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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

6 MODULES

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

MODULE ROB-02● BUILDING

Robotics

Cloud-connected robotics including Sphero RVR and Hugging Face LeRobot SO-101 arms controlled via AWS IoT Core.

Sphero RVRLeRobotAWS IoTESP32