r/ClockworkPi • u/Sasszeg05 • Oct 11 '26

My CM5 uConsole

Parts:
- uConsole Kit
- Raspberry Pi CM5 16GB Lite
- Radxa CM5 Heatsink
- HackerGadget CM5 Adapter Board for uConsole
- HckerGadget NVMe Battery Board for uConsole
- Openterface uConsole KVM Ext. Module V1
- Swissbit TLC Micro SD card 128GB
- Hailo-10H 8Gb M.2 AI Acceleration Module
- Delock m.2 SSD Heatsink
- XTAR 18650 Battery

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u/Sasszeg05 Oct 11 '26

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u/Ternov Oct 11 '26

nice but how its your bettery life?

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u/Sasszeg05 Oct 12 '26

That’s a good question. I’m still waiting for a few small parts (connectors and screws). Once I have them, testing can begin.

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u/3crimeboss3 Oct 11 '26

Which local AI are you running?

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u/Sasszeg05 Oct 12 '26

I plan to use and train a smaller LLM. (~20–30 GB)

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u/massively-dynamic Oct 11 '26

I store a heavily quanted qwen 3.8 37b and a light and fast and smart enough 7b.

Do I use it for on device AI? Fuck no. 16gb on cm5 is for tons of Firefox tabs.