Anthropic has opened its Claude Hardware Interface Bluetooth API to developers, enabling an ESP32-S3-based desk companion to connect directly to the Claude desktop app over Bluetooth Low Energy BLE . …
Clawdmeter is a DIY ESP32-S3-powered desk dashboard that displays Claude Code token usage on a 2.16-inch AMOLED screen so you know when you’re about to reach the limits in real time. It’s mostly a firmware project since it relies on off-the-shelf hardware Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-2.16 . …
… To demonstrate this new feature, the company released an open-source reference project called Claude Desktop Buddy. It currently runs on the M5StickC Plus an ESP32-based board from M5Stack, about $30 on AliExpress and Amazon and works as a small interactive hardware companion for Claude. …
… The code was manually written, but Claude AI was still used for documentation. …