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Hi.
Thanks for coming out and sitting through this presentation.
I don’t know why it was classified as intermediate.
I hope you get something out of this presentaton and for more info… go to raspbian.io

So, to begin, I am a hobbyist.
I have always been a hobbyist.
Always will be a hobbyist.

I live to tinker.
A little background.

80s in my youth
10
20
30
Yes.
College ((()))
More College Solaris, printf cin cout
More colllege (I liked college a LOT) Swing batter batter
More college – the DMCA
Free Kevin, Free Dmitry, Free Chip Freedom
Linux Biz Expo 2001
Intern FSF 2002-2003
Volunteer EFF 2003
After college – script kiddie extraordinaire
wrote Linux essentials in cooperation with Comptia at Aries and went to Linuxworld 2003
ANY LINUX GIG

migrations, implementations, integrations, documentation
If it was Linux… I was there with bells on,
Debian was not my first distro.
However, Debian was my favorite.

Led me to a developer/author role well. gig at Intel.
I figured out how to burn CDs, played with USBs, persistently… and installed using SD cards on a laptop because… I couldn’t find a USB in 2015.

I came to scale around that time and hooked up with Kids on Computers.
Then, I created the image Raspkids for pi labs and went to Mexico.
That was a riot. Let me tell you, if you are off the grid and you have limited resources, it is a true test of your skills. Loved that part of it.

You definitely don’t want to mess up dd when you don’t have a backup.
That’s not the only time I was interested in backups…
I was lead dev on Linux respin.

Free and Open source communities are my passion.
when open source became more accepted, I saw these strangers calling themselves advocates.
It’s easy to advocate when something is popular. Serious.

well, I’m just an old dinosaur now… but I’m here today for the community. For developers because a lot of people want to know just how to get started.

So, here we are.
You don’t need to get certification that will be obsolete.
Or maybe your workplace wants you to take some certification with irrelevant content.
nope.

All the information you need is available online.
OpenCV has a ton of docs.
Intel’s OpenVINO has a ton of docs, tutorials and videos.

So where do you begin your journey on Linux with IOT as a hobbyist.

I believe it was Mick Miller who said hobbyists are a threat to open source companies. Kind of ironic… considering the companies started out with the help of hobbyists. Just saying.

So, I wish I had more demos for you but… I have a couple of images PollenOS I dd’d and posted on Raspbian.io
and… I am releasing and renaming the distro for Pi called AIcramOS.
I crammed a bunch of stuff in there so you don’t need to fight with conda, or opencv.
OpenVino is installed for desktop and IOT devices such as Up Extreme or other IOT devices.
There are free culture videos to test your code against and there are demos for running inference.

So, the basics are here.
This is an oldie but a goodie.

darknet

This is a simple way to get started. clone or download
compile
run

So, if you do this on a pi3 and use tiny, your mileage may vary.
The horses were predicted as cows.
Now I know many of you are interested in GenAI.
well, I have a text generator webui I forked working on desktop NVIDIA 3060 but… I wanted to see about adding a GPU to pi5 and fighing cuda on that.

Did not have the time, but stay tuned.
Again
Raspbian.io

Here is some background on that.
You CAN have your own on prem text gen chat webui.
You do not need to pay for a tier.
You can have this privately, on prem.
Yes… you can.