mac mini m4 × 6
quiet build farm + agent runners on gigabit lan — redundant power strips, labeled uplinks.
~64 gb ram each · 10gbe uplink optionalmachines · iot — vol. 07 · open
where software meets
the world.
hardware, robotics, iot, physical goods — telemetry and calibration treated as seriously as apis.
capability matrix
eight hardware-adjacent muscles — telemetry and calibration as serious as apis.
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edge
embedded bridges
translation layers between brittle devices and cloud control — backoff, batching, and state machines explicit.
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motion
robotics ops
sequences that acknowledge inertia — software with guard interlocks, estops, and logged overrides.
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fleet
iot rollouts
keying, rollout rings, and degradation regimes — no “single giant ota” roulette.
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physical
cad-informed ux
mounting realities, cable bend radii, and service access folded back into product decisions.
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bring-up
calibration scripts
repeatable rigs that steal weeks back from prototypes — checksums, fixtures, signed artifacts.
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telemetry
device + app union
one incident arc across firmware events and server traces — no blame ping-pong.
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compute
edge inference boxes
gpu/npu sizing for offline or low-latency models — thermal budgets on the datasheet, not in denial.
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supply
bom-aware notes
second-source thinking and obsolescence flags — procurement as an engineering input.
case examples
fleet discipline echoes agent ops — choreography plus hardware gravity.
hardware footprint
sizing tiles for benches we actually stand up — not fantasy skus.
jetson orin nano
vision and inference sketches where cloud round-trips are rude — thermal pad discipline required.
15–40w tier · nvme + uvcrpi5 control node
mqtt bridge, can hat companion, or kiosk brain — always imaged from the same golden sd.
8 gb · poe hat optionalusb-c pd lab rack
shared power + cable management so flaky rails don’t masquerade as firmware bugs.
240w shared · per-port meteringtiles update when we change what’s on the bench — specs are indicative; exact skus follow your brief.
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