Really looking for a minimal assistant that works with _locally hosted models_. Are there any options?

This is a great example of how silly this whole thing is. There’s next to nothing to these claws. Turns out that if you give an llm the ability to call APIs they will.

I have a couple ESP32 with a very small OLED display, I'm now thinking I could make an "intelligent" version of the Tamagotchi with this. Do you HN crowd have other cool ideas?

"LLM backends: Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter."

And here I was hoping that this was local inference :)

My new DIY laptop has 400GB RAM accessible and it runs only esp32*

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* Requires external ram subscription

Relevant: https://github.com/sipeed/picoclaw

Genuinely curious - did you use a coding agent for most of this or does this level if performance take hand written code?

I think you can use C++ on esp32, that would make the code more readable

Is there a heartbeat alternative? I feel like this is the magic behind OpenClaw and what gives it the "self-driven" feel.

This is absolutely glorious. We used to talk about "smart devices" and IoT… I would be so curious to see what would happen if these connected devices had a bit more agency and communicative power. It's easy to imagine the downsides, and I don't want my email to be managed from an ESP23 device, but what else could this unlock?

Serious question: why? What are the use cases and workflows?

I don't really need any assistance...