A robot is a deck with wheels
A household robot should not be a stranger with its own account and a map of your home. It should be another body for the assistant that already knows you.
- robots
- KyberDeck Core
- safety
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Notes from building the hardware your personal SI lives in: five forms, building your own, robots, the home node, and devices that do not report on you.
Build your own cyberdeck on KyberLinux in a weekend
A weekend plan for a cyberdeck that is yours down to the microphone. The SDKs are not released yet, so the commands are illustrative; the habits are not.
- cyberdeck
- DIY
- KyberLinux
Buy it or build it: the five forms of KyberDeck
A card, a band, a pocket deck, a home node and a robot module: why one assistant needs five bodies, what each one is for, and which ones you can build yourself.
- form factor
- KyberDeck
- DIY
Hardware that does not report on you
Most connected devices report on their owners by design: telemetry, accounts, cloud processing. This is what hardware looks like when there is nothing to report.
- privacy
- telemetry
- hardware mute
The home node: where your assistant keeps its memory
Carried devices are small on purpose, so something has to remember. Why your assistant's long memory belongs on a shelf at home, not in a vendor's cloud.
- KyberDeck Node
- memory
- home
Why a phone is the wrong body for an assistant
The phone is a superb consumer device and a poor home for something acting on your behalf. The mismatch is in the business model, not the hardware.
- form factor
- on-device models
- platforms
Small models are enough for the things you carry
The work a carried device actually does is capture, extract, classify and decide what matters. None of that is where frontier models earn their price.
- small language models
- on-device
- edge
The ID card is the most underrated computer
Everyone already carries one, nobody notices it, and it is the only device that is socially acceptable everywhere. That is a remarkable set of properties.
- form factor
- identity
- wearables
Latency is the whole product
Below a couple of hundred milliseconds an interaction feels like part of your thinking. Above a second it becomes a task you decide whether to bother with.
- latency
- on-device
- interaction
A terminal for your own systems
The cyberdeck in fiction was an operator's tool: a way to reach systems that belonged to you. That distinction is the entire design brief.
- cyberdeck
- operator tools
- ownership