Skrongle Mini: A self-hosted AI learning app that runs on Raspberry Pi
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Skrongle Mini has been released, a self-hosted AI course generation and learning application that runs as a single binary and can run on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W with resources to spare. It supports up to 8 accounts, requires no email, and depends on no external services other than AI providers for which users supply their own keys. The application builds courses from JSON files and offers courses, adaptive quizzes, five-minute exercises, games, flashcards, and an AI tutor. The AI portion requires users to provide their own keys, with optional support for Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek, Mistral, xAI, OpenRouter, or an Ollama-compatible server on the local network. Databases from before version 1.0 will not upgrade automatically and must be started fresh with a new database.
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Skrongle is a single self-hosted binary that runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W and teaches from JSON course files, offering lessons, adaptive quizzes, five-minute practice sessions, games, flashcards and an AI tutor, with Spanish and French courses included. It supports up to eight invited accounts with no e-mail or outside services except the AI provider keys the owner supplies, and courses can be hand-written, uploaded, or generated by describing them to an AI. It is licensed AGPL-3.0, and databases from before version 1.0 are not upgraded.
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