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Run my living-room lights and fans from an ESP32

A hobbyist says the AI assembled the firmware running his living-room lights and fans: an ESP32 web server driving a radio transmitter. It also built him a Streamlit app to explore the signals, and the code is public on GitHub.

How it works

  1. Capture the radio signals
  2. The AI builds a Streamlit signal explorer
  3. The AI assembles ESP32 web-server firmware
  4. Lights and fans run from the web server

Why it’s worth knowing

The agent wrote the actual firmware his house runs on, not a plan for someone else to build.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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