Repos, MCP servers, CLIs and libraries that connect an AI agent to boards and bench gear.
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18 d ago
ESP32 iPhone Agent runs on an ESP32-S3 that presents itself to an iPhone as an AirPlay receiver, a USB mouse and a USB keyboard. A vision model watches the mirrored screen and taps, swipes and types through AssistiveTouch on an unmodified phone. README photos show the board and phone setting a repeating alarm in the Clock app.
5 mo ago
Clawdmeter shows Claude Code session and weekly usage limits on an ESP32 display board, where a Clawd character reacts to prompts. Through Claude Code hooks it flags sessions waiting for input. It pairs over Bluetooth, and its buttons send key presses. The README lists 8 supported boards and 15 community ports. A photo shows two devices running.
6 mo ago
m5-paper-buddy pairs firmware for an M5Paper V1.1 e-ink board with a Python daemon that mirrors running Claude Code sessions. The screen shows each session's project, branch and context use. Pending tool calls appear full screen, and the board's buttons approve or deny them. It connects over USB serial or BLE. A README photo shows the dashboard on the board.
5 mo ago
NVIDIA has released an open catalog of agent skills that coding agents such as Claude Code install on a running Jetson. Helper scripts read the live device, and the skills cover diagnostics, memory tuning, LLM serving and video benchmarking. A separate Jetson BSP Skills repo handles host-side flashing. The README shows no device output.
5 mo ago
AI Desk Card, a skill for Claude Code and similar agents, sets up an M5Paper V1.1 e-ink panel as a desk display. The agent installs PlatformIO, flashes the font and firmware, starts a local daemon and sets up Wi-Fi. Widgets range from weather to a pull-request queue. The README has a photo of the panel on a desk.
5 mo ago
Edge Agents, from ForestHub, runs AI agent workflows offline on Linux edge boards in a container of about 30 MB. Workflows mix GPIO, ADC, PWM, UART and MQTT nodes with local small language models or cloud LLMs. The README says 5 boards, including a Raspberry Pi 5 and a Jetson Orin Nano, were exercised on the authors' bench.
5 mo ago
Matt Webb's company Inanimate released Resident, an open-source library that adds a Lua sandbox with hardware drivers to ESP32 devices. Apps arrive over Wi-Fi and hot-load without reflashing. Bundled Claude skills create, validate and push apps to a device such as the M5StickS3. Webb writes that sandboxed apps get buttons and screens but not the network stack.
5 mo ago
DCP defines a compact protocol and reference firmware through which LLM agents call intent-level actions on small microcontrollers. A host-side bridge exposes each intent as an MCP tool and checks capability tokens, units and ranges before anything reaches the board. The README lists 13 of 13 round-trip tests passing on an ESP32-WROOM-32 and an ESP32-S3.
4 mo ago
ESPHome-MCP connects an agent to the ESPHome Device Builder through the WebSocket protocol it adopted in 2026.6. Its 16 tools edit and validate YAML, stream logs, decode crash backtraces and compile and OTA-flash firmware. Flash tools are marked destructive, and an offline device reports a deferred flash. The author expects to archive it once ESPHome ships its own MCP server.
5 mo ago
wirestudio generates pin assignments, ESPHome YAML, a KiCad schematic and PCB, a JLCPCB fab bundle and an OpenSCAD enclosure from one design file. It covers ESP32-family boards and the ESP8266. A built-in Claude agent or any MCP client can call its 53 tools, 22 of which reach hardware. The README says those were exercised on a live bench during bring-up.
5 mo ago
QClaw runs a Qwen3.5 0.8B model and a Go agent loop on the Linux side of an Arduino UNO Q board. Its 8 tools include camera capture, I2C scans and sketch compiles that OpenOCD flashes to the board's MCU over SWD. David Laurenvil says it scrolls text across the LED matrix offline; we have not seen photos or logs.
4 mo ago
cardputer-claude-mcp runs a MicroPython app on an M5Stack Cardputer-Adv, linked over BLE to an MCP bridge on a Mac. Claude Code pushes notices, questions and a usage dashboard. A hook routes shell commands and file edits to the device; routine ones pass, ordinary ones need Enter, and destructive ones such as git push need Y. Photos show both prompts.
2 mo ago
OnlyClaws ESP is ESP32 firmware that an agent programs over HTTP with Lua scripts after a single flash. The scripts draw on the panel, play audio, read sensors and report events; a classic-ESP32 build drives a Waveshare RoArm-M2 arm. The README's demo GIF and video show apps on an ESP32-S3 board; the three-app hero image is simulated.
4 mo ago
Beee puts an animated face on a Waveshare ESP32-S3 touch screen that agents reach through an HTTP API or an MCP server. An agent can show moods and short text, or ask a question and wait until a person taps an answer. Critical actions get a flashing red border and a countdown. README photos show the face on the device.
25 d ago
AgentFace32 shows what coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex are doing on an ESP32 board with a small screen. Agent hooks send JSON events over the local network, and the device draws a face, a status line, a task timer and alerts. The README's video shows it following a live Codex session on an M5Stack Basic.
2 mo ago
BREMA is busware firmware for its TUL KNX stick that answers MCP over plain HTTP on the local network. An agent can address a factory-fresh KNX actuator, write its tables and parameters and add it to Home Assistant without ETS. The README says the commissioning example ran on hardware but shows no photos or logs.
5 mo ago
smarthome-builder-mcp exposes a Home Assistant installation, including its Node-RED flows and ESPHome devices, to an AI assistant as 51 MCP tools. For ESPHome devices it edits and validates YAML, compiles, flashes over the air and reads logs. It backs up every change first, previews writes as a diff and always asks before flashing. The README calls it alpha.
