Raspberry Pi 5 AI assistant with PicoClaw
Raspberry Pi 5 adds CPU and I/O headroom versus older Pi boards. PicoClaw still uses only a few megabytes of RAM, so the Pi 5 is ideal when you want always-on gateway + cron + light file work on one board without swapping.
1. Install
Use 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS, then follow the same binary or build steps as Raspberry Pi AI assistant. Pick the ARM64 release from Download.
2. Where the LLM runs
PicoClaw stays local; the model can be cloud (OpenAI, Groq, Gemini, …) or on-LAN via Ollama on the same Pi or a bigger machine. Small quantised models may run on Pi 5; larger ones are happier on a desktop or NAS.
3. Tuning
Even on Pi 5, cap concurrent jobs and use Heartbeat spacing to avoid spikes. See performance tuning.