupply, I pre-ordered one. I've dabbled in SDR with an RTL-SDR v3 for a few years, even using one with nrsc5 to listen to baseball games OTA because of silly MLB blackout restrictions. But low-cost SDRs like the RTL-SDR v3...

Project Mini Rack - compact and portable homelabs Today I'm announcing Project MINI RACK, an open source project to help those building homelabs, RF/wireless rigs, and other electronics projects into mini 10" racks. Jeff Geerling January 17, 2025