Briefing
The companion post of 10 August gives the setup. Steve flashed Raspberry Pi OS Lite 64-bit to a USB drive, ran the Pi headless and installed Hermes over SSH. He picked a cloud model so the Pi did no heavy compute, and set up a Telegram bot that answers only him. The agent, named Gort, kept forgetting its identity until he found he had edited a SOUL.md file in the wrong place.
He then gave Gort SensorsIot's Universal Embedded Workbench repository and had it write a skill for it. The test job was an ESP32 sketch that counts an LED down from five to one, pauses five seconds and repeats, laid out as a PlatformIO project. Telegram voice dictation also worked, slowly, on the Pi.
Written by the Boards & Bots curator