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In an Octopart video, one prompt sends Claude Code through a digital low-pass filter on a Digilent Cmod S7 FPGA board. It writes and simulates the filter, then programs the board over JTAG. Through MCP servers for an Analog Discovery 2 and a Rigol scope, it sweeps test tones at 1, 5 and 15 kHz against the 10 kHz cutoff.
In September Nordic Semiconductor added skills to its Nordic MCP server that drive a Power Profiler Kit II and SEGGER J-Link probes. The PPK2 skill captures long measurement runs and flags anomalies against a reference pattern; the debug skill runs GDB sessions. The nRF Connect extension for VS Code now shares build context. The post shows no runs.
Celal Türkmen's ETH Zurich semester project has a language model convert a therapist's plain-language request into an MCP tool call for a rehabilitation robot. A validator built from each device's YAML file of parameters, units and bounds decides whether the call reaches the hardware. The README reports runs on a Novint Falcon haptic device under ROS 2 Jazzy.
Jorge García-Carrasco and colleagues published a benchmark in the Journal of Systems Architecture that scores LLM coding agents on 5 embedded-control tasks. Agents must build firmware, verify it and iterate under 4 feedback levels, from one-shot to oracle-style hints. The paper reports 420 runs on simulated ESP32 firmware: GPT-5.4 passed most often, and Qwen3.5-27B was the strongest local model.
Silicon Labs opened a public beta of its Simplicity AI SDK on 22 September, connecting AI coding assistants to its SDKs, tools and hardware. RFID Journal reports that GitHub Copilot and Codex are validated and that support starts with Bluetooth LE. A Hardware Intent Agent that drafts projects from board schematics is due in alpha in January 2027.
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2 mo ago
Anthropic opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard, a shared driver spec for agents that operate lab and manufacturing devices. Each device describes its settings and enforced safety limits, and agents reach it over MCP, a CLI or code. In a QuEra case study, an agent-improved laser relock script worked in 99.3% of 700 trials.
2 mo ago
Iluvatar Labs had its research agent, Marvin, route AgentPad13, a two-layer RP2040 macropad modeled on OpenAI's Codex Micro. Marvin reached zero unrouted connections and zero DRC errors; FreeRouting and Quilter had left 18 and 19 unrouted. It also built and simulated the QMK firmware. Photos show the lit prototype.
3 mo ago
Tal Raviv connected Claude to a SunFounder PiCar-X through a terminal on its Raspberry Pi, with camera photos as feedback. The robot saved notes, learned gentler turns and a three-point turn, and spent about 15 minutes parking at a filing cabinet instead of 20 cm from the door. The post embeds an edited demo video.
24 d ago
TraceMaker routes and places KiCad 9 and 10 boards and judges the result with KiCad's own design-rule check. Two agent skills prepare a board and sign off a route, and an experimental session mode exposes the router over MCP. The README reports 72.5% of PCBench tier B boards routed with no added KiCad errors, against 50% for Freerouting.
2 mo ago
OpenBaud connects Codex to local serial devices through an MCP server and plugin, with every write audited. It identifies ports from USB metadata, checks framing and checksums, and asks for acknowledgment before dangerous commands. Each byte goes to a capture that replays without hardware. The demo GIF and 46-second video show it on an ESP32-S3.
25 d ago
espforge packages the ESP-IDF v5.5.4 framework and working method its author used to build an ESP32 weather display with Claude Code in 6 days. Its firmware components handle Wi-Fi setup and over-the-air updates with rollback. PC tools flash, probe, screenshot and test the board without a person. The README shows no recorded agent runs.
25 d ago
AgentFace32 shows what coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex are doing on an ESP32 board with a small screen. Agent hooks send JSON events over the local network, and the device draws a face, a status line, a task timer and alerts. The README's video shows it following a live Codex session on an M5Stack Basic.
25 d ago
ae-hw-bridge connects AI agents over MCP to a target board through HW Puppet, MicroPython firmware for an ESP32-S3-DevKitC-1. Over one USB cable, HW Puppet drives the target's reset, boot and power lines and bridges its UART console. A mirrored terminal shows a person the same log the agent reads. Neither README shows a recorded run.
27 d ago
Meta open-sourced device SDKs and firmware that connect an ESP32 board or a Raspberry Pi to its Muse app. ESP32 gadgets can show images, handle audio and read sensors; Linux gadgets run custom commands for sysadmin or Home Assistant chores. The README points coding agents to an AGENTS.md in each directory.
3 mo ago
Ori Grossman built a tilt maze game on a PIC24FJ256GA705 Curiosity board with Claude Code agents, an ADXL345 accelerometer and a 96x96 OLED. One agent drove the board's debugger through MPLAB's mdb command line and traced an I2C driver bug that dropped queued bytes. The README has a photo of the game running.
29 d ago
AMD introduced Ross on 30 September, an agentic assistant for development on its FPGAs, adaptive SoCs and embedded x86 processors. AMD says Ross pairs MCP servers for its tools such as Vivado and Vitis HLS with expert-written agent skills and a documentation search. It runs in clients such as Claude Code or Cursor. The launch video shows no hardware run.
3 mo ago
Sigurd Enghoff replaced the WLKATA MT4 desktop arm's stock firmware and built a vision and MCP control stack on top. His ATmega2560 firmware runs Cartesian moves on the arm, ArUco markers calibrate a fixed camera, and an MCP server takes requests from Claude Code or Cursor. Linked videos show the arm stacking cubes and following typed instructions.
30 d ago
Nod answers Claude Code permission prompts from a 3-key pad built on a Seeed XIAO ESP32-S3: No, Always and Yes. The keys send the desktop app's shortcuts or, after a two-key hold, the terminal's numbered options. It works over USB-C or Bluetooth. The author says the Clawd-shaped variant was tested on hardware; the README shows renders, not photos.
2 mo ago
Adsum Networks' IoT Coder agent debugged a Fanstel BWG840 gateway whose nRF52840 BLE scanner ran cleanly but received nothing. It flashed an nRF52840 dongle as a Bluetooth sniffer and compared the air with RTT logs: 36 advertisements captured, none received. The cause was an RF front-end that was never enabled. This is a vendor demo of its own product.
33 d ago
Marc Mayol Orell's Claude Code plugin slices models with Creality Print's engine and runs Creality OS printers such as the K2. It checks each G-code file against the printer's bed, assigns colors and CFS slots, and starts prints over the local network. It needs Windows. The author lists only a K2 with one CFS as tested.
