by davidcrilly | Oct 15, 2026 | Hardware, Prototyping, Smart Care
When you start designing a non-intrusive ambient monitoring system for senior care, your first instinct as a technologist is to look at the commercial consumer market. You go online and look at off-the-shelf Zigbee, Z-Wave, and Tuya sensors. And very quickly, you run...
by davidcrilly | Sep 18, 2026 | Business, Founder Story, Operations
Yesterday, September 17, 2026, an official piece of paper from the Oklahoma Secretary of State landed in my inbox: STAG NODE LLC is officially a recognized, registered domestic entity. For months, StagNode existed as a loosely organized amalgamation of homelab...
by davidcrilly | Sep 2, 2026 | Architecture, Privacy, Smart Care
If you walk down the smart home aisle of any electronics store or browse the current crop of senior safety products, you will notice an unsettling pattern: almost every single solution relies on eyes, ears, and someone else’s computer. Want to know if your aging...
by davidcrilly | Aug 26, 2026 | Data Science, Hardware, Smart Care
I have a confession about how my brain works: I cannot look at the physical world without seeing sequences and mathematical series. I completed all the classwork for a Master’s degree in Applied and Computational Mathematics (short of the thesis—a classic ADHD...
by davidcrilly | Aug 14, 2026 | Family, Founder Story, Smart Care
If you have parents or in-laws in their late 70s or 80s, you already know the knot in the pit of your stomach that I’m talking about. It’s the silent background anxiety that hums along under every phone call. You ask how they’re doing. They tell you they’re fine. They...
by davidcrilly | Jul 9, 2026 | Musings, Reno
It is the classic ADHD renovation cycle: Week 1: Hyperfocus is at 100%. You demo the kitchen, buy all the supplies, and work until 2:00 AM. Week 2: A parts delay occurs. You have to wait five days for the tile to arrive. Week 3: The tile arrives, but the magic is...
by davidcrilly | Jul 6, 2026 | Musings, Reno
Last post was the honest admission: we still don’t know if we’re renovating this house for us or for resale, and that question doesn’t seem to be resolving itself. This post is the practical side — how we’re actually making decisions anyway,...
by davidcrilly | Jul 2, 2026 | Musings, Reno
Somewhere in the last however-many months of this renovation, my wife and I arrived at a question we did not have when we started: are we doing this for us, or are we doing this for whoever buys the house someday? We don’t have an answer. I want to be upfront...
by davidcrilly | Jul 1, 2026 | AI, Home Lab
This one’s shorter than usual — less narrative, more a list I wish someone had handed me before I started running inference on Moya. If you’re about to do the same thing on your own cluster, save yourself the weekends I lost. 1. Your GPU desktop is now a...
by davidcrilly | Jul 1, 2026 | AI, Home Lab
Last post I covered the why behind running private AI on Moya. This one is the how — specifically, getting GPU-backed inference working cleanly on a bare-metal Kubernetes cluster instead of just running a model on a desktop with a script and calling it a day. If...
