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2026

Augment Stage: NVIDIA Cosmos3 Transfer on an NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor for the Seeed Studio reBot Arm B601-RS
Fine-Tuning NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1.7 on a Jetson AGX Thor for the Seeed Studio reBot Arm B601-RS
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore 00: Overview
Strands Agents 00: Overview
Reachy Mini x Strands Agent on Jetson Thor - Part 15: Conversational Memory + Composable Motion Tools
Reachy Mini x Strands Agent on Jetson Thor - Part 14: The Media Bus — One Owner per Device, Fan Out to Many
I Got Me One of These - reBot Arm B601-RS with Gripper
Reachy Mini x Strands Agent on Jetson Thor - Part 13: Recording Interactions to S3 with Presigned URLs
Reachy Mini x Strands Agent on Jetson Thor - Part 12: Robot-State Telemetry to AWS IoT Core
Reachy Mini x Strands Agent on Jetson Thor - Part 11: Going Fully Local — Nemotron on Ollama, Amazon Bedrock Optional
Reachy Mini x Strands Agent on Jetson Thor - Part 10: Real-Time Face Tracking with a Single Camera Owner
Reachy Mini x Strands Agent on Jetson Thor - Part 9: Idle Presence — Noticing Who's Around (Humans vs Cats)
Reachy Mini x Strands Agent on Jetson Thor - Part 8: 80 Emotion Moves, by Sentiment and Voice Prefix
Reachy Mini x Strands Agent on Jetson Thor - Part 7: A Second Trigger — AWS IoT Core MQTT
Reachy Mini x Strands Agent on Jetson Thor - Part 6: Asking the Robot About IoT Data in S3 Tables — Athena & Iceberg Q&A
Reachy Mini x Strands Agent on Jetson Thor - Part 5: The Voice-Assistant Loop — Wake, Look, Speak
Reachy Mini x Strands Agent on Jetson Thor - Part 4: Local Vision with NVIDIA Cosmos Reason 2
Reachy Mini x Strands Agent on Jetson Thor - Part 3: Offline "Hey Reachy" Wake-Up with Vosk (No LLM)
Reachy Mini x Strands Agent on Jetson Thor - Part 2: Bringing the Robot to Life — Hardware Bring-Up & Self-Test
Reachy Mini x Strands Agent on Jetson Thor - Part 1: Driving the Reachy Mini Lite with Strands Agent
Voice to Robotics: Driving a Sphero RVR — AWS User Group Wellington
Voice to Robotics: Driving a Sphero RVR
Voice to Robotics: Fingerspelling American Sign Language — AWS User Group Wellington
Voice to Robotics: Fingerspelling ASL
Real-Time Voice to Sign Language Translation - Part 3: Edge AI Agent with Strands Agents on NVIDIA Jetson
Real-Time Voice to Sign Language Translation - Part 2: Cloud Infrastructure with AWS CDK, IoT Core, and AppSync
Real-Time Voice to Sign Language Translation with Amazon Nova 2 Sonic and Pollen Robotics Amazing Hand - Part 1: Frontend and Voice Processing
Agentic based Over-The-Air Firmware Management of Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32S3 IoT Device Firmware using Amazon AgentCore and Strands Agents
UART Communication Between Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32C6 and NVIDIA Jetson Nano Super
I Got Me One of These - NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor Developer Kit
Real-Time Voice Chat with Amazon Nova Sonic using React and AWS Amplify Gen 2
Cloud-Connected Sphero RVR Robot with AWS IoT Core and Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32S3

2025

AWS Community Day 2025 Aotearoa New Zealand Slides
AWS Community Day 2025 Aotearoa New Zealand
Controlling Hugging Face LeRobot SO101 arms over AWS IoT Core using a Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32C3
Good Times
AWS Sydney Summit 2025
Iron Man Mark 3 Helmet

2024

Iron Man Mark 85 Faceplate
Let’s build an Iron Man Suit with AWS IoT
AWS IoT Core – Iron Man – Part 1
Rockit Apple payslip Analyzer with GenAI Chatbot using Bedrock and Streamlit
Coming soon at a desk near you…
FeedMyFurBabies – Storing Historical AWS IoT Core MQTT State data in Amazon Timestream
FeedMyFurBabies – Send and Receive MQTT messages between AWS IoT Core and your micro-controller – I am switching from Arduino CPP to MicroPython
FeedMyFurBabies – Using Custom Resources in AWS CDK to create AWS IoT Core Keys and Certificates
FeedMyFurBabies – I am switching to AWS CDK

2023

Getting the Golden Jacket with my Cat Squad
FeedMyFurBabies – Event-Sourcing using Amazon EventBridge
4×4 fun with a bit of Iot, vlogging and Machine Learning – Part 1
Snacks

2022

Feed My Fur Babies – AWS Amplify and Route53
AWS DeepRacer
Breaking Down Monolithic Subnets
Leveraging AWS Prefix Lists
Maintain a Prefix List of EC2 Private IP Addresses using EventBridge
Work-around for cross-account Transit Gateway Security Group Reference
Swiss Cheese Network Security Factorising Security Group Rules into NACLs and Security Group Rules
Smart Cat Feeder – Part 4
Planting something….
Smart Cat Feeder – Part 3
Hosting multiple subsites under a serverless website instance

2021

If you can’t get a hold of me this is the reason…
Smart Cat Feeder – Part 2
Smart Cat Feeder – Part 1

2020

Storing Electricity Price Data on AWS
Where it all started

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CHIWAI//CHAN

Tinkerer. Building random things with Cloud, IoT, robots and AI — with a couple of cats supervising. Incoherent by design.

AOTEAROA NZEST. 2020

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