Posts tagged "home-lab"

• The AI on the Edge Reference Architecture

  2026-09-07· ai-on-the-edge·Estimated reading time: 9 min read

  Final synthesis for AI on the Edge: gateway, router, policy, RAG, IoT operations assistant, Azure governance, Azure Local lane, private cloud lab, Tenstorrent lane, and conference-ready flow.

• Building the AI on the Edge Demo System

  2026-08-31· ai-on-the-edge·Estimated reading time: 8 min read

  Engineering wrap-up for AI on the Edge: repo layout, make demo-laptop through make teardown targets, seed, reset, and smoke tests, shared health endpoints, and a repeatable 45-minute conference flow.

• Specialized Hardware Without an App Rewrite

  2026-08-24· ai-on-the-edge·Estimated reading time: 6 min read

  AI on the Edge Demo 6: registering a Tenstorrent or mock accelerator as an OpenAI-compatible gateway backend with capability discovery, health checks, fallback, and accelerator-preferred routing - no application rewrite.

• AI on the Edge: Local AI Without Local Chaos

  2026-07-13· ai-on-the-edge·Estimated reading time: 8 min read

  Why I built AI on the Edge: local execution, Azure governance, model routing, an IoT camera workload, my private cloud lab, and conference-ready demo modes.

• Home Lab - Tenstorrent Buildout for Multi-Cloud Edge Demos

  2026-02-15· home-lab·Estimated reading time: 9 min read

  Building out a basement studio and mixed Tenstorrent/NVIDIA lab for reusable Azure and AWS edge demo scenarios.

• Home Lab - Utilizing the Cloud - Dynamic VPN

  2021-11-29· cloud-architecture·Estimated reading time: 28 min read

  Home lab guide for dynamic Azure Site-to-Site VPN resources, covering VPN Gateway costs, supported routers, hybrid networking, and teardown.

• Can't access TrueNAS/FreeNAS over VPN

  2021-11-01· home-lab·Estimated reading time: 2 min read

  Fix for TrueNAS or FreeNAS access over VPN by adding a static route when the VPN client CIDR is outside the storage server subnet.

• Home Lab - Keeping Costs Down

  2021-10-11· cloud-architecture·Estimated reading time: 16 min read

  Home lab cost guide focused on matching hardware to use cases, avoiding wasteful enterprise gear, and planning servers for media, storage, dev, and AI.

• Home Lab - a lie I tell myself

  2021-08-09· home-lab·Estimated reading time: 2 min read

  Home lab series introduction covering Debian, KVM, Docker, TrueNAS, automation, edge computing, game servers, cloud integration, and budget control.

• Error: mkisofs not found in $PATH

  2021-08-08· home-lab·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  Fix for Terraform KVM libvirt provider error mkisofs not found in PATH, explaining why mkisofs must be installed on the client machine.

• TrueNAS Azure Sync for Proxmox

  2021-06-21· cloud-architecture·Estimated reading time: 9 min read

  Walkthrough for backing up Proxmox storage from TrueNAS NFS to Azure Blob Storage using Azure storage accounts, cloud credentials, and sync tasks.

• TrueNAS NFS for Proxmox

  2021-06-07· home-lab·Estimated reading time: 5 min read

  Guide to creating a TrueNAS Core NFS share for Proxmox, covering datasets, NFS service setup, share settings, and VM or container migration.

• Took my Niece to Mixed3D

  2018-07-05· home-lab·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  A second trip to the Mixed3D scanning booth, this time to capture my niece dressed as Rapunzel and print the model in full color sandstone.