Author: Smarthomes

What Agentic AI Now Means for Your Smart Home

By Smarthomes

September 18, 2026 1

Most of us use AI inside our smart home setup in the same narrow way: a voice assistant that half understands us, a camera that sends false alerts at 3am, a hub that needs three apps to turn a light on. Useful, but incremental. Then a project lands in your feed where a single agent builds an entire

Two GPUs, one local model: a practical guide to dual-GPU AI inference

By Smarthomes

September 12, 2026 0

A single 16 GB card will not run a 70B model. How two cards pool their VRAM, the difference between pipeline and tensor parallelism, the hardware traps, and the exact commands to serve a large model locally.

Digital Evolution In Silico: Building and Test-Running a Live Agent-Based Ecosystem

By Smarthomes

August 18, 2026 1

A multi-part field report on deploying an open-ended artificial-life simulation: installing every package, resolving real troubleshooting issues, and watching a live browser-rendered ecosystem evolve on your local machine.

How We Built a Hybrid Vision-Driven Browser Controller

By Smarthomes

August 8, 2026 1

How We Built a Hybrid Vision-Driven Browser Controller: A Field Study of Offsets, Grids, and Window Geometry Category: Artificial Intelligence…

Learn Electronics for Free: Why STEM Skills Beat Guesswork

By Smarthomes

August 7, 2026 0

Electronics and STEM skills are transforming how we build, automate and maintain our homes. Here is why they matter — and three free courses to get you started on the Go4them learning platform.

Mitigating risks of blackout

By Smarthomes

March 21, 2025 3

Heathrow Airport’s power outage and a solar flare highlight the need for decentralized energy solutions.

Power-over-skin tech revolution

By Smarthomes

March 17, 2025 4

Researchers develop Power-Over-Skin, a tech to power wearables through human skin.

The rise of protoclone

By Smarthomes

March 3, 2025 5

Protoclone V1: a revolutionary bipedal robot boasting over 200 degrees of freedom and biomimetic technology.

Skype comes to an end May 5, 2025

By Smarthomes

February 28, 2025 4

Microsoft is retiring Skype on May 5, 2025 due to years of declining user base as Teams grows with over 320 million monthly active users.

How humanoid robots can help secure the digital world

By Smarthomes

February 25, 2025 5

Humanoid robots may help mitigate the global cybersecurity threat by detecting and responding to cyber threats in real-time with advanced AI capabilities.