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How-tos and workflows for putting an agent to work on your bench.
Newest first, as we log them.
5 mo ago
MathWorks shows an agentic AI tool working with MATLAB and Simulink to control an inverted pendulum on a Quanser Qube-Servo and Raspberry Pi. In the 14-minute video the agent helps define requirements, builds the Simulink model and designs a model predictive controller. After model-, software- and processor-in-the-loop tests, the final chapter deploys the generated code to the hardware.
5 mo ago
Parsa Ghasemi published the slides and demo prompts from a guest lecture to mechanical engineering students at Cal Poly Pomona. It covers installing Gemini CLI and Claude Code, writing prompts for runnable embedded code and catching wrong pins, invented library calls and unit errors. The live demo codes a PID position controller for a Teensy 4.1. We found no recording.
5 mo ago
Tech-AD-venture's 65-minute video walks through wiring sensors to an ESP32 over I2C and UART and defining a JSON command protocol on the serial link. It then builds a FastAPI-based MCP server so an LLM called through the OpenAI API can read registers and send commands. We have not watched the full video to confirm the hardware segments.
6 mo ago
Ricardo F. Tafas Jr of Espressif explains how he built Rust firmware for an ESP32-S3-based M5Stack ESP DualKey, with Cursor's agent writing the code. The device handles Wi-Fi, BLE and provisioning. He fed UART traces back to the agent and stepped through with OpenOCD and GDB when its reasoning stalled. Photos show the board's red and green status LEDs.
8 mo ago
Ari Mahpour shows how he wrapped Digilent's WaveForms SDK in a FastMCP server to control an Analog Discovery 2 from an IDE. The article's figures show MCP tool calls capturing a waveform and generating a signal. A 3.3 V sine request came out at 6.6 V peak-to-peak, and he saves large captures to files rather than returning them.
