zclaw: personal AI assistant in under 888 KB, running on an ESP32(github.com)
35 pointsby tosh10 hours ago7 comments
  • yauneyz24 minutes ago
    Genuinely curious - did you use a coding agent for most of this or does this level if performance take hand written code?
  • throwa3562622 hours ago
    "LLM backends: Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter."

    And here I was hoping that this was local inference :)

    • micw2 hours ago
      Sure. Why purchase a H200 if you can go with an ESP32 ^^
    • __tnman hour ago
      haha well I got something ridiculous coming soon for zclaw that will kinda work on board.. will require the S3 variant tho, needs a little more memory. Training it later today.
    • 2 hours ago
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    • peteriszaan hour ago
      right, 888 kB would be impossible for local inference

      however, it is really not that impressive for just a client

      • Dylan16807an hour ago
        It's not completely impossible, depending on what your expectations are. That language model that was built out of redstone in minecraft had... looks like 5 million parameters. And it could do mostly coherent sentences.
  • bensyverson22 minutes ago
    This is absolutely glorious. We used to talk about "smart devices" and IoT… I would be so curious to see what would happen if these connected devices had a bit more agency and communicative power. It's easy to imagine the downsides, and I don't want my email to be managed from an ESP23 device, but what else could this unlock?
  • theturtletalksan hour ago
    Is there a heartbeat alternative? I feel like this is the magic behind OpenClaw and what gives it the "self-driven" feel.
  • g947o2 hours ago
    Serious question: why? What are the use cases and workflows?
    • eleventyseven19 minutes ago
      The various *claws are just a pipe between LLM APIs and a bunch of other API/CLIs. Like you can have it listen via telegram or Whatsapp for a prompt you send. Like to generate some email or social post, which it sends to the LLM API. Get back a tool call that claw then makes to hit your email or social API. You could have it regularly poll for new emails or posts, generate a reply via some prompt, and send the reply.

      The reason people were buying a separate Mac minis just to do open claw was 1) security, as it was all vibe coded, so needs to be sandboxed 2) relay iMessage and maybe 3) local inference but pretty slowly. If you don't need to relay iMessage, a raspberry pi could host it on its own device. So if all you need is the pipe, an ESP32 works.

    • grzraczan hour ago
      I don't fully get it either. At least agents build stuff, claws just run around pretending to be alive?
    • milar2 hours ago
      for fun!
  • johnea2 hours ago
    I don't really need any assistance...