The article discusses the growing trend of running Large Language Models (LLMs) locally on personal machines, exploring the motivations behind this shift โ including privacy concerns, cost savings, and a desire for technological sovereignty โ as well as the hardware and software advancements making it increasingly feasible.
This document provides a developer guide for the Tiny Code Reader from Useful Sensors, a small, low-cost hardware module that reads QR codes. It covers connecting, mounting, powering up, reading data, configuration, sensor characteristics, example code, privacy considerations, and an appendix with data formats and CAD files.