Rubato
Retro-Mac desk device mirrors AI coding state-ESP8266
Details
- External ID
- 49572780
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Rubato
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 5, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4393939393939394
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
Description
Hi everyone!I have built an AI health device (ESP8266 + 240*240 screen). It can show AI Agents' status in real time with breathing bubble. And remind user dringking water, toilet, streth, etc.support: DeepSeek Harness, opencode, OpenClaw, Claude Code, Cursor.Hardware design, firmware and plugins are all opensource. urls are here:https://github.com/lovaxi/Rubato_Device https://github.com/lovaxi/Rubato_PluginsType-c power supply, 2.4G wifi.Online sell on Tindie: https://www.tindie.com/products/beartificialintelligence/rub.... But building your own is also OK.Ask me anything.Thanks.
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai coding agents and tooling
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- retro desk device showing ai coding state
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No This product centers around a custom physical desktop gadget involving microcontroller hardware, display driving, enclosure manufacturing, and embedded firmware.
What it would actually take: The system requires custom PCB design (KiCAD) based on an ESP8266 or ESP32, driving a 240x240 LCD over SPI via embedded C++/Arduino firmware, encased in a 3D-printed or injection-molded shell. It also requires local daemon plugins for IDEs like Cursor and Claude Code to broadcast agent states over local WebSocket or MQTT. Building this demands physical manufacturing, hardware prototyping, and low-level firmware development skills.
Discussion
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #6 of 10 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 179 days after the earliest competitor.
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- No other launches for this product.
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