We built a camera only robot vacuum for less than 300$ (Well almost)
Behavior cloning vacuum log, but performance lags behind $200 commercial Roombas.

It gets control of an offline robot by doing something almost obvious in hindsight: play the robot's own wake-word + command audio from a nearby Pi, triggered by Home Assistant POSTs. That avoids rooting/Valetudo and keeps firmware intact, while the repo packages Docker, Ansible and embedded Piper TTS for a near plug-and-play hack — though reliability hinges on speaker placement, timing and device-specific command sets.
Home Assistant users, privacy-conscious smart‑home hobbyists, makers and DIY home-automation integrators
Behavior cloning vacuum log, but performance lags behind $200 commercial Roombas.
Finally, a debug card for Home Assistant's Assist pipeline with timing breakdowns.
Home sample collection for expats in Buenos Aires who need English-speaking medical support.
Terminal agent for Jetson with memory-aware context windowing and TensorRT optimization.
VLCs over VLAs: LLMs write Python code against live robots instead of predicting actions.
This intentionally avoids generative LLMs and instead stitches together Whisper, Piper, spaCy, VADER, sumy and YOLO into a deterministic, local assistant — a practical tradeoff that kills API bills and prompt-injection risk. The blog feature (extractive summarization + site crawling) is an especially smart move: it produces usable titles/content without hallucination. It won't replace creative LLM outputs, but for offline, private automation this is a refreshingly pragmatic build.