Boards, robots and rigs that people built or fixed with an agent.
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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.
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.
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
co-arm is a 3D-printed four-joint camera arm built from ST3215 serial-bus servos, an ESP32 servo HAT and a Raspberry Pi 4. Codex previews each move before running it, then reads the joints and camera to check the result. The author says Codex has moved the physical arm; demo media is not published yet. The software is source-available for noncommercial use.
2 mo ago
Edison Science Corner built a Wi-Fi camera rover on a Seeed XIAO ESP32S3 Sense with an L293D motor driver without writing code. Seeed's CodeCraft assistant generated the firmware and wiring instructions and flashed the board from the browser. The 5-minute video shows assembly, the 3D-printed chassis, live streaming and joystick control. Its description carries Seeed affiliate links.
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.
3 mo ago
StackChan Remote MCP connects Codex to an M5Stack CoreS3 StackChan robot through a FastMCP server and an MQTT broker on a VPS. Codex switches the robot's expression, gets camera photos back as MCP images and reads screen and head-pad touches from an unread queue. The README reports an end-to-end test on a CoreS3 but shows no photos or logs.
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.
3 mo ago
One maker had coding agents build IRIS, a robot face with gaze-tracking eyes, on two Teensy boards and a Raspberry Pi 4. Its speech and vision models run locally. Over 195 sessions, one AI planned each change, a second critiqued it and a coding agent made and checked it over SSH. The README shows no photos of the robot.
4 mo ago
Tech With Anant rebuilt the Saras rover around Claude Code running on a Raspberry Pi 4. A small MCP server exposes the motors, encoders and camera as tools, and a CLAUDE.md file sets the robot's identity. An LD06 lidar handles obstacle detection. The 24-minute video shows the rover in a live test, driving toward a named object around obstacles.
4 mo ago
Amer El-Saad built a 3-DOF tower crane for his master's thesis that Claude plans and drives through 4 MCP tools. One overhead camera, YOLOv8 and ArUco markers locate parts and stations in centimeters. An Arduino Uno drives the DC motors, and code rejects any route that crosses a worker. README photos show the crane and live detections.
4 mo ago
Claude Code wrote serial scripts for the STS3215 servos of a self-assembled SO-101 arm and fixed GR00T N1.6-3B fine-tuning errors for a Japanese maker. It set motor IDs, showed live gripper values and ran training over SSH on a DGX Spark. After 97 recorded episodes, the post's GIF shows the arm placing a block in a cup on its own.
5 mo ago
Claude Code drives a Freenove 4WD mecanum car on a Raspberry Pi Pico W through an MCP server and plain-text TCP commands. In one session it reversed until the ultrasonic sensor read 6 cm, then swept the sensor from 20 to 140 degrees and plotted the distances. The repo has photos, terminal captures and clips from live sessions.
5 mo ago
Wired's Will Knight connected OpenClaw and Codex to a LeRobot SO-101 arm with a camera. Codex configured the connections, helped calibrate the joints and wrote a script that grips a red ball the camera sees. OpenClaw then guided training of a control model, checking its error rate after each run. The article's clips show the arm at work.
6 mo ago
Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, wrote his first app for the Reachy Mini desktop robot with Claude in under an hour. He published it as a Hugging Face Space that runs on a Reachy Mini or in simulation. The post includes a short video; we could not confirm it shows the physical robot.
6 mo ago
Norihide Mikami used Claude Code with Opus 4.7 to write a Flask control system for a DENSO six-axis arm in one 4.5-hour hackathon session. It drives the arm over b-CAP, an IAI electric gripper over Modbus RTU, a 4K Basler GigE camera, a webcam and a PS5 gamepad. The three-minute video shows the system running.
6 mo ago
Seif Salama built an Ackermann-steered robot that runs one ROS 2 Humble stack in Gazebo Harmonic and on a Raspberry Pi car. A custom ros2_control interface drives the motors over UART and the steering servo over I2C. A Gemini or Ollama agent takes spoken commands. We could not tell whether the README video shows the physical robot.
6 mo ago
lego-robot-mcp has Claude Code drive a LEGO robot with two wheels, a gripper and an arm on a Raspberry Pi 4 with a Build HAT. Claude sees through a Pi Camera on the robot and an overhead iPhone, and a Gemini Robotics-ER model checks frames after each move. The README has no photos or video of the robot.
