Boards, robots and rigs that people built or fixed with an agent.
Newest first, as we log them.
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.
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
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
Niclas Vestlund's VibePulse shows Claude Code and Codex usage and agent activity on a Waveshare ESP32-S3 AMOLED panel. A full-screen alert appears when an agent waits for input, and a tap answers supported prompts. A Python service runs on macOS or Windows; cloud relays are off by default. The README links a YouTube Short of the panels on his desk.
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.
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.
2 mo ago
Steve from IQ Workshop ran Hermes Agent on a 1 GB Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Plus, using OpenAI's Codex model and Telegram for chat. He asked it to write and upload a countdown blink sketch to an ESP32 on his workbench. The first upload failed; the agent diagnosed the error, retried and saved the fix to its memory.
5 mo ago
Craig Hollabaugh had Codex identify a blank LilyGo T-Display S3, install the toolchain and write a display test in an unedited session. When the screen stayed dark, the agent found the panel is an ST7789 on an 8-bit parallel bus and rewrote its driver. It then built an LVGL 9.2 speedometer and tachometer dashboard, on camera throughout.
5 mo ago
Cliff Lasser built a clock from 128 Soviet IV-25 VFD tubes on eight boards, each run by an Arduino Nano ESP32 over RS485. He wrote about 15 pages of specification, and Claude wrote all the code, now over 8,000 lines. The first version, about 3,500 lines, ran on the first try with one bug: the display was rotated 180 degrees.
5 mo ago
Marcel Dütscher and his 10-year-old son built Pixel Pets, virtual pets for three M5Stack boards, with Claude writing the firmware under their direction. The CoreS3 version adds voice control through M5Stack's Module LLM, and pets swap gifts over ESP-NOW. Photos, a 10-second clip and a two-minute reel show the pets running on the devices.
