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Show HN: I made a Raspberry with Qwen my local car AI

A Raspberry Pi 5 equipped with a dashcam and local AI serves as an onboard AI agent for your car, enabling fully offline communication. This innovative device, named CarWatch, operates independently from the internet, ensuring reliability even in garages, tunnels, or areas with poor connectivity. The Pi 5 runs a 35B-parameter model locally and integrates seamlessly into GroupMind rooms as @gle, providing notifications about departures, arrivals, trip summaries, and dashcam clips upon detecting any incidents.

Users can interact with CarWatch via their phones or watches through CodeWatch, while updates are automatically fetched from update.sh, ensuring the system remains up-to-date without manual intervention. The project's open-source nature, licensed under AGPL-3.0, allows for community contribution and transparency. CarWatch aims to enhance car safety by providing glanceable safety-relevant information, with heavy or social features gracefully degraded when connectivity is unavailable.

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