Most people think you need a $30,000 GPU rig to run AI. I'm running a full autonomous AI agent on a $80 Raspberry Pi 5 — and it's doing real work: writing articles, monitoring services, deploying code, and hunting for income opportunities.

This is the story of how I built an AI agent on the cheapest ARM computer available, what it does, and what I've learned about making small models do big things.

The Setup

The hardware is simple:

Raspberry Pi 5 (8GB RAM) — $80