{"entries":[{"id":"tv-debloat","title":"Stripping ads and bloatware from smart TVs","topic":"Smart TVs","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Debloating via ADB or packages","Repurposing to a new role"],"verified":true,"desc":"Users gave Claude Code their TV model and asked it to find and disable ads, sponsored rows, telemetry and preloaded apps. Most approaches disable packages rather than uninstall them. Some add a minimal launcher, or suggest AdGuard private DNS to block ads inside streaming apps.","caveat":"Reported failures include a bricked Android TV and a Fire TV left half-finished. Disabling the update service also means losing security fixes.","sources":[{"name":"TechCrunch: people are using AI to make smart TVs dumb again","url":"https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/19/people-are-using-ai-to-make-their-smart-tvs-dumb-again/","kind":"News","note":"News overview of the trend: owners using AI agents to remove ads, speed up launchers and turn off tracking, with the \"dumbtv\" project as an example."},{"name":"Tom's Guide","url":"https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/people-are-using-ai-to-turn-their-smart-tvs-into-dumb-tvs-and-you-might-want-to-do-the-same","kind":"News","note":"Consumer-focused explainer on why people are doing it and whether you should."},{"name":"It's FOSS","url":"https://itsfoss.com/news/debloat-smart-tv/","kind":"News","note":"Explains the ADB method step by step and where it can go wrong."},{"name":"TweakTown: TCL Google TV owner hands the remote to Claude Code","url":"https://www.tweaktown.com/news/114177/tcl-google-tv-owner-hands-the-remote-to-claude-code-and-the-ads-dont-survive/index.html","kind":"News","note":"One owner's results on a TCL Google TV: 25 apps disabled, memory use more than halved, a new launcher, no root."},{"name":"Android Authority: Android TV vibe hacking (names Claude Code, covers TV Detox)","url":"https://www.androidauthority.com/android-tv-vibe-hacking-remove-ads-bloatware-3725338/","kind":"News","note":"Balanced take on the risks: bricking, broken apps and security holes."},{"name":"Decrypt: vibe coding ads out of smart TVs, here is how","url":"https://decrypt.co/381456/vibeoding-ads-out-smart-tvs-heres-how","kind":"News","note":"How-to covering the viral prompt and the CleanYourTV project's list of tested TV models."},{"name":"YouTube: How Claude Code Stripped Every Ad Off a Smart TV #SmartTV #ClaudeCode #AndroidTV #TechHack","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bqa7CMoVTM","kind":"Video","authors":[{"name":"David Zedan","role":"Video channel"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-25T14:39:32Z","dateKind":"published"},{"name":"YouTube: I let Claude hack my TV","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuqkvENkdG4","kind":"Video","authors":[{"name":"Adnaan Khan","role":"Video channel"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-18T23:32:29Z","dateKind":"published"},{"name":"YouTube: I Gave Claude Full Control of My Android TV - Here s What It Did","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbmsU6K6Xlo","kind":"Video","authors":[{"name":"UG Tech","role":"Video channel"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-27T21:00:39Z","dateKind":"published"},{"name":"YouTube: Claude Made My OLD Android TV Usable Again","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW44OiPXydM","kind":"Video","authors":[{"name":"Tristen O'Brien","role":"Video channel"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-26T16:51:42Z","dateKind":"published"},{"name":"YouTube: Claude can wipe the ads off your TV, but close this port","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIWa9aJSjhE","kind":"Video","authors":[{"name":"Kris | AI, Practically","role":"Video channel"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-25T17:55:48Z","dateKind":"published"},{"name":"YouTube: Before You Let Claude Clean Up Your Android TV (Read This)","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZetTMsMW2Ck","kind":"Video","authors":[{"name":"Lem.","role":"Video channel"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-22T12:32:58Z","dateKind":"published"},{"name":"Bluesky: Android TV owners are pointing Claude Code at their TVs over ADB to strip out ads, telemet","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/itsfoss.bsky.social/post/3my7xoir5tn2a","kind":"Social","authors":[{"name":"itsfoss.bsky.social","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/itsfoss.bsky.social","role":"Post author"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-19T10:59:36.787Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"image":{"url":"https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Google-TV.jpeg?w=1200","alt":"Preview image from techcrunch.com","credit":"techcrunch.com","from":"https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/19/people-are-using-ai-to-make-their-smart-tvs-dumb-again/"},"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"News sites","about":"In October 2026 a wave of Android TV and Google TV owners started pointing Claude Code at their TVs to strip out sponsored rows, tracking and preloaded apps. The TV is put in developer mode, Claude connects to it over ADB (Android's built-in debugging bridge) on the home Wi-Fi, lists the installed packages and switches off the ones that serve ads or collect viewing data. No root access is needed.\n\nBecause apps are disabled rather than deleted, a restore script can undo every change. Many people also had Claude build a simpler Apple TV-style launcher. One widely covered case is a developer who disabled 25 apps on a TCL Google TV and cut home-screen memory use from 192 MB to 83 MB in an afternoon. The open-source CleanYourTV project grew out of this and lists tested setups for more than a hundred TV models.\n\nThe coverage also lists what goes wrong: a bricked set, apps that break when a needed service is disabled, and lost security fixes when the update service is turned off. Samsung, LG, Roku and other non-Android TVs can't be cleaned this way.","projectLinks":[{"type":"video","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bqa7CMoVTM","sourceUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bqa7CMoVTM"},{"type":"video","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuqkvENkdG4","sourceUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuqkvENkdG4"},{"type":"video","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbmsU6K6Xlo","sourceUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbmsU6K6Xlo"},{"type":"video","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW44OiPXydM","sourceUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW44OiPXydM"},{"type":"video","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIWa9aJSjhE","sourceUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIWa9aJSjhE"},{"type":"video","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZetTMsMW2Ck","sourceUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZetTMsMW2Ck"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"cleanyourtv","title":"CleanYourTV: open prompts and launcher for Android TV","topic":"Smart TVs","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Debloating via ADB or packages","Repurposing to a new role"],"verified":false,"desc":"A developer open-sourced the prompts, launcher source and problem-solving records on GitHub. The project reportedly gained about 13,700 stars quickly. The method uses ADB, not root.","caveat":"The star count comes from a news report. A Chinese-language report says the published prompt tells Claude not to root the TV or flash custom ROMs.","sources":[{"name":"GitHub: Gathin23/cleanyourtv (debloat Android or Google TV over Wi-Fi)","url":"https://github.com/Gathin23/cleanyourtv","kind":"Primary","note":"The project itself: prompts, launcher source, per-model notes and a quick start for Android and Google TV.","checkedAt":"2026-11-06","authors":[{"name":"Gathin23","url":"https://github.com/Gathin23","role":"Repository account"}]},{"name":"36Kr: CleanYourTV coverage","url":"https://eu.36kr.com/en/p/4039708325057672","kind":"News","note":"A Chinese tech-media feature on installing Claude on a TV and what changed; long and general."},{"name":"Profesional Review: Claude agent speeds up Android TV without root","url":"https://www.profesionalreview.com/2026/09/02/un-desarrollador-utiliza-un-agente-con-claude-para-que-su-tele-con-android-tv-sea-mas-rapida-sin-necesidad-de-permisos-root/","kind":"News","note":"Spanish article on an engineer who used Claude Code over ADB to disable apps and reduce animations, making a slow TV fast again without root."},{"name":"YouTube: Debloat Your Smart TV Over Wi-Fi With AI, Get an Apple TV-Style Home - cleanyourtv (Androi","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO3rH-GC-t4","kind":"Video","authors":[{"name":"Github Trending Repos","role":"Video channel"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-22T17:19:15Z","dateKind":"published"},{"name":"Reddit: The new TV OSis GF approved!","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xl8vsx/","kind":"Forum","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xl8vsx","gone":"deleted"}],"image":{"url":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Gathin23/cleanyourtv/main/docs/banner.png","alt":"CleanYourTV. 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You give a coding assistant such as Claude Code the project's prompt, and it does the work in about fifteen minutes: it connects to the TV over ADB, switches off ad, tracking and preloaded packages, and installs the launcher. Nothing is rooted, and everything can be restored.\n\nThe repository is written in Python. It holds the prompts, the launcher source and records of problems people hit on particular models. It became one of the fastest-growing projects of the TV-debloating trend, passing 50,000 stars within weeks, and has been translated into ten languages.\n\nThe README is upfront about its limits. Samsung, LG, Roku, Vizio and Hisense VIDAA sets can't run it, so for those it points to a page on turning tracking off with the remote. It also links community apps for people without a coding agent.","detailsReviewedAt":"2026-11-06","compatibility":[{"device":"Android TV or Google TV","notes":"Fire TV supports debloating only, with model-specific exceptions. Samsung Tizen, LG webOS, Roku, Vizio and Hisense VIDAA are not supported by this toolkit.","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/Gathin23/cleanyourtv"}],"beforeAfter":{"before":"Manufacturer advertising, telemetry and preinstalled packages on supported TVs.","after":"Disables selected packages and can install a replacement launcher.","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/Gathin23/cleanyourtv"},"requirements":[{"item":"TV and computer on the same Wi-Fi; authorised ADB debugging.","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/Gathin23/cleanyourtv"},{"item":"For building the launcher: Python 3, JDK 17–22, Android SDK platform 34 and build-tools 34.x, as documented when reviewed.","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/Gathin23/cleanyourtv"}],"reversibility":{"status":"Reported reversible","details":"The project disables packages rather than uninstalling them and provides restore tooling.","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/Gathin23/cleanyourtv"},"claudeContribution":[{"task":"Follows the project prompt and existing scripts to back up settings, disable selected packages and build/install the launcher.","tool":"Claude Code","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/Gathin23/cleanyourtv"}],"projectLinks":[{"type":"guide","url":"https://github.com/Gathin23/cleanyourtv#quick-start","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/Gathin23/cleanyourtv"},{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/Gathin23/cleanyourtv","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/Gathin23/cleanyourtv"},{"type":"video","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO3rH-GC-t4","sourceUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO3rH-GC-t4"}],"prompts":[{"url":"https://github.com/Gathin23/cleanyourtv/blob/main/PROMPT.md","note":"The maintained project prompt; fill in the TV model as instructed.","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/Gathin23/cleanyourtv"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"tv-decrypt","title":"Rooted LG webOS TV wiped by Developer Mode","topic":"Smart TVs","outcome":"Failed","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Custom firmware or bootloader"],"verified":true,"desc":"A writer says Claude told them to enable LG Developer Mode. Turning it on re-provisioned the /media/developer partition, which wiped their rooted setup. The writer notes webOS is a different platform from Android TV, where most success stories come from.","caveat":"A single first-person account. Shows the risk of following a model's device steps without checking what each one changes.","sources":[{"name":"Decrypt: How I vibe coded my smart TV, and Claude killed it","url":"https://decrypt.co/381717/how-vibe-coded-my-smart-tv-claude-killed-it","kind":"News","note":"First-person account of the attempt, including Claude's code review, the Developer Mode step that wiped the rooted setup, and its apology."}],"image":{"url":"https://cdn.decrypt.co/resize/1024/height/512/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/photo-collage.png-1-gID_7.png","alt":"INTERNET artificial intelligence AI Breaking Push TVs lg Anthropic Claude vibe coding","credit":"decrypt.co","from":"https://decrypt.co/381717/how-vibe-coded-my-smart-tv-claude-killed-it"},"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"News sites","about":"A Decrypt writer tried to install Free My TV, an open-source launcher replacement for LG webOS, by giving Claude Code the TV's IP address, as the project's README suggests. Claude read the install script line by line first and judged it clean. It then built the app package.\n\nDuring its checks Claude spotted that the TV was running SSH on port 22, a sign that it had already been rooted with the Homebrew Channel. That setup had given the writer ad-free YouTube and other homebrew apps since 2023. Claude then asked them to turn on LG's official Developer Mode. Doing so re-created the developer partition and wiped the rooted setup.\n\nClaude later admitted the mistake (\"I have to be straight about my part in this\"). The launcher it delivered works but won't start automatically. The writer's takeaway: webOS is a very different platform from Android TV, where most of the success stories come from, and you need to understand what an agent is touching before you let it act.","story":"Horror story","wentWrong":"Wiped a working setup","lesson":"Find out what each step changes on your exact device before you run it. On LG webOS, switching on Developer Mode re-provisions a partition, so a rooted setup was erased by one 'harmless' toggle.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"tv-refusal","title":"Claude declines reverse engineering for an LG TV","topic":"Limits & refusals","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol"],"verified":true,"desc":"A Portuguese-language report says Claude declined some reverse-engineering requests involving an LG webOS TV. Coverage calls it one documented case, not a confirmed policy.","caveat":"Only one report so far, and the reason isn't clear.","sources":[{"name":"Tecnoblog","url":"https://tecnoblog.net/noticias/claude-recusa-tarefas-de-engenharia-reversa-em-tvs-e-jogos/","kind":"News","note":"Portuguese report: users describe refusals on Opus 5.5 for TV and game reverse engineering; Anthropic hadn't confirmed any change."},{"name":"Mind-Verse (German)","url":"https://www.mind-verse.de/news/claude-blockiert-reverse-engineering-smart-tv-a1f530203e99","kind":"News","note":"German analysis arguing that a single blocked request doesn't prove a general ban, with background on how platforms differ."},{"name":"Lemmy: Nutzerbericht: KI-Sperre {Claude} bei Reverse Engineering von Fernsehern","url":"https://www.heise.de/news/Reverse-Engineering-von-Smart-TVs-Blockiert-Claude-solche-Anfragen-11501812.html","kind":"Blog","publishedAt":"2026-10-27T18:30:09.843556Z","dateKind":"published"}],"image":{"url":"https://files.tecnoblog.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/capas_anthropic-claude-6-1536x864.jpg","alt":"Preview image from tecnoblog.net","credit":"tecnoblog.net","from":"https://tecnoblog.net/noticias/claude-recusa-tarefas-de-engenharia-reversa-em-tvs-e-jogos/"},"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Blogs","about":"In late 2026 a Reddit user posted a screenshot of Claude Opus 5.5 declining a request to reverse engineer an LG webOS TV. Portuguese and German tech sites picked it up, along with similar reports about games.\n\nThe coverage stresses that this is one documented case. Anthropic had not commented, and it is unclear whether the refusal reflects a general rule or a misjudged prompt. The German article also points out that the popular TV-debloating projects target Android TV and Google TV, not webOS, so most of that work is unaffected.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"kindle","title":"Jailbreaking a Kindle and removing Amazon bloat","topic":"E-readers & handhelds","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Following a public exploit guide","Debloating via ADB or packages"],"verified":false,"desc":"Reported as: plug the Kindle into a computer over USB, let Claude Code run the public KindleModding procedure, strip Amazon software, and add Tailscale for remote access. A post on an agent-assisted modding project says the agent executed a procedure written by others and did not devise an exploit.","caveat":"The main account comes from a social media post and is repeated across aggregator reposts. The firmware version and session logs are not published, so it cannot be reproduced. A MobileRead forum user reported a bricked Kindle after following AI instructions.","sources":[{"name":"hardwarelab.dev: Kindle + Claude Code, agent-assisted modding","url":"https://hardwarelab.dev","kind":"Blog","note":"A directory of AI-assisted hardware projects; the Kindle item is one listing among many."},{"name":"Techbytes: running Claude Code on a jailbroken Kindle over SSH via Tailscale","url":"https://techbytes.app/posts/running-claude-code-on-a-jailbroken-kindle-over-ssh-via-tailscale/","kind":"Blog","note":"Summary of a guide to running Claude Code on a jailbroken Kindle over SSH and Tailscale."},{"name":"Pasquale Pillitteri (aggregator, English)","url":"https://pasqualepillitteri.it/en/news/27122/claude-code-jailbreaks-kindle-amazon-bloatware","kind":"Aggregator","note":"Explains the Paperwhite jailbreak story, what KindleModding and Tailscale are, and what the agent actually did."},{"name":"MobileRead forum thread (bricked Kindle report)","url":"https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4591559","kind":"Forum"},{"name":"YouTube: AI Jailbroke a Kindle. 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The agent followed the public instructions from the KindleModding community wiki rather than inventing an exploit. It then removed the Amazon software the owner didn't want and installed Tailscale, so the Kindle could be reached securely from anywhere.\n\nA related public guide (Mounstroya/kindle-ssh-guide) goes further and runs Claude Code on the jailbroken Kindle itself. It is reached over SSH, with Tailscale giving it a private network address and no open public port. Jailbreak methods depend on the firmware version, which is why the wiki is the place to check first.","projectLinks":[{"type":"video","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r_d8JdMLyM","sourceUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r_d8JdMLyM"},{"type":"video","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUZxNPR4RJo","sourceUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUZxNPR4RJo"},{"type":"video","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUlgvaM7zoc","sourceUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUlgvaM7zoc"},{"type":"video","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNHItJ8S59o","sourceUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNHItJ8S59o"},{"type":"video","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73IvT3npZqc","sourceUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73IvT3npZqc"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"kindle-keyboard","title":"Jailbreaking an older Kindle Keyboard","topic":"E-readers & handhelds","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Following a public exploit guide"],"verified":false,"desc":"A Polish blog post explains how to jailbreak a Kindle 3 (Kindle Keyboard) and swap its lock-screen images, with a summary generated by AI.","caveat":"It's unclear how much of the jailbreak itself Claude did.","sources":[{"name":"Engineered.at: jailbreak Kindle Keyboard","url":"https://engineered.at/articles/jailbreak-kindle-keyboard","kind":"Blog","note":"Polish step-by-step for jailbreaking a Kindle 3 and installing a custom lock screen."}],"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Blogs","about":"This Polish post explains how to jailbreak a Kindle 3 (Kindle Keyboard) and change its lock-screen images. You copy the right .bin package to the Kindle's root folder over USB, then run Menu › Settings › Menu › \"Update your Kindle\". The lock-screen mod installs the same way, using a different file.\n\nThe page carries an AI-generated summary, but it doesn't show how much Claude was involved in the jailbreak itself.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"muos-handheld","title":"Retro handheld firmware flash and e-reader boot recovery","topic":"E-readers & handhelds","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Custom firmware or bootloader"],"verified":true,"desc":"A blogger used Claude Code to diagnose an NXP i.MX6 e-reader and try to build a custom u-boot. The device reached fastboot, but storage initialization stalled. The same post describes flashing the community muOS firmware onto a retro handheld with dd; how much of that Claude did is unclear.","caveat":"The problem was narrowed down, but the device was not fully fixed.","sources":[{"name":"Plugging Things In to See What Happens","url":"https://sbc-site.pages.dev/posts/2026/03/27/plugging-things-in-to-see-what-happens","kind":"Blog","note":"The original blog post's address; it now shows the author's consulting homepage rather than the post."}],"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Blogs","about":"This entry comes from a blog post, \"Plugging things in to see what happens\", in which the author plugged old devices into a computer and let Claude Code work out what they were. For an NXP i.MX6-based e-reader, Claude diagnosed the boot state and tried building a custom u-boot. The device got as far as fastboot, but storage set-up stalled. The same post describes flashing the community muOS firmware onto a retro handheld with dd.\n\nThe link now opens the author's consulting homepage, so the original details can't be re-checked.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"kobo-recovery","title":"Kobo e-reader in recovery mode","topic":"E-readers & handhelds","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Capturing USB or BLE traffic","Custom firmware or bootloader"],"verified":true,"desc":"Claude Code identified a Kobo in boot-level recovery mode through its serial download protocol. The author framed the device as \"calling for help\" rather than dead.","caveat":"Not fully fixed in the write-up.","sources":[{"name":"Plugging Things In to See What Happens","url":"https://sbc-site.pages.dev/posts/2026/03/27/plugging-things-in-to-see-what-happens","kind":"Blog","note":"The original blog post's address; it now shows the author's consulting homepage rather than the post."}],"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Blogs","about":"From the same \"Plugging things in to see what happens\" post: Claude Code recognised that a seemingly dead Kobo e-reader was sitting in boot-level recovery mode. It worked this out from the chip's serial download protocol, which shows up over USB. The author described the device as \"calling for help\" rather than dead, which opened the way to reflashing it.\n\nThe link now opens the author's consulting homepage, so the original details can't be re-checked.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"kobo-dashboard","title":"Usage dashboard on an old phone or e-ink screen","topic":"Repurposed hardware","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Repurposing to a new role"],"verified":true,"desc":"An unofficial open-source dashboard shows Claude Code and Codex usage limits on a spare phone, tablet or small screen. It runs a small server on a computer, and the device connects over the same Wi-Fi. It has a mode for older e-ink Kobo browsers.","caveat":"Community project, not from Anthropic.","sources":[{"name":"claude-codex-usage-dashboard (GitHub wiki)","url":"https://github.com/frankchiu-dev/claude-codex-usage-dashboard/wiki","kind":"Primary","note":"The project's repository and wiki: set-up for computer, phone, tablet and Kobo, plus where the numbers come from.","authors":[{"name":"frankchiu-dev","url":"https://github.com/frankchiu-dev","role":"Repository account"}]}],"image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/frankchiu-dev/claude-codex-usage-dashboard","alt":"A local Windows dashboard for Claude Code and Codex usage limits. - frankchiu-dev/claude-codex-usage-dashboard","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/frankchiu-dev/claude-codex-usage-dashboard/wiki"},"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"GitHub","about":"This is an unofficial, open-source dashboard showing how much of your Claude Code and Codex usage limits you've used, built to sit on a spare phone, tablet or old Kobo e-reader. It runs on your own Windows or macOS computer with Node.js 18 or newer (no npm install). Other devices on the same trusted Wi-Fi pair with it by scanning a QR code.\n\nThe figures come from local files: Claude Code's status-line usage cache and the newest Codex quota snapshot in your local session logs. Missing data shows setup help instead of a misleading zero. A dedicated Kobo page suits the e-reader's basic, black-and-white browser. The README warns that the local network link uses plain HTTP, so the pairing code should be kept private and the optional HTTPS methods used on untrusted networks.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/frankchiu-dev/claude-codex-usage-dashboard/wiki","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/frankchiu-dev/claude-codex-usage-dashboard/wiki"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"hp-macos-driver","title":"Native macOS driver for a Windows-only HP LaserJet","topic":"Printers & peripherals","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code","Claude Opus"],"methods":["Driver or OS patching","Building a replacement app"],"verified":true,"desc":"A developer used Claude Code to build a native macOS tool for an obscure Windows-only printer, reportedly in about 30–40 prompts. Coverage disagrees on how much was new work: one report says it wraps an existing Linux driver in a small container.","caveat":"Success is reported, but the amount of new code is disputed.","sources":[{"name":"TechRadar: no driver, no problem","url":"https://techradar.com/pro/no-driver-no-problem-devs-use-claude-ai-to-craft-native-macos-tool-for-an-obscure-windows-only-printer","kind":"News","note":"TechRadar's write-up: why the printer had no Mac support, how the driver was built, and links to the code and transcript."},{"name":"Lemmy: Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows","url":"https://twitter.com/kuberwastaken/status/2089377982536388964","kind":"Social","publishedAt":"2026-08-18T13:00:01.012324Z","dateKind":"published"},{"name":"YouTube: just Claude writing a MacOS driver for my obscure HP printer…","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grMmBowaSwA","kind":"Video","authors":[{"name":"Danny Jose","role":"Video channel"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-21T07:29:44Z","dateKind":"published"}],"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"News sites","image":{"url":"https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HP72MdaaEAAAX7z?format=webp&name=large","alt":"Preview image from twitter.com","credit":"twitter.com","from":"https://twitter.com/kuberwastaken/status/2089377982536388964"},"about":"The HP Laser 1008a is a cheap 2023 laser printer that shipped with Windows and Linux drivers only: no macOS driver and no AirPrint. It is a rebadged Samsung host-based printer, so the computer does all the rendering and sends a proprietary raster language (SPL3) rather than PostScript or PCL. That's why generic Mac drivers fail.\n\nIndian developer Kuber Mehta used Claude Code (Opus 4.8) to build a working macOS driver in roughly 30 to 40 prompts over about four hours, referring to the existing Windows and Linux drivers along the way. He had to correct several of Claude's assumptions. The result is published on GitHub under the MIT licence with a one-command installer, along with the full session transcript. It covers the 1003, 1006 and 1008 family.","projectLinks":[{"type":"video","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grMmBowaSwA","sourceUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grMmBowaSwA"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"brother-toner","title":"AI agent \"fixes\" a printer and resets its Wi-Fi","topic":"Printers & peripherals","outcome":"Failed","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Driver or OS patching"],"verified":false,"desc":"A user asked Claude to clear the \"Replace Toner\" message on a Brother HL-L2350DW. The printer printed through the warning, but the agent also factory-reset its Wi-Fi, and the user had to re-enter the password by hand.","caveat":"A warning about giving an agent write access to device settings. The linked article may not be the original report.","sources":[{"name":"I let AI fix my printer","url":"https://onlydole.substack.com/p/i-let-ai-fix-my-printer","kind":"Blog","note":"The owner's account, \"I let AI fix my printer… and it only bricked my Wi-Fi settings three times\"."}],"image":{"url":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tHdt!,w_1200,h_675,c_fill,f_jpg,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ead2563-2871-4f84-8e9d-ed6f4067357e_1000x562.jpeg","alt":"Preview image from onlydole.substack.com","credit":"onlydole.substack.com","from":"https://onlydole.substack.com/p/i-let-ai-fix-my-printer"},"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Blogs","about":"A Brother HL-L2350DW refused to print with a \"Replace Toner\" message, even though the third-party cartridge was fine. The owner asked Claude to fix it. Within minutes Claude found the setting in the printer's web interface and switched the toner-empty behaviour from \"Stop\" to \"Continue\", and the printer worked again.