Boards, robots and rigs that people built or fixed with an agent.
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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.
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.
3 mo ago
David Steeman used Claude Code to reverse-engineer and program the Fri3d Camp 2024 badge, an ESP32-S3 handheld with an LCD. Claude backed up the flash in ROM mode, worked out the OTA boot scheme and wrote a serial upload tool. Steeman says the app launcher and name badge it built ran on the device. The photos show only the hardware.
4 mo ago
Craig Hollabaugh had Claude Code boot Linux overnight on an Icepi Zero, a Lattice ECP5 FPGA board with no hard CPU. The agent installed LiteX and built a VexRiscv soft core that boots OpenSBI, Linux 5.14 and BusyBox to a root shell over USB serial. The 10-minute video logs into the running system on the board.
5 mo ago
A software engineer had Codex with GPT-5.5 write most of wfb-link, a Rust stack that drives an ALFA AWUS036ACH Wi-Fi adapter from macOS userspace. Claude Opus 4.7 helped at times. The stack initializes the RTL8812AU and sends and receives WFB-NG frames, with a Raspberry Pi 5 at the far end. The Show HN post says the alpha took two weeks.
