ESP32 Agent Companion
An animated desk character that shows what your AI agent is doing.
By DanWahlin
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- 57 (GitHub)
Build sheet
- Board
- Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-1.75
- AI model or service
- Status bridge for AI coding agents
- Runs offline?
- Yes, per the source
- Difficulty
- Beginner
Overview
A Waveshare ESP32-S3 AMOLED becomes a character that reacts when Copilot, Claude Code, Codex CLI, Grok Build, Hermes or OpenClaw starts work, needs approval, or finishes, fully local over USB or Wi-Fi.
How it works
A companion daemon on your computer reports when Copilot, Claude Code, Codex CLI and other agents start, need approval or finish; a Waveshare ESP32-S3 AMOLED character reacts, locally over USB or Wi-Fi.
Hardware
- Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-1.75
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