Singapore minister builds NanoClaw AI agent on Raspberry Pi
Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan constructed a personal AI agent named NanoClaw on a Raspberry Pi to assist with diplomacy and parliamentary duties. The system functions as a second brain and links to WhatsApp for meeting preparation. It pairs Anthropic’s Claude with local memory tools and Whisper for speech processing. The stack includes the Claude Agent SDK, Baileys for messaging, Mnemon graph memory, Ollama with Nomic embeddings, and Whisper.cpp. Development notes emphasize context windows as the effective budget and tools over models.
#1598Carlos E. Perez@INTUITMACHINEBanger quote: "You cannot govern a technology you have only been briefed on.”
Melissa Chen@MsMelChenSingapore’s Foreign Minister, Dr Balakrishnan casually explaining how he built his own AI agent (a 2nd brain for diplomacy) using Claude & WhatsApp integration etc. on a Raspberry Pi “You cannot govern a technology you have only been briefed on.” 🇸🇬