Welcome to AI Step-by-Step

Getting started with AI is simple and can be free. The following lab guides act as a starting point for people who want to build their own environment rather than jumping straight into a chat prompt. There will be lab options that are free, then up to ~$1000, then up to a few thousand dollars.

These are Community contributed labs. If you see any opportunities for improvement or errors, please contribute with a Pull Request or notify the Lab Author.

Lab Guides

Basic infrastructure

• Text focused labs
  • Running your first model locally with Ollama
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Create a custom model
  • Running Daniel Miessler's fabric framework
    • Configuring your environment
    • Using existing patterns
    • Creating your own pattern
  • Open WebUI front end
    • Add OpenAI models to your Open WebUI via API key
    • Connect a local Ollama instance to your Open WebUI
• Audio focused labs
  • Transcribe an audio file
  • Voice generation
• Image focused labs
  • Diffusion server
  • Computer vision model with laptop webcam
    • Facial Recognition
    • Object Recognition
  • Add object detection to your security camera with Frigate

Community hardware builds

Need ideas for what your home lab could look like? Want to confirm compatible parts? Here are labs of our Community members.

• Buu Lam

Raspberri Pi case

Are you running a lab that uses a Raspberry Pi 5 and it needs a home?

Check out this design for a case: pi-case

Additional learning resources

• F5's solutions offer tremendous value once you have learned how to build AI. Here are some labs that introduce those solutions. Secure deliver optimize GenAI

• Here are some more labs we've come across. PR's are welcome!

Contributors

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