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CHIWAI/CHAN

> BUILDING_WITH: CLOUD█

Tinkerer experimenting at the messy intersection of cloud, hardware and AI — voice-driven robots, an Iron Man suit on AWS IoT, and a cat feeder that refuses to quit.

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OPERATOR.SPEC● ACTIVE

CALLSIGN@chiwaichanconz

ROLETINKERER

LOCATIONAOTEAROA NZ

FOCUSCLOUD · IoT · ROBOTS

CO-OPS2 CATS =^..^=

STATUSSHIPPING

CLOUD

AWS-native, serverless

IoT

ESP32 · MQTT · IoT Core

ROBOTICS

RVR · LeRobot · hands

EDGE AI

Jetson · Strands

GEN AI

Bedrock · Nova

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Active Builds

7 MODULES

MODULE AGC-07● BUILDING

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Series

A series of slide decks covering each feature of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, from Runtime, Memory and Gateway to Identity, Policy and Evaluations, for talks at the AWS User Group Wellington.

AgentCoreAmazon BedrockAWS User GroupMarp

MODULE RCH-06● BUILDING

Reachy Mini × Strands Agent on Jetson Thor

A Pollen Robotics Reachy Mini Lite desk robot driven by an on-device Strands Agent on NVIDIA Jetson Thor — local Nemotron reasoning and Cosmos Reason 2 vision, $0 and offline at idle, with optional AWS IoT Core, S3 and data-lake paths.

Reachy MiniStrands AgentJetson ThorCosmos Reason

MODULE ASL-05● BUILDING

Voice to Sign Language

Real-time voice-to-sign-language translation using Amazon Nova 2 Sonic, AWS IoT Core, Strands Agents on NVIDIA Jetson, and a Pollen Robotics Amazing Hand.

Nova 2 SonicStrandsJetsonASL

MODULE IOT-01● BUILDING

IoT Firmware & Device Management

Scalable IoT firmware and device management with Over-The-Air updates using AWS IoT for Seeed Studio ESP32 devices.

AWS IoT JobsOTAESP32AWS CDK