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Allow an AI agent to control an iPad through a USB input tool, native screen sharing, and a control server.

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GITHUB · launched Sep 15, 2026 · 74 upvotes (top 11%) · 1 view

Niche: mobile device automation frameworks · 65 launches, 1 in the last 7 days ▼ -92% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Agent / copilot
  • Developer
  • AI-native
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Partial While the control server and screen-capture ingestion are vibe-codeable, building hardware-level USB HID emulation and low-latency native iPad video capture requires physical hardware integration and specialized device protocols.

What it would actually take: The system requires a microcontroller (e.g., Raspberry Pi Pico, Arduino, or CH9329) programmed to act as a USB HID device (mouse/keyboard) communicating with a host machine over serial. Screen mirroring requires Apple's native AirPlay protocol reverse-engineered (like UxPlay) or a hardware HDMI capture card. Integrating the hardware HID signals, real-time video stream processing (via OpenCV/WebRTC), and an agent control server requires embedded hardware programming alongside AI vision pipeline expertise.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 1638 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #212 of 1639 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 320 days after the earliest competitor.

  • MacBook-Duo · github · 2026-09-11 · 127 upvotes · similarity 0.65
  • zenlink · github · 2026-11-03 · 58 upvotes · similarity 0.62
  • Henge · github · 2026-11-02 · 139 upvotes · similarity 0.60
  • emu · github · 2026-09-25 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • Any Display · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • ghosthand · github · 2026-10-27 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • EdgePad · hn · 2026-10-25 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • foldelight · github · 2026-09-11 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.55

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