Archive · every week on the bench
Past weeks
Each week's entries on one page, Monday to Sunday (UTC), newest week first. This is an archive of what was published, not a newsletter.
2026
Week 43, 202619 to 25 October
2 entries
- 1 build
- 1 news
Week 42, 202612 to 18 October
6 entries
- 2 tools
- 2 builds
- 1 guide
- 1 news
Week 41, 20265 to 11 October
10 entries
- 4 tools
- 2 builds
- 1 guide
- 3 news
Build of the week · BB-0235An AI agent on a Nokia 110 4G, built by reverse engineering its firmware with Codex
Week 40, 202628 September to 4 October
6 entries
- 4 tools
- 2 news
Week 39, 202621 to 27 September
12 entries
- 6 tools
- 3 builds
- 1 Magic Smoke
- 2 guides
Build of the week · BB-0218openTPU: AI agents build an LLM accelerator that runs on a Kintex-7 FPGA card
Week 38, 202614 to 20 September
8 entries
- 2 tools
- 1 build
- 1 Magic Smoke
- 2 guides
- 2 news
Build of the week · BB-0210mmRISC-2: Claude Code designs a 64-bit RISC-V core that boots Linux on an Arty A7
Week 37, 20267 to 13 September
9 entries
- 5 tools
- 2 builds
- 2 news
Build of the week · BB-0200Claude Fable 5 designs an RP2350 e-ink board through a KiCad MCP server
Week 36, 202631 August to 6 September
10 entries
- 4 tools
- 4 builds
- 1 guide
- 1 news
Build of the week · BB-0192Tide & Wind Tracker: byte-exact hardware-in-the-loop tests for e-paper
Week 35, 202624 to 30 August
12 entries
- 4 tools
- 3 builds
- 1 Magic Smoke
- 2 guides
- 2 news
Build of the week · BB-0183Claude Code ports a BBC Micro emulator to the Adafruit Fruit Jam
Week 34, 202617 to 23 August
7 entries
- 2 tools
- 4 builds
- 1 guide
Build of the week · BB-0171Tiny Engineer: a desk robot that acts out what your coding agent is doing
Week 33, 202610 to 16 August
7 entries
- 1 tool
- 4 builds
- 2 news
Build of the week · BB-0159OpenMicroKbd: an agent-written CoHDL schematic becomes a working Codex Micro-style macropad
Week 32, 20263 to 9 August
9 entries
- 4 tools
- 3 builds
- 2 news
Build of the week · BB-0157Claude Code designs, builds and scope-tests an FPGA low-pass filter from one prompt
Week 31, 202627 July to 2 August
11 entries
- 7 tools
- 2 builds
- 2 guides
Build of the week · BB-0141Tal Raviv has Claude drive a SunFounder PiCar-X around his house
Week 30, 202620 to 26 July
6 entries
- 5 tools
- 1 Magic Smoke
Week 29, 202613 to 19 July
10 entries
- 5 tools
- 2 builds
- 3 news
Week 28, 20266 to 12 July
11 entries
- 4 tools
- 2 builds
- 1 Magic Smoke
- 3 guides
- 1 news
Build of the week · BB-0120Claude Code agents build a tilt maze game on a PIC24 Curiosity board and debug its I2C driver
Week 27, 202629 June to 5 July
11 entries
- 5 tools
- 3 builds
- 1 Magic Smoke
- 1 guide
- 1 news
Build of the week · BB-0108WLKATA MT4 arm gets new firmware, vision pick-and-place and an MCP server for LLM control
Week 26, 202622 to 28 June
8 entries
- 6 tools
- 1 guide
- 1 news
Week 25, 202615 to 21 June
8 entries
- 3 tools
- 1 build
- 2 guides
- 2 news
Build of the week · BB-0092Saras 2.0: a Raspberry Pi 4 rover that runs Claude Code as its brain
Week 24, 20268 to 14 June
5 entries
- 2 tools
- 2 builds
- 1 guide
Build of the week · BB-0083Claude Code boots RISC-V Linux on an Icepi Zero FPGA overnight
Week 23, 20261 to 7 June
6 entries
- 2 tools
- 2 builds
- 1 Magic Smoke
- 1 news
Build of the week · BB-0078Claude drives a 3-DOF tower crane through MCP, with a safety check in code
Week 22, 202625 to 31 May
11 entries
- 6 tools
- 3 builds
- 2 news
Build of the week · BB-0071Claude Code helps fine-tune GR00T so a home-built SO-101 arm drops a block into a cup
Week 21, 202618 to 24 May
14 entries
- 9 tools
- 1 build
- 1 guide
- 3 news
Build of the week · BB-0056A Wired reporter gives his OpenClaw agent a LeRobot SO-101 arm
Week 20, 202611 to 17 May
7 entries
- 4 tools
- 1 build
- 1 guide
- 1 news
Week 19, 20264 to 10 May
5 entries
- 1 tool
- 2 builds
- 1 Magic Smoke
- 1 news
Build of the week · BB-0041A 128-tube VFD clock where Claude wrote all 8,000 lines of firmware
Week 18, 202627 April to 3 May
13 entries
- 8 tools
- 3 builds
- 1 guide
- 1 news
Build of the week · BB-0033Pixel Pets: a father and son build M5Stack virtual pets with Claude-written firmware
Week 17, 202620 to 26 April
10 entries
- 5 tools
- 3 builds
- 1 Magic Smoke
- 1 guide
Build of the week · BB-0023Claude Code builds a DENSO robot arm control system in 4.5 hours
Week 16, 202613 to 19 April
5 entries
- 3 tools
- 2 builds
Build of the week · BB-0010Claude Code checks a SPICE simulation against a LeCroy scope on a real circuit
Week 11, 20269 to 15 March
1 entry
- 1 news
Week 9, 202623 February to 1 March
1 entry
- 1 tool
Week 8, 202616 to 22 February
1 entry
- 1 tool
Week 7, 20269 to 15 February
1 entry
- 1 tool
Week 6, 20262 to 8 February
1 entry
- 1 guide
2025
Week 45, 20253 to 9 November
1 entry
- 1 tool
Week 33, 202511 to 17 August
1 entry
- 1 news
Week 28, 20257 to 13 July
1 entry
- 1 news