Building KRXY: Designing a Decentralised AI Network on Raspberry Pi — Part 1: The Beginning
From a Raspberry Pi AI node idea to a research plan for distributed intelligence at the edge.
Series
Building KRXY
A development journal for KRXY. Posts follow the work in order: the original plan, the hardware, what gets built, what fails, and what is actually measured.
Posts in this series
Building KRXY — Part 2: Building the First Raspberry Pi AI Node
What the first Pi, the Hailo accelerator and its USB boot disk actually did on 24 October 2026.
Building KRXY — Part 3: Giving a Raspberry Pi an Identity in a Decentralised AI Network
What the agent reports, what a heartbeat is allowed to mean, and how the first node kept one name across a restart.
Building KRXY — Part 4: When a Model Name Stops Being Enough
25 October 2026: moving from a node's model claim to exact, capability-aware job placement.
Building KRXY — Part 5: Measuring Answers Before Choosing a Model
26–27 October 2026: model evaluations, a 3B hold-out, the node model library, and an incomplete response that exposed the output limit.
Building KRXY — Part 6: Two Raspberry Pis, One Network — What Actually Gets Faster?
28–29 October 2026: adding a CPU-only node, measuring parallel inference, tracking thermal limits and learning why two workers do not make one answer faster.
