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How I Built a $5-a-Month AI Baby Monitor on Raspberry Pi
Abstract This article documents the architecture, implementation, and operational characteristics of BabyMind AI — a multi-service AI infant monitoring system deployed on Raspberry Pi 5 hardware. The system integrates computer vision (Claude Haiku Vision API), large language model inference (Groq LLaMA-70b), real-time audio processing (WebRTC VAD), persistent storage (SQLite WAL), and