About

The Person Behind MEAT AI

I'm Tyler, based out of Urbandale, Iowa. I've always been driven by a passion for building. That curiosity started in childhood with K'Nex and evolved into metal fabrication, construction, working on cars, and eventually, deep diving into computers. As a natural "jack of all trades" with an obsession for tech literature, I spent years reading about concepts that felt just out of reach.

That changed when large language models and advanced computing became a reality. I was instantly hooked. Suddenly, ideas that used to just be concepts became things I could actually build and program.

Now, I want to help you do the same. I'd love to connect and see how we can bring your business ideas to life using AI. Whether you need dedicated local LLM hardware or just want help setting up and configuring a cloud based provider to host your workflow, I've got you covered.

Selected work

A few things I've built.

Personal projects, mostly on hardware most people have never heard of, that taught me how these systems actually behave in the real world.

Raspberry Pi 2W

Wireless voice interface for GPT

Ran Whisper for speech to text and Piper for text to speech, with a transcriber running on swap memory to process context on just 1GB of RAM, talking to GPT through API calls.

Raspberry Pi 4

Family event organizer

A custom GUI interface and programming built to organize family events.

Raspberry Pi 4

Offline voice assistant

Embedded Whisper for speech to text and Piper for text to speech behind a web GUI, connected to a speaker and microphone.

Network

Mini PC Firewall

Fully customizable, with built-in VPNs, advanced traffic management, network visibility, integrated security plugins, and intrusion prevention.

Home network

Mini PC service host

A mini PC container built to host services and programs, including a home automation system, a local offline LLM, and a web search interface.

Radxa Cubie

Alexa replacement

Used newer LLM models for speech to voice and voice to speech. An edge device decides which LLM to activate on the offline host. The host processes input and either responds directly, runs a search through the web search interface for more information, or reaches out to the home automation system to execute a command.

Throughout these builds, and others, I started to see how much data gets sent out about everything we do, and how much current technology constantly streams data back that isn't needed. That's what pushed the shift away from API keys and online models, toward building my own systems with safety gates and stop gaps.

Security research

I also do freelance security work, commonly known as white hat hacking.

A few things I've found and reported. Details are kept general to protect the organizations involved.

Certifications

Google Professional Certificates.

AI Professional
Certificate completion
Awarded for completing all seven courses below
The seven courses
AI for Brainstorming and Planning
Course completion
AI for App Building
Course completion
AI Fundamentals
Course completion
AI for Research and Insights
Course completion
AI for Writing and Communication
Course completion
AI for Content Creation
Course completion
AI for Data Analysis
Course completion

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