Notes on peripheral AI
and hardware companions.
Thoughts on AI coding agents, e-paper hardware, peripheral UI, and what it's like building a physical companion for Claude Code, Cursor, and every other agent that lives in your editor.
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What is Meta Muse Gadgets? What can physical AI devices do?
Meta’s Muse Gadgets SDK brings ESP32 and Linux into AI hardware. See how physical peripherals work and how InksPet puts agent status on an EleksCava e-paper desk companion.
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InksPet v1.1 now pairs directly with Claude desktop as a Hardware Buddy
Anthropic quietly shipped a Bluetooth LE Hardware Buddy API in the Claude desktop app. InksPet v1.1.1 implements the full protocol — pair over LE Secure Connections, see live session stats on the e-paper, approve Claude's next tool call with a physical button.
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Why a physical AI agent monitor beats another dashboard tab
Another sidebar, another status bar, another Slack bot: the default answer for "where do I see what my AI agent is doing?" is always more software. Here's the case for putting it on a piece of hardware instead — and what that buys you in focus, trust, and peripheral attention.