CyberTron didn't start as a carefully engineered AI server. It started with an old Craigslist computer, some spare eBay hardware, and one question:

How far can I push this thing?

The goal is to build a genuinely useful private AI system without spending thousands of dollars on enterprise hardware or sending everything into somebody else's cloud.

Along the way, we're upgrading the machine, experimenting with local language models, building AI assistants, breaking things, fixing things, and finding out where inexpensive hardware succeeds — and where it falls flat.

This page follows the entire project from the original $150 machine forward.