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  1. 18 d ago

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    Andreas Spiess: an agent takes ESP32 firmware from spec to passing tests on real boards

    Andreas Spiess's 18-minute video shows Claude Code taking ESP32 firmware from a written specification to passing tests on a Raspberry Pi testbench. The agent writes and builds the firmware, flashes it to boards on the bench, runs tests over Wi-Fi, MQTT, BLE and RF, and fixes failures until the tests pass. The skills and testbench code are open source.

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  2. 38 d ago

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    Synacl: program an ESP32 by asking Claude to write a macro that runs on the board

    Synacl's 2.5-minute video shows claude.ai writing a macro that runs on an ESP32 flashed with Synacl's gateway firmware. Claude connects through a custom MCP connector, creates a GPIO device and writes a 5-step macro. Its first run is refused until a person grants 2 permissions; then the board's GPIO 2 LED blinks. Synacl made the demo for its own product.

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  3. 4 mo ago

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    Espressif's notes on building a Zephyr BLE and SoftAP provisioning app with Cursor

    Ricardo F. Tafas Jr of Espressif describes building Zephyr provisioning over BLE and SoftAP for the M5Stack ESP DualKey with Cursor. He tested each step on the bench through build, flash and UART traces. His practices include specs first, proving a module in a sample app, a journal of failed fixes and no edits to upstream Zephyr.

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