Raspberry Pi – Jason Burns

Nova: Building My Own Echo, One Weird Problem at a Time

I have wanted an Alexa that doesn't phone home for years. Every commercial voice assistant is a microphone in your house wired to someone else's computer, and the whole point of a homelab is that my stuff runs on my…

July 14, 2026AI Projects, Development, Home Automation

What years of SBC addiction looks like

I am a relentless tinkerer. I'm constantly trying to wire something to something else and often single board computers are the glue to some random home automation problem. It's been about 6 years since I started using Raspberry Pi, Arduino…

February 19, 2025Home Automation

Cisco Network Upgrade Complete

I've been using a variety of different brand switches in a patchwork to get all of the network and camera devices I am using connected. The network mess was causing performance issues so it was time to take a more…

June 22, 2024Computers

Raspberry Pi Cluster

What do you do with left over Raspberry Pi's? Cluster of course.

January 21, 2024Computers