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title: Nephodex emoji: ☁️ colorFrom: indigo colorTo: yellow sdk: gradio sdk_version: 5.38.2 python_version: "3.12" app_file: app.py pinned: false license: apache-2.0

☁️ Nephodex — The Semantic Cloud Pokédex

A field journal for cloud-gazers. Snap the sky, click the cloud you mean, and a small local model isolates it, names the shape it sees, and files it in your dex. Built for the Build Small Hackathon (Chapter Two: An Adventure in Thousand Token Wood ).

How it works

Everything runs locally — no cloud APIs — which keeps it well under the 32B cap and targets the Off the Grid badge.

Constraint check

• ≤ 32B params: ✅ ~2.4B total across all three models.
• Gradio app on a Space: ✅
• Demo video + social post: still to record before submission.

Running

This needs a GPU Space to be snappy (it works on CPU but slowly). On a normal GPU Space it runs as-is. On ZeroGPU the @spaces.GPU decorators are already in place; if you hit a device-placement error, the usual fix is to move the model .to("cuda") inside the decorated functions rather than at import.

pip install -r requirements.txt
python app.py

Swapping the namer

VLM_ID in app.py controls the naming model. Alternatives under the cap:

• vikhyatk/moondream2 — ~2B, purpose-built for "what is this" (uses a trust_remote_code API, so the call site changes slightly).
• Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct — more capable, heavier.

Ideas to push further

• Off-Brand badge: the UI is already custom-styled; lean harder into the field-journal / dex-card look.
• Field Notes badge: write up what you learned.
• Let users name regions by tapping multiple points for multi-cloud capture.