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.
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.
2 mo ago
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
6 mo ago
Lucas Gerads connected Claude Code to his LeCroy oscilloscope through lecroy-mcp and to ngspice through spicelib-mcp. In the post's 12-minute video, Claude simulates an RC low-pass filter, programs an ATtiny1614 to drive it and compares the scope traces with the simulation. Gerads warns that Claude cannot see the bench and needs an explicit pinout.
