Boards, robots and rigs that people built or fixed with an agent.
Newest first, as we log them.
10 d ago
GoFly says an AI agent designed a six-layer STM32F405 flight controller in EasyEDA Pro through easyeda-agent, then ordered it from JLCPCB with SMT assembly. The post says the agent then flashed the board over USB and ran basic function tests. The design keeps only the MCU, gyroscope and accelerometer, and testing stayed on the desk.
14 d ago
Christian Schaller had Claude Code write a SANE backend for a Plustek OpticFilm 8200i scanner from USB captures of its Windows driver in a VM. He then reused the method to fix the kernel driver and libcamera for the IMX471 camera in his ThinkPad X1 Carbon. The post shows scans and before-and-after camera frames.
16 d ago
A JLCPCB blog author had Claude Code with Opus 5.5 rebuild a CH32V006 component tester in EasyEDA Pro from a PDF schematic. Working through a local API bridge, Claude swapped 8 out-of-stock parts, placed 47 parts and routed the 2-layer board with Freerouting to zero DRC errors. The post says the board was not fabricated or visually reviewed.
21 d ago
Anup Ray reverse-engineered a Nokia 110 4G's firmware with OpenAI Codex and rewrote its Calculator app as an agent chat app. It sends messages to DeepSeek over the phone's SIM data and can check the battery, toggle the torch, place calls and set alarms. It loads into RAM from a computer, so a restart removes it.
21 d ago
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.
34 d ago
adsb-radar decodes ADS-B on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W with an RTL-SDR. An n8n workflow on a Raspberry Pi 5 picks the plane visible from a window and looks up its route, and an ESP32-S3-BOX-3 screen shows it. The owner says all the code came from Claude Code sessions. The README reports 4,623 sightings in 12 days.
35 d ago
Felipe Sens Bonetto used AI agents to write openTPU, an LLM inference accelerator with its own instruction set, simulator, compiler and host software. On an Inspur PCIe card with a Xilinx Kintex-7 and 2 DDR3 channels it runs 10 models, including Qwen3 and Gemma 4, with their real weights. A README GIF shows the chat demo running on the card.
37 d ago
A DeepSeek Harness agent decoded the private UART link between a LinShang LS125 UV meter and its UVALED-X3 probe from measurements on the hardware. The probe answers a poll every 500 ms at 9600 8N1 with 28-byte frames checked by CRC-16/MODBUS. The README reports an STM32F103 host reading 21 of 21 frames with no CRC errors.
41 d ago
Munetomo Maruyama had Claude Code design mmRISC-2, a 64-bit RV64GC RISC-V core, and brought it up on a Digilent Arty A7-100T. Claude wrote the specification, SystemVerilog RTL, testbenches and documents; Maruyama ran Vivado and the board. Bring-up logs in the repository record Linux 7.2 booting to a shell at 50 MHz and a 120-minute stress test passing.
48 d ago
A Reddit user had Claude Fable 5 design an RP2350 e-ink board through a KiCad MCP server, allowing no manual edits. Wccftech reports several rounds to fix wrong part picks. Five assembled boards cost 130 euros plus $450 in API credits, and Claude Opus 5 wrote the firmware. Photos show the board driving its 1.54-inch display.
49 d ago
ws-pico2go sets up Claude Code to program the RP2350-based Waveshare Pico2Go robot in MicroPython, entirely from the terminal. Waveshare publishes no pinout, so the author recovered one from a schematic PDF and keeps it in CLAUDE.md with safety rules and measured sensor behavior. The README says an obstacle avoider runs untethered. We have not seen video.
55 d ago
Session Beacon shows every Claude Code session on a 1.8-inch ST7735 screen and turns a row red when that session waits on a prompt. A Python daemon fed by Claude Code hooks sends updates over USB serial to an Arduino Nano ESP32 or a Waveshare RP2040-Zero. Setup is documented for Windows only. README photos show the finished beacon.
55 d ago
Tide & Wind Tracker shows tides and wind on an M5Stack PaperColor and tests its e-paper rendering on the ESP32-S3 itself. Test firmware renders fixtures sent over USB and returns the canvas bytes for comparison with golden images. Claude Code iterated against those tests while a person approved every change. The README has a photo of it running.
55 d ago
Jesse Lawrence, new to hardware, used plain-English prompts in Axiometa Studio to generate firmware for the Axiometa Genesis Mini starter kit and flash it. Studio is the vendor's browser tool. The 10-minute video keeps the unboxing and his fumbling, and ends with a simple reaction-time game running on the kit.
57 d ago
Creator Magic plugged three unlabeled ESP32 boards into a Mac one at a time and had Claude Code identify each over USB. Claude then wrote different firmware for each: a sea-conditions display, a Bluetooth audio spectrum analyzer and an e-paper sound picture. The 23-minute video shows all three running and a display offset Claude diagnosed from a photo.
2 mo ago
Andrew de Quincey had Claude Code port the Frank Micro BBC Micro emulator to the RP2350-based Adafruit Fruit Jam. Claude studied the codebase, planned around clock and PIO conflicts and wrote a script for the audio codec registers. Photos show the emulator booted over HDMI. It ran Exile, and an odd Mac keyboard was the only snag.
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.
2 mo ago
Pyjama Cafe's embedded-systems channel takes a new NXP FRDM-MCXN236 board from no prior knowledge to a blinking LED with agentic AI. Along the way the 94-minute video covers the Cortex-M family and the board's user guide. It ends with the LED blinking on the board.
2 mo ago
Tiny Engineer is an open-source desk robot that acts out a coding agent's work. It looks around while files are read, types while code is written and rings a bell when the task ends. An ESP32-C3 on an open KiCad control board drives five SG90 servos and an OLED face. The README links a demo video and build photos.
2 mo ago
A Hacker News poster installed Hermes Agent over SSH on the Linux side of an Arduino UNO Q and connected a ChatGPT subscription. Asked to blink an LED, the agent did. Asked for Conway's Game of Life on the 8x13 LED matrix, the post says it searched the board's docs and got it running. There are no photos or logs.
