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Total Stars Followers Focus Philosophy

"Turning abandoned and resource-constrained hardware into independent, standalone tools, consoles, and edge intelligence engines."

⚡ About Me

I specialize in hardware reverse-engineering, embedded Linux, edge AI optimization, and lightweight mobile tooling. My core passion is rescuing deprecated, low-power, and end-of-life electronics (like the Spotify Car Thing and low-cost micro-SBCs) and engineering zero-dependency software that runs 100% locally and offline directly on the metal.

  • 🔭 Currently Building: Complete standalone operating environments, custom launchers, and x86 virtualization for embedded ARM devices.
  • 🧠 Edge AI Focus: Squeezing quantized LLMs (SmolLM2, Qwen2.5, TinyDolphin) into sub-512MB RAM architectures via kernel swap, zram, and Ollama/llama.cpp tuning.
  • 📱 Mobile & Tooling: Building zero-bloat Android runtimes to convert any local HTML/canvas project into immersive native mobile apps.
  • ⚙️ Systems Philosophy: Zero host-PC dependencies, zero mandatory cloud servers, and true offline ownership.

🚀 Featured Engineering Projects

🏎️ Spotify Car Thing — Standalone OS Suite

Turned the discontinued Spotify Car Thing into an independent offline handheld console, e-reader, voice recorder, and x86 virtual PC with zero server/host PC dependencies.

Car Thing 3D Launcher Preview

  • ⚡ 1-Click Installer: Automated device detection, bootloader driver setup, and SCP synchronization.
  • 🌐 On-Device Neural Translator: 100% offline Bergamot/Marian NMT WASM edge-AI translator with direct-disk loading (<0.2s), instant bidirectional English ↔ Spanish swapping, and hardware-debounced touch keyboard.
  • 🎮 23 Games: Unbundled assets dropping HTML game load times by 95% (20s → <1s).
  • 🖥️ KolibriOS x86 VM: Touchpad mouse emulation and custom on-screen virtual keyboard.
  • 🎙️ ALSA Dual-Link Audio: Bypassed wake-word daemon locks to enable local voice memos.

🤖 Edge LLMs on a $15 Pi Zero 2 W

Architectural guide and benchmark suite proving generative LLMs can run locally and privately on a $15 board with only 512MB of RAM.

Pi Zero 2 W LLM Terminal Demo

  • 📊 Memory Budgeting: Precision OS stripping keeping base Linux idle at ~45 MB RAM.
  • ⚡ Quantized Inference: Running SmolLM2 135M at 3.2–5.5 tokens/sec via Ollama ARM64.
  • 🔧 Kernel Tuning: Swap file sizing, swappiness algorithms, and thermal overvoltage management.
  • 🌐 Local REST API: Self-hosted AI endpoint accessible across the local network.

📱 HTMLOpen — Fullscreen HTML App Runner

Zero-bloat (<450 KB) native Android container running any local HTML file, game, or webapp in true immersive fullscreen with universal file permissions.

HTMLOpen Preview

  • 📱 Sticky Immersive Mode: Hides status bar and navigation bar with zero gesture interference.
  • 🔓 Universal file:// Access: Loads multi-file games, scripts, textures, and WASM.
  • ⚡ Pure Native: Zero ads, zero tracking, hardware accelerated, and under 500 KB.

💬 Messager — Real-Time Room Chat

Lightweight, self-hosted real-time chat with 5-digit room PINs, instant clipboard image sharing, and single-file standalone binaries built for zero-dependency deployment.

Messager UI Preview

  • ⚡ Socket.io Real-Time: Instant messaging with zero server storage overhead.
  • 📦 Standalone Binaries: Packaged with pkg into portable single-file executables.
  • 📸 Rich Media: Paste images directly from clipboard (Ctrl+V) or upload photos.

🧰 Technical Arsenal

Hardware & Embedded Languages & Systems AI & Inference Mobile & Tooling
• Amlogic (S905D2 / Superbird)
• Raspberry Pi (Zero 2 W, 3, 4)
• ARM64 / AArch64 Linux
• U-Boot & Bootloaders
• ALSA & Sound Architecture
• Weston / Wayland Compositors 		• Python (3.10+ / Automation)
• C / C++ (Low-Level Systems)
• Java (Android Native SDK)
• Bash / POSIX Shell
• PowerShell Core
• JavaScript (ESNext / Node.js) 		• Ollama (ARM64 Optimization)
• llama.cpp & GGUF Quantization
• SmolLM2 & Micro-Architectures
• Linux Swap & zram Tuning
• Edge AI REST APIs
• TinyML Principles 		• Android Immersive WebView
• WebAssembly (WASM)
• Socket.io & WebSockets
• Express.js
• Standalone Packaging (`pkg`)
• Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP)

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