\n\nClaude then tried to reset the toner counter completely. It found the printer's SNMP management interface, discovered a few writable Brother-specific settings it didn't understand, and wrote zeros to all of them. The printer rebooted and dropped off the network. This happened three times, and each time the owner had to re-enter the Wi-Fi password by hand on the printer's panel.\n\nThe author's lesson: the first, simple fix was enough. The trouble came from an agent writing to settings it hadn't researched.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"printer-bytes","title":"Debugging a printer driver byte by byte","topic":"Printers & peripherals","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Capturing USB or BLE traffic","Driver or OS patching"],"verified":false,"desc":"A write-up describes a Claude Code project that fixed a printer HP never supported. It diffed raw output until a silent DPI mismatch turned up.","caveat":"Comes from a summary; the original post hasn't been found.","sources":[{"name":"Ecosistema Startup: Claude Code escribe drivers (Spanish)","url":"https://ecosistemastartup.com/claude-code-escribe-drivers-lo-que-revela-sobre-ia-en-2026/","kind":"News","note":"Spanish analysis of the session transcript: diagnosis, the SPL printer language, the byte-level debugging and what it means for small teams."}],"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Blogs","about":"This is a closer look at the HP Laser 1008a macOS driver session, based on the published four-hour Claude Code transcript. Claude first found that macOS's printing system (CUPS) recognised the printer but had no suitable driver. A generic PCL driver hung at \"connecting to device\", the classic sign of a host-based printer waiting for its own SPL data.\n\nClaude then built a driver that produces that data and compared its output, byte by byte, with what the official drivers send. The decisive bug was a silent resolution (DPI) mismatch that only showed up in the raw bytes. The end result is an MIT-licensed one-command installer on GitHub.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"scanner-camera","title":"Scanner and laptop camera drivers for Linux","topic":"Printers & peripherals","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Capturing USB or BLE traffic","Driver or OS patching"],"verified":true,"desc":"Red Hat engineer Christian Schaller used Claude Code to build a basic Linux SANE driver for a Pacific Image (Plustek) 8200i negative scanner. He captured USB traffic from the vendor driver running in a Windows VM. He then pointed it at MIPI camera problems on a ThinkPad, where the Sony sensor behind Intel IPU7 produced dark images.","caveat":"Reported by Phoronix and Zeli; see the original post for the exact steps.","sources":[{"name":"Phoronix: Claude Code / AI shows potential for reverse-engineering hardware for Linux","url":"https://www.phoronix.com/news/AI-Reverse-Engineer-Linux-HW","kind":"News"},{"name":"Zeli (aggregator summary)","url":"https://zeli.app/story/50104299","kind":"Aggregator","note":"Summary of the post and its Hacker News discussion (243 points, 235 comments)."},{"name":"Lemmy: Claude Code / AI Shows Potential For Reverse-Engineering Hardware For Linux Support","url":"https://www.phoronix.com/news/AI-Reverse-Engineer-Linux-HW?=0","kind":"News","publishedAt":"2026-10-15T22:39:50.700411Z","dateKind":"published"},{"name":"YouTube: Christian Schaller Used Claude Code to Write a Linux Scanner Driver","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLs15nXN90","kind":"Video","authors":[{"name":"SPIDHA-NEWS","role":"Video channel"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-17T17:41:25Z","dateKind":"published"}],"image":{"url":"https://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=2026&image=negative_vibes","alt":"Preview image from phoronix.com","credit":"phoronix.com","from":"https://www.phoronix.com/news/AI-Reverse-Engineer-Linux-HW"},"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"News sites","about":"Red Hat engineer Christian Schaller's Plustek OpticFilm 8200i film scanner lost Linux support after a chipset change. He ran the vendor's Windows driver in a virtual machine, captured its USB traffic, and had Claude compare it with Linux traces. Within hours Claude produced a working SANE scanner driver, and soon after a near-complete version that includes infrared scanning (used for dust removal).\n\nHe then used the same approach on a ThinkPad X1 Carbon whose MIPI camera (a Sony sensor behind Intel's IPU7) gave dark, unusable images. The resulting kernel and libcamera patches have been submitted upstream. The post, \"Using AI to reverse engineer hardware\", drew 243 points and 235 comments on Hacker News.","projectLinks":[{"type":"video","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLs15nXN90","sourceUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLs15nXN90"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"dell-bluetooth","title":"Six hours on Bluetooth for a Linux Mint laptop","topic":"Limits & refusals","outcome":"Failed","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Driver or OS patching"],"verified":true,"desc":"After moving from Windows to Linux Mint on an old Dell XPS 13, a user spent six hours trying to get Claude Code to fix Bluetooth for a keyboard. The Broadcom adapter does not support MAC spoofing, which blocked the approach.","caveat":"One user's experience. Useful as a reminder that agents struggle with driver issues they cannot test directly.","sources":[{"name":"Jukka Niiranen: Claude vs. a €12 Bluetooth keyboard on Linux","url":"https://jukkaniiranen.com/2026/03/claude-vs-bluetooth-keyboard-on-linux/","kind":"Blog","note":"The author's account, \"Claude vs. a €12 Bluetooth keyboard on Linux\", with the steps tried and why they failed."}],"gallery":[{"url":"https://jukkaniiranen.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Linux-Mint-and-Bluetooth-keyboards-2048x1950.jpg","alt":"Image from jukkaniiranen.com","credit":"jukkaniiranen.com","from":"https://jukkaniiranen.com/2026/03/claude-vs-bluetooth-keyboard-on-linux/"},{"url":"https://jukkaniiranen.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Linux-Bluetooth-debugging-wiht-a-Python-script.png","alt":"Image from jukkaniiranen.com","credit":"jukkaniiranen.com","from":"https://jukkaniiranen.com/2026/03/claude-vs-bluetooth-keyboard-on-linux/"},{"url":"https://jukkaniiranen.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Linux-Bluetooth-debugging-with-other-devices.png","alt":"Image from jukkaniiranen.com","credit":"jukkaniiranen.com","from":"https://jukkaniiranen.com/2026/03/claude-vs-bluetooth-keyboard-on-linux/"},{"url":"https://jukkaniiranen.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Linux-Bluetooth-debugging-with-Windows-registry.png","alt":"Image from jukkaniiranen.com","credit":"jukkaniiranen.com","from":"https://jukkaniiranen.com/2026/03/claude-vs-bluetooth-keyboard-on-linux/"}],"image":{"url":"https://jukkaniiranen.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Can-AI-solve-device-issues-on-Linux-no-text.png","alt":"Preview image from jukkaniiranen.com","credit":"jukkaniiranen.com","from":"https://jukkaniiranen.com/2026/03/claude-vs-bluetooth-keyboard-on-linux/"},"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Blogs","about":"Jukka Niiranen replaced Windows with Linux Mint on a 2015 Dell XPS 13 that no longer got Windows 11 updates. Because the built-in keyboard was sticky, he bought a cheap €12 Bluetooth keyboard to sit on top. It wouldn't stay connected, so he gave Claude Code direct access to the laptop to fix it.\n\nSix hours later it still wasn't fixed. One approach needed the Bluetooth adapter's address to be changed (MAC spoofing), which the Broadcom chip doesn't support. His conclusion is that agents are strong at pure software problems but struggle with hardware debugging because of an \"observation gap\": Claude can't see the keyboard, press its buttons or watch its lights. It can only act on what the system logs tell it.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"pi-kodi","title":"Old Raspberry Pi 3 turned into a Kodi media box","topic":"Repurposed hardware","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Driver or OS patching","Repurposing to a new role"],"verified":true,"desc":"After a streaming device failed, the author used Claude Code to upgrade an old Pi 3 across several Debian releases, fix repository signing-key errors, and start Kodi at boot.","caveat":"Aggressive automated patches could destabilise the system, so backups and small steps mattered.","sources":[{"name":"So I asked Claude Code to fix my Pi","url":"https://engineered.at/articles/so-i-asked-claude-code-to-fix-my-pi","kind":"Blog","note":"Write-up of the upgrade, the package-key fix, Kodi autostart and the HDMI settings used."}],"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Blogs","about":"When a streaming stick died, the author brought an old Raspberry Pi 3 Model B back into service as a Kodi media player with Claude Code's help. The Pi's system was upgraded from Debian Buster through Bullseye to Trixie. That left the package manager with a missing signing key and broken dependencies, so Kodi wouldn't install until Claude repaired them.\n\nClaude then set Kodi to start at boot with a systemd service and checked it by rebooting the Pi. It fixed the wrong screen resolution by editing the HDMI settings in /boot/config.txt (including hdmi_mode=31 and a signal boost), and repaired a swap-file service that failed at start-up.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"macbook-server","title":"Broken 2011 MacBook Pro turned into a home server","topic":"Repurposed hardware","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Repurposing to a new role"],"verified":true,"desc":"The author rebuilt a corrupted 2011 MacBook Pro as a home server running photo management, finance tracking, Home Assistant and a reverse proxy. Claude helped by reading photos of the damaged screen.","caveat":"Single author's account.","sources":[{"name":"DEV: I turned my old broken 2011 MacBook Pro into my first home server","url":"https://dev.to/patriciosalazar/i-turned-my-old-broken-2011-macbook-pro-into-my-first-home-server-4ji7","kind":"Blog","note":"The full story, from the dead screen and verbose boot to the services the server now runs."}],"image":{"url":"https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=1200,height=627,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fw2izxbnzzdb3wu2p9i43.png","alt":"Preview image from dev.to","credit":"dev.to","from":"https://dev.to/patriciosalazar/i-turned-my-old-broken-2011-macbook-pro-into-my-first-home-server-4ji7"},"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"DEV","about":"The author's 2011 MacBook Pro had a dead graphics chip (the well-known \"RadeonGate\" fault), so the screen showed only rainbow distortion and normal start-up froze. Wanting more control over family photos and data, they tried to give it a second life. Verbose boot mode got far enough to show text, and Claude helped by reading photos of the garbled screen, working out what was on it and what to do next.\n\nThe machine now runs as a first home server, hosting photo management, finance tracking, Home Assistant and a reverse proxy. The post walks through the recovery and set-up from the point of view of someone doing this for the first time.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"laptop-server-guide","title":"Old laptop as an always-on Ubuntu server","topic":"Repurposed hardware","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Repurposing to a new role"],"verified":true,"desc":"A guide to an old laptop as a hardened Ubuntu server: Tailscale, Cloudflare DDNS, a Cockpit dashboard, and Claude Code installed on it.","caveat":"A setup guide rather than a single tested build.","sources":[{"name":"Turn an old laptop into a Linux home server","url":"https://safoine-com.pages.dev/blog/turn-old-laptop-into-linux-home-server","kind":"Blog","note":"The complete guide, with the commands for each step from install to remote AI tools."}],"image":{"url":"https://safoine-com.pages.dev/blog/linux-home-server-architecture.png","alt":"Home Server Architecture — from remote access through security layers down to services","credit":"safoine-com.pages.dev","from":"https://safoine-com.pages.dev/blog/turn-old-laptop-into-linux-home-server"},"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Blogs","about":"This step-by-step guide argues that an old Core i3 or i5 laptop with 16 GB of RAM makes as good a home server as a new Mac mini. It installs Ubuntu Server 24.04 with a light desktop. It adds Tailscale for private remote access, hardened SSH with Cloudflare dynamic DNS as a backup, and Cockpit as a browser dashboard. Security comes from the UFW firewall, Fail2Ban and key-only logins.\n\nClaude Code and OpenClaw are then installed on the server, so you can run AI coding sessions on it from your phone or another laptop wherever you are. The guide is a recipe rather than a report of a finished project.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"home-dashboards","title":"Homelab and smart-home dashboards built with Claude","topic":"Repurposed hardware","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Repurposing to a new role"],"verified":true,"desc":"People use Claude to build wall and homelab dashboards, adding one feature at a time (for example, disk space on a file server) and pasting the code into their existing page.","caveat":"Guides and personal posts; results depend on the setup.","sources":[{"name":"How to vibe code your own custom home dashboard","url":"https://a.wholelottanothing.org/how-to-vibe-code-your-own-custom-home-dashboard/","kind":"Blog","note":"How one person built a home status dashboard feature by feature with Claude.ai."},{"name":"Geeky Gadgets: custom smart home dashboard","url":"https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/custom-smart-home-dashboard/","kind":"News","note":"Summary of a video build: an Android tablet, Home Assistant and Claude replacing Apple's home view."}],"image":{"url":"https://storage.ghost.io/c/91/15/9115e440-4672-4090-9706-8335a7b154ee/content/images/size/w1200/2026/04/IMG_4843.JPG","alt":"Preview image from a.wholelottanothing.org","credit":"a.wholelottanothing.org","from":"https://a.wholelottanothing.org/how-to-vibe-code-your-own-custom-home-dashboard/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://storage.ghost.io/c/91/15/9115e440-4672-4090-9706-8335a7b154ee/content/images/2026/04/Screenshot-2026-04-09-at-3.07.35---PM.png","alt":"Image from a.wholelottanothing.org","credit":"a.wholelottanothing.org","from":"https://a.wholelottanothing.org/how-to-vibe-code-your-own-custom-home-dashboard/"},{"url":"https://storage.ghost.io/c/91/15/9115e440-4672-4090-9706-8335a7b154ee/content/images/2026/04/Screenshot-2026-04-09-at-2.54.53---PM.png","alt":"Image from a.wholelottanothing.org","credit":"a.wholelottanothing.org","from":"https://a.wholelottanothing.org/how-to-vibe-code-your-own-custom-home-dashboard/"}],"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Blogs","about":"Two examples of people building the home dashboard they always wanted with Claude. In the first, a blogger who had been asking Claude.ai for help maintaining a Synology file server went on to build a single page showing everything: server and service status, solar panels, security cameras and the Tailscale network. They added one feature at a time and pasted each new piece into the existing page.\n\nIn the second, YouTuber Oliur built a custom smart-home panel in about two hours. It runs on a 13-inch Android tablet with Home Assistant, with live camera feeds and Spotify controls, as a replacement for Apple's limited home view. The tips include choosing a non-OLED screen to avoid burn-in and using a kiosk app to lock the tablet to the dashboard.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"home-server-phone","title":"Claude Code on a home server, checked from a phone","topic":"Repurposed hardware","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Repurposing to a new role"],"verified":true,"desc":"A guide to running Claude Code on an always-on home machine and checking progress from a phone over a private network. It notes that most workflows solve running the session but not monitoring it.","caveat":"Setup guide, not a single verified project.","sources":[{"name":"Run Claude Code on a home server (happier.dev)","url":"https://guides.happier.dev/how-to-run-claude-code-codex-and-opencode-on-a-home-server-and-check-from-phone","kind":"Blog","note":"The guide, with its cloud-versus-home trade-offs and the Tailscale set-up."}],"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Blogs","about":"This guide covers running Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode sessions on a machine at home that never sleeps, then checking on them from a phone's browser. Its point is that starting a long session is the easy part; keeping an eye on it and answering its questions while you're away is what most set-ups leave out.\n\nIt compares the options honestly. Cloud interfaces are easy to reach from a phone but don't have your local code. Running at home keeps your code and tools but needs a remote view. For the home route it recommends Tailscale Serve to get a secure HTTPS address and a phone-friendly web interface (the guide's own tool, Happier) for check-ins.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"classic-mac","title":"Claude Code on a 2005 Power Mac G5","topic":"Retro computing","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Repurposing to a new role","Building a replacement app"],"verified":true,"desc":"A developer ported Claude Code to a 2005 dual-2GHz Power Mac G5 running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Node.js has no PowerPC build, so they built a custom runtime, node-ppc, and a CLI on top of it.","caveat":"Single developer's project; the repo is linked in the post.","sources":[{"name":"DEV: The PowerBook doesn't know it's retired: Claude Code on a 2005 Power Mac G5","url":"https://dev.to/scottcjn/the-powerbook-doesnt-know-its-retired-claude-code-on-a-2005-power-mac-g5-6fp","kind":"Blog","note":"The author's write-up of building node-ppc and claude-code-ppc, with the repository link."}],"image":{"url":"https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=1200,height=627,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F9ppkzrxi0gary2h0dco3.png","alt":"Preview image from dev.to","credit":"dev.to","from":"https://dev.to/scottcjn/the-powerbook-doesnt-know-its-retired-claude-code-on-a-2005-power-mac-g5-6fp"},"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"DEV","about":"A developer spent a month getting Claude Code to run natively on a 2005 dual-2GHz Power Mac G5 running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. It talks directly to Anthropic's API over TLS 1.2, with no proxy and no modern machine doing the work behind the scenes.\n\nThis was meant to be impossible: Claude Code needs Node.js, which hasn't supported PowerPC for years, and modern encryption libraries won't build on the old system. So the author wrote node-ppc, a small JavaScript runtime built from QuickJS and mbedTLS that provides just enough of Node to run a command-line agent. On top of it sits claude-code-ppc, which has the real tool loop (read, write, edit, shell commands, file search) and slash commands. It can chain up to 25 tool calls in a row.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"mac-rom","title":"Commented source tree for the original Mac ROMs","topic":"Retro computing","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol"],"verified":true,"desc":"A 68kmla.org forum developer used Claude Code (Opus 4.6 and 4.7) to build a commented source tree for the Macintosh 128K, 512K and Plus ROMs. The goal is a reassembly that matches the original ROM bit-for-bit.","caveat":"Forum thread; progress toward bit-identical output is not confirmed.","sources":[{"name":"68kmla: reverse engineered ROM sources for Mac 128K, 512K and Plus","url":"https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/reverse-engineered-rom-sources-for-mac-128k-512k-and-plus.52189/","kind":"Forum"}],"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Blogs","_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"tape-driver","title":"Reviving a 25-year-old Linux tape driver","topic":"Retro computing","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Driver or OS patching"],"verified":true,"desc":"An engineer used Claude to revive a Linux tape driver that was about 25 years old.","caveat":"Short news report; details are in the linked article.","sources":[{"name":"WebProNews: engineer uses Claude AI to revive 25-year-old Linux tape driver","url":"https://www.webpronews.com/engineer-uses-claude-ai-to-revive-25-year-old-linux-tape-driver","kind":"News"},{"name":"Lemmy: Using Claude Code to modernize a forgotten Linux kernel driver","url":"https://dmitrybrant.com/2025/09/07/using-claude-code-to-modernize-a-25-year-old-kernel-driver","kind":"Blog","note":"The author's write-up, \"Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver\".","publishedAt":"2025-09-08T00:10:00.356769Z","dateKind":"published"}],"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Blogs","image":{"url":"https://dmitrybrant.com/images/dc2120.jpg","alt":"Image from dmitrybrant.com","credit":"dmitrybrant.com","from":"https://dmitrybrant.com/2025/09/07/using-claude-code-to-modernize-a-25-year-old-kernel-driver"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://dmitrybrant.com/images/centos35_a.jpg","alt":"image","credit":"dmitrybrant.com","from":"https://dmitrybrant.com/2025/09/07/using-claude-code-to-modernize-a-25-year-old-kernel-driver"},{"url":"https://dmitrybrant.com/images/colo250_1.jpg","alt":"image","credit":"dmitrybrant.com","from":"https://dmitrybrant.com/2025/09/07/using-claude-code-to-modernize-a-25-year-old-kernel-driver"},{"url":"https://dmitrybrant.com/images/ftape_2025.jpg","alt":"image","credit":"dmitrybrant.com","from":"https://dmitrybrant.com/2025/09/07/using-claude-code-to-modernize-a-25-year-old-kernel-driver"}],"about":"Dmitry Brant recovers data from 1990s QIC-80 backup tapes as a hobby. These tape drives plug into a PC's floppy-disk controller, a cost-saving trick that needs an unusual kernel driver called ftape. That driver was dropped from Linux long ago, so he had been booting an ancient CentOS 3.5 install every time he wanted to read a tape.\n\nHe used Claude Code to bring the roughly 25-year-old ftape driver up to date so it builds and runs as a module on a modern Linux kernel. That meant reworking code written for kernel interfaces that no longer exist. The result lets him dump tapes on a current system, and his post walks through how the session went and where his own knowledge of the hardware still mattered.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"lametric","title":"Reviving a bricked LaMetric Time clock","topic":"Dead & bricked devices","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Custom firmware or bootloader","Reverse engineering a protocol"],"verified":true,"desc":"With no documentation, a developer used Claude Code on a dead clock whose internal storage had failed. The project boots the device entirely from RAM over USB. Claude identified the SoC (Allwinner A13) and helped build a minimal u-boot. The display, driven by a separate STM32 chip, was the hardest part and needed its protocol reverse-engineered.","caveat":"Reported as a working USB-boot recovery system.","sources":[{"name":"Gentic: how a developer used Claude Code to reverse-engineer a bricked smart clock","url":"https://www.gentic.news/article/how-a-developer-used-claude-code-to-reverse-engineer-a-bricked-smart-clock-from","kind":"News"}],"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Blogs","_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"sleep-monitor","title":"Reviving a sleep monitor from a company that closed","topic":"Dead & bricked devices","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Capturing USB or BLE traffic"],"verified":true,"desc":"The author used Claude to revive a sleep monitor from a company that closed about ten years ago. The device still stored its Wi-Fi credentials, so the AI could see it broadcasting but initially could not connect.","caveat":"Partial success reported.","sources":[{"name":"Joseph Spurrier: AI revives a dead sleep company","url":"https://www.josephspurrier.com/ai-revives-a-dead-sleep-company","kind":"Blog","note":"\"AI Revives a Dead Sleep Company\": how the firmware, servers and app were rebuilt."}],"image":{"url":"https://storage.googleapis.com/www.josephspurrier.com/images/hello-sense/og-preview.jpg","alt":"Preview image from josephspurrier.com","credit":"josephspurrier.com","from":"https://www.josephspurrier.com/ai-revives-a-dead-sleep-company"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://storage.googleapis.com/www.josephspurrier.com/images/hello-sense/wiring-web.jpg","alt":"Wiring","credit":"josephspurrier.com","from":"https://www.josephspurrier.com/ai-revives-a-dead-sleep-company"},{"url":"https://storage.googleapis.com/www.josephspurrier.com/images/hello-sense/first-night.png","alt":"iOS App","credit":"josephspurrier.com","from":"https://www.josephspurrier.com/ai-revives-a-dead-sleep-company"}],"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Blogs","about":"Hello Sense was a bedside sleep tracker: a glowing orb measuring temperature, humidity, light, air quality and noise, plus a \"sleep pill\" clipped to the pillow to track movement. The company raised more than $40 million, then shut down about ten years ago, and the devices stopped working.\n\nJoseph Spurrier used Claude to bring his back. He reflashed the devices with widely available tools, found the company's code that had been published on GitHub, and rebuilt most of the software to run on his own Mac: the firmware, the back-end servers and the iOS app, with all the original features. An early hurdle was that the orb still held its old Wi-Fi settings, so it could be seen broadcasting but couldn't be connected to at first.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"disc-changer","title":"A 20-year-old disc changer, reverse-engineered before FireWire dies","topic":"Dead & bricked devices","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Capturing USB or BLE traffic"],"verified":true,"desc":"Claude helped control a 20-year-old Sony disc changer from a Mac mini. It found an earlier reverse-engineering write-up of the serial protocol, which sped up the work.","caveat":"Single blog post. The author also had to install an older, deprecated Claude Code version to keep it running on Catalina.","sources":[{"name":"I reverse-engineered a 20-year-old disc changer before FireWire dies forever","url":"https://toml0006.github.io/blog/i-reverse-engineered-a-20-year-old-disc-changer-before-firewire-dies-forever.html","kind":"Blog","note":"The full story, from the adapter chain to the SCSI protocol and the ripping set-up."}],"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Blogs","about":"Jackson Tomlinson had a Sony VGP-XL1B, a 200-disc FireWire CD and DVD changer from the Windows Media Center era. It had been sitting in his car boot on its way to recycling. With macOS dropping FireWire support, he decided to see whether Claude could get it working with a Mac before that became impossible.\n\nAfter chaining FireWire, Thunderbolt 2 and Thunderbolt 3 adapters to reach a modern Mac, Claude found why the device wasn't showing up. It then worked out the changer's SCSI command protocol, helped by an earlier reverse-engineering write-up it found. Two repositories and an afternoon later, the changer could load each disc in turn so it could be ripped, and 30 years of optical media now sit on his NAS.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"kobo-boot","title":"Kobo bootloader partly repaired","topic":"Dead & bricked devices","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Custom firmware or bootloader"],"verified":true,"desc":"Claude Code found the bootloader was corrupted while the rest of the device was fine. The author narrowed the problem down, though the device was not fully fixed.","caveat":"Same write-up as the Kobo recovery entry.","sources":[{"name":"Plugging Things In to See What Happens","url":"https://sbc-site.pages.dev/posts/2026/03/27/plugging-things-in-to-see-what-happens","kind":"Blog","note":"The original blog post's address; it now shows the author's consulting homepage rather than the post."}],"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Blogs","about":"Another device from the \"Plugging things in to see what happens\" post. Claude Code worked out that a Kobo e-reader's bootloader was corrupted while the rest of the device was healthy. That narrowed the problem down to one fixable part, but the post didn't end with the reader fully working.\n\nThe link now opens the author's consulting homepage, so the original details can't be re-checked.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"devialet","title":"Replacing an abandoned amplifier app with an iOS controller","topic":"Protocols & abandoned products","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude","Codex"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"desc":"A Hacker News commenter said they used Claude and Codex to decode the proprietary protocol for Devialet amplifiers, then built an iOS controller to replace the manufacturer's abandoned app.","caveat":"Forum claim. The linked thread may not be the original source.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News discussion (candidate thread)","url":"https://hn.nuxt.dev/item/49344643","kind":"Forum","note":"A mirror of the Hacker News thread (348 points) where this and similar stories were shared."},{"name":"Hacker News: Ditto (except not being an AI detractor): I used Claude and Codex to reverse engineer the ","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49354260","kind":"Forum","note":"The original comment describing the Devialet protocol and the replacement iOS app.","authors":[{"name":"andrewmg","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=andrewmg","role":"HN commenter"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-18T23:19:41Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Blogs","about":"This comes from a Hacker News thread about Claude writing a macOS printer driver. One commenter said they used Claude and Codex to work out the private protocol that controls Devialet amplifiers (high-end hi-fi gear). They then built their own iOS app to replace the manufacturer's official one, which had been abandoned.\n\nIt took about a day of work spread over a week. The commenter said that without AI they wouldn't have started, because they couldn't spare the time. Others in the thread describe similar projects, including mapping a USB-programmable golf-cart motor controller that only had a Windows app, using ILSpy and Wireshark, and turning it into a portable C library.