another example: a developer used the exact same $8 ESP32-S3 chip and local AI setup to build a real-time object recognition camera
the fact that this is running entirely offline, on an eight-dollar microcontroller, without any cloud API calls, is wild...
it captures the video
forget the $699 AI pins. this $8 chip just shattered the barrier for local AI hardware.
a developer just forced a 28.9 million-parameter LLM onto a standard ESP32-S3 microcontroller. it costs roughly 8 dollars, runs completely offline, and draws the power of a single LED.
forget the $699 AI pins. this $8 chip just shattered the barrier for local AI hardware.
a developer just forced a 28.9 million-parameter LLM onto a standard ESP32-S3 microcontroller. it costs roughly 8 dollars, runs completely offline, and draws the power of a single LED.
WOW! The $8 AI Machine!
Something extraordinary just happened and it changes what “local AI” can mean.
I am testing it tonight. Thus far it shows many possibilities…
So what it this $8 AI device?
A developer going by slvDev has forced a 28.9-million-parameter language model
a team of engineers in 1989 built a self-driving car using a 3-layer neural network, 30 years before Tesla FSD existed.
if you jump to 4:20 in the archival lecture, the former head of Google's self driving project shows a massive military ambulance navigating winding roads
AN MIT PROFESSOR MAPPED THE EXACT ARCHITECTURE OF 2026 MULTI-AGENT AI SYSTEMS ON A WHITEBOARD 40 YEARS AGO, AND NO ONE LISTENED.
the 1980s lecture footage shows him pacing in front of a class, explaining his "Society of Mind" theory.
at the time, the entire industry was trying
