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Building a private, portable knowledge base safe enough to hand to your child for learning. Using RAG on a Raspberry Pi CM4 to ensure acurate responses by querying only trusted content. See how to build a Star Trek knowledge base with Python, ChromaDB, and DeepSeek R1. Showing how everyone can have their own off-grid encyclopedia for ~$250.

Over the last few weeks, I’ve needed to build a new personal website. Although I’ve been skeptical about “vibe coding,” I decided to give it a try. My conclusion from the exercise is that it works, sort of. I used Cursor, as it is the current market leader (and the closest to my current setup, though any tool will do).