Clawy, a companion device to track your Claude Code sessions
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Hey HN! I wanted to show this tiny JRPG style hardware companion I built that shows what your Claude Code is doing. When Claude runs a tool, Clawy runs. When it's done, Clawy jumps up in joy. Shake the device and Clawy gets dazed! When Claude needs permission to run something, it shows the command and context like a video game quest scrolling text on screen and you can approve/deny with physical buttons.He runs on a $20 M5StickC Plus 2. Flashing takes 2 minutes from the browser at clawy.lol/flash, no Arduino IDE needed. It uses Claude Code's native hook system over local WiFi and nothing leaves your network.I built this as a prototype for myself because I wanted to keep track of my sessions while looking at other things in and around the house and not wanting to use terminus. So thought it would be a fun thing to make as an experiment. When I got some nice reactions on it I thought I'd make it available for everyone. It's rough around the edges but it works. The repo is here: https://github.com/marcvermeeren/clawy if you want to try it out!
HN · launched Feb 18, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views
Niche: ai hardware devices · 58 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -38% · Explore this niche →
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- Horizontal
- Hardware & robotics
- Developer
- AI feature
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
No Building a custom physical hardware device with an animated display, accelerometer, and microcontroller firmware cannot be accomplished solely with vibe coding.
What it would actually take: Requires selecting and integrating embedded hardware (ESP32 or RP2040, SPI OLED/LCD display, accelerometer, battery management, and 3D-printed case). The firmware must be written in C++ or Rust to control sprite animations and detect physical shakes, while a desktop daemon listens to Claude Code session events and sends state updates over USB Serial or Wi-Fi. This requires physical electronics design, soldering, and low-level embedded systems programming.
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #392 of 410 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 110 days after the earliest competitor.
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