The buzzword soup of Machine Learning, AI, edge computing, and IoT can be overwhelming (and intimidating) for many developers. In this talk, we will start from a beginner's view of these concepts and evolve to see how we can merge the worlds of ML with the Internet of Things to create a few silly, impractical, but eminently enjoyable IoT projects: • Anomaly detection with a thermal camera on a Raspberry Pi Zero. • Building an ML-powered speed trap on a Raspberry Pi 4. • Backyard AI-assisted birding (from your desk!).