Raspberry Pi Agent on 67AI Lab

Smart Home Brain: Integrating Home Assistant

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0000

For the last week, we’ve been building a digital brain. We’ve given OpenClaw the ability to see, hear, speak, and remember. But so far, it’s been trapped in the machine. Today, we break the fourth wall.

Today, we connect OpenClaw to the physical world using Home Assistant.

Home Assistant is the gold standard for local smart home control. By integrating it, our agent stops being just a chatbot and starts becoming a true house majordomo—capable of checking the thermostat, arming the security system, or turning off the lights when I forget.

Automating the Office: Generating PowerPoints & PDFs

Sun, 08 Feb 2026 06:00:00 +0000

Welcome to Day 7 of our OpenClaw series! Today we’re turning our AI assistant into an office automation powerhouse. By the end of this tutorial, your Raspberry Pi will be generating professional PowerPoint presentations and PDF documents on demand.

Why Document Automation?

Imagine telling your AI: “Create a presentation about Q4 sales results” or “Generate a PDF report from this data” — and having it just… happen. That’s what we’re building today.

Building Your First Skill: The Memos Integration

Sat, 07 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0000

OpenClaw becomes truly powerful when it stops just talking and starts doing. Up until now, we’ve given it a brain (LLMs), a voice (TTS), and eyes (Vision). Today, we give it hands. We are going to build a custom Skill.

A “Skill” in OpenClaw is essentially a tool definition that maps a user’s natural language request to an executable command or script. In this tutorial, we’ll build a bridge to Memos, an open-source, self-hosted note-taking service (think of it as a private Twitter or lightweight Notion).

Going Private: Running Local LLMs with Ollama

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0000

Welcome to Day 5 of the 67AI Lab 10-Day Challenge!

So far, we’ve given our agent a brain using cloud giants like OpenAI and Google Gemini. These models are powerful, but they come with trade-offs: latency, cost, and most importantly, privacy. Every prompt you send leaves your network.

Today, we’re cutting the cord. We are going to run a Large Language Model (LLM) directly on your local machine (or the Raspberry Pi 5 we set up on Day 1) using Ollama.

The Artist & Speaker: Voice (TTS/STT) & Image Gen

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0000

Welcome back to the 67AI Lab! We are on Day 4 of our 30-day journey to build the ultimate local AI agent.

Yesterday, we gave our agent deep research capabilities with Perplexity (assuming you followed along!). Today, we’re making it more human. We’re giving it a voice, ears, and an imagination.

Text interfaces are efficient, but talking to your room and having it reply—or asking it to visualize an idea instantly—is where the magic happens.

The Researcher: Adding Perplexity for Deep Search

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0000

On Day 3 of our journey building the ultimate AI Lab on a Raspberry Pi, we’re giving our OpenClaw agent a serious upgrade: Deep Search capabilities.

While standard LLMs are great at reasoning, they often hallucinate facts or rely on outdated training data. To build a true “Researcher” agent, we need real-time, cited, and accurate information from the web.

Enter Perplexity AI.

Why Perplexity?

Perplexity isn’t just a search wrapper; it’s an answer engine. Unlike a standard Google Search API which returns a list of links, Perplexity’s API (specifically the sonar models) returns synthesized answers with citations. This is perfect for an autonomous agent because it reduces the cognitive load of parsing raw HTML and synthesizing multiple sources—the API does the heavy lifting.

Giving it a Brain: Connecting Gemini & OpenAI

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0000

Yesterday, we installed OpenClaw on the Raspberry Pi. It was alive, but silent. Today, we give it a voice—and a brain.

A true agent isn’t just a script; it needs a Large Language Model (LLM) to reason, understand intent, and generate human-like responses. OpenClaw makes this incredibly easy by supporting multiple providers right out of the box.

In this guide, we’ll connect Google Gemini (for speed and reasoning) and OpenAI (as a backup or for specific tasks).

Hello World - Installing OpenClaw on a Raspberry Pi 5

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0000

Welcome to Day 1 of our series: “The Raspberry Pi Agent”.

Over the next 10 days, we are going to build a fully autonomous AI agent capable of trading, researching, and managing a smart home. But first, we need a body.

Why Raspberry Pi 5?

For years, “AI” meant “Cloud”. You paid OpenAI $20/month and rented their servers.

But the Raspberry Pi 5 changes the game.

Specs: Quad-core 2.4GHz CPU, 8GB RAM, NVMe SSD support.
Cost: ~$80 USD.
Power: ~5 Watts (runs 24/7 for pennies).

It is the perfect “Forever Host” for an agent that never sleeps.