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"viking-voip","title":"Decoding an undocumented VoIP phone protocol","topic":"Protocols & abandoned products","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Building a replacement app"],"verified":true,"desc":"Boris Starkov used Claude Code to decode an undocumented phone protocol that had been locked behind Windows-only software. The result was open-sourced as a Claude Code skill, so others can configure the phone without the original software.","caveat":"The skill is public, so the result can be checked.","sources":[{"name":"StartupHub: reverse engineering a Viking VoIP phone with Claude Code","url":"https://www.startuphub.ai/news/reverse-engineering-a-viking-voip-phone-with-claude-code","kind":"News","note":"Summary of Starkov's talk: the phone, the missing configuration route, and how the protocol was decoded."}],"image":{"url":"https://www.startuphub.ai/api/og/article/reverse-engineering-a-viking-voip-phone-with-claude-code/still","alt":"Reverse Engineering a Viking VOIP Phone with Claude Code","credit":"startuphub.ai","from":"https://www.startuphub.ai/news/reverse-engineering-a-viking-voip-phone-with-claude-code"},"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Blogs","about":"The Viking K-1900D-IP is an industrial hotline phone with no screen and no buttons. Its network and SIP settings can only be configured with Windows software, and its protocol isn't documented. Boris Starkov of ElevenLabs works on a Mac and wanted to connect the phone to an ElevenLabs voice agent through Twilio, so he used Claude Code to work out the protocol.\n\nBy observing the configuration traffic and methodically trying commands, he and Claude mapped out how to set the phone up directly. He packaged the result as an open-source Claude Code skill, so others can configure the phone without the original Windows software. He presented the process in a talk.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"amaran","title":"Amaran Bluetooth mesh lighting protocol","topic":"Protocols & abandoned products","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Capturing USB or BLE traffic"],"verified":true,"desc":"A Bluetooth mesh protocol for studio lights was reverse-engineered with Claude Code's /goal feature.","caveat":"Tutorial-style tip; the details are in the post.","sources":[{"name":"Wes Bos: reverse engineering the Amaran Bluetooth mesh protocol","url":"https://rsc.wesbos.com/tip/reverse-engineering-amaran-bluetooth-mesh-protocol-claude-code-goal","kind":"Blog"}],"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Blogs","_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"xiaomi-ble","title":"Xiaomi BLE device protocol","topic":"Protocols & abandoned products","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Capturing USB or BLE traffic","Reverse engineering a protocol"],"verified":true,"desc":"A developer used Claude Code to reverse-engineer a Bluetooth Low Energy protocol for a Xiaomi device.","caveat":"Single write-up.","sources":[{"name":"Matt Cree: reverse engineering the Xiaomi Jimny BLE protocol","url":"https://mattcree.github.io/hardware/2026/01/07/reverse-engineering-xiaomi-jimny-ble-protocol.html","kind":"Blog","note":"Full write-up of the BLE protocol, how it was decoded, and the legal background."}],"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Blogs","about":"Matt Cree owned a Xiaomi Smart RC Car, a 1:16 Suzuki Jimny crawler (model XMYKC01CM) controlled by an Android app that isn't on Google Play. Rather than install it from a dodgy APK mirror or a Chinese app store, he used Claude Code to help reverse engineer the car's Bluetooth Low Energy protocol, so he could build his own controller.\n\nHe documented the commands for driving, steering and the other functions. Sadly the car's Bluetooth module was already failing after years on a shelf, and it burned out during debugging, but not before everything was written down. The post also sets out why reverse engineering for interoperability is legal in the UK, EU and US.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"reverse-anything","title":"Reverse Engineer Anything: agents on binary analysis","topic":"Protocols & abandoned products","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code","Codex"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol"],"verified":true,"desc":"An open-source project connects coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex to reverse-engineering tools like Ghidra, Hopper and IDA. It runs locally and does not claim to recover original source code. InfoQ covered it in October 2026.","caveat":"The star count comes from GitHub listings.","sources":[{"name":"InfoQ: Reverse Engineer Anything project brings AI agents to binary analysis","url":"https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/10/reverse-engineer-anything/","kind":"News","note":"InfoQ's news piece on what REA is, how it works and the showcase results."}],"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"News sites","about":"Reverse Engineer Anything (REA) is an open-source project, with more than 200,000 GitHub stars, that connects coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex to professional reverse-engineering tools like Ghidra, Hopper and IDA. It does this through MCP servers. The agent can query the disassembler, inspect functions and cross-references, trace what a program does and test its theories against the real binary. It also handles JavaScript and Electron apps and .NET assemblies.\n\nREA runs locally and doesn't claim to recover original source code. Its showcases include tracing how Notion's desktop app handles the clipboard, and rebuilding a sound-panning function from the game DX-Ball that matches all 3,205 original test cases and the original compiled bytes exactly. Some practitioners on Hacker News question how much it adds over asking an AI directly.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"pi-os-upgrade","title":"Upgrading an old Pi across Debian releases","topic":"Operating systems","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Driver or OS patching"],"verified":true,"desc":"Claude Code upgraded an older Raspberry Pi's standard Debian install across several releases and fixed repository signing-key errors. This is an OS upgrade, not a custom OS.","caveat":"Same write-up as the Kodi entry.","sources":[{"name":"So I asked Claude Code to fix my Pi","url":"https://engineered.at/articles/so-i-asked-claude-code-to-fix-my-pi","kind":"Blog","note":"Write-up of the release upgrades and the fixes that followed."}],"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Blogs","about":"This is the system side of the Raspberry Pi Kodi project. Claude Code took a Pi 3 Model B running an old Debian Buster image through Bullseye to Trixie, two major releases. That left the package manager missing a repository signing key, so it refused to install software, and Claude fixed it. It also repaired a swap-file service that failed at boot.\n\nThis is a standard operating-system upgrade done carefully rather than a custom OS, which is often the most useful thing you can do for an old Pi.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"linux-laptop","title":"Fixing a Linux laptop: power, suspend and display","topic":"Operating systems","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Driver or OS patching"],"verified":true,"desc":"A write-up describes using Claude to fix power management, suspend and display issues on a Linux laptop after years of annoyances.","caveat":"Short excerpt; details are in the post.","sources":[{"name":"Engineered.at: my Linux laptop finally works","url":"https://engineered.at/articles/my-linux-laptop-finally-works-how-claude-helped-me-fix-years-of-annoyances","kind":"Blog","note":"Write-up of the suspend fix and the desktop tweaks, with the commands used."}],"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Blogs","about":"The author had lived with small annoyances on a Linux Mint laptop for years, and the worst was suspend. Linux's login manager couldn't tell \"lid closed while docked to a monitor\" from \"lid closed to pack up\", so it either slept when it shouldn't or didn't when it should.\n\nWith Claude's help they wrote a small script that checks for an external display (using xrandr) before allowing suspend. That brought back their \"shut the lid, pack, reopen\" routine. Claude also helped fold power options, notification history and debug logs into their Qtile window manager and Rofi menus.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"librem","title":"Custom OS for a Librem 5 phone (speculative)","topic":"Operating systems","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Custom firmware or bootloader"],"verified":true,"desc":"A Purism forum user asked Claude Code to build a custom OS for a Librem 5 phone. The thread is mostly speculative.","caveat":"Not a verified result.","sources":[{"name":"Purism forum: Operating System of Frankenstein","url":"https://forums.puri.sm/t/operating-system-of-frankenstein/30477","kind":"Forum","note":"The forum thread, \"Operating System of Frankenstein\", with the plan and the community's replies."}],"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Blogs","about":"A Purism forum user gave Claude Code an isolated Linux computer and asked it to build a new operating system for their Librem 5 phone, based on Android. Their idea was an OS you could change by describing what you want in plain English, such as \"stop asking for my age\", then rebuilding it.\n\nIt's a thread of questions rather than results. Other members warned against flashing it: the poster had needed help unbricking the phone after an earlier Android attempt, and they asked whether the phone would still boot Linux afterwards. Another suggested reverse engineering the proprietary apps instead.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"eevblog-121gw","title":"EEVblog: full firmware reverse engineered into C from one prompt","topic":"Protocols & abandoned products","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Custom firmware or bootloader"],"verified":true,"desc":"Dave Jones (EEVblog) reports that Claude Code reverse engineered the firmware of a 121GW multimeter into C with a single prompt in under 24 hours, starting with the bootloader. Community work followed, including an open firmware assembler version.","caveat":"Claims come from the author's own video and forum post.","sources":[{"name":"EEVblog 1784: Claude Code reverse engineers 121GW firmware (YouTube)","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tUC0DuPjaM","kind":"Video","note":"EEVblog 1784, about 37 minutes: set-up, the prompt, the overnight result and testing on the real meter, with chapter markers."},{"name":"EEVblog forum blog post","url":"https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1784-claude-code-reverse-engineer-121gw-firmware-success!/","kind":"Forum"},{"name":"Dave Jones on X","url":"https://x.com/eevblog/status/2117747558344962144","kind":"Social"},{"name":"Bluesky: New video: EEVblog 1784 - Claude Code Reverse Engineer 121GW Firmware SUCCESS!\n\nhttps://ww","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/eevblog.bsky.social/post/3mzfh7kch3n2k","kind":"Social","authors":[{"name":"eevblog.bsky.social","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/eevblog.bsky.social","role":"Post author"}],"publishedAt":"2026-11-03T08:46:03.552852Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"EEVblog Forum: EEVblog® Electronics Community Forum","url":"https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1784-claude-code-reverse-engineer-121gw-firmware-success!/?action=printpage","kind":"Forum"}],"image":{"url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2tUC0DuPjaM/hqdefault.jpg","alt":"Video thumbnail: EEVblog 1784: Claude Code reverse engineers 121GW firmware (YouTube)","credit":"youtube.com","from":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tUC0DuPjaM"},"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"YouTube","about":"In EEVblog video 1784, electronics YouTuber Dave Jones hooks his own 121GW multimeter up to an ST-LINK V2 programmer and gives Claude Code a single prompt: reverse engineer the firmware. Claude installs GCC and Ghidra, finishes the bootloader first, and by the next morning has turned the whole firmware back into C source that compiles.\n\nDave then flashes the rebuilt firmware onto the real meter and tests it, including whether Bluetooth still works. He calls the result proof that software engineering has changed completely. The source is published on GitHub (EEVblog/121GW-Multimeter-Firmware-RE), and the video also tests a community member's independent open firmware written in assembler (zombu4/121GW-Open-Firmware).","projectLinks":[{"type":"video","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tUC0DuPjaM","sourceUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tUC0DuPjaM"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"robot-vacuum","title":"Cracking a robot vacuum's cloud API and building a dashboard","topic":"Security research","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Capturing USB or BLE traffic","Reverse engineering a protocol","Building a replacement app","Repurposing to a new role"],"verified":true,"desc":"A developer reverse engineered a robot vacuum's cloud request-signing and Dart-compiled app using traffic capture, decompilation and Frida hooks. Claude helped read dumps, write hook scripts and keep notes across sessions. The author built a dashboard that goes beyond the official app and used Claude vision to filter drive commands.","caveat":"Author-reported; the code is private. The author also describes working around vendor access controls and says some of the approach is \"not elegant\". Exposed map and camera-related data is a privacy issue for owners.","sources":[{"name":"DEV: I cracked a robot vacuum's API in a week and gave Claude the keys","url":"https://dev.to/federico_sciuca/i-cracked-a-robot-vacuums-api-in-a-week-and-gave-claude-the-keys-4p47","kind":"Blog","note":"Detailed write-up: signing algorithm, Frida hooks, the dashboard and handing driving to Claude."}],"image":{"url":"https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=1200,height=627,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F9hzmvlb54bktqiv424w5.png","alt":"Preview image from dev.to","credit":"dev.to","from":"https://dev.to/federico_sciuca/i-cracked-a-robot-vacuums-api-in-a-week-and-gave-claude-the-keys-4p47"},"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"DEV","about":"Federico Sciuca's 3i G10+ robot vacuum (about €400) has lidar, a camera, a live room map and 32 different cloud commands, but the official app shows its owner very little of it. He started out wanting just the battery level on his own dashboard. A week of late nights later, he had worked out the cloud's request-signing algorithm, matching 18 out of 18 captured requests exactly.\n\nUsing Frida hooks in a patched copy of the Flutter app, he captured the live map data and the encrypted video-stream credentials. He then built a 5,000-line Python dashboard with video streaming, cost tracking, behaviour rules and an autonomy loop. Claude helped read the dumps, write the hook scripts and keep notes between sessions. He eventually gave Claude motor control, with Claude Haiku's vision checking the camera feed (about $0.003 per call) so the robot stopped crashing. Peak AI spend was $0.89 a day.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"schlarp-peripherals","title":"Five peripherals' firmware audited with Claude Opus","topic":"Security research","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Opus"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Custom firmware or bootloader"],"verified":true,"desc":"Chaz Schlarp gave Claude each device's firmware and update tool and asked it to document the update protocol and check security. Across five devices (a webcam, a monitor, a microphone, a capture card and a light) the work took about 13 hours and 98 prompts. It found a range of weak update and access protections, which he reports he shared with the vendors.","caveat":"Security research, so the findings are described at a high level here. The author warns against putting these devices on untrusted networks.","sources":[{"name":"Schlarp: Everything I own, owned","url":"https://schlarp.com/posts/everything-i-own-owned/","kind":"Blog","note":"\"Everything I own, owned\": the method, what was found in each device, and links to the per-device repositories."}],"image":{"url":"https://schlarp.com/posts/everything-i-own-owned/webcam.jpg","alt":"Everything I own, owned","credit":"schlarp.com","from":"https://schlarp.com/posts/everything-i-own-owned/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://schlarp.com/posts/everything-i-own-owned/monitor-cutout.webp","alt":"ASUS ROG Swift PG42UQ monitor","credit":"schlarp.com","from":"https://schlarp.com/posts/everything-i-own-owned/"},{"url":"https://schlarp.com/posts/everything-i-own-owned/microphone-cutout.webp","alt":"Shure MV7 microphone","credit":"schlarp.com","from":"https://schlarp.com/posts/everything-i-own-owned/"},{"url":"https://schlarp.com/posts/everything-i-own-owned/shell-ui_hu_624a06cf56ce6409.png","alt":"WebHID interface for the MV7’s command shell, showing DSP settings and a console","credit":"schlarp.com","from":"https://schlarp.com/posts/everything-i-own-owned/"},{"url":"https://schlarp.com/posts/everything-i-own-owned/camlink_hu_6f9c1ae6ccd6b2a7.jpg","alt":"Elgato Cam Link 4K video capture dongle","credit":"schlarp.com","from":"https://schlarp.com/posts/everything-i-own-owned/"}],"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Blogs","about":"Chaz Schlarp pointed Claude Opus 5 at the firmware of five gadgets on his desk: a webcam, a monitor, a microphone, a capture card and a key light. For each one he downloaded the manufacturer's firmware and update tool, loaded them into his reverse-engineering set-up, told Claude what he wanted to understand, and let it work.\n\nAcross about 13 hours and 98 prompts, Claude found a full plaintext command shell inside the microphone, a way to switch off the webcam's activity light while it records, and a key light that accepts memory writes from anyone on the Wi-Fi. Each device has a GitHub repository of the generated documentation and scripts, most of it tested against the real hardware. He says he reported the problems to the vendors.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"klipper-ender3","title":"Ender 3 V2 revived with Klipper and Mainsail","topic":"Repurposed hardware","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Driver or OS patching","Custom firmware or bootloader","Repurposing to a new role"],"verified":true,"desc":"A 4-year-old Creality Ender 3 V2 that had not printed since 2021 was brought back. Claude Code backed up the old configs over SSH, moved the Pi to MainsailOS with a current Klipper, fixed a WPA3-only Wi-Fi problem, rebuilt and flashed the printer firmware, and set up the touchscreen. The first print succeeded.","caveat":"Several setbacks: the SD-card flash script failed on the Creality bootloader and needed a manual retry. Pressure-advance calibration and a bed probe are still pending.","sources":[{"name":"Reviving an Ender 3 V2 with Klipper and Mainsail","url":"https://njannasch-dev-astro.pages.dev/blog/reviving-ender3-v2-klipper-mainsail/","kind":"Blog","note":"Step-by-step account of the migration, from backup to first print."}],"image":{"url":"https://njannasch.dev/og/reviving-ender3-v2-klipper-mainsail.png","alt":"Preview image from njannasch-dev-astro.pages.dev","credit":"njannasch-dev-astro.pages.dev","from":"https://njannasch-dev-astro.pages.dev/blog/reviving-ender3-v2-klipper-mainsail/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://njannasch-dev-astro.pages.dev/images/reviving-ender3-v2-klipper-mainsail/printed-jet.jpeg","alt":"First print on the revived Ender 3 V2 — a jet fighter model","credit":"njannasch-dev-astro.pages.dev","from":"https://njannasch-dev-astro.pages.dev/blog/reviving-ender3-v2-klipper-mainsail/"}],"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Blogs","about":"A Creality Ender 3 V2 3D printer hadn't printed since 2021. Its Raspberry Pi ran OctoPrint on Raspbian Buster with an old Klipper, Python 3.7 and no security updates. It couldn't even join the Wi-Fi any more, because the network had moved to WPA3 and the Pi 3's chip only supports WPA2.\n\nThe owner did the whole revival through Claude Code over SSH. Claude first backed up every important file, including the tuned hotend and bed settings, input-shaper values and firmware build options. It then moved the Pi to MainsailOS with current Klipper, worked around the Wi-Fi problem, rebuilt and flashed the printer's STM32 firmware, and brought the unused 3.5-inch touchscreen to life. The first print came out fine.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"fpga-bitstream","title":"Mapping an FPGA bitstream format with Claude Code","topic":"Protocols & abandoned products","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol"],"verified":false,"desc":"A developer used Claude Code to map the bitstream format of an Altera Cyclone IV FPGA on an AX301 board. Python fuzzing scripts tested configurations systematically, and results were stored in SQLite. The write-up suggests turning the findings into a formal spec.","caveat":"The article reads as a how-to template and is partly garbled, so treat the details with care.","sources":[{"name":"DEV / Gentic: how Claude Code reverse engineered an FPGA bitstream","url":"https://dev.to/gentic_news/how-claude-code-reverse-engineered-an-fpga-bitstream-a-template-for-hardware-hacking-3em2","kind":"Blog","note":"Explains the fuzzing-and-compare workflow and why it suits Claude Code."},{"name":"Bluesky: Show HN: Reverse-engineered the FPGA bitstream using Claude Code\nhttps://github.com/14sea/","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/mm-hacker-news.bsky.social/post/3mit2wlxrl62i","kind":"Social","authors":[{"name":"mm-hacker-news.bsky.social","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/mm-hacker-news.bsky.social","role":"Post author"}],"publishedAt":"2026-04-06T10:35:18.785Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"Hacker News: Show HN: Reverse-engineered the FPGA bitstream using Claude Code","url":"https://github.com/14sea/Cyclone_CRAM_Mapper","kind":"Primary","authors":[{"name":"14sea","url":"https://github.com/14sea","role":"Repository account"}]}],"image":{"url":"https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=1200,height=627,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F7s5st3nd60bsaqfm5pdq.png","alt":"Preview image from dev.to","credit":"dev.to","from":"https://dev.to/gentic_news/how-claude-code-reverse-engineered-an-fpga-bitstream-a-template-for-hardware-hacking-3em2"},"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"DEV","about":"FPGA makers keep the format of their configuration files (bitstreams) secret, so you have to use their own tools. A developer used Claude Code to start mapping the format for an Altera Cyclone IV chip (EP4CE6F17C8) on a cheap AX301 board. The chip has 6,272 logic elements in 392 blocks.\n\nThe method is systematic: Python scripts written by Claude generate thousands of slightly different designs, and Claude compares the resulting bitstreams to find which bits control what. The results go into a SQLite database. The write-up presents this as a reusable template for documenting hardware and suggests turning the findings into a formal specification.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/14sea/Cyclone_CRAM_Mapper","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/14sea/Cyclone_CRAM_Mapper"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"clawpad","title":"ClawPad: Claude running on an old ThinkPad","topic":"Repurposed hardware","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Repurposing to a new role"],"verified":false,"desc":"An open-source project that gives Claude a home on an old ThinkPad, used as a dedicated personal AI machine. Commenters on Hacker News and Reddit called old ThinkPads a solid choice for this.","caveat":"Details are thin: a repository and some discussion, without a full write-up.","sources":[{"name":"GitHub: marshallrichards/ClawPad","url":"https://github.com/marshallrichards/ClawPad","kind":"Primary","note":"Scripts, configs and an i3 desktop installer for running AI agents on an old ThinkPad.","authors":[{"name":"marshallrichards","url":"https://github.com/marshallrichards","role":"Repository account"}]}],"image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/marshallrichards/ClawPad","alt":"GitHub repository card for marshallrichards/ClawPad","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/marshallrichards/ClawPad"},"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"GitHub","about":"ClawPad gives Claude a permanent home on an old ThinkPad. The author set up a spare ThinkPad X200 with Debian 13 and the simple i3 window manager, and let Claude Code use the whole machine as a shared workspace for everyday tasks and experiments.\n\nThe repository holds the scripts and settings for doing the same: an installer for the i3 desktop, the author's CLAUDE.md instructions file as inspiration, and a voice interface for talking to Claude. The author's advice is to have the agent stick to old, reliable Linux tools, which they say leads to surprisingly good results. It also works with OpenClaw, OpenCode and similar agents.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/marshallrichards/ClawPad","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/marshallrichards/ClawPad"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"claude-code-android","title":"Claude Code running on an Android phone (Termux, no root)","topic":"Repurposed hardware","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Repurposing to a new role"],"verified":true,"desc":"A community project installs Claude Code inside Termux on a stock Android phone, with no root, emulator or cloud VM. It turns a phone into a working coding terminal without changing the operating system.","caveat":"Community project; setup depends on the phone and Android version.","sources":[{"name":"ferrumclaudepilgrim/claude-code-android (GitHub)","url":"https://github.com/ferrumclaudepilgrim/claude-code-android","kind":"Primary","note":"Install scripts and documentation for running Claude Code on Android through Termux or a virtual machine.","authors":[{"name":"ferrumclaudepilgrim","url":"https://github.com/ferrumclaudepilgrim","role":"Repository account"}]}],"image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/ferrumclaudepilgrim/claude-code-android","alt":"GitHub repository card for ferrumclaudepilgrim/claude-code-android","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/ferrumclaudepilgrim/claude-code-android"},"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"GitHub","about":"This community project runs Claude Code directly on an Android phone: no root, no cloud server and no computer needed. The quick path uses the Termux terminal app (from F-Droid or GitHub, not Google Play) on any 64-bit phone. A one-line installer asks two questions and sets everything up. A second path uses Android's built-in virtualisation for a fuller Debian system, and older Android 8 to 10 phones get a pinned installer.\n\nThe repository includes a list of tested devices, notes on security, troubleshooting and recovery steps, and an FAQ. You need a Claude subscription or an API account.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/ferrumclaudepilgrim/claude-code-android","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/ferrumclaudepilgrim/claude-code-android"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:13:29+00:00"},{"id":"app-x-ray-an-ingredients-label-for-electron-apps-0ddf","title":"App X-Ray: an \"ingredients label\" for Electron apps","topic":"App teardowns & analysis","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"REA community","year":"2026","desc":"A shareable report that lists what an Electron app is made of and what it does, built on top of REA's analysis.","sources":[{"name":"REA community: Showcase: App X-Ray — a shareable \"ingredients label\" for Electron apps, built on REA","url":"https://github.com/morluto/rea/discussions/7974","kind":"Primary","note":"The showcase post: what App X-Ray checks, how it uses REA, and a link to the weekly gallery.","publishedAt":"2026-10-29T02:03:23Z","dateKind":"published","authors":[{"name":"morluto","url":"https://github.com/morluto","role":"Repository account"}]},{"name":"The project: eliot5566.github.io","url":"https://eliot5566.github.io/app-xray/","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"0ddf6cf","image":{"url":"https://eliot5566.github.io/app-xray/apps/webtorrent-desktop/card.png","alt":"Image from eliot5566.github.io","credit":"eliot5566.github.io","from":"https://eliot5566.github.io/app-xray/"},"about":"App X-Ray produces a one-page \"ingredients label\" for Electron desktop apps. It shows which Electron version an app ships and whether that version still gets security fixes, its window security settings, the internal message channels it handles, its preload scripts and the web addresses written into its code. Every claim links to the exact file and line.\n\nIt is built on REA's JavaScript analysis plus about ten rules. It scans 20 open-source apps, including Signal Desktop, Bitwarden, Joplin and GitHub Desktop, and publishes the results in a weekly gallery. Most apps scan in under a minute.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"galaxy-a10e-firmware-teardown-why-it-wont-take-l-f367","title":"Galaxy A10e firmware teardown: why it won't take LineageOS","topic":"Dead & bricked devices","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code","REA"],"methods":["Custom firmware or bootloader","Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"REA community","year":"2026","desc":"An owner tried to turn an old locked Galaxy A10e into a pet cam and used REA to tear down the firmware, documenting why the lock blocks LineageOS.","sources":[{"name":"REA community: Why my locked Galaxy A10e won't take LineageOS - a full firmware teardown","url":"https://github.com/morluto/rea/discussions/7872","kind":"Primary","note":"The teardown write-up, including the mistake and how the blind second pass caught it.","publishedAt":"2026-10-28T16:40:47Z","dateKind":"published","authors":[{"name":"morluto","url":"https://github.com/morluto","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"f3671a5","image":{"url":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CassieFox23/a10e-firmware/4709eba6c6488fd730ddb8b94ea7d4773c891c2d/.archify/architecture-a10e-trust-expanded-20261028-122000/a10e-trust-expanded.png","alt":"Diagram of the A10e trust chain. 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SoC blocks from dt.img, board parts from the dtbo.img overlays.","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/morluto/rea/discussions/7872"},{"url":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CassieFox23/a10e-firmware/4709eba6c6488fd730ddb8b94ea7d4773c891c2d/.archify/workflow-a10e-adrp-bug-20261028-161541/a10e-adrp-bug.png","alt":"The ADRP page-phase bug. Phase 0 gives about 1,000 clean hits, phase 0x800 about 4,249.","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/morluto/rea/discussions/7872"}],"about":"An owner wanted to turn a spare Samsung Galaxy A10e into a pet camera by installing LineageOS, as they had done on two Galaxy Tab A8 tablets. This carrier model's bootloader is locked and the unlock option is switched off, so that wasn't possible.