Meta announces Muse Gadgets, providing an open source ESP32 microchip firmware and a Linux SDK to let users bring Muse to their hardware, like Raspberry Pi 5
The company created its own smart home device, the Muse Home Link — We still don't know too much about Meta's tamagotchi-like AI device …
EngadgetKarissa Bell
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Muse began as a cloud-hosted personal agent in September, with planned AI-glasses support, and Meta then previewed Muse Charm as a dedicated handheld endpoint. The company had also said in April that it intended to open-source a version of the Muse Spark technology used in Meta AI's shopping mode.
Muse Gadgets turns that trajectory from Meta-controlled endpoints toward builder-made interfaces, while the Muse Home Link gives Meta its own smart-home reference device. The move arrives after Muse passed 1 million daily users submitting at least one prompt, giving hardware developers an existing agent service to connect to.
First-order effects
ESP32 and Linux-device builders, including Raspberry Pi 5 users, can connect custom hardware to Muse through Meta's firmware and SDK rather than building the device integration from scratch.
Meta's Muse Home Link becomes one option in a broader device layer around Muse, alongside community-built controls, sensors and displays.
Second-order effects
Hardware projects can target Muse as their agent layer, concentrating developer effort on device interactions and interfaces rather than on deploying a separate personal-agent stack.
Meta must make its first-party Home Link compelling through its implementation and user experience, since the same underlying agent can be accessed from third-party hardware.
Third-order effects
If builders adopt the SDK, Muse can develop into a hardware-agnostic agent layer: Meta supplies the cloud service and integration tools while device makers differentiate through form factor and physical controls.
The release points to a contest over who owns the interface between cloud agents and embedded devices, with open firmware and SDKs serving as distribution mechanisms rather than just developer tooling.
The trend: Personal AI agents are expanding from standalone apps and proprietary devices into embedded hardware ecosystems built around shared integration layers.
🚨 side project alert 🚨 Announcing Muse Gadgets, an open source ESP32 firmware and Linux sdk so that you can make hardware devices that work with Muse. Grab an API token from https://gadgets.muse.ai/ and point your favorite coding agent at the github repo to build your own periphe…
This is going to be reaaaally big. Hooking up Muse to IoT devices is bringing AI to the physical world. Imagine Muse watering your plants on its own, checking if you're out of toilet paper and just ordering it automatically. We don't even know what's possible with this yet ... it…
you may ask, why open-source this? first of all, building gadgets is fun. second, we want to unleash builders to explore all sorts of new and crazy ideas. we believe muse presents a special moment to imagine new kinds of gadgets, and we are excited to see what y'all build!
the muse home link is *very* chic. we made a batch of 5,000 of them, should be ready to ship in a few weeks, and are free for muse subscribers while supplies last! check out https://gadgets.muse.ai/ to learn more and start building!
🚨 MUSE ECOSYSTEM ALERT 🚨 today we are announcing Muse Gadgets! this is an open-source ESP32 firmware and Linux SDK for anyone to make hardware that works with Muse we are also releasing our own gadget—Muse Home Link—to enable your muse to work with your smart devices (TV, speaker…
something we wanted to do was to make Muse in an alexa style product at home, and i even bathc ordered some fur might make an extension of this to literally have Muse at home in the form of the mascot itself :)
My personal favorite Muse gadget hack so far - an ambient eInk display that sits above my keyboard where my @Muse pushes useful, fun or interesting content throughout the day.
Excited to open source the Muse Gadgets SDK today! You can connect your DIY electronics like ESP32 boards and Raspberry Pi to Muse. Build an e-ink morning briefing, a push-to-talk pocket device, a sysadmin for your homelab, and much more. Details at https://gadgets.muse.ai/
We built a gadget of our own, too: Muse Home Link is a little usb-c powered device that allows Muse to connect to your home network to talk to smart home devices like TVs and speakers and anything else that exposes https. We manufactured a batch of 5000 Home Links which should be…
This was almost way too easy, @natfriedman @alexandr_wang 😮 I turned my Xteink eReader into an always-on Muse pocket display for Calliope (my Muse) to display itself and show status updates. And this attaches with MagSafe to my phone, so I can always see relevant updates from Mus…
Muse Gadgets are here. You can have a little Jolly everywhere. My first one sits by the wine rack. Snap the label, Muse reads the producer and vintage, and the bottle shows up in our personal cellar over Tailscale (Muse has a Tailscale connector support!). It's a ~$50 sensecap wa…