Project Baobab – Off-grid solar AI edge nodes with micro-payout incentives

Project Baobab is a lightweight, decentralized edge-computing orchestrator that shards AI tasks across distributed low-power edge nodes such as Raspberry Pi 5 and off-grid hardware, settling compute rewards via automated micro-payments. It uses Python's concurrent.futures for task sharding and the PayPal REST API v2 (OAuth 2.0) to trigger payment orders upon verified task completion, targeting solar/battery-powered nodes. The project is built in Python 3.10+ and runs cross-platform on Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, and Raspberry Pi OS.