\n\nCurious why, they had Claude Code read the phone's firmware with REA, mostly using Opus with Sonnet helpers. The real barrier is the locked bootloader combined with verified boot. Claude also made a mistake along the way, which a separate \"blind\" review session caught. A later review toned down some overconfident claims about verified boot, Knox Guard and the Heimdall flashing tool. The phone will run a camera app on stock Android instead.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"lx-d02-thermal-mini-printer-working-on-windows-0192","title":"LX-D02 thermal mini printer working on Windows","topic":"Printers & peripherals","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"REA community","year":"2026","desc":"The Bluetooth printer's phone app (React Native/Hermes) was reversed with REA so the printer could be driven from Windows.","sources":[{"name":"REA community: Show and tell: LX-D02 thermal printer on Windows (React Native/Hermes app reversed)","url":"https://github.com/morluto/rea/discussions/4152","kind":"Primary","note":"The show-and-tell: the failed handshake, the Hermes decompile, the fix, and links to the code and write-up.","publishedAt":"2026-10-15T14:41:06Z","dateKind":"published","authors":[{"name":"morluto","url":"https://github.com/morluto","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"0192b7a","about":"The LX-D02 is a small Bluetooth thermal printer that normally only works with the \"Funny Print\" phone app. Starting from REA, the owner found that an existing open-source driver connected but printed nothing, because the printer rejected its fixed handshake.\n\nThe phone app turned out to be React Native, with its logic in a Hermes JavaScript bundle rather than native code. Decompiling it with hermes-dec showed readable function names, and from those the challenge-and-response check: a CRC calculated over a random byte and the printer's address. It matched captured traffic byte for byte. The result, picoprint, makes the printer a normal Windows printer that works from any app with Ctrl+P. The fix was also sent to the original driver project.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"cheap-rk3229-tv-box-adware-backdoor-removed-armb-f6b1","title":"Cheap RK3229 TV box: adware backdoor removed, Armbian installed","topic":"Smart TVs","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Debloating via ADB or packages","Custom firmware or bootloader","Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"REA community","year":"2026","desc":"A junk \"MXQ PRO\" box was inventoried over ADB with REA, its Adups adware backdoor documented, and Armbian installed on the eMMC.","sources":[{"name":"REA community: Reclaiming a cheap RK3229 TV box: Adups adware backdoor → Armbian on eMMC","url":"https://github.com/morluto/rea/discussions/8248","kind":"Primary","note":"Summary of the findings, with a link to the full write-up and tools repository.","publishedAt":"2026-10-31T01:14:24Z","dateKind":"published","authors":[{"name":"morluto","url":"https://github.com/morluto","role":"Repository account"}]},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/bigtower17/mxqpro-rk3229","kind":"Primary","note":"Linked in the post.","authors":[{"name":"bigtower17","url":"https://github.com/bigtower17","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"f6b1876","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/bigtower17/mxqpro-rk3229","alt":"GitHub repository card for bigtower17/mxqpro-rk3229","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/bigtower17/mxqpro-rk3229"},"about":"A cheap \"MXQ PRO\" Android TV box turned out to be an RK3229 inside, not the hardware its label claimed. Using REA over ADB, the owner inventoried it and decompiled the stock firmware. They found Adups FOTA preinstalled with system rights, silently installing advertiser apps, switching off app verification and sending out the device's IMEI and MAC address. Its server addresses were assembled character by character to dodge simple scans.\n\nThey documented the backdoor, removed it reversibly and blocked it through the hosts file. They added RetroArch and a small driver for an Xbox One-style controller that the old kernel couldn't handle. Finally they replaced Android with Armbian, streaming the image straight onto the internal storage with a bash trick because the rescue system had no download tools.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/bigtower17/mxqpro-rk3229","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/bigtower17/mxqpro-rk3229"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"xm530-icsee-camera-given-local-control-65b8","title":"XM530 iCSee camera given local control","topic":"Smart home","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude","Codex","REA","Ghidra"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Custom firmware or bootloader"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"REA community","year":"2026","desc":"An owner-authorised case study using REA and Ghidra to add local control to a cloud camera while keeping its stock drivers.","sources":[{"name":"REA community: XM530 iCSee camera: keeping stock drivers while adding local control (REA/Ghidra case study)","url":"https://github.com/morluto/rea/discussions/8070","kind":"Primary","note":"The case study: goals, how REA and Ghidra were used, what was verified physically, and the evidence scope.","publishedAt":"2026-10-29T23:41:28Z","dateKind":"published","authors":[{"name":"morluto","url":"https://github.com/morluto","role":"Repository account"}]},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/Vittuu/icsee-localmod/blob/main/docs/REA-GHIDRA-WORKFLOW.md","kind":"Primary","note":"Linked in the post.","authors":[{"name":"Vittuu","url":"https://github.com/Vittuu","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"65b895e","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/Vittuu/icsee-localmod","alt":"GitHub repository card for Vittuu/icsee-localmod","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/Vittuu/icsee-localmod/blob/main/docs/REA-GHIDRA-WORKFLOW.md"},"about":"This owner-authorised case study adds local Home Assistant control to an XM530-based iCSee cloud camera while keeping its stock drivers. That means Wi-Fi, image sensor, pan and tilt, audio, LEDs and SD-card recording all keep working. Rather than replace the firmware entirely, the project adds to it.\n\nREA and Ghidra (with help from Codex) were used to find the camera's internal command handlers, such as white-light and pan-tilt control. Every feature was then checked on the real hardware rather than assumed from strings in the code. Later work added a small control panel and API, key-only SSH, and a WebRTC viewing stream that leaves the original SD recording untouched.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/Vittuu/icsee-localmod/blob/main/docs/REA-GHIDRA-WORKFLOW.md","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/Vittuu/icsee-localmod/blob/main/docs/REA-GHIDRA-WORKFLOW.md"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"yanyu-rebuilding-research-workflows-after-studyi-dbae","title":"Yanyu: rebuilding research workflows after studying AlphaPai","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Codex","REA"],"methods":["Analysing or auditing software","Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"REA community","year":"2026","desc":"An open-source case study using REA and Codex to study the AlphaPai research tool and independently rebuild its workflows.","sources":[{"name":"REA community: Yanyu: studying AlphaPai with REA and independently rebuilding research workflows with Codex","url":"https://github.com/morluto/rea/discussions/7200","kind":"Primary","note":"The project announcement, with what is implemented, what is simulated and how it was validated.","publishedAt":"2026-10-26T05:13:10Z","dateKind":"published","authors":[{"name":"morluto","url":"https://github.com/morluto","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"dbae01b","about":"Yanyu (研屿) is an open-source project that studied parts of the AlphaPai financial-research client with REA, then used Codex to build its own versions of selected workflows. These include uploading and searching documents, reading PDFs, references, research plans, and meeting and recording workflows.\n\nThe authors are careful about its limits. It doesn't reproduce AlphaPai's back end or include any of its code or data. Some features, such as summaries, are only simulated. Validation so far covers tests, type checks and a local build. It is aimed at brokerages and research firms that want to run their own tools with the AI models of their choice.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"privacy-audit-of-the-2006-music-player-ttplayer-7c89","title":"Privacy audit of the 2006 music player TTPlayer 4.6.9","topic":"App teardowns & analysis","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA","Ghidra"],"methods":["Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"REA community","year":"2026","desc":"A nostalgia project used REA to check whether the classic Chinese player leaked data, and found it behaved honestly.","sources":[{"name":"REA community: 案例：用 REA 拆开 2006 年的千千静听 4.6.9（行为审计全记录）","url":"https://github.com/morluto/rea/discussions/5496","kind":"Primary","note":"The audit write-up (in Chinese), with the REA steps and each network request found.","publishedAt":"2026-10-20T11:51:24Z","dateKind":"published","authors":[{"name":"morluto","url":"https://github.com/morluto","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"7c89c9d","about":"For a nostalgia piece, the author (KAIJI) installed TTPlayer 4.6.9 (千千静听), a hugely popular free Chinese music player built in December 2006, and used REA to audit what it sends over the internet. Its famous feature, matching lyrics to any MP3 in seconds, means it talks to servers, so the question was whether it quietly sent anything else.\n\nIt didn't. The player checks for updates (pretending to be Internet Explorer 6), searches the lyrics server and uploads lyrics anonymously. It never reads your user name or computer name: those functions aren't even in the program. Its settings live in portable files next to the app. The post also lists period curiosities, such as a test address with a typo that survived in the shipped program for twenty years.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"two-era-code-audit-of-360-security-guard-e1bc","title":"Two-era code audit of 360 Security Guard","topic":"Security research","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"REA community","year":"2026","desc":"A follow-up audit comparing the 2006 security suite with later versions, to trace when its behaviour changed.","sources":[{"name":"REA community: [rea-360] 360 安全卫士双年代代码审计","url":"https://github.com/morluto/rea/discussions/6698","kind":"Primary","note":"The two-era audit (in Chinese): method, evidence and each finding tied to a function or string.","publishedAt":"2026-10-23T12:17:49Z","dateKind":"published","authors":[{"name":"morluto","url":"https://github.com/morluto","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"e1bc27f","about":"This follow-up to the TTPlayer audit uses REA to compare the original 2006 installer of 360 Security Guard (360安全卫士), recovered from the Wayback Machine, with the 2026 version. The 2006 tool launched as a free anti-adware utility and later came to be widely called adware itself. The audit asks whether that change can be seen in the code.\n\nFindings in the current version include tracking reports sent every time it blocks a pop-up, a silent browser install offered from the scan-results page, and ad settings that its servers can change remotely. It also found 142 of its 437 modules carrying installer download links, including the uninstaller. The post doubles as a reusable method for auditing Chinese software. One tip is to scan for UTF-16 text, which plain grep misses.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"relay-garden-browser-game-built-after-studying-m-c250","title":"Relay garden: browser game built after studying movement with REA","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Making a game","Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"REA community","year":"2026","desc":"A small browser game whose movement was investigated with REA before original art was added.","sources":[{"name":"REA community: Relay garden: investigating movement with REA, then adding original art","url":"https://github.com/morluto/rea/discussions/4568","kind":"Primary","note":"The show-and-tell with links to play the game, read how it was made and get the source.","publishedAt":"2026-10-16T19:44:05Z","dateKind":"published","authors":[{"name":"morluto","url":"https://github.com/morluto","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"c250ddc","about":"Relay garden is a small browser game: collect six energy cells, avoid the drones and get back to the dock before your battery runs out. It started as a worked example of using REA on game mechanics. The question was whether moving diagonally makes the player faster.\n\nREA found the movement code in a small JavaScript reference the authors had written. Reading it showed diagonal and straight movement cover the same distance away from the edges. A separate implementation matched the reference across 2,000 test inputs. Original art made with Dreamlayer was added on top, and you can flip between artwork and plain geometry while playing. The walkthrough notes where REA's analysis was incomplete.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"a-defensive-check-see-your-own-site-the-way-rea-e6cc","title":"A defensive check: see your own site the way REA would","topic":"Security research","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"REA community","year":"2026","desc":"A tool that shows site owners what an agent can read and explain from the frontend code they ship.","sources":[{"name":"REA community: Built a defensive counterpart: check your own site the way REA would","url":"https://github.com/morluto/rea/discussions/4328","kind":"Primary","note":"The announcement of Diarea, with what it checks and a link to the code.","publishedAt":"2026-10-16T01:57:48Z","dateKind":"published","authors":[{"name":"morluto","url":"https://github.com/morluto","role":"Repository account"}]},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/kriszwart/diarea","kind":"Primary","note":"Linked in the post.","authors":[{"name":"kriszwart","url":"https://github.com/kriszwart","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"e6ccb64","about":"REA made one thing obvious to this developer: anything a website ships to the browser, an AI agent can now read and explain. So they built the reverse view for their own products. Diarea (MIT-licensed) scans a site you own, or its build folder, and reports what an agent like REA could learn from it: source maps, secrets left in JavaScript bundles, client-side logic, maps of your APIs and even AI system prompts.\n\nIt scores the result and suggests fixes, borrowing REA's \"Seen / Inferred / Unknown\" labels. The aim is to push as much as possible into \"Unknown\" by keeping it on the server. It only looks at sites you control and isn't designed to block REA.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/kriszwart/diarea","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/kriszwart/diarea"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"tax-reborn-personal-tax-calculations-on-desktop-2069","title":"Tax Reborn: personal tax calculations on desktop and Android","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"REA community","year":"2026","desc":"An offline US tax preparation app, with REA used to trace how the original software calculated results.","sources":[{"name":"REA community: Project #000002: Tax Reborn now runs on desktop and Android (code + downloads)","url":"https://github.com/morluto/rea/discussions/3110","kind":"Primary","note":"Release notes for Preview 10, with what works, example figures and download links.","publishedAt":"2026-10-14T03:01:51Z","dateKind":"published","authors":[{"name":"morluto","url":"https://github.com/morluto","role":"Repository account"}]},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/lxistired/tax-reborn","kind":"Primary","note":"Linked in the post.","authors":[{"name":"lxistired","url":"https://github.com/lxistired","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"2069a48","image":{"url":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lxistired/tax-reborn/2cc71c3899c9eed73342569d2cf78508e4ebf54f/qa/native-preview10/mac-native-final-reopened-10963.png","alt":"Actual Mac preview.10 after normal restart, saved refund10963","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/morluto/rea/discussions/3110"},"about":"Tax Reborn is an offline US personal-tax app for Windows, Mac and Android from the maintainer of Ledger Reborn. REA was used to trace how existing tax software arrives at its numbers. The calculations themselves were written independently and checked separately.\n\nPreview 10 handles the alternative minimum tax (AMT) path from start to finish, among other things. It works out the liability, keeps it after a restart and fills all 29 lines of Form 6251 Part III in the official IRS 2025 PDF. Each release comes with installers, source code and recorded test runs on every platform. It is still a preview, so treat its output as something to check, not to file blindly.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/lxistired/tax-reborn","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/lxistired/tax-reborn"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"ledger-reborn-a-quickbooks-style-desktop-account-01f6","title":"Ledger Reborn: a QuickBooks-style desktop accounting app","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA","Ghidra"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"REA community","year":"2026","desc":"After studying the QuickBooks Desktop trial with REA, the author built an independent accounting app for Mac and Windows.","sources":[{"name":"REA community: Project #000001: From REA to a working QuickBooks-style desktop app (Mac + Windows)","url":"https://github.com/morluto/rea/discussions/2198","kind":"Primary","note":"Project write-up: what REA contributed, what the app does, and links to source and downloads.","publishedAt":"2026-10-12T13:23:47Z","dateKind":"published","authors":[{"name":"morluto","url":"https://github.com/morluto","role":"Repository account"}]},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/lxistired/ledger-reborn","kind":"Primary","note":"Linked in the post.","authors":[{"name":"lxistired","url":"https://github.com/lxistired","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"01f627c","image":{"url":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lxistired/ledger-reborn/main/docs/screenshots/accounting.png","alt":"Actual Ledger Reborn macOS window using synthetic data","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/morluto/rea/discussions/2198"},"about":"Ledger Reborn is an open-source desktop accounting app for Mac and Windows, in the style of QuickBooks. The author used REA and Ghidra to study the QuickBooks Desktop for Mac 2024 trial. They looked at focused areas such as inventory maths, budget signs, reconciliation balances and cash-basis reporting, plus the window layouts. They then wrote their own implementation and checked the accounting results separately.\n\nIt saves real SQLite journals, invoices, stock movements and payments. It handles customers and vendors, partial payments, moving-average inventory, bank CSV import with matching and reconciliation, and financial reports. The author is clear that REA gave evidence and rough pseudocode, not the original source or a finished product.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/lxistired/ledger-reborn","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/lxistired/ledger-reborn"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"outside-in-leak-check-of-a-nextjs-and-stripe-app-36f7","title":"Outside-in leak check of a Next.js and Stripe app","topic":"Security research","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","year":"2026","desc":"A black-box audit of a production portal using REA's browser tools, which found one real HTTPS issue.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: Outside-in leak check of a Next.js and Stripe app","url":"https://github.com/morluto/rea/discussions/1406","kind":"Primary","note":"The showcase: target, method, tool timings and findings.","publishedAt":"2026-10-10T02:51:44Z","dateKind":"published","authors":[{"name":"morluto","url":"https://github.com/morluto","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"36f7f58","about":"A team checked their own live client portal (Next.js, Postgres and Stripe behind a Cloudflare Tunnel) from the outside, the way an attacker would, before cross-checking the source. The question was what someone could see or reach without logging in.\n\nREA's browser tools inspected what each page loads and stores. They found 15 scripts, no source maps, and nothing in browser storage worth stealing. The 694 KB of JavaScript contained no keys or internal addresses. Admin pages redirected properly, forged cookies and login tokens were rejected, and unsigned webhooks were refused. One real HTTPS issue turned up. The same Windows set-up also ran Ghidra and JADX for other targets.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"idea-an-open-source-plex-media-server-clone-9f70","title":"Idea: an open-source Plex Media Server clone","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Idea","foundOn":"REA community","year":"2026","desc":"A community suggestion to use REA to study Plex and build an open-source media server alternative.","sources":[{"name":"REA community: Project Suggestion: Open-Source Plex Media Server Clone","url":"https://github.com/morluto/rea/discussions/4747","kind":"Primary","note":"The suggestion thread with the proposed features.","publishedAt":"2026-10-17T09:52:34Z","dateKind":"published","authors":[{"name":"morluto","url":"https://github.com/morluto","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"9f7031d","about":"This community suggestion proposes using REA to build an open-source server that existing Plex apps on Apple TV, phones and smart TVs could keep talking to, with no dependency on plex.tv. Logins, profiles and server discovery would all be handled locally. It would offer full libraries, metadata, transcoding and multi-user support, packaged for Docker on a NAS or Unraid.\n\nThe author's answer to \"why not just use Jellyfin?\" is that the goal is compatibility with the Plex apps people already have, not another separate ecosystem. It's an idea, not a project yet.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"idea-open-dj-mixing-software-22d3","title":"Idea: open DJ mixing software","topic":"Music & audio","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Idea","foundOn":"REA community","year":"2026","desc":"A request for someone to tackle paywalled features in big-brand DJ mixing apps with an open alternative.","sources":[{"name":"REA community: Anyone working on DJ Mixing Software?","url":"https://github.com/morluto/rea/discussions/6011","kind":"Primary","note":"The discussion thread and replies.","publishedAt":"2026-10-21T13:33:35Z","dateKind":"published","authors":[{"name":"morluto","url":"https://github.com/morluto","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"22d3be5","about":"A DJ asks whether anyone is working on open alternatives to the big-brand DJ apps. Those apps lock controller support behind paywalls and are moving from one-off licences to subscriptions.\n\nReplies from people building related tools include a pop-up \"next track\" suggester that uses the audio itself, and an all-in-one tool that turns YouTube audio into WAV stems with key detection and a sample finder. No full open DJ app is described.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"idea-open-alternative-to-the-helpndoc-help-autho-d9e5","title":"Idea: open alternative to the HelpNDoc help authoring tool","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["Claude Code","REA"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Idea","foundOn":"REA community","year":"2026","desc":"A non-programmer on an older PC proposes a lightweight, cross-platform help authoring tool built with REA and Claude Code.","sources":[{"name":"REA community: Project Idea / REA Challenge: Cross-Platform Open-Source Alternative to HelpNDoc (Lightweight HAT fo","url":"https://github.com/morluto/rea/discussions/6419","kind":"Primary","note":"The proposal, with the features and requirements listed.","publishedAt":"2026-10-23T00:16:23Z","dateKind":"published","authors":[{"name":"morluto","url":"https://github.com/morluto","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"d9e5c0c","about":"A non-programmer with an older PC proposes a community challenge: an open-source, cross-platform alternative to HelpNDoc. HelpNDoc is a Windows-only tool for writing help manuals once and publishing them as web help, PDF, ePub, Kindle, Word and CHM.\n\nThe wish list is a light WYSIWYG editor with a table-of-contents panel and single-source export. It must run on Linux, Windows and macOS, and stay light enough for low-end machines. The author suggests it would be a good real-world test of REA and Claude Code. It's a proposal, not a build.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"idea-carplay-and-android-auto-on-a-2014-hyundai-1c2a","title":"Idea: CarPlay and Android Auto on a 2014 Hyundai i30","topic":"Vehicles & drones","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Idea","foundOn":"REA community","year":"2026","desc":"An owner asks whether REA could add CarPlay to an older car infotainment unit that never shipped with it.","sources":[{"name":"REA community: Is possible use REA to enable Apple CarPlay/Android Auto on the infotainment of my I30 2014 or any o","url":"https://github.com/morluto/rea/discussions/6390","kind":"Primary","note":"The question thread.","publishedAt":"2026-10-22T19:56:29Z","dateKind":"published","authors":[{"name":"morluto","url":"https://github.com/morluto","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"1c2a6fa","about":"A 2014 Hyundai i30 owner who had already used REA to clean up an old smart TV asks whether it could add Apple CarPlay or Android Auto to the car's original infotainment unit, which never had them. They suspect the unit runs Windows CE 6.0. It's a question, with no attempt reported yet.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"idea-opendevicedb-a-shared-lookup-before-reverse-4692","title":"Idea: OpenDeviceDB, a shared lookup before reverse engineering a device","topic":"Protocols & abandoned products","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Idea","foundOn":"REA community","year":"2026","desc":"A proposal for an opt-in database so people don't repeat the same device protocol work.","sources":[{"name":"REA community: Avoiding duplicate device reverse engineering: an opt-in lookup before analysis (OpenDeviceDB)","url":"https://github.com/morluto/rea/discussions/4722","kind":"Primary","note":"The proposal and tool announcement, with how lookups and contributions work and the content policy.","publishedAt":"2026-10-17T08:06:38Z","dateKind":"published","authors":[{"name":"morluto","url":"https://github.com/morluto","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"46923cc","about":"REA made it cheap to recover a device's protocol, so many people now end up redoing the same work on the same abandoned drones, cloud-dead cameras and vendor-locked robots. OpenDeviceDB is an open directory, keyed by device model, that aims to stop that.\n\nIt pulls together existing community databases (OpenWrt, Zigbee2MQTT, Tasmota, ESPHome and others, about 11,600 devices so far). It adds what they don't track: who is working on a device, how far they've got, and whether it was tested on real hardware. Agents can query it through an MCP server, and contributors submit findings as pull requests. Firmware images, keys, DRM bypasses and safety-related functions are excluded.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"idea-free-hp-printers-from-ink-lock-in-4db8","title":"Idea: free HP printers from ink lock-in","topic":"Printers & peripherals","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Idea","foundOn":"REA community","year":"2026","desc":"A request to reverse engineer HP printers that reject cheaper third-party ink.","sources":[{"name":"REA community: HP Printers","url":"https://github.com/morluto/rea/discussions/1989","kind":"Primary","note":"The question and the reply about cartridge chips.","publishedAt":"2026-10-11T23:16:51Z","dateKind":"published","authors":[{"name":"morluto","url":"https://github.com/morluto","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"4db8fbb","about":"A short request: could REA be used on HP printers that refuse cheaper third-party ink because of their cartridge-checking software? One reply points out that the check involves a chip on the cartridge, which makes it a hardware problem as well as a software one. No project followed in the thread.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"idea-reverse-engineer-directx-to-improve-gaming-41f5","title":"Idea: reverse engineer DirectX to improve gaming on Linux and macOS","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Idea","foundOn":"REA community","year":"2026","desc":"A long-term proposal to use agent-driven reverse engineering to improve DirectX compatibility layers.","sources":[{"name":"REA community: Could REA Help Reverse Engineer DirectX and Revolutionize Gaming on Linux and macOS?","url":"https://github.com/morluto/rea/discussions/2328","kind":"Primary","note":"The proposal and the reasoning behind it.","publishedAt":"2026-10-12T19:50:27Z","dateKind":"published","authors":[{"name":"morluto","url":"https://github.com/morluto","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"41f58a6","about":"A long-term proposal: use REA's agents to study how Microsoft's DirectX behaves, then feed that into the compatibility layers that run Windows games on Linux and macOS (Wine, Proton, DXVK, VKD3D-Proton, Apple's Game Porting Toolkit). The aim isn't to copy DirectX. It is to find and confirm undocumented behaviour faster, by comparing reconstructed functions with the original and testing repeatedly. It's an idea for discussion, not a project.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"dx-balls-sound-pan-calculation-recovered-d82e","title":"DX-Ball's sound-pan calculation recovered","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Decompiling software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"A C function from the 1996 Windows game recovered with REA, passing 3,205 tests against the original x86 code.