mimiclaw

Why we included this project

This project is a small but real agent runtime: it fits an entire LLM-driven loop, tool calls, and local memory onto an ESP32-S3 board that costs around five dollars, with no operating system or Node.js and no server in the path. You talk to it through Telegram, messages travel over Wi-Fi, and the on-device loop decides what to do, calls tools, reads and writes flash storage, and replies. Because everything runs in bare-metal C at roughly half a watt, the assistant can stay powered from a USB port around the clock. That makes it a good fit for hobbyists who want a private, always-on assistant without cloud infrastructure, and for developers curious about what an agent can do when the whole runtime lives on embedded hardware. Switching between Anthropic and OpenAI providers happens at runtime, and configuration is done through a serial CLI without recompiling, which keeps experimentation friction low.