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I gave Muse a body. It lives in my spare iPad and fully operates it: sees the screen, talks with me, and taps real apps through a $5 ESP32. No jailbreak, no developer mode, no APIs.

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GITHUB · launched Nov 3, 2026 · 29 upvotes (top 78%) · 0 views

Niche: ai hardware devices · 58 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -38% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Agent / copilot
  • Prosumer
  • AI-native
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • ai-agent
  • airplay
  • bluetooth-hid
  • computer-use
  • embodied-ai
  • esp32
  • +6 more

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Could you build this?

Partial The software side (screen capture, vision model loop, chat, action planning) is vibe-codeable. The physical side needs ESP32 USB HID emulation, wiring, and a reliable tap-actuation rig, which requires electronics and hardware debugging that vibe coding alone won't provide.

What it would actually take: A real version needs an ESP32 firmware layer that presents as a USB HID device, a host-side service that captures the iPad screen and sends it to a vision-language model, and a control loop that maps model coordinates to physical taps. The hard parts are calibrating the mechanical tap accuracy and making the perception-action loop robust and fast enough. This requires basic embedded and electronics skills plus some robotics-style calibration.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 77 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #74 of 78 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 269 days after the earliest competitor.

  • muse-gadget-sdk · github · 2026-10-02 · 1515 upvotes · similarity 0.43
  • muse2api · github · 2026-09-25 · 167 upvotes · similarity 0.43
  • Muse Gadgets · ph · 2026-10-03 · 180 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • muse-desktop · github · 2026-10-13 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • MUSE 1.0 · ph · 2026-11-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
  • muse-protocol-go · github · 2026-10-30 · 66 upvotes · similarity 0.40
  • muse-go · ph · 2026-11-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
  • Muse Charm · ph · 2026-10-31 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39

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