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: DX-Ball's sound-pan calculation","url":"https://rea.tools/showcase/dx-ball/","kind":"Blog","note":"The step-by-step showcase: the prompt, REA's queries and evidence, the C function and the tests."}],"ref":"d82eaa5","about":"This is one of REA's official showcases, from a larger reconstruction of the 1996 Windows game DX-Ball. When a brick is hit, the game turns its horizontal position into a left/right stereo pan for the sound. The agent used REA to inspect that function, follow it back to the brick-hit code and read the constants from the executable, then wrote it as readable C.\n\nThe rebuilt function passes all 3,205 test cases run against the original x86 code, and compiles to the same 63 bytes. The wider project has recovered board handling, brick hits, animations, particles and bonuses. Ball physics, power-ups and Windows integration are still to come.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"how-an-authenticator-app-generates-login-codes-3930","title":"How an authenticator app generates login codes","topic":"App teardowns & analysis","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"REA traced the six-digit TOTP calculation inside the Aegis Android app and explained the 30-second rotation.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: How an authenticator generates a login code","url":"https://rea.tools/showcase/aegis/","kind":"Blog","note":"The showcase: locating the code, reading the calculation and the interactive rebuild."}],"ref":"3930a0a","about":"An REA showcase that explains how two-factor authenticator apps work, using Aegis 3.4.3 for Android. REA searches the app's 3,077 classes, traces the code behind the displayed and copied codes, and returns the methods and default settings. The agent then explains the rule: the current time is cut into 30-second steps and combined with the account's secret key to produce six digits.\n\nIt finishes with a small browser demo that rebuilds the calculation, with a clock you can change and checks against public reference values. Aegis is open source, so it's a safe, legal target for learning.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"how-notion-copies-text-and-html-9dd0","title":"How Notion copies text and HTML","topic":"App teardowns & analysis","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"A trace of Notion's Electron clipboard bridge from the page through preload and IPC to the main process.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: How Notion copies text and HTML","url":"https://rea.tools/showcase/notion/","kind":"Blog","note":"The showcase with the prompt, REA's findings and the four code excerpts."}],"ref":"9dd0cfd","about":"An REA showcase tracing what happens when you copy something in Notion's desktop app. The web page calls clipboard.write, but that's only a wrapper. REA finds where the API is exposed in the minified preload script and the internal message it sends (notion:clipboard:write). The agent then follows that name into the main process that actually writes to the system clipboard.\n\nFour short, cleaned-up code excerpts show each step. There's also a look at Notion's rich clipboard format, which carries both plain text and HTML.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"how-touhou-4-aims-a-ring-of-bullets-dde9","title":"How Touhou 4 aims a ring of bullets","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Decompiling software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"A 16-bit PC-98 angle helper matched to readable C++ and compared against historical compiler output.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: How TH04 aims a ring of bullets","url":"https://rea.tools/showcase/th04/","kind":"Blog","note":"The showcase walking through the assembly, REA's output and the recovered C++."}],"ref":"dde9a22","about":"An REA showcase on Touhou 4 (Lotus Land Story), a 1990s PC-98 shoot-'em-up running as 16-bit DOS code. It answers how a boss fires a ring of 16 bullets aimed at the player. The game measures a full turn in 256 angle units, so the 16 bullets sit 16 units apart. Adding the direction to the player rotates the whole ring towards you.\n\nREA returns the function's instructions, pseudocode and references. These are matched against readable C++ from an existing community reconstruction of the game and compared with what period compilers would have produced.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"a-ctf-flag-checker-solved-ce60","title":"A CTF flag checker solved","topic":"Security research","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"A DownUnderCTF native binary checker turned into equations with REA, and the flag verified.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: Solve a CTF flag checker","url":"https://rea.tools/showcase/ctf/","kind":"Blog","note":"The showcase with each REA query, the recovered checks and the verification step."}],"ref":"ce6035e","about":"An REA showcase solving a capture-the-flag puzzle from DownUnderCTF: a 15 KB program that asks for a flag and prints \"Correct!\" or \"Incorrect!\". With the function names stripped, the agent finds the prompt string, follows the references to the checking function, extracts the masks it compares against and turns the checks into equations. It then solves them and confirms the recovered flag by running the original program.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"ai-rebuilds-abandoned-games-rebuilt-for-the-web-7328","title":"ai-rebuilds: abandoned games rebuilt for the web","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"Abandoned games rebuilt for the open web from behaviour specs derived with REA.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: ai-rebuilds","url":"https://github.com/a-barzanti/ai-rebuilds","kind":"Primary","note":"The list's repository, also browsable at ai-rebuilds.com.","authors":[{"name":"a-barzanti","url":"https://github.com/a-barzanti","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"73285cf","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/a-barzanti/ai-rebuilds","alt":"GitHub repository card for a-barzanti/ai-rebuilds","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/a-barzanti/ai-rebuilds"},"about":"AI Rebuilds is a tracked list of software and games rebuilt from the outside in. It includes apps written by AI agents, game decompilations finished with Claude, engine reimplementations such as OpenRCT2, and earlier clean-room classics like Wine. Each entry says what it rebuilds, how (clean-room, reimplementation, decompilation, port) and whether AI was involved.\n\nIt listed 81 projects at the end of October 2026, with GitHub stars and last-commit dates refreshed weekly, and can be searched at ai-rebuilds.com. It also links a guide to rebuilding software with REA.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/a-barzanti/ai-rebuilds","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/a-barzanti/ai-rebuilds"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"bonkheads-remade-natively-for-the-mac-a0f8","title":"Bonkheads remade natively for the Mac","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA","Ghidra"],"methods":["Decompiling software","Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"The 90s game rebuilt from static analysis with REA and Ghidra, with its levels recovered as JSON.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: bonkheads","url":"https://github.com/needleinahaystack3107/bonkheads","kind":"Primary","note":"The Swift remake, with the story of how it was rebuilt and how to make levels.","authors":[{"name":"needleinahaystack3107","url":"https://github.com/needleinahaystack3107","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"a0f8a6e","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/needleinahaystack3107/bonkheads","alt":"GitHub repository card for needleinahaystack3107/bonkheads","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/needleinahaystack3107/bonkheads"},"about":"Bonkheads was a 90s game the author remembered from a daycare computer. Two trolls, Grag and Thog, bonk pests from underneath a platform and kick them off the screen, with screen wrap-around and two players sharing one keyboard. After hearing about REA, they made a brand-new native Mac version in Swift.\n\nThey downloaded the official 2003 demo from the Wayback Machine and checked its hash. Without ever running it, they studied it with REA and Ghidra to copy the jump feel, the bonk-then-kick mechanic, the wrap-around and the pests' behaviour. None of the original code, art or levels are included. Levels are plain JSON files, so you can make your own.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/needleinahaystack3107/bonkheads","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/needleinahaystack3107/bonkheads"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"2002-pocket-pc-card-games-revived-in-the-browser-0e31","title":"2002 Pocket PC card games revived in the browser","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Decompiling software","Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"Windows CE ARM executables decompiled with REA so the card games could run in a browser.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: card-games-to-go-revived","url":"https://github.com/Ozdotdotdot/card-games-to-go-revived","kind":"Primary","note":"Source, per-game findings and a link to play it in the browser.","authors":[{"name":"Ozdotdotdot","url":"https://github.com/Ozdotdotdot","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"0e31885","image":{"url":"https://github.com/Ozdotdotdot/card-games-to-go-revived/raw/main/screenshots/cd.jpg","alt":"The original 2002 CD case, found at a garage sale","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/Ozdotdotdot/card-games-to-go-revived"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://github.com/Ozdotdotdot/card-games-to-go-revived/raw/main/screenshots/hearts.png","alt":"Hearts in the browser","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/Ozdotdotdot/card-games-to-go-revived"},{"url":"https://github.com/Ozdotdotdot/card-games-to-go-revived/raw/main/screenshots/war.png","alt":"War in the browser, mid-war","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/Ozdotdotdot/card-games-to-go-revived"}],"about":"Solitaire and Card Games To Go was a 2002 CD-ROM of six card games for Pocket PC and Palm handhelds: Klondike, Spider, Golf, Hearts, Spades and War. The author found the CD at a garage sale. They decompiled the original Windows CE ARM programs with REA and Ghidra to recover each game's rules, layouts, card artwork composition and computer opponents. The notes, with function addresses, are in FINDINGS.md.\n\nThe games now run on a modern computer and in any browser on your home network. A public copy is at 2002solitaire.ozairkhan.com. Original quirks were kept on purpose, such as a King-on-Ace oddity in Klondike caused by the Ace being stored as 14.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/Ozdotdotdot/card-games-to-go-revived","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/Ozdotdotdot/card-games-to-go-revived"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"creative-destruction-reborn-offline-play-for-a-s-4219","title":"Creative Destruction reborn: offline play for a shut-down game","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"A fan preservation project with a local server and client mod so the game can be played offline.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: creative-destruction-reborn","url":"https://github.com/crasyimperior/creative-destruction-reborn","kind":"Primary","note":"The local server and client mod, with bilingual set-up instructions.","authors":[{"name":"crasyimperior","url":"https://github.com/crasyimperior","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"42199de","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/crasyimperior/creative-destruction-reborn","alt":"GitHub repository card for crasyimperior/creative-destruction-reborn","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/crasyimperior/creative-destruction-reborn"},"about":"Creative Destruction was a free-to-play battle-royale game whose servers shut in June 2022, leaving the PC version unplayable. This fan preservation project brings it back offline. It's a small Python server you run on your own computer, plus a client mod installed into your own copy of the official PC game, version 3.0.210.0.\n\nNo game files are included. The README (in French and English) explains how to check your copy with SHA-256 hashes and set everything up with Python 3.8 or newer.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/crasyimperior/creative-destruction-reborn","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/crasyimperior/creative-destruction-reborn"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"cuphead-recovery-tools-for-apple-platforms-377d","title":"Cuphead recovery tools for Apple platforms","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Partly","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Decompiling software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"Experimental tooling and native Apple helpers for Cuphead, with REA used in the analysis.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: cuphead-apple-port-tools","url":"https://github.com/IgnacioPardo/cuphead-apple-port-tools","kind":"Primary","note":"The tooling, validation notes and the publication and migration plan.","authors":[{"name":"IgnacioPardo","url":"https://github.com/IgnacioPardo","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"377d9d4","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/IgnacioPardo/cuphead-apple-port-tools","alt":"GitHub repository card for IgnacioPardo/cuphead-apple-port-tools","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/IgnacioPardo/cuphead-apple-port-tools"},"about":"These are experimental tools from someone who rebuilt their own Cuphead installation to run natively on Apple Silicon Macs and on Apple TV. Privately, the migration produced working ARM64 builds using Apple's Metal graphics on both. The public repository holds the reusable parts: recovering the C# code from a local GOG Windows install, the known fixes needed to compile it, helper installation and validation tests.\n\nIt doesn't yet automate the full journey from a bought copy to a playable build, and you bring your own game files. The code is MIT-licensed.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/IgnacioPardo/cuphead-apple-port-tools","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/IgnacioPardo/cuphead-apple-port-tools"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"a-2000-desktop-smashing-toy-ported-to-macos-and-c2ef","title":"A 2000 desktop-smashing toy ported to macOS and the web","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA","Ghidra"],"methods":["Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"Gemtree's desktop toy brought to macOS and the browser with REA and Ghidra.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: desktop-games-nostalgia","url":"https://github.com/ucodia/desktop-games-nostalgia","kind":"Primary","note":"The Swift and web port, with a playable web version linked from the repository.","authors":[{"name":"ucodia","url":"https://github.com/ucodia","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"c2ef61d","image":{"url":"https://github.com/ucodia/desktop-games-nostalgia/raw/main/docs/demo.gif","alt":"Desktop Games smashing a macOS desktop","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/ucodia/desktop-games-nostalgia"},"about":"Desktop Games, also called Stress Reducers, was a 2000 freeware toy by Miroslav Němeček of Gemtree Software. It takes a picture of your screen and lets you wreck it. This unofficial nostalgia port brings it to macOS and the browser, analysed with REA and Ghidra.\n\nAll nine tools are there: a hammer that cracks the screen (the smash sound depends on how bright the spot is), a chainsaw, a machine gun, a flamethrower, a paint thrower that flood-fills, a phaser, rubber stamps, termites and more. All credit is given to the original author.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/ucodia/desktop-games-nostalgia","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/ucodia/desktop-games-nostalgia"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"dino-island-2002-recreated-in-threejs-d584","title":"Dino Island (2002) recreated in Three.js","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA","Ghidra"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"A macOS-focused recreation of the game, built on REA and Ghidra research into the original.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: Dino-Island","url":"https://github.com/merttcetn/Dino-Island","kind":"Primary","note":"Source, controls and the research notes on the original formats.","authors":[{"name":"merttcetn","url":"https://github.com/merttcetn","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"d584c6e","image":{"url":"https://github.com/merttcetn/Dino-Island/raw/main/docs/images/gameplay.png","alt":"Current Three.js scene featuring the original island, dinosaurs, and atlas-based interface","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/merttcetn/Dino-Island"},"about":"This is a work-in-progress recreation of Monte Cristo's 2002 game Dino Island, built for the browser with Three.js and TypeScript and aimed at Mac users. It loads the original game's island data, dinosaur models, animations and interface graphics. Research with REA and Ghidra uncovered the file formats and how the game behaves.\n\nSo far it has the original island terrain and textures, 1,536 placed plants, water, skybox and clouds, plus four dinosaurs. The author is clear that it isn't a finished port and doesn't run the original Windows game.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/merttcetn/Dino-Island","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/merttcetn/Dino-Island"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"dx-ball-107-reconstructed-in-cc-dcd8","title":"DX-Ball 1.07 reconstructed in C/C++","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Codex","REA"],"methods":["Decompiling software","Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"The 1996 game rebuilt with REA and Codex, checked against the original x86 code with differential tests.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: dx-ball","url":"https://github.com/N0zoM1z0/dx-ball","kind":"Primary","note":"The reconstruction, progress table and build-and-gameplay video.","authors":[{"name":"N0zoM1z0","url":"https://github.com/N0zoM1z0","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"dcd834c","image":{"url":"https://camo.githubusercontent.com/72b6b4901286c6549a81e4d89474b25c61250d4c8dea51b6f9f7a4948b516d97/68747470733a2f2f692e7974696d672e636f6d2f76692f547a524743496b705f63342f6d617872657364656661756c742e6a7067","alt":"Watch DX-Ball v1.07 reconstructed from its EXE: native Windows build and gameplay on YouTube","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/N0zoM1z0/dx-ball"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://github.com/N0zoM1z0/dx-ball/raw/main/resources/dxball-title.png","alt":"DX-Ball title screen","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/N0zoM1z0/dx-ball"}],"about":"This project rebuilds the English version 1.07 of DX-Ball, the 1996 Windows brick-breaker, as readable C and C++. Codex used REA to inspect the original program through Ghidra and recover its functions. Each one was then compiled with the original Visual C++ 4.0 and compared with the original.\n\nIt's now complete: all 270 game functions, 84,968 bytes of code, match the original exactly. The game builds from the rebuilt source with the original compiler and plays in a window on Windows. A video shows the build and gameplay.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/N0zoM1z0/dx-ball","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/N0zoM1z0/dx-ball"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"how-fallout-new-vegas-saves-object-positions-db67","title":"How Fallout: New Vegas saves object positions","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA","Ghidra"],"methods":["Decompiling software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"Traced with REA and Ghidra, then reimplemented, to show how the game persists objects across cells.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: fnv-rea","url":"https://github.com/Matheus2250/fnv-rea","kind":"Primary","note":"The specification, the reimplementation and the investigation diary.","authors":[{"name":"Matheus2250","url":"https://github.com/Matheus2250","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"db67128","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/Matheus2250/fnv-rea","alt":"Reverse engineering how Fallout: New Vegas persists object positions across cells (REA + Ghidra), with a clean-room reimplementation - Matheus2250/fnv-rea","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/Matheus2250/fnv-rea"},"about":"This Portuguese-language project traces how Fallout: New Vegas remembers where objects are when you leave an area and come back, and when you save and load. It used REA and Ghidra on the GOG release's executable.\n\nThe result is a behaviour specification (SPEC.md). Each rule is marked as observed in the executable, inferred, or a design choice, with REA's evidence IDs. Alongside it is a from-scratch JavaScript implementation with 31 tests and an investigation diary of functions and addresses. No game code is included.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/Matheus2250/fnv-rea","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/Matheus2250/fnv-rea"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"edit-counter-strike-16-maps-by-talking-to-an-age-aac7","title":"Edit Counter-Strike 1.6 maps by talking to an agent","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"Compiled GoldSrc maps edited through conversation, with the engine's rules checked through REA.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: goldsrc-agent-kit","url":"https://github.com/kirinchen/goldsrc-agent-kit","kind":"Primary","note":"The toolkit, with map-shrinking results and the list of verified engine rules.","authors":[{"name":"kirinchen","url":"https://github.com/kirinchen","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"aac740f","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/kirinchen/goldsrc-agent-kit","alt":"GitHub repository card for kirinchen/goldsrc-agent-kit","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/kirinchen/goldsrc-agent-kit"},"about":"goldsrc-agent-kit lets you edit compiled Counter-Strike 1.6 and other GoldSrc maps (Half-Life, Team Fortress Classic, Day of Defeat) by talking to an AI agent. You can shrink a whole map into a playable \"mini\" version in seconds, move spawn points, check collisions, and preview and pick spots in 3D in the browser.\n\nIt works directly on the compiled .bsp file, with no decompiling or recompiling, in plain Python. Every engine rule the tools rely on was checked against the shipped game binaries using REA. The README lists tested results, such as de_dust2 at half size and still fully walkable.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/kirinchen/goldsrc-agent-kit","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/kirinchen/goldsrc-agent-kit"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"commander-keen-1-reimplemented-natively-for-linu-4e14","title":"Commander Keen 1 reimplemented natively for Linux","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA","Ghidra"],"methods":["Decompiling software","Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"An SDL2 reimplementation reverse engineered from the original executable with REA and Ghidra.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: keen-clone","url":"https://github.com/carlhako/keen-clone","kind":"Primary","note":"Source with build instructions for Linux and the web.","authors":[{"name":"carlhako","url":"https://github.com/carlhako","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"4e14365","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/carlhako/keen-clone","alt":"Native Linux/SDL2 reimplementation of Commander Keen 1, reverse engineered from KEEN1.EXE with REA + Ghidra - carlhako/keen-clone","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/carlhako/keen-clone"},"about":"keen-clone is a native C and SDL2 version of Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons, Episode One (id Software / Apogee, 1990), for Linux. It was rebuilt from the original KEEN1.EXE with REA and Ghidra by translating the decompiled game logic function by function: Keen's physics, enemies, tile behaviour, world map, menus, ending and high scores.\n\nIt can also be built with Emscripten to play in a browser. No game data is included. It loads the original files, and the free shareware episode works.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/carlhako/keen-clone","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/carlhako/keen-clone"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"larax-and-zaco-an-evidence-backed-dos-game-decom-b704","title":"Larax and Zaco: an evidence-backed DOS game decompilation","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA","Ghidra"],"methods":["Decompiling software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"A decompilation of the DOS game using REA and Ghidra, with evidence for each recovered function.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: lezac-decompilation","url":"https://github.com/Hubert-Rybak/lezac-decompilation","kind":"Primary","note":"The decompilation, its evidence and the test results.","authors":[{"name":"Hubert-Rybak","url":"https://github.com/Hubert-Rybak","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"b704d89","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/Hubert-Rybak/lezac-decompilation","alt":"GitHub repository card for Hubert-Rybak/lezac-decompilation","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/Hubert-Rybak/lezac-decompilation"},"about":"This is a careful, evidence-backed study of the shareware DOS game Larax & Zaco (LEZAC.EXE) using REA and Ghidra. It has exported 215 routines and rebuilt seven core routines in Pascal, in the original style. It also recovered sixteen packed data layouts for actors, animation, debris, scores and resources.\n\nThe Pascal versions were checked in 174,777 comparisons against the original, plus a test program running in real 16-bit DOS. The author is explicit that this isn't a playable rebuild, a bit-identical rebuild, or the author's original source.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/Hubert-Rybak/lezac-decompilation","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/Hubert-Rybak/lezac-decompilation"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"lego-star-wars-the-complete-saga-decompilation-d912","title":"Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga decompilation","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Partly","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Decompiling software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"A decompilation project that used REA as its initial analysis toolkit.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: LStarwars-Decompile","url":"https://github.com/nmdurkee/LStarwars-Decompile","kind":"Primary","note":"The current checkpoint, with what has been recovered and how it's verified.","authors":[{"name":"nmdurkee","url":"https://github.com/nmdurkee","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"d91265a","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/nmdurkee/LStarwars-Decompile","alt":"GitHub repository card for nmdurkee/LStarwars-Decompile","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/nmdurkee/LStarwars-Decompile"},"about":"This is research towards rebuilding LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga (PC), with the long-term aim of a mixed-reality tabletop version for Unity and Quest 3. REA was the starting toolkit. So far 14,704 native functions have been catalogued. 1,291 of them have been mapped to portable C# across combat, animation, gameplay, geometry, input and navigation. The first combat subset passed 14,553 comparisons against the original running in an x86 emulator.\n\nThe author stresses that this isn't the original source, a complete game or a Unity project yet.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/nmdurkee/LStarwars-Decompile","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/nmdurkee/LStarwars-Decompile"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"a-1990-finnish-speech-synthesiser-running-again-ab61","title":"A 1990 Finnish speech synthesiser running again","topic":"Retro computing","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Decompiling software","Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"Mikropuhe, an MS-DOS speech synthesiser, brought back to modern systems with REA as the way into the binary.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: mikropuhe","url":"https://github.com/WokenBits/mikropuhe","kind":"Primary","note":"The program, with how it was checked against the original and how to run it.","authors":[{"name":"WokenBits","url":"https://github.com/WokenBits","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"ab619ce","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/WokenBits/mikropuhe","alt":"GitHub repository card for WokenBits/mikropuhe","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/WokenBits/mikropuhe"},"about":"MikroPuhe was a Finnish text-to-speech program for MS-DOS from 1990 by Timehouse Oy, with three voices (Janne, Kristian and Sophia) that spoke through the PC speaker. This project, puhu, is a new C program written from a study of the original. It reads the original voice files and says the same things in the same voices, sample for sample, on Linux, macOS and Windows.\n\nChecked against the original running in an emulator, the text handling matches in all 89 test inputs. The audio is byte-identical in 86, and the other three differ only where the original reads uninitialised memory. The full-screen interface matches too, and a new synthetic voice, Kone, was added.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/WokenBits/mikropuhe","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/WokenBits/mikropuhe"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"windows-xp-minesweeper-ported-to-linux-by-a-loca-fa43","title":"Windows XP Minesweeper ported to Linux by a local model","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Decompiling software","Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"Decompiled and ported by a locally running model through the REA MCP server.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: minesweeper-linux-recomp","url":"https://github.com/NexonSU/minesweeper-linux-recomp","kind":"Primary","note":"The port and a step-by-step account of how the local model rebuilt it.","authors":[{"name":"NexonSU","url":"https://github.com/NexonSU","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"fa436a9","image":{"url":"https://github.com/NexonSU/minesweeper-linux-recomp/raw/main/docs/first-run.png","alt":"First run","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/NexonSU/minesweeper-linux-recomp"},"about":"This proof of concept asks whether a model running entirely on your own computer, with no cloud services, can take apart a Windows program and rebuild it. The target was Windows XP's Minesweeper (WINMINE.EXE). Through the REA MCP server the model decompiled about 150 functions in Ghidra and extracted the sprites, dialogs, menus and sounds.\n\nIt then rebuilt the game's data model and logic for Linux, aiming to match the original's behaviour, look and quirks. A screenshot shows the port running next to the original. It's an unofficial fan port.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/NexonSU/minesweeper-linux-recomp","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/NexonSU/minesweeper-linux-recomp"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"learning-to-reverse-engineer-mechwarrior-3-3e2a","title":"Learning to reverse engineer MechWarrior 3","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Partly","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Decompiling software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"A learning project rebuilding MechWarrior 3's mechanics with REA.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: mw3-re","url":"https://github.com/telltaleatheist/mw3-re","kind":"Primary","note":"The rebuild, what you need to run it and how to report bugs.","authors":[{"name":"telltaleatheist","url":"https://github.com/telltaleatheist","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"3e2a393","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/telltaleatheist/mw3-re","alt":"GitHub repository card for telltaleatheist/mw3-re","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/telltaleatheist/mw3-re"},"about":"This unofficial fan rebuild makes MechWarrior 3 (1999) run on Windows 10 and 11, macOS and Linux without Wine or DirectX wrappers. It isn't a remake. The original Mech3.exe (patch 1.2) was taken apart with REA and rewritten function by function in C++, mostly checked against the original running in an emulator, so it plays as it always did but without the old bugs.\n\nYou need your own copy, as an installed game, the disc or a disc image (a .cue image also gives you the music). It uses Direct3D 12 on Windows and Metal on Mac. The author describes it as a personal learning project.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/telltaleatheist/mw3-re","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/telltaleatheist/mw3-re"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"microsoft-plus-mystery-screensaver-ported-to-lin-4792","title":"Microsoft Plus! Mystery screensaver ported to Linux","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"An SDL2 port of the classic screensaver after analysing its binaries with REA (bring your own copy).","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: mystery-sdl","url":"https://github.com/viny182/mystery-sdl","kind":"Primary","note":"The port, its wide mode and the author's AI-code disclaimer.","authors":[{"name":"viny182","url":"https://github.com/viny182","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"4792e08","image":{"url":"https://github.com/viny182/mystery-sdl/raw/main/docs/wide-1.png","alt":"wide screenshot","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/viny182/mystery-sdl"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://github.com/viny182/mystery-sdl/raw/main/docs/ultrawide.png","alt":"ultrawide screenshot","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/viny182/mystery-sdl"},{"url":"https://github.com/viny182/mystery-sdl/raw/main/docs/scene-viewer.png","alt":"scene viewer","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/viny182/mystery-sdl"}],"about":"This is an unofficial Linux port, using SDL2, of the \"Mystery\" haunted-house screensaver from Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95: lit windows, an owl, bats, a black cat, a creaking door and a howling moon. A --wide mode fills modern 16:9 and ultrawide screens without black bars.\n\nIt was built after analysing the original binaries with REA, and you supply your own Mystery.dll. The author is upfront that all the code was written by Claude through Claude Code, steered in plain language and checked by eye, with no human review or formal audit.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/viny182/mystery-sdl","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/viny182/mystery-sdl"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"naruto-uzumaki-chronicles-2-reimplemented-for-ap-952d","title":"Naruto Uzumaki Chronicles 2 reimplemented for Apple platforms","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Partly","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Decompiling software","Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"The PS2 game rebuilt in Swift and Metal, with REA run on the Emotion Engine code.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: naruto-uzumaki-chronicles-2","url":"https://github.com/byescaleira/naruto-uzumaki-chronicles-2","kind":"Primary","authors":[{"name":"byescaleira","url":"https://github.com/byescaleira","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"952dbbe","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/byescaleira/naruto-uzumaki-chronicles-2","alt":"GitHub repository card for byescaleira/naruto-uzumaki-chronicles-2","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/byescaleira/naruto-uzumaki-chronicles-2"},"projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/byescaleira/naruto-uzumaki-chronicles-2","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/byescaleira/naruto-uzumaki-chronicles-2"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"neon-rooftops-an-endless-runner-after-mapping-th-3d7e","title":"Neon Rooftops: an endless runner after mapping the Chrome dino engine","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Making a game","Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"An original pixel-art game built after statically mapping the Chrome dinosaur game with REA.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: neon-rooftops","url":"https://github.com/kingabzpro/neon-rooftops","kind":"Primary","note":"The game, with downloads and a link to play in the browser.","authors":[{"name":"kingabzpro","url":"https://github.com/kingabzpro","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"3d7e208","image":{"url":"https://github.com/kingabzpro/neon-rooftops/raw/main/docs/screenshot.png","alt":"screenshot","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/kingabzpro/neon-rooftops"},"about":"Neon Rooftops is an original pixel-art endless runner: a little cat sprints across neon rooftops at night, hopping chimneys, satellite dishes, air-conditioning units and drones. It began with REA. The authors pulled Chrome's built-in offline dinosaur game out of Chrome's resource file and studied how it works, then rebuilt the idea from scratch.\n\nAll the code and art are new, and no Chromium assets are included. It plays in the browser or as a standalone Windows app that needs no install.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/kingabzpro/neon-rooftops","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/kingabzpro/neon-rooftops"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"dark-colony-1997-as-a-playable-browser-clone-c7c9","title":"Dark Colony (1997) as a playable browser clone","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"A TypeScript remake with the game's file formats recovered by reverse engineering.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: open-dark-colony","url":"https://github.com/edulazaro/open-dark-colony","kind":"Primary","note":"Source (README in Spanish), format specs and a link to play in the browser.","authors":[{"name":"edulazaro","url":"https://github.com/edulazaro","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"c7c9852","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/edulazaro/open-dark-colony","alt":"GitHub repository card for edulazaro/open-dark-colony","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/edulazaro/open-dark-colony"},"about":"Open Dark Colony is a playable browser clone of the 1997 real-time strategy game Dark Colony, written in TypeScript. It includes no game assets. It reads the sprites, maps, scenarios, sounds and interface from your own installation at run time, so it looks and sounds exactly like the original. The engine, AI, interface and mission interpreter are new.\n\nThe file formats were worked out from the original DC.EXE using REA on Ghidra, and are documented in English. In the online version you point it at your game folder or a ZIP of it.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/edulazaro/open-dark-colony","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/edulazaro/open-dark-colony"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"johnny-castaway-screensaver-reimplemented-in-rus-e5e9","title":"Johnny Castaway screensaver reimplemented in Rust","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"The 1992 screensaver rebuilt for Windows, macOS and Linux.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: open-scrantic","url":"https://github.com/glauberlima/open-scrantic","kind":"Primary","note":"Downloads, settings, an FAQ and an AI disclosure.","authors":[{"name":"glauberlima","url":"https://github.com/glauberlima","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"e5e9e6a","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/glauberlima/open-scrantic","alt":"GitHub repository card for glauberlima/open-scrantic","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/glauberlima/open-scrantic"},"about":"Open Scrantic brings back Johnny Castaway, the classic 1992 Sierra/Dynamix screensaver in which a castaway lives out his days on a tiny island while a story unfolds over time. It's a free, open-source reimplementation in Rust that runs natively on Windows, macOS and Linux, and can be installed as a real Windows screensaver.\n\nIt was reverse engineered with REA and Claude Code to behave the same as the original, and it has a 30-second demo video. You need your own copy of the original screensaver files.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/glauberlima/open-scrantic","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/glauberlima/open-scrantic"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"openbattlefield2-a-clean-room-refractor-2-engine-7841","title":"OpenBattlefield2: a clean-room Refractor 2 engine","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Partly","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"A C++20 reimplementation of the Battlefield 2 engine using REA for function-level evidence.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: OpenBattlefield2","url":"https://github.com/Moxnatiy/OpenBattlefield2","kind":"Primary","note":"The engine source, its current status and the list of unknowns still to reverse.","authors":[{"name":"Moxnatiy","url":"https://github.com/Moxnatiy","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"78415da","image":{"url":"https://github.com/Moxnatiy/OpenBattlefield2/raw/master/docs/screenshots/menu-main.png","alt":"Main menu","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/Moxnatiy/OpenBattlefield2"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://github.com/Moxnatiy/OpenBattlefield2/raw/master/docs/screenshots/spawn-dalian.png","alt":"Spawn screen","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/Moxnatiy/OpenBattlefield2"},{"url":"https://github.com/Moxnatiy/OpenBattlefield2/raw/master/docs/screenshots/ingame.png","alt":"In game, Dalian Plant","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/Moxnatiy/OpenBattlefield2"},{"url":"https://github.com/Moxnatiy/OpenBattlefield2/raw/master/docs/screenshots/karkand.png","alt":"Strike at Karkand","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/Moxnatiy/OpenBattlefield2"}],"about":"OpenBattlefield2 is a clean-room reimplementation in C++20 of DICE's Refractor 2 engine, which ran Battlefield 2 (2005). It's an engine, not a game: it ships no content and runs from your own installed copy. The goal is a one-to-one port. Every rule in the code names where it came from: an address in the original binary (found with REA), a line in the game's data, or a measured frame of the original. Anything not yet understood is logged as \"debt\" rather than guessed.\n\nIt's an active research project, and the author is asking for help with the debt list, reference frame dumps and testing.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/Moxnatiy/OpenBattlefield2","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/Moxnatiy/OpenBattlefield2"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"text-twist-2-rebuilt-with-an-updated-dictionary-02cd","title":"Text Twist 2 rebuilt with an updated dictionary","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA","Ghidra"],"methods":["Decompiling software","Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"The 2008 word game reconstructed with REA and Ghidra so it can be played with a modern word list.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: re-twist-tt2","url":"https://github.com/jcchikikomori/re-twist-tt2","kind":"Primary","note":"Source, the dictionary format and build steps for desktop and Android.","authors":[{"name":"jcchikikomori","url":"https://github.com/jcchikikomori","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"02cd28b","image":{"url":"https://private-user-images.githubusercontent.com/4709030/674542488-759e3d30-e1ad-444e-b532-36081cb60f0e.png?jwt=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.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.mBz5UtnqjZ6ao0J_pG96knOAn2OiA-XM7jOHff5rtqg","alt":"image","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/jcchikikomori/re-twist-tt2"},"about":"Text Twist 2 (GameHouse, 2008) shipped with word lists locked inside its Windows install. This project decoded the game logic and the .tree dictionary format with REA and Ghidra, then rebuilt the game in portable C++17 for desktop (SDL3) and Android. The author's main goal was to play it with a modern dictionary.\n\nIt ships a public-domain 2026 word list of 173,528 words. Swapping dictionaries is just a file swap, and there are no third-party libraries in the engine.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/jcchikikomori/re-twist-tt2","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/jcchikikomori/re-twist-tt2"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"chrome-t-rex-runner-analysed-and-reimplemented-b8d8","title":"Chrome T-Rex Runner analysed and reimplemented","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Codex","REA"],"methods":["Analysing or auditing software","Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"The dinosaur game studied with REA and Codex, then rebuilt with regression tests.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: rea-dino-reverse-engineering","url":"https://github.com/zhxunzh84/rea-dino-reverse-engineering","kind":"Primary","note":"The write-up, source and a link to the playable demo.","authors":[{"name":"zhxunzh84","url":"https://github.com/zhxunzh84","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"b8d8ee9","image":{"url":"https://github.com/zhxunzh84/rea-dino-reverse-engineering/raw/main/screenshots/dino-game.png","alt":"Little Runner game-over scene and speed controls","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/zhxunzh84/rea-dino-reverse-engineering"},"about":"This practice project uses REA to inspect the JavaScript behind Chrome's offline T-Rex game through the Chrome DevTools Protocol. Codex then built an independent HTML5 canvas version with regression tests. The interesting finding is subtle: movement depends on elapsed time, but speed increases once per eligible update. Keeping that right matters more than matching the look.\n\nThere's a live demo you can play in the browser.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/zhxunzh84/rea-dino-reverse-engineering","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/zhxunzh84/rea-dino-reverse-engineering"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"terminal-doom-in-rust-ab99","title":"Terminal DOOM in Rust","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"A terminal-only DOOM reconstruction that loads real WAD files and is checked with equivalence tests.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: rea-doom-term","url":"https://github.com/schererstefan/rea-doom-term","kind":"Primary","note":"The Rust source, method notes and tests.","authors":[{"name":"schererstefan","url":"https://github.com/schererstefan","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"ab99a5d","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/schererstefan/rea-doom-term","alt":"GitHub repository card for schererstefan/rea-doom-term","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/schererstefan/rea-doom-term"},"about":"This is a DOOM (1993) reconstruction in Rust that runs entirely in a terminal, drawing with real text characters and ANSI colours, no graphics protocols. It loads real WAD files. Each subsystem comes with evidence notes and equivalence tests, following the REA method. The original GPL DOOM source was used for reference only, and the repository includes no id Software code or game data.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/schererstefan/rea-doom-term","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/schererstefan/rea-doom-term"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"3d-pinball-space-cadet-rebuilt-from-its-1995-bin-b658","title":"3D Pinball Space Cadet rebuilt from its 1995 binary","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA","Ghidra"],"methods":["Decompiling software","Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"Reconstructed with REA and Ghidra as a Python port and a JavaScript web version.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: rea-pinball-space-cadet","url":"https://github.com/ibiscp/rea-pinball-space-cadet","kind":"Primary","note":"The Python and web rebuilds and how the data was converted.","authors":[{"name":"ibiscp","url":"https://github.com/ibiscp","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"b658a61","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/ibiscp/rea-pinball-space-cadet","alt":"GitHub repository card for ibiscp/rea-pinball-space-cadet","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/ibiscp/rea-pinball-space-cadet"},"about":"This rebuild of 3D Pinball for Windows (Space Cadet), the table bundled with Windows 95 Plus! through XP, started from the original Pinball.exe and its table-data file. REA drove Ghidra to recover the logic. The result is a faithful Python/pygame version plus a JavaScript web version.\n\nThe table data, font, sounds and music were converted into standard formats so the original game isn't needed to play. The author notes these are Microsoft's copyrighted assets.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/ibiscp/rea-pinball-space-cadet","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/ibiscp/rea-pinball-space-cadet"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"radius-raid-browser-game-modded-4198","title":"Radius Raid browser game modded","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Codex","REA"],"methods":["Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"An experiment with Codex and REA that investigated the game and changed its default weapon.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: rea-radius-raid","url":"https://github.com/RafaelOliveiraRocha/rea-radius-raid","kind":"Primary","note":"The modified game, the investigation notes (in Portuguese) and the comparison video.","authors":[{"name":"RafaelOliveiraRocha","url":"https://github.com/RafaelOliveiraRocha","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"4198c3d","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/RafaelOliveiraRocha/rea-radius-raid","alt":"GitHub repository card for RafaelOliveiraRocha/rea-radius-raid","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/RafaelOliveiraRocha/rea-radius-raid"},"about":"This is a small Portuguese-language experiment in using Codex with REA to understand one mechanic in a distributed game. The game is Jack Rugile's open-source Radius Raid. The author traced how the temporary triple-shot power-up works and made it the default weapon. A 25-second video compares the two. The original MIT licence and credits are kept.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/RafaelOliveiraRocha/rea-radius-raid","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/RafaelOliveiraRocha/rea-radius-raid"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"ski-or-dies-snowball-war-rebuilt-in-rust-7f62","title":"Ski or Die's Snowball War rebuilt in Rust","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"The 1990 MS-DOS minigame recreated in Rust and SDL2.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: rea-ski-or-die-reconstruction","url":"https://github.com/tuunanet/rea-ski-or-die-reconstruction","kind":"Primary","note":"Source, the recovered rules and a quick-start guide.","authors":[{"name":"tuunanet","url":"https://github.com/tuunanet","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"7f62c9e","image":{"url":"https://github.com/tuunanet/rea-ski-or-die-reconstruction/raw/main/docs/snowball-war.gif","alt":"Snowball War gameplay","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/tuunanet/rea-ski-or-die-reconstruction"},"about":"This is a playable rebuild of Snowball War, the snowball-fight minigame from Electronic Arts' 1990 DOS game Ski or Die, written from scratch in Rust with SDL2. REA analysed the original program and recovered the gameplay rules with evidence. Those were written up as a specification and rebuilt from it. 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Everything is drawn procedurally in WebGL, with no external assets or network requests. 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It covers the asset pipeline, renderer and player characters, and reads the original game files, which aren't included. 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This Indonesian project is a clean-room reimplementation of its 0.3.DL-R1 client DLL. REA and Ghidra mapped the original's 6,293 procedures into modules, and the new code follows the same architecture without copying it byte for byte. 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Alongside the DOS reconstruction there is a C++17 port for Windows and Linux that runs without an emulator. A portable Windows preview supports Normal and Extra modes, the Music Room, endings, saves and sound. 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You can play it at ultima6.2lab.ai by giving it your own disk images, which are decoded in your browser and never uploaded. 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Its records are deliberately cautious. So far both the original and the partly rebuilt game play through the opening bedroom scene from the same recorded inputs, with two C replacements that behave correctly but don't yet match byte for byte. It doesn't claim a completion percentage.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/tylergraydev/UltraSunnyMoon","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/tylergraydev/UltraSunnyMoon"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"60fpsvideo-frame-interpolation-for-apple-silicon-5268","title":"60FPSVideo: frame interpolation for Apple Silicon","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"A native macOS frame-interpolation app, built with REA as the reverse-engineering toolchain.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: 60FPSVideo","url":"https://github.com/wasim-osman/60FPSVideo","kind":"Primary","note":"The study, measured frame rates and the app source.","authors":[{"name":"wasim-osman","url":"https://github.com/wasim-osman","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"5268d7e","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/wasim-osman/60FPSVideo","alt":"GitHub repository card for wasim-osman/60FPSVideo","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/wasim-osman/60FPSVideo"},"about":"60FPSVideo began as a feasibility study. The author used REA to analyse SVP 4 Mac, a frame-interpolation app, and asked whether a native Apple Silicon equivalent was possible. It was, without copying SVP's engine. Apple's own VideoToolbox interpolation ran in real time at 1080p on an M2 Max.\n\nThe result is a native macOS app that turns film and other footage into smooth 59.94 fps, up to 4K HDR, with a real-time player and a batch converter.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/wasim-osman/60FPSVideo","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/wasim-osman/60FPSVideo"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"adamterm-a-minimal-macos-terminal-built-by-study-0e08","title":"AdamTerm: a minimal macOS terminal built by studying Ghostty","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"A small terminal app built by pointing REA at the Ghostty terminal.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: AdamTerm","url":"https://github.com/AdamLinCodes/AdamTerm","kind":"Primary","note":"The app and what REA found inside Ghostty.","authors":[{"name":"AdamLinCodes","url":"https://github.com/AdamLinCodes","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"0e0899e","image":{"url":"https://github.com/AdamLinCodes/AdamTerm/raw/main/docs/adamterm.png","alt":"AdamTerm with two tabs","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/AdamLinCodes/AdamTerm"},"about":"The author pointed REA at the Ghostty terminal app (version 1.3.1) to see what it could do, then built a tiny terminal of their own. REA's macOS inspection found that Ghostty's core is exposed as a C API with 84 exported functions, wrapped in a native Mac shell. 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It has month, week, day and year views, event editing, all-day events, coloured calendars, search and local storage. It contains no Apple code or assets and never touches your real calendars. A universal download for macOS 14 or later is available.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/E2-Veera/calendar-reconstruction","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/E2-Veera/calendar-reconstruction"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"clamp-clipper-audio-plugin-ported-to-macos-9ce5","title":"Clamp clipper audio plugin ported to macOS","topic":"Music & audio","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA","Ghidra"],"methods":["Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"An unofficial native macOS port of the audio plugin, reconstructed with REA and Ghidra.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: clamp-mac","url":"https://github.com/figtracer/clamp-mac","kind":"Primary","note":"The macOS port with installer and set-up notes.","authors":[{"name":"figtracer","url":"https://github.com/figtracer","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"9ce58c2","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/figtracer/clamp-mac","alt":"GitHub repository card for figtracer/clamp-mac","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/figtracer/clamp-mac"},"about":"Clamp is a free clipper audio plugin from Outobugi, released for Windows only. This unofficial port reconstructs its sound processing from the Windows VST3 using REA and Ghidra, then rebuilds it with iPlug2 as VST3 and AU plugins for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs. An installer is provided. All design credit goes to Outobugi, and Windows users are told to use the original.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/figtracer/clamp-mac","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/figtracer/clamp-mac"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"diodon-clipboard-manager-replicated-in-python-d2d2","title":"Diodon clipboard manager replicated in Python","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA","Ghidra"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"The GTK clipboard manager rebuilt from REA and Ghidra evidence.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: diodon-clone","url":"https://github.com/h-gj/diodon-clone","kind":"Primary","note":"The Python replica, with a table of the evidence each behaviour came from.","authors":[{"name":"h-gj","url":"https://github.com/h-gj","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"d2d2f5e","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/h-gj/diodon-clone","alt":"GitHub repository card for h-gj/diodon-clone","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/h-gj/diodon-clone"},"about":"Diodon is a GTK clipboard manager for Linux, written in Vala. The author analysed their installed copy (1.12.0) with REA's binary-layout tools and Ghidra decompilation, and used the exported symbols to rebuild its full class structure. They then wrote a single-file Python replica with PyGObject.\n\nThe replica follows the recovered logic closely: how pasting picks its key binding, how duplicates are skipped, how items are filtered, and how multiple clipboards stay in sync. The notes are in Chinese.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/h-gj/diodon-clone","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/h-gj/diodon-clone"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"diskdude-a-macos-disk-space-analyser-33b3","title":"DiskDude: a macOS disk space analyser","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA","Ghidra"],"methods":["Decompiling software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"A disk space analyser with Swift source recovered through REA's Ghidra workflow.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: DiskDude","url":"https://github.com/heictojpgpics/DiskDude","kind":"Primary","note":"The recovered source and the verification workflows.","authors":[{"name":"heictojpgpics","url":"https://github.com/heictojpgpics","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"33b3c03","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/heictojpgpics/DiskDude","alt":"GitHub repository card for heictojpgpics/DiskDude","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/heictojpgpics/DiskDude"},"about":"DiskDude is a small macOS disk-space analyser. This project reconstructs its Swift source code from the official 1.0.1 download, using Swift metadata, Ghidra decompilation and analysis of the Mac binary format. Six GitHub Actions workflows keep it honest: they build the app, audit how much of the binary the source covers, and compare the rebuilt app with the original down to section and metadata level.