The week on the bench · Monday to Sunday, UTC
Week 23, 2026 · 1 to 7 June
6 entries published: 2 tools, 2 builds, 1 Magic Smoke, 1 news. This page lists what was published; it is not a newsletter issue.
The week as a scope trace
One channel per kind, one pulse per entry at the hour it was published. Taller pulses have more points.
Build of the week · BB-0078
Claude drives a 3-DOF tower crane through MCP, with a safety check in code
Amer El-Saad built a 3-DOF tower crane for his master's thesis that Claude plans and drives through 4 MCP tools. One overhead camera, YOLOv8 and ArUco markers locate parts and stations in centimeters. An Arduino Uno drives the DC motors, and code rejects any route that crosses a worker. README photos show the crane and live detections.
Tools2
All tools4 mo ago
lampOS: Autonomous's open operating system for desk robots and coding agents
Autonomous open-sourced lampOS, the OS that runs its Lamp and Intern desk robots and also installs on Hugging Face's Reachy Mini. It connects agents such as Claude Code to the robot's cameras, microphones, speakers, motors and lights. Installable physical skills include following an object with the camera. The README's videos and photos are the vendor's own.
Claimed4 mo ago
brontes-probe-mcp: a debug-probe broker that streams ITM/SWO trace to agents
brontes-probe-mcp connects coding agents such as Claude Code to a Cortex-M debug probe through pyOCD. Agents can program firmware, halt and resume, read memory and stream ITM/SWO trace with raw and decoded export. Docker images are published, though Docker Desktop on macOS cannot pass a USB probe through. The README shows no captured trace.
Claimed
Builds2
All builds4 mo ago
Claude revives a bricked Kawai CA49 piano by writing a Bluetooth firmware flasher
A Hacker News commenter says Claude revived a Kawai CA49 digital piano bricked by the wrong update file. Claude decompiled Kawai's Android app, found the hardcoded firmware key, decrypted the update and wrote a script that reflashed the piano over Bluetooth from a laptop. The commenter says it took about an hour and shares no code or logs.
Claimed4 mo ago
Claude drives a 3-DOF tower crane through MCP, with a safety check in code
Amer El-Saad built a 3-DOF tower crane for his master's thesis that Claude plans and drives through 4 MCP tools. One overhead camera, YOLOv8 and ArUco markers locate parts and stations in centimeters. An Arduino Uno drives the DC motors, and code rejects any route that crosses a worker. README photos show the crane and live detections.
Shown working
Magic Smoke1
All Magic Smoke4 mo ago
Claude Code with Nordic's MCP misses a two-board BLE bug that only the device logs reveal
Adsum Networks set Claude Code with Nordic's MCP on a BLE bug where data flowed one way between nRF52 and nRF53 boards. Running Claude Haiku 4.5, it guessed at fixes from the source and looped without solving it. Adsum's own IoT Coder, on the same model and with live logs from both boards, found the boards' roles were inverted.
Shown working
News1
All news4 mo ago
Hydron launches as a datasheet-grounded coding agent for embedded work
H2Loop launched Hydron on Hacker News, an embedded coding agent for VS Code and the terminal that answers from pre-indexed datasheets. The launch post lists more than 580 indexed platforms and peripherals, including STM32, ESP32 and RP2040 parts. An agentic serial monitor shipped at launch; GDB integration and a log reader were promised within 2 weeks.
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