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Cory Potter
Technical Craftsman · CoreConduit Co-Founder

Cory's Tech Lounge

Raspberry Pi projects, self-hosted infrastructure, embedded systems, and open-source tools. Build your own. Own what you build.

Self-hosted infrastructure
Cloud-independent by default
MIT licensed · Free forever

CoreConductor on Raspberry Pi 5

Full local AI stack with Hailo NPU acceleration, HailoRT 5.3.0, PCIe Gen 3, and Ollama integration. Nine-phase automated bash installation. Zero cloud dependency.

RPi 5 Hailo-8L HailoRT 5.3.0 Ollama PCIe Gen 3
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hailo-install.sh — CoreConduit RPi5
# Phase 1: System preparation
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done

# Phase 3: PCIe Gen 3 optimization
echo 'dtparam=pciex1_gen=3' | sudo tee -a /boot/firmware/config.txt
dtparam=pciex1_gen=3

# Phase 5: HailoRT 5.3.0 install
pip install hailort==5.3.0 --break-system-packages
Collecting hailort==5.3.0
Installing build dependencies... done
Successfully installed hailort-5.3.0

# Phase 9: Validation
hailortcli fw-control identify
Hailo-8L found. Firmware: 4.19.0 ✓

Things I'm building.

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hydroMazing controller

hydroMazing

Consumer smart garden controller — RPi 3, Arduino firmware, Flask API, SQLite, React PWA. Talks to NEXUS over LAN for AI-assisted grow scheduling.

RPi 3ArduinoFlask ReactActive
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self-evolving AI agent system

NEXUS Platform

Self-evolving AI agent system with v5 refactor in progress. Hosts CoreConductor with ChromaDB RAG, Ollama (Qwen), Prompting Wizard, and TheDecider rule engine.

PythonChromaDBOllama v5 Active
hailo NPU acceleration

Hailo-8L on RPi 5

Full nine-phase automated bash installation script targeting HailoRT 5.3.0 with hailo-ollama integration and PCIe Gen 3 optimization on Raspberry Pi 5.

RPi 5Hailo-8LPCIe Gen3 In Progress
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PHP inventory management

PHP Inventory System

Full-stack PHP/MySQL inventory management system for small organizations and nonprofits. Self-hosted, no SaaS dependency, built for longevity.

PHPMySQLApache Stable
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rpi infrastructure monitoring

rpi-healthbench

Raspberry Pi infrastructure health benchmarking tool. CPU, memory, thermals, disk, and network diagnostics in a single portable bash script.

BashRPiMIT
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M365 ↔ local AI bridge

CoreConductor M365 Integration

Microsoft 365 + Graph API integration feeding into the local AI stack via Power Automate bridge. Solving MS Forms' missing Graph API endpoint for nonprofit workflows.

Graph APIPower AutomatePlanning

Tools I built. Free forever.

All MIT licensed. No donation asks. These tools exist to solve real problems and demonstrate what thoughtful infrastructure tooling looks like.

Tool names use the CoreConduit split-color convention: base word + orange suffix

ScriptFix

Automated bash script diagnostic and repair tool. Identifies common shell script issues, syntax errors, and portability problems across sh/bash/zsh environments.

OllamaRunner

Convenience wrapper and process manager for Ollama on Raspberry Pi and low-power Linux systems. Auto-start, model management, and resource throttling.

CodeVault

Local-first code snippet and documentation manager. SQLite backend, full-text search, tag-based organization. No cloud. No accounts. No subscriptions.

SecurityRAG

Retrieval-augmented generation pipeline tuned for local security documentation and policy management. Built to run on-device without any external API calls.

rpi-healthbench

Single-file infrastructure health and performance benchmark suite for Raspberry Pi. No dependencies, no installation. Drop it on any RPi and run.

NetWatch

Lightweight local network monitoring daemon for self-hosted infrastructure. Tracks uptime, latency, and connectivity state changes — logs locally, no cloud required.


How I build things — documented.

Raspberry Pi · Hardware

Hailo-8L NPU Setup on RPi 5: Nine-Phase Installation Guide

Complete walkthrough of HailoRT 5.3.0 installation, PCIe Gen 3 optimization, and hailo-ollama integration on a Raspberry Pi 5. Fully automated bash script included.

45 min · Advanced
Local AI · Infrastructure

Building an Offline-First AI Stack on Raspberry Pi

Ollama, ChromaDB, and a RAG pipeline — running entirely locally on Raspberry Pi hardware. No internet required after setup. Full architecture walkthrough with config files.

30 min · Intermediate
Embedded Systems · Arduino

Arduino to Flask API: Sensor Data Over Serial

How to bridge an Arduino sensor array to a Python Flask API over serial, store readings in SQLite, and expose them via a REST endpoint for downstream consumption.

20 min · Intermediate
Linux · Self-Hosting

Hardening a Self-Hosted Server: Minimal Attack Surface on Ubuntu 24

The security hardening checklist I run on every server I deploy — ufw, fail2ban, SSH key enforcement, HSTS headers, and service isolation. No security theater, just working controls.

25 min · Intermediate
PHP · MySQL

Self-Hosted Inventory Management for Nonprofits: A Complete Build

Full walkthrough of building and deploying a PHP/MySQL inventory system that any organization can self-host — no subscription fees, no vendor lock-in, full data sovereignty.

35 min · Intermediate
Raspberry Pi · Networking

LAN Service Discovery: Making Your RPi Projects Talk to Each Other

How hydroMazing, NEXUS, and other local services discover and communicate with each other over a home or office LAN without any cloud intermediary or static IP management.

18 min · Beginner+

The hardware I actually use.

No sponsored posts. No affiliate links. Just what lives in my lab and runs my projects day-to-day.

Everything here is self-hosted, cloud-independent, and built for longevity over convenience.

neofetch — CoreConduit Lab
neofetch --config none

CoreConduit Lab Stack
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AI Host Raspberry Pi 5 (8GB)
NPU Hailo-8L (PCIe Gen 3)
AI Model Qwen3 via Ollama
RAG ChromaDB (local)
Garden RPi 3 + Arduino UNO
Web Apache 2 / Ubuntu 24
DB MySQL 8 + SQLite
OS Ubuntu Server 24 LTS
License MIT · Open Source
Cloud none (intentional)

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About Cory Potter

Electronics engineer, embedded systems developer, and full-stack builder. Co-founder of CoreConduit Consulting. I build self-hosted, cloud-independent tools for nonprofits and anyone who believes their data should live where they can see it. The Tech Lounge is where I document what I build — not as polished tutorials, but as honest records of real projects.

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