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/heictojpgpics/DiskDude","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/heictojpgpics/DiskDude"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"disklens-a-windirstat-style-analyser-for-windows-4a84","title":"DiskLens: a WinDirStat-style analyser for Windows 11","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["REA"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Awesome REA list","desc":"A Rust, Tauri and Svelte disk usage tool that started as a test of REA.","sources":[{"name":"Awesome REA list: DiskLens","url":"https://github.com/KarlssonChristoffer/DiskLens","kind":"Primary","note":"The app, its features and the author's AI-code warning.","checkedAt":"2026-11-06","authors":[{"name":"KarlssonChristoffer","url":"https://github.com/KarlssonChristoffer","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"4a84673","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/KarlssonChristoffer/DiskLens","alt":"GitHub repository card for KarlssonChristoffer/DiskLens","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/KarlssonChristoffer/DiskLens"},"about":"DiskLens is a disk-usage analyser for Windows 11 in the spirit of WinDirStat. It has a treemap of your drive, a folder tree, file types, largest files, duplicate finding and cleanup tools, with a Rust engine and a Fluent-style Tauri and Svelte interface.\n\nThe author is upfront that Claude wrote all of it through Claude Code, in one long session on 13 October 2026, with REA used for reverse engineering. They described what they wanted and reported problems, but never read the code. 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This project reconstructed it for Linux from the Windows binary, recovering the projection maths and rebuilding the plugin.\n\nIt works on the CPU with all five projections and both render paths, and passes all 18 geometry checks. Prebuilt bundles run across Linux distributions. 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A local cyclist made a browser game with Claude in under an hour to campaign against it: you ride through downtown Medford, dodging cars, to make it to downtown. 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The author asked for \"software that didn't exist before\", with no libraries and no questions. 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A driver package from another model got printing working but not scanning, so for a long time the owner scanned with Canon's iPhone app and sent the files across with AirDrop.\n\nClaude Code first assumed it could borrow from the SANE pixma backend used on Linux, but the printer's Wi-Fi scanning protocol turned out to be different and proprietary. Claude talked the owner through capturing the iPhone app's network traffic, worked out Canon's CHMP protocol from it, and wrote a Rust bridge daemon that translates between macOS's eSCL/AirScan and the printer. The owner reported what worked and what didn't and wrote no Rust themselves.\n\nPrinting was a separate problem: the G3010 is not on Apple's AirPrint list and Canon never shipped a macOS driver for it, although it speaks IPP on port 631, which newer macOS versions can use directly.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"hollow-knight-cloned-in-an-hour-930f","title":"Hollow Knight cloned in an hour","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude","REA"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Lemmy","year":"2026","desc":"A game studio's video showing Claude cloning Hollow Knight's basics, and the debate it caused.","sources":[{"name":"Lemmy: Claude cloned Hollow Knight in an hour — and the reaction says more than the demo","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2cFbpQCZec","kind":"Video","note":"The video, \"So...Claude Just Cloned Hollow Knight in Under an Hour\".","publishedAt":"2026-10-28T22:12:29.106701Z","dateKind":"published"}],"ref":"930f537","image":{"url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/X2cFbpQCZec/hqdefault.jpg","alt":"Video thumbnail: Lemmy: Claude cloned Hollow Knight in an hour — and the reaction says more than the demo","credit":"youtube.com","from":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2cFbpQCZec"},"about":"Indie game studio Sasquatch B Studios, whose developer says they hadn't written more than a few lines of code themselves in months, ran experiments with Claude. 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The author ported its 68k assembly to JavaScript with heavy help from Claude Code and some Gemini CLI. They found Claude better at porting the assembly and Gemini better at finding bugs, and say they couldn't have done it without AI. The whole game state, including physics, lives in Redux. It's playable at continuumjs.com.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"lora-fine-tuning-running-on-apples-neural-engine-11b0","title":"LoRA fine-tuning running on Apple's Neural Engine","topic":"On-device AI","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Mention","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2026","desc":"A non-ML engineer used Claude Code with Opus 4.6 to get fine-tuning gradients running on the Neural Engine.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: I m not an ML engineer. 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And the compiler leaks handles and silently fails after about 119 compiles. It builds on earlier community reverse engineering of the Neural Engine.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"a-portable-meshtastic-terminal-on-a-pico-2-c74f","title":"A portable Meshtastic terminal on a Pico 2","topic":"Embedded & microcontrollers","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building a hardware gadget"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Mention","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2026","desc":"A handheld mesh radio terminal whose MicroPython code was written by Claude.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: I built a portable meshtastic terminal using Claude and a Pico 2. 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Inspired by the larger MonsterCPU, the author aimed to keep it \"reasonable\". 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He let Claude write every line and didn't read the code. Instead he built guardrails, such as tests and checks, to make sure it worked. The blog post explains that approach, and the source, build instructions and examples are on GitHub. 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So they built The Great Refinery Run, an interactive browser game that shows how crude oil becomes consumer products, without dumbing down the chemistry. 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Modders had tried to lift the restriction for over a decade without success.\n\nThe block turned out not to be a single flag: one function, FindPlaysetForCharacter, is called at 13 points across six parts of the game's C++ code, so patching one check leaves the other twelve in place. Data-only mods failed because native code validates first, and DLL injection crashed the game. Working on the binary with no symbols or source, Claude Code (Opus) helped trace the call graph, find all 13 call sites, read the conditional jumps after each one and work out the exact bytes to patch, through several failed attempts.\n\nThe patch lets characters play outside their home playsets, and the post drew a large response from the game's modding community.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"claude-code-running-on-a-jailbroken-kindle-over-3587","title":"Claude Code running on a jailbroken Kindle over SSH","topic":"E-readers & handhelds","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Repurposing to a new role"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2026","desc":"A guide to reaching a jailbroken Kindle over Tailscale and running Claude Code on it.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: Running Claude Code on a Jailbroken Kindle over SSH via Tailscale","url":"https://github.com/Mounstroya/kindle-ssh-guide","kind":"Primary","note":"The complete from-scratch guide.","authors":[{"name":"Mounstroya","url":"https://github.com/Mounstroya","role":"Repository account"}]},{"name":"Hacker News discussion (8 points)","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49013970","kind":"Forum","authors":[{"name":"YaelMontoya","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=YaelMontoya","role":"HN submitter"}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-22T21:53:05Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"35874b6","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/Mounstroya/kindle-ssh-guide","alt":"GitHub repository card for Mounstroya/kindle-ssh-guide","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/Mounstroya/kindle-ssh-guide"},"about":"Several guides cover SSH access into a jailbroken Kindle, but this one gets outbound SSH working from the Kindle itself, over Tailscale, without installing the full OpenSSH client. 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It was done mostly with Codex and some Claude. You bring your own ROM, and no copyrighted assets are included. The author has since marked it discontinued and unmaintained.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/akratch/mgb64","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/akratch/mgb64"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"claude-code-usage-on-a-trmnl-e-ink-display-cc1f","title":"Claude Code usage on a TRMNL e-ink display","topic":"Repurposed hardware","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code","Codex"],"methods":["Building a hardware gadget"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2026","desc":"A TRMNL X e-ink screen showing coding agent usage.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: Show HN: Claude Code and Codex usage screen for TRMNL X e-ink","url":"https://github.com/stared/trmnl-x-claude-codex","kind":"Primary","note":"The TRMNL plugin and set-up.","authors":[{"name":"stared","url":"https://github.com/stared","role":"Repository account"}]},{"name":"Hacker News discussion (3 points)","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49255546","kind":"Forum","note":"The Show HN post.","authors":[{"name":"stared","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stared","role":"HN submitter"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-11T09:44:03Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"cc1f565","image":{"url":"https://github.com/stared/trmnl-x-claude-codex/raw/main/trmnl-x-claude-codex-photo.jpg","alt":"Image from github.com","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/stared/trmnl-x-claude-codex"},"about":"The author pays $200 a month for Claude Code but can easily use $2,000 worth of tokens a week. When they got a TRMNL X e-ink display, they built a private plugin showing Claude Code and Codex rate limits, the API-equivalent dollar cost per day for each agent, and per-project records. You can use it as is or fork it.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/stared/trmnl-x-claude-codex","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/stared/trmnl-x-claude-codex"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"drivingbench-frontier-llms-driving-a-real-toyota-18c5","title":"DrivingBench: frontier LLMs driving a real Toyota Corolla","topic":"Vehicles & drones","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2026","desc":"A real car instrumented so language models can drive it on a test course.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: Show HN: DrivingBench – Frontier LLMs Driving a Real Toyota Corolla","url":"https://drivingbench.com/","kind":"Blog","note":"The leaderboard, with traces and videos of each run."},{"name":"Hacker News discussion (3 points)","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49801925","kind":"Forum","note":"The Show HN post.","authors":[{"name":"aditya-ramabadr","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aditya-ramabadr","role":"HN submitter"}],"publishedAt":"2026-09-22T14:29:43Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"18c511d","image":{"url":"https://drivingbench.com/og/home.png","alt":"DrivingBench: frontier language models driving a real car through a cone course","credit":"drivingbench.com","from":"https://drivingbench.com/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://drivingbench.com/media/hero-teaser-v13-final-10s.avif","alt":"Image from drivingbench.com","credit":"drivingbench.com","from":"https://drivingbench.com/"}],"about":"DrivingBench is a benchmark where frontier language models, including Claude Fable, GPT-6, Grok and Sol, drive a real Toyota Corolla fitted with a comma device through a cone course in an empty car park at low speed. They issue one command at a time through MCP tools, using the car's cameras and telemetry, with a human supervisor ready to brake. A leaderboard shows each model's runs, traces and videos.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"claude-plays-the-piano-from-braille-music-f1da","title":"Claude plays the piano from Braille music","topic":"Music & audio","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2026","desc":"Braille sheet music turned into MIDI files that can be played back.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: Show HN: Claude Plays the Piano from Braille","url":"https://github.com/chris-mccoy/gottschalk-tarantelle","kind":"Primary","note":"The decoded score, MIDI performance and a recording.","authors":[{"name":"chris-mccoy","url":"https://github.com/chris-mccoy","role":"Repository account"}]},{"name":"Hacker News discussion (3 points)","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50250055","kind":"Forum","note":"The Show HN post.","authors":[{"name":"mccoyc","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mccoyc","role":"HN submitter"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-26T20:00:14Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"f1da78e","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/chris-mccoy/gottschalk-tarantelle","alt":"GitHub repository card for chris-mccoy/gottschalk-tarantelle","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/chris-mccoy/gottschalk-tarantelle"},"about":"The author can't play piano but has always wanted good-sounding MIDI files made from sheet music, and existing software rarely sounded expressive. This experiment has an LLM read a score written in BANA Music Braille Code. Braille music spells out every note precisely, which makes it easier for a model to read accurately than printed notation. The model then produces an expressive MIDI performance. The demo is Gottschalk's Grande Tarantelle, Op. 67, in Espadero's solo-piano arrangement.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/chris-mccoy/gottschalk-tarantelle","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/chris-mccoy/gottschalk-tarantelle"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"keychron-keyboard-battery-life-and-controls-on-m-84ba","title":"Keychron keyboard battery life and controls on macOS","topic":"Printers & peripherals","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2026","desc":"Battery reporting and controls for Keychron keyboards over Bluetooth, which Keychron doesn't officially support on Mac.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: Show HN: Keychron macOS Battery Life and Controls","url":"https://github.com/bkovacev/keychron-macos","kind":"Primary","note":"The firmware changes and the menu-bar app.","authors":[{"name":"bkovacev","url":"https://github.com/bkovacev","role":"Repository account"}]},{"name":"Hacker News discussion (3 points)","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49663019","kind":"Forum","note":"The Show HN post.","authors":[{"name":"bkovacev","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bkovacev","role":"HN submitter"}],"publishedAt":"2026-09-11T18:26:41Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"84ba68d","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/bkovacev/keychron-macos","alt":"GitHub repository card for bkovacev/keychron-macos","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/bkovacev/keychron-macos"},"about":"Keychron K Pro and Q Pro keyboards never tell macOS their battery level over Bluetooth or cable, and Keychron doesn't support it officially. After some trial and error, this project adds modified QMK firmware and a Mac menu-bar agent. Together they show battery life in the menu bar, Control Center and the desktop battery widget alongside AirPods and mice, and let you control the backlight.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/bkovacev/keychron-macos","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/bkovacev/keychron-macos"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"pianofun-a-browser-piano-game-with-midi-keyboard-a891","title":"PianoFun: a browser piano game with MIDI keyboard support","topic":"Music & audio","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2026","desc":"Built for the author's daughter after seeing someone vibe-code a similar app.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: Show HN: PianoFun – Browser piano learning game with MIDI (vanilla JavaScript)","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47476499","kind":"Forum","note":"The Show HN post with the story and repository link.","authors":[{"name":"victorbuilds","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=victorbuilds","role":"HN submitter"}],"publishedAt":"2026-03-22T11:42:32Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"a891094","about":"The author's daughter is learning piano. Inspired by someone on X who did the same, they plugged their ten-year-old Casio AP-450 into a computer, opened Claude Code, and had a falling-note learning game working in minutes. Their daughter became the product manager: she asked for a beat toggle, noticed long notes vanished too fast, and spotted visual overlaps. It's plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript (just a USB cable, Chrome and index.html), released under GPL-3.0.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"motion-party-webcam-controlled-party-games-in-th-5837","title":"Motion Party: webcam-controlled party games in the browser","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2025","desc":"Party games inspired by EyeToy, played by moving in front of a webcam.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: Show HN: Motion controlled party games on the web","url":"https://motionparty.net","kind":"Blog","note":"Play the games in your browser."},{"name":"Hacker News discussion (3 points)","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46394197","kind":"Forum","note":"The Show HN post.","authors":[{"name":"oliwary","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=oliwary","role":"HN submitter"}],"publishedAt":"2025-12-26T17:33:06Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"5837aa5","image":{"url":"https://motionparty.net/og-image.png","alt":"Preview image from motionparty.net","credit":"motionparty.net","from":"https://motionparty.net"},"about":"Motion Party is a set of eight party games for one to four players that you control by moving in front of your webcam, inspired by the PlayStation EyeToy and Nex Playground. They include a ball game, a Flappy Bird-style game, a memory game and a spelling game. It was made over the Christmas holidays mostly with Claude Code, with ElevenLabs sound effects.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"flipper-zero-controlled-by-ai-over-usb-or-wi-fi-86f9","title":"Flipper Zero controlled by AI over USB or Wi-Fi","topic":"Embedded & microcontrollers","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2025","desc":"An MCP server that lets Claude write and run scripts on a Flipper Zero.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: Show HN: Flipper Zero MCP – Control Your Flipper Using AI via USB or WiFi","url":"https://github.com/busse/flipperzero-mcp","kind":"Primary","note":"The MCP server and its modules.","authors":[{"name":"busse","url":"https://github.com/busse","role":"Repository account"}]},{"name":"Hacker News discussion (3 points)","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46434612","kind":"Forum","note":"The Show HN post.","authors":[{"name":"busseio","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=busseio","role":"HN submitter"}],"publishedAt":"2025-12-30T15:59:33Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"86f9e7e","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/busse/flipperzero-mcp","alt":"GitHub repository card for busse/flipperzero-mcp","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/busse/flipperzero-mcp"},"about":"This unofficial, modular MCP server lets Claude Desktop and other AI clients control a Flipper Zero multi-tool over USB or Wi-Fi. It launched with 14 tools across four modules. For example, you can ask Claude to write a BadUSB keystroke script, and it generates the DuckyScript, checks it, saves it to the Flipper and can run it.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/busse/flipperzero-mcp","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/busse/flipperzero-mcp"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"vibeware-warioware-style-microgames-06b6","title":"VibeWare: WarioWare-style microgames","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2025","desc":"A fully vibe-coded collection of quick-fire microgames.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: Show HN: WarioWare AI Generated Microgames","url":"https://www.vibeware.lol","kind":"Blog"},{"name":"Hacker News discussion (3 points)","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44303108","kind":"Forum","note":"The Show HN post with costs and lessons learned.","authors":[{"name":"Areibman","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Areibman","role":"HN submitter"}],"publishedAt":"2025-06-17T19:45:44Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"06b6ad7","about":"VibeWare is a fully vibe-coded take on Nintendo's WarioWare: a stream of 3-to-5-second microgames. The core game was built with Cursor and Claude 4 Opus for about $500. The microgames themselves are written, linted and validated by an AI agent, with ten reliable games costing about $5.50. It won the \"Game Changers\" vibe-coding hackathon in San Francisco.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"a-playstation-1-static-recompiler-built-with-no-7f5f","title":"A PlayStation 1 static recompiler, built with no prior experience","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Decompiling software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2026","desc":"A PS1 static recompiler made with Claude by someone new to the field.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: Show HN: I Made a PS1 Static Recompiler with No Prior Experience (and Claude)","url":"https://1379.tech/i-built-a-ps1-static-recompiler-with-no-prior-experience-and-claude-code/","kind":"Blog","note":"The write-up of building PSXRecomp, with a link to the code."},{"name":"Hacker News discussion (3 points)","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47367122","kind":"Forum","note":"The Show HN post.","authors":[{"name":"Gamemaster1379","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Gamemaster1379","role":"HN submitter"}],"publishedAt":"2026-03-13T17:18:41Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"7f5f180","image":{"url":"https://1379.tech/content/images/size/w1200/2026/03/b1df5408-e2c0-4e35-a49e-533234fa727f-1.png","alt":"Preview image from 1379.tech","credit":"1379.tech","from":"https://1379.tech/i-built-a-ps1-static-recompiler-with-no-prior-experience-and-claude-code/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://1379.tech/content/images/2026/03/PSXRecompGame_0SoqHPzZS2.png","alt":"Image from 1379.tech","credit":"1379.tech","from":"https://1379.tech/i-built-a-ps1-static-recompiler-with-no-prior-experience-and-claude-code/"},{"url":"https://1379.tech/content/images/2026/03/PSXRecompGame_02J8K1Qubw.gif","alt":"Image from 1379.tech","credit":"1379.tech","from":"https://1379.tech/i-built-a-ps1-static-recompiler-with-no-prior-experience-and-claude-code/"},{"url":"https://1379.tech/content/images/2026/03/PSXRecompGame_QMRGscfu7c.png","alt":"Image from 1379.tech","credit":"1379.tech","from":"https://1379.tech/i-built-a-ps1-static-recompiler-with-no-prior-experience-and-claude-code/"},{"url":"https://1379.tech/content/images/2026/03/PSXRecompGame_90HnHmU1C2.png","alt":"Image from 1379.tech","credit":"1379.tech","from":"https://1379.tech/i-built-a-ps1-static-recompiler-with-no-prior-experience-and-claude-code/"}],"about":"With no prior experience in the field, the author used Claude Code to build PSXRecomp, a static recompiler for the original PlayStation. It translates a game's MIPS code ahead of time into native code rather than emulating it. The technical demo is Tomba!, running (as a work in progress) as a native Windows application. The article documents how Claude helped with the static analysis and recompilation.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"a-conversation-about-os-design-that-became-a-wor-6566","title":"A conversation about OS design that became a working OS in a week","topic":"Operating systems","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2026","desc":"What started as a chat with Claude about operating systems turned into a design and then a running OS.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: Show HN: A conversation about OS design turned into an actual OS in a week","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47365251","kind":"Forum","note":"The Show HN post describing the design and progress.","authors":[{"name":"jonathanrtuck","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jonathanrtuck","role":"HN submitter"}],"publishedAt":"2026-03-13T14:49:22Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"6566bfd","about":"A Friday chat with Claude about operating systems turned into a design session, then a prototype. A week later there was a working OS. The idea: rather than your files living inside apps, the OS itself understands, renders, indexes and tracks the history of your files, and editors are tools you pick up only to change something. There's no \"Open with\" and no Save button. After one week it had a from-scratch Rust kernel on QEMU (aarch64), 27 system calls, a 4-core scheduler and a full display pipeline with a compositor and font rendering.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"an-online-multiplayer-game-built-in-two-days-d966","title":"An online multiplayer game built in two days","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2026","desc":"A room-based multiplayer battle game built with Claude Code.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: Show HN: I spent two days building this online multiplayer game with Claude Code","url":"https://pawnrush.xiaohan.dev/","kind":"Blog","note":"Play the game."},{"name":"Hacker News discussion (3 points)","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50176936","kind":"Forum","note":"The Show HN post.","authors":[{"name":"hanstyle","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hanstyle","role":"HN submitter"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-21T06:46:14Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"d9666c7","image":{"url":"https://pawnrush.xiaohan.dev/og-image.png","alt":"Preview image from pawnrush.xiaohan.dev","credit":"pawnrush.xiaohan.dev","from":"https://pawnrush.xiaohan.dev/"},"about":"Pawnrush is a real-time online card-battle game between three corporations: deploy units and defend your HQ. You can create a room and send the link to friends, once you've finished the tutorial. The author built it in two days with Claude Code, and it's free to play in the browser.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"finding-a-possible-new-planet-with-claude-code-9cea","title":"Finding a possible new planet with Claude Code","topic":"Science & research","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2026","desc":"An amateur used Claude Code to search public telescope data and flagged a candidate planet nobody had catalogued.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. 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He then let Claude improve the keyboard's firmware, adding features he wanted. 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The author switched to Micropolis, the open-sourced SimCity engine, and bolted on a REST API and MCP server so any AI agent can act as mayor. Hallucinating Splines lets you watch the cities AI mayors build (nearly 2,000 so far) or connect your own agent. 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It also adds new abilities, such as playing in the browser.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"a-self-hosted-network-video-surveillance-system-1cda","title":"A self-hosted network video surveillance system","topic":"Smart home","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2026","desc":"A home camera system built to avoid cloud cameras' privacy problems.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: Show HN: I built a self-hosted network video surveillance system","url":"https://github.com/kevinbentley/ronin-nvr","kind":"Primary","note":"The NVR source and features.","authors":[{"name":"kevinbentley","url":"https://github.com/kevinbentley","role":"Repository account"}]},{"name":"Hacker News discussion (1 points)","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006981","kind":"Forum","note":"The Show HN post explaining the motivation.","authors":[{"name":"kevin42","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kevin42","role":"HN submitter"}],"publishedAt":"2026-02-13T19:55:36Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"1cda0e6","image":{"url":"https://github.com/kevinbentley/ronin-nvr/raw/master/screenshots/thumbs/live_grid.png","alt":"Live View Grid","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/kevinbentley/ronin-nvr"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://github.com/kevinbentley/ronin-nvr/raw/master/screenshots/thumbs/event_detect.png","alt":"Detection Events","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/kevinbentley/ronin-nvr"},{"url":"https://github.com/kevinbentley/ronin-nvr/raw/master/screenshots/thumbs/storage_status.png","alt":"Storage Management","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/kevinbentley/ronin-nvr"},{"url":"https://github.com/kevinbentley/ronin-nvr/raw/master/screenshots/thumbs/retention_settings.png","alt":"Camera Setup","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/kevinbentley/ronin-nvr"}],"about":"After three years on Synology Surveillance Station and growing frustration with hardware lock-in, and with home-camera privacy problems in the news, the author built Ronin NVR. 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HYPERBUBBLE is a one-button game about steering through technology transitions: embrace the tech, avoid neglected risks, starve moral panics and keep human flourishing alive.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"automating-a-manual-step-in-rna-design-85ee","title":"Automating a manual step in RNA design","topic":"Science & research","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2025","desc":"A lab workflow step automated with Claude Opus, bridging computational and bench teams.