How-tos and workflows for putting an agent to work on your bench.
Newest first, as we log them.
18 d ago
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.
35 d ago
Jacob Beningo gave Claude Code his Zephyr skills and a serial-port MCP server, then had it debug a sensor application on an NXP FRDM-MCXA156. The agent first blamed the hardware, and Beningo found the Click board mounted backward. Claude then traced readings of -45 C and 0% humidity to a conversion-timing bug. A screenshot shows its 83-sample check.
38 d ago
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.
3 mo ago
In an Octopart video, Ari Mahpour gives Claude Code one prompt and an attached Analog Discovery 2. Running Opus 4.8, it upgrades a Vivado 2018 design to 2025.2 and programs a Digilent Arty A7 in about 15 minutes. Mahpour then saves the session as a CLAUDE.md file and skills; a fresh session repeats the bring-up in seconds.
3 mo ago
JetsonHacks shows Claude Code on a Jetson AGX Orin programming a headless Jetson Orin Nano over SSH. The 13-minute video sets up VS Code and Claude Code, then installs NVIDIA's Jetson Device Skills, agent instructions and scripts for diagnostics, memory tuning, LLM serving and video work on a live Jetson. The skills also work with Codex and Cursor.
4 mo ago
Martin Falch of CSS Electronics shows a Claude Code skill that decodes proprietary CAN signals into DBC files with a CANsub.2 interface. The skill matches bus bits against a reference, such as OBD2 data, dashboard video read by OCR or hand-logged gauge positions, and fits scale and offset. The 31-minute video runs it on car logs and a gauge bench.
4 mo ago
Bricolo2.0 shows how to connect Arduino CLI and Home Assistant to an AI agent through the arduino-mcp and ha-mcp servers, in French. He connects both servers to Antigravity and opencode. In the 16-minute video the agent writes and flashes an ESP32 project and builds a Home Assistant control panel, which he compares with the manual method.
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.
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.
