The Sky Has Become a Distributed Sensor: How Edge ML on $200 Raspberry Pi Nodes Tells You Exactly When the Eta Aquariids Peak
Tonight's Eta Aquariid peak is being measured in real time by the Global Meteor Network — a fleet of more than 1,000 amateur Raspberry Pi cameras running random forest, CNN, and LSTM classifiers nightly. The science press calls it citizen astronomy. Infrastructure people should call it a reference architecture.