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: Show HN: Automating a manual step in RNA design (With a Conflicted Claude Opus)","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44821522","kind":"Forum","note":"The Show HN post explaining the lab workflow and the automation.","authors":[{"name":"AustinLikesAI","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=AustinLikesAI","role":"HN submitter"}],"publishedAt":"2025-08-07T07:16:39Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"85ee7bd","about":"In many life-science labs, the bench scientists running experiments are stuck with tedious digital chores because they lack the programming background to automate them. 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The post title notes that Claude seemed \"conflicted\" along the way.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"reversing-source-2-games-with-memory-dump-tools-76d5","title":"Reversing Source 2 games with memory dump tools","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2026","desc":"Claude given memory-dump tools to help build an offset dumper for Source 2 games.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: Show HN: Reversing Games With LLMs (Give Claude Access to Memory Dump tools)","url":"https://github.com/dougwithseismic/dezlock-dump/issues/17","kind":"Primary","note":"The issue describing the live WebSocket mode and LLM tool access.","authors":[{"name":"dougwithseismic","url":"https://github.com/dougwithseismic","role":"Repository account"}]},{"name":"Hacker News discussion (1 points)","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47135964","kind":"Forum","note":"The Show HN post.","authors":[{"name":"dougwithseismic","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dougwithseismic","role":"HN submitter"}],"publishedAt":"2026-02-24T11:51:38Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"76d5796","image":{"url":"https://private-user-images.githubusercontent.com/48530756/554099683-c551d76a-f1e0-4e10-ac36-5a0961ed4ae4.png?jwt=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.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.5GeeDYwGjk6fgbM8rS12CnWcCTkNAeE0wvkymTxYdQQ","alt":"Image","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/dougwithseismic/dezlock-dump/issues/17"},"about":"While learning to reverse engineer Source 2 games, the author is building dezlock-dump, an offset dumper and RTTI crawler. 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The poster complains about paying for a Claude plan that would not do it.\n\nThe thread is one of several reports of Claude refusing reverse engineering work on the user's own machines, even for diagnosis.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"code-execution-through-email-using-claude-to-hac-f4a2","title":"Code execution through email: using Claude to hack itself","topic":"Security research","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2025","desc":"A security write-up showing how a crafted email could make Claude run code.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: Code execution through email: How I used Claude to hack itself","url":"https://www.pynt.io/blog/llm-security-blogs/code-execution-through-email-how-i-used-claude-mcp-to-hack-itself","kind":"Blog","note":"The full write-up of the attack chain."},{"name":"Hacker News discussion (137 points)","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44590350","kind":"Forum","note":"Hacker News discussion (137 points).","authors":[{"name":"nonvibecoding","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nonvibecoding","role":"HN submitter"}],"publishedAt":"2025-07-17T06:32:42Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"f4a20c5","image":{"url":"https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/63c440aece5aa2100bdcbeb1/687507e754d5ed6b2cc6c376_How%20I%20used%20Claude%20to%20hack%20itself.png","alt":"Preview image from pynt.io","credit":"pynt.io","from":"https://www.pynt.io/blog/llm-security-blogs/code-execution-through-email-how-i-used-claude-mcp-to-hack-itself"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/63c440aece5aa2100bdcbeb1/6875044bf4c3f7f95f0fdd4f_AD_4nXddz-Azdw6lVqdtOoCUIvSvDWlHONr7hzxGfLBTr-NaAEDR1MDd2doR2b2K3RiNuGU25qWMzm_Xb-NKtipFoiUOSj0dBnZWF86ytM6Cq38SOV3fiuLHWQ0qRS__DpBVg1G2-ZoO3g.png","alt":"Image from pynt.io","credit":"pynt.io","from":"https://www.pynt.io/blog/llm-security-blogs/code-execution-through-email-how-i-used-claude-mcp-to-hack-itself"},{"url":"https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/63c440aece5aa2100bdcbeb1/6875044af4c3f7f95f0fdd3c_AD_4nXeu9Mxk1L2mLurHBRrv-7zn7mcXGMmrSdiEEghRR9YKOIej6qYvT2iyPLE884LdKaqRFNQvH9YtJcNRm_FlgSjSiRZaX4FCwNlPIvNpb72H-k6mj-pNZsNICGx3p2WQshZqg1EsGA.png","alt":"Image from pynt.io","credit":"pynt.io","from":"https://www.pynt.io/blog/llm-security-blogs/code-execution-through-email-how-i-used-claude-mcp-to-hack-itself"},{"url":"https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/63c440aece5aa2100bdcbeb1/6875044bf4c3f7f95f0fdd45_AD_4nXfIa4tGAfBkGZkcuy_hOxdO6G9XKWx_86Qd90_kld0RNRQVVqXMsZSinpgqGIc05w5GNFi-KaWTg6_JufXbsbgnxwpVYGBdGJk2cWFWvtx5NrTzBaZK1j1Es_70HgrV1TNWQAmA.png","alt":"Image from pynt.io","credit":"pynt.io","from":"https://www.pynt.io/blog/llm-security-blogs/code-execution-through-email-how-i-used-claude-mcp-to-hack-itself"},{"url":"https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/63c440aece5aa2100bdcbeb1/6875044bf4c3f7f95f0fdd59_AD_4nXfWRN393kYcLzPLUT_9cyBeEq5sfE-tkYl40KsQxk3mm2fYUcAMZeVjNYfzuVzsLgPXOAQyHaFgYwXph8bof8ZR-jgLQsL7zDs0co631abXP__KtSgIohvOATW2dGFnxgZz2oOYcA.png","alt":"Image from pynt.io","credit":"pynt.io","from":"https://www.pynt.io/blog/llm-security-blogs/code-execution-through-email-how-i-used-claude-mcp-to-hack-itself"}],"about":"Golan Yosef, a security researcher at Pynt, showed how a crafted Gmail message could lead to code execution through Claude Desktop when it's connected to both an email MCP server and a tool that runs code. Claude itself helped plan the attack. His point: in AI systems the danger often isn't one vulnerable app but the combination of untrusted input and powerful tools. 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Note that they used ChatGPT, DALL·E 3 and Midjourney rather than Claude. The source is on GitHub.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"sitmap-a-world-in-conflict-style-map-maker-0199","title":"Sitmap: a World in Conflict-style map maker","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2026","desc":"Creates Cold War scenario maps inspired by the 2007 game's loading screens.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: Show HN: Sitmap – a World in Conflict inspired map maker for Cold War scenarios","url":"https://tomaytotomato.github.io/sitmap/","kind":"Blog"},{"name":"Hacker News discussion (9 points)","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374045","kind":"Forum","note":"The Show HN post with a link to the tool and an example map.","authors":[{"name":"tomaytotomato","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tomaytotomato","role":"HN submitter"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-20T12:59:36Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"0199836","about":"The author loved the striking situation maps on the loading screens of World in Conflict (2007). Using Claude Fable plus some Photoshop skills, they built Sitmap, a browser tool for making Cold War scenario maps in that style.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"a-dog-that-vibe-codes-games-0a8d","title":"A dog that \"vibe codes\" games","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Lemmy","year":"2026","desc":"A playful project where a dog's random keypresses were turned into game prompts for Claude.","sources":[{"name":"Lemmy: 'I taught my dog to vibe code games': Yup, someone actually managed to get Claude AI to code a game ","url":"https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/i-taught-my-dog-to-vibe-code-games-yup-someone-actually-managed-to-get-claude-ai-to-code-a-game-based-on-the-keyboard-inputs-of-a-pooch/","kind":"News","note":"PC Gamer's article on how the set-up works.","publishedAt":"2026-02-25T13:03:08.696257Z","dateKind":"published"},{"name":"The video: youtube.com","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BbPlPou3Bg","kind":"Video","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"0a8d11b","image":{"url":"https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/7tiE4AMhN2JvQRpEpKxggL-2540-80.png","alt":"Dog vibe coding","credit":"pcgamer.com","from":"https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/i-taught-my-dog-to-vibe-code-games-yup-someone-actually-managed-to-get-claude-ai-to-code-a-game-based-on-the-keyboard-inputs-of-a-pooch/"},"about":"YouTuber Caleb Leak taught his cavapoo Momo to \"vibe code\" games. Her random presses on a Bluetooth keyboard go to Claude Code, which has been told that a genius game designer communicates only in cryptic keystrokes and must interpret them. A Raspberry Pi and a smart treat dispenser reward her, and guardrails keep the result playable. PC Gamer covered it with appropriate disbelief.","projectLinks":[{"type":"video","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BbPlPou3Bg","sourceUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BbPlPou3Bg"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"linus-torvalds-had-claude-code-write-eight-kerne-066d","title":"Linus Torvalds had Claude Code write eight kernel patches","topic":"Operating systems","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Driver or OS patching"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"DEV","year":"2026","desc":"A page-cache rework written by Claude Code under Torvalds's direction; it was not merged.","sources":[{"name":"DEV: Torvalds Let Claude Code Write 8 Kernel Patches: 3x Reads on One Laptop, Not Merged","url":"https://dev.to/gabrielanhaia/torvalds-let-claude-code-write-8-kernel-patches-3x-reads-on-one-laptop-not-merged-21la","kind":"Blog","note":"Analysis of the eight patches and why they weren't merged.","authors":[{"name":"gabrielanhaia","url":"https://dev.to/gabrielanhaia","role":"Article author"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-14T01:01:26Z","dateKind":"published"},{"name":"Hacker News: Linus Torvalds used Claude Code to rewrite how Linux reads cached files","url":"https://startupfortune.com/linus-torvalds-used-claude-code-to-rewrite-how-linux-reads-cached-files/","kind":"Blog"},{"name":"YouTube: Linus Torvalds Used Claude Code to Write Linux Code","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rzYnK3p9MU","kind":"Video","authors":[{"name":"dynode","role":"Video channel"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-12T20:26:32Z","dateKind":"published"}],"ref":"066daff","image":{"url":"https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=1200,height=627,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fy975ynessrhjgqdqgsmv.png","alt":"Preview image from dev.to","credit":"dev.to","from":"https://dev.to/gabrielanhaia/torvalds-let-claude-code-write-8-kernel-patches-3x-reads-on-one-laptop-not-merged-21la"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fu9qwq7pzdyo0rnnth2xl.png","alt":"Eight black hands reaching for one glowing burnt-orange block, while a separate set of hands reads through a clear pane without touching it","credit":"dev.to","from":"https://dev.to/gabrielanhaia/torvalds-let-claude-code-write-8-kernel-patches-3x-reads-on-one-laptop-not-merged-21la"},{"url":"https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F8pspp7w8j9i1p235wbw2.png","alt":"A black silhouette at a desk pointing at a long unrolling scroll, while a slim robotic arm writes on it, and a thin burnt-orange branch line splits away from th","credit":"dev.to","from":"https://dev.to/gabrielanhaia/torvalds-let-claude-code-write-8-kernel-patches-3x-reads-on-one-laptop-not-merged-21la"},{"url":"https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Ffzkyb8bqzkmlt4qzgqbo.jpg","alt":"AI Agents Pocket Guide: Patterns for Building Autonomous Systems with LLMs","credit":"dev.to","from":"https://dev.to/gabrielanhaia/torvalds-let-claude-code-write-8-kernel-patches-3x-reads-on-one-laptop-not-merged-21la"}],"about":"Linus Torvalds pushed a branch to his own Linux tree, noref-filemap-read-with-llm, holding eight patches written by Claude Code under his direction. 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It said the limit came from its own rules for the app, not from the owner's rights, that permanent deletion had to be left to the user even with consent, and that it knew of no way to switch this off, while agreeing the rule was too strict in this case.\n\nThe poster points out that deleting test projects is needed to free space whenever Claude adds a feature or runs tests, so the refusal blocks automating work on their own device.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"onkey-an-app-that-shows-where-your-singing-goes-111f","title":"OnKey: an app that shows where your singing goes off-key","topic":"Music & audio","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2026","desc":"Built by a self-described bad singer to practise pitch.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: Show HN: OnKey – I'm a bad singer, so I built an app to show where I'm off-key","url":"https://github.com/dsmurrell/onkey","kind":"Primary","note":"The app and downloads.","authors":[{"name":"dsmurrell","url":"https://github.com/dsmurrell","role":"Repository account"}]},{"name":"Hacker News discussion (237 points)","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50195488","kind":"Forum","note":"The Show HN post (237 points).","authors":[{"name":"dsmurrell","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dsmurrell","role":"HN submitter"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-22T14:04:44Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"111f1c3","image":{"url":"https://repository-images.githubusercontent.com/1424878564/24f58d68-d92e-493a-8534-6564902cb5a4","alt":"Learn to sing the songs you love. 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That grew into Gasfree, a free rack of synthesisers, drum machines, sequencers and effects in the browser. You patch them together with virtual cables, play them from a MIDI controller and write songs.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"understanding-a-legacy-codebase-in-one-day-ed2c","title":"Understanding a legacy codebase in one day","topic":"Legacy code revival","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2025","desc":"Using Claude Code to get to grips with a messy old React and Node repository.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: Claude Code Helped Me Understand a Legacy Codebase in One Day","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44632009","kind":"Forum","note":"The post with the questions that worked.","authors":[{"name":"IgorGanapolsky","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=IgorGanapolsky","role":"HN submitter"}],"publishedAt":"2025-07-21T05:21:53Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"ed2ce89","about":"A developer used Claude Code to get up to speed on a messy old React and Node codebase in a day. They asked it to summarise the architecture, explain how authentication works and list the models in each folder, and got useful answers from the code's structure and names, saving hours. They paired it with the book Working Effectively with Legacy Code for the refactoring.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"tribunes-last-stand-a-browser-warhammer-40k-vert-0832","title":"Tribune's Last Stand: a browser Warhammer 40K vertical slice","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2026","desc":"A tabletop-rules game slice built over a few months.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: Show HN: Tribune's Last Stand, a browser-based Warhammer 40K vertical slice","url":"https://tribuneslaststand.com/game/?invite=HACKER-PRIME-HN5","kind":"Blog"},{"name":"Hacker News discussion (1 points)","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48193576","kind":"Forum","note":"The Show HN post with a playable invite link and lessons learned.","authors":[{"name":"jrgrafton","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jrgrafton","role":"HN submitter"}],"publishedAt":"2026-05-19T14:12:27Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"0832221","image":{"url":"https://tribuneslaststand.com/shared/assets/favicons/icon-512.png","alt":"Preview image from tribuneslaststand.com","credit":"tribuneslaststand.com","from":"https://tribuneslaststand.com/game/?invite=HACKER-PRIME-HN5"},"about":"James built a browser-based vertical slice of Warhammer 40K 10th edition over a few months, as an experiment in how far generative AI tools can take a solo developer on a non-trivial 2D game. 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It uses real terrain data from NASA's Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) and star positions from ESA's Hipparcos catalogue. 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Firmware is tested against a virtual twin in Isaac Sim or Unreal before any parts are bought, and weight and balance are checked on every CAD change. Claude can generate hundreds of variations of a part and simulate them overnight; the maker has about 800 GB of simulation data after a few weeks.\n\nThe maker stripped out the project itself and open sourced the method along with a Claude Code skill that sets it up. The claim that the simulation is within about an order of magnitude of reality is the maker's own estimate.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"claude-code-writes-firmware-flashes-a-board-and-589b","title":"Claude Code writes firmware, flashes a board and checks it over UART","topic":"Embedded & microcontrollers","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Custom firmware or bootloader"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A closed loop where Claude Code builds firmware and verifies \"Hello World\" on real hardware.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude Code writes firmware, flashes a board and checks “Hello World” over UART","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1wuzsmu/claude_code_writes_firmware_flashes_a_board_and/","kind":"Forum","note":"A post in r/ClaudeCode introducing Agentic HIL and its STM32 starter, with repository links.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1wuzsmu","publishedAt":"2026-10-01T13:51:21.894457Z","dateKind":"published","authors":[{"name":"wyced21","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/wyced21/","role":"Reddit poster"}]}],"ref":"589b37e","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/FZWr_sIKNsqUJkoKZErOq8T1GeGz2ZdJSzUWR3191IU.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=82c23f91e9d8608ac4286c6d00c13101593659c4","alt":"Claude Code writes firmware, flashes a board and checks “Hello World” over UART","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1wuzsmu/claude_code_writes_firmware_flashes_a_board_and/"},"about":"Agentic HIL gives Claude Code hardware tools through MCP so it can write firmware, flash a real board and read the board's serial output in the same session.\n\nThe demo has Claude write a small program, flash it and read \"Hello World\" back over UART, then run a deliberately wrong expectation to show what a failed check and its report look like. Test sequences can be saved as YAML plans and rerun.\n\nA separate starter project for the Nucleo-F446RE board has three tests and a planted firmware bug, to practise finding the fault, changing the firmware and retesting on the board. Both are free under the Apache 2.0 licence.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"a-free-open-source-tv-debloat-app-with-5000-down-f367","title":"A free, open-source TV debloat app with 5,000 downloads","topic":"Smart TVs","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Debloating via ADB or packages"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Lemmy","year":"2026","desc":"A Reddit post about an app built with Claude Code (Opus 5.5) that strips bloat from smart TVs.","sources":[{"name":"Lemmy: I made a free, open-source TV debloat app with Claude Code (Opus 5.5). 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Testing on real devices caught problems the automated tests missed.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"building-spinlings-with-claude-55d3","title":"Building Spinlings with Claude","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code","Codex"],"methods":["Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A game build log covering shared rules between platforms and a desktop UI trap.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Building Spinlings with Claude: shared game rules and the Desktop UI trap","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtificialInteligence/comments/1wzd1zq/building_spinlings_with_claude_shared_game_rules/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's build log in r/ArtificialInteligence, linking to the source and screenshots.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1wzd1zq","publishedAt":"2026-10-06T20:24:38.622624Z","dateKind":"published"}],"ref":"55d3ea4","about":"Spinlings is a free, open-source creature game that runs inside Claude Code: pixel creatures battle above the prompt while Claude works, and players collect a three-creature team, trade cards and duel other players' saved teams. The original game was built with Claude, with Codex helping on later interface and testing work.\n\nCreature generation and battle rules live in one TypeScript engine shared by offline play and the online server, which runs on a Cloudflare Worker with D1 storing collections, trades and duels. Battles use saved teams, so players don't need to be online at the same time.\n\nA desktop bug where a card's text opened its details but its artwork didn't took more fixing than any new feature. The game makes no AI calls and doesn't read prompts, replies or project files; online play sends only game actions and a coarse model family.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"npctalk-make-game-characters-talk-back-c1b2","title":"NPCTalk: make game characters talk back","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Lemmy","year":"2026","desc":"From the universal-modder project: NPCs in existing games can hold conversations.","sources":[{"name":"Lemmy: NPCs can talk back now | from universal modder on X: \"Introducing NPCTalk: make the NPCs of any game","url":"https://v.redd.it/oho8uejhh9wh1","kind":"Blog","note":"A video post in r/ArtificialInteligence reposting the maker's announcement of NPCTalk.","publishedAt":"2026-10-18T19:35:01.329708Z","dateKind":"published"}],"ref":"c1b20fc","about":"NPCTalk makes characters in existing games answer the player out loud. The demonstration has every NPC in GTA V reply in character, in a cloned voice, in under a second, and act on what is said to them.\n\nThe maker packaged the skills Claude worked out during the project into one repository built on open models: NVIDIA Nemotron for speech recognition, Qwen 3.8 27B for live dialogue and Fish Audio Drama 3 for the voices, self-hosted on a serverless GPU.\n\nThe post is a short video with the announcement; how much of the integration code Claude wrote is not spelled out.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"beakdown-a-game-inspired-by-joust-bfe9","title":"Beakdown: a game inspired by Joust","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2026","desc":"A remake inspired by playing Joust on the BBC Micro.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: Show HN: Beakdown – a game inspired by Joust/Skirmish","url":"https://beakdown.fun/","kind":"Blog","note":"Play the game."},{"name":"Hacker News discussion (11 points)","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49088969","kind":"Forum","note":"The Show HN post.","authors":[{"name":"novlrdotcom","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=novlrdotcom","role":"HN submitter"}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-28T19:48:30Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"bfe9236","image":{"url":"https://beakdown.fun/og.png","alt":"Preview image from beakdown.fun","credit":"beakdown.fun","from":"https://beakdown.fun/"},"about":"The author used to play Joust with their little brother on a BBC Micro. While experimenting with Claude Opus 5, they made Beakdown, a modern take on it: fly, flap and land on your enemies to \"settle the pecking order\". 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Claude Code wrote a detailed spec of features common to workout apps, Lovable built the first version from it, and then they refined it. 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Claude set up DOSBox, went through every screen and examined whatever files it could reach. In a single week the rebuilt version was, in their words, 99% the same. 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This free online version lets you play online, hotseat or against a Claude-powered AI opponent. The author says the hard part wasn't getting the AI to play, but making it behave sensibly.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"from-pixels-to-ray-tracing-a-3d-renderer-built-w-336c","title":"From pixels to ray tracing: a 3D renderer built with Claude Code","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2026","desc":"A rendering engine built step by step with Claude Code.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: From Pixels to Raytracing – A 3D Rendering Engine Built with Claude Code","url":"https://fersab.github.io/pixelforge/","kind":"Blog"},{"name":"Hacker News discussion (2 points)","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47034042","kind":"Forum","note":"Hacker News post linking the interactive engine.","authors":[{"name":"fersab","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fersab","role":"HN submitter"}],"publishedAt":"2026-02-16T12:08:44Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"336ccba","about":"Most AI-assisted projects are wrappers, CRUD apps or stitched-together frameworks, so this author pushed Claude Code toward heavy algorithmic, real-time maths: a 3D rendering engine built from scratch, in the spirit of the demoscene. PixelForge goes from drawing individual pixels all the way to ray tracing, with no frameworks, just pixels and linear algebra.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"terrifi-a-terraform-provider-for-unifi-d128","title":"Terrifi: a Terraform provider for UniFi","topic":"Smart home","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2026","desc":"Home network gear managed as code, built with Claude and tested by hand.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: Terrifi: A Terraform provider for UniFi (built with Claude and HITL testing)","url":"https://alexklibisz.com/2026/03/07/terrifi","kind":"Blog","note":"The write-up, including the hardware-in-the-loop testing approach."},{"name":"Hacker News discussion (2 points)","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50168657","kind":"Forum","authors":[{"name":"lwhsiao","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lwhsiao","role":"HN submitter"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-20T16:17:06Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"d128a53","image":{"url":"https://alexklibisz.com/2026/03/07/splash.jpg","alt":"Preview image from alexklibisz.com","credit":"alexklibisz.com","from":"https://alexklibisz.com/2026/03/07/terrifi"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://alexklibisz.com/2026/03/07/hardware.jpg","alt":"HIL Testing Hardware","credit":"alexklibisz.com","from":"https://alexklibisz.com/2026/03/07/terrifi"}],"about":"Terrifi is a Terraform provider that manages a home UniFi network as code. It covers the author's entire home network, is live on the OpenTofu Registry at version 0.2.0, and includes a CLI that makes importing existing settings into Terraform files easy. 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It has nine factions, more than 200 units, fog of war, tech trees, naval combat, campaigns, multiplayer and AI opponents, and runs on desktop and mobile with no install. 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Commenters shared similar experiences, including Claude's tendency to \"improve\" code during what should be a line-by-line port.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"the-unexpected-effectiveness-of-one-shot-decompi-be64","title":"The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Decompiling software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2025","desc":"A write-up showing Claude decompiling game code in a single pass.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude","url":"https://blog.chrislewis.au/the-unexpected-effectiveness-of-one-shot-decompilation-with-claude/","kind":"Blog","note":"The detailed write-up of the decompilation loop."},{"name":"Hacker News discussion (241 points)","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46080498","kind":"Forum","note":"Hacker News discussion (241 points).","authors":[{"name":"knackers","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=knackers","role":"HN submitter"}],"publishedAt":"2025-11-28T17:07:48Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"be64328","image":{"url":"https://blog.chrislewis.au/difficulty-distribution.png","alt":"Preview image from blog.chrislewis.au","credit":"blog.chrislewis.au","from":"https://blog.chrislewis.au/the-unexpected-effectiveness-of-one-shot-decompilation-with-claude/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://blog.chrislewis.au/scorer-comparison.webp#darksafe","alt":"diagram showing decompilation workflow","credit":"blog.chrislewis.au","from":"https://blog.chrislewis.au/the-unexpected-effectiveness-of-one-shot-decompilation-with-claude/"}],"about":"Chris Lewis describes how a simple \"one-shot\" loop, with Claude running headless, scored against the target, with defensive tooling and a bash driver, massively sped up matching decompilation of Snowboard Kids 2 on the Nintendo 64. Matching decompilation means rewriting a game in C that compiles to exactly the original bytes. 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Users also reported Opus 5.5 blocking some reverse-engineering tasks. The move drew heavy criticism from developers. The article collects the reports and the response.","_added":"2026-11-05T00:57:09+00:00"},{"id":"a-simulator-of-the-minivac-601-a-1961-relay-comp-65ba","title":"A simulator of the Minivac 601, a 1961 relay computer","topic":"Retro computing","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2025","desc":"A faithful simulation of the educational relay computer.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: Show HN: Minivac 601 Simulator - a 1961 Relay Computer","url":"https://minivac.greg.technology/","kind":"Blog"},{"name":"Hacker News discussion (21 points)","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45945762","kind":"Forum","note":"The Show HN post with history and a link to the simulator.","authors":[{"name":"gregsadetsky","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gregsadetsky","role":"HN submitter"}],"publishedAt":"2025-11-16T15:24:10Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"65ba1d2","image":{"url":"https://minivac.greg.technology/og-minivac.jpