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Getting a new board from first power-on to a working system: clocks, pins, peripherals and the board support package, with an agent reading datasheets and logs alongside you.
The most active tools first.
3 mo ago
smolmux holds one serial, GDB or serial-over-TCP link open and shares it among several clients over Unix sockets. Two MCP servers put the broker in front of agents, and esptool can borrow the port. The README's demo GIF runs on an ESP32-S3, and a linked transcript shows its MCP probe tool identifying a SAM C21 board over SWD.
3 mo ago
CMSIS Skills, a repository under the Open-CMSIS-Pack project, collects agent skills for building and bringing up microcontroller projects with CMSIS tools. Skills find board support packs, resolve Zephyr board targets, detect debug topology with pyOCD and record a board's debug and trace routing. Each skill names the extra probe or vendor tool it needs. The README shows no hardware runs.
5 mo ago
OpenOCD MCU MCP connects a coding agent to a microcontroller through OpenOCD, using an MCP server and a Codex skill. The agent can identify the chip, halt and reset it, read registers and memory, and decode peripheral registers from CMSIS-SVD files. The README includes a smoke test on an STM32F407 over a CMSIS-DAP probe.
6 mo ago
MCP-AmigaOS4 drives AmigaOS 4.1 machines through 138 MCP tools and a daemon on each Amiga, on QEMU guests and real PowerPC hardware alike. Tools edit files, run AmigaDOS commands, take screenshots and install the OS. On an AmigaOne X5000 it reads sensors through the board's MCU and switches power over an FTDI cable. The README says both targets were verified.
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14 d ago
Christian Schaller had Claude Code write a SANE backend for a Plustek OpticFilm 8200i scanner from USB captures of its Windows driver in a VM. He then reused the method to fix the kernel driver and libcamera for the IMX471 camera in his ThinkPad X1 Carbon. The post shows scans and before-and-after camera frames.
4 mo ago
Craig Hollabaugh had Claude Code boot Linux overnight on an Icepi Zero, a Lattice ECP5 FPGA board with no hard CPU. The agent installed LiteX and built a VexRiscv soft core that boots OpenSBI, Linux 5.14 and BusyBox to a root shell over USB serial. The 10-minute video logs into the running system on the board.
2 mo ago
Pyjama Cafe's embedded-systems channel takes a new NXP FRDM-MCXN236 board from no prior knowledge to a blinking LED with agentic AI. Along the way the 94-minute video covers the Cortex-M family and the board's user guide. It ends with the LED blinking on the board.
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
David Steeman used Claude Code to reverse-engineer and program the Fri3d Camp 2024 badge, an ESP32-S3 handheld with an LCD. Claude backed up the flash in ROM mode, worked out the OTA boot scheme and wrote a serial upload tool. Steeman says the app launcher and name badge it built ran on the device. The photos show only the hardware.
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.
5 mo ago
A software engineer had Codex with GPT-5.5 write most of wfb-link, a Rust stack that drives an ALFA AWUS036ACH Wi-Fi adapter from macOS userspace. Claude Opus 4.7 helped at times. The stack initializes the RTL8812AU and sends and receives WFB-NG frames, with a Raspberry Pi 5 at the far end. The Show HN post says the alpha took two weeks.
5 mo ago
Nordic Semiconductor released 2 MCP servers that connect coding assistants such as Claude Code to its SDK and cloud. The Nordic MCP server adds documentation search, an nrfutil reference, a UART monitor script and SDK workflow commands. The nRF Cloud server reads fleet data such as logs and coredumps, without write access. The post shows no hardware runs.
4 mo ago
Linutronix describes an off-the-shelf AI agent that tests embedded boards in its lab through a small MCP server. In the example session the agent reserves a board, flashes it, reads the console and power-cycles it after a bad flash. The post argues that the safety comes from the lab underneath. It shows one screenshot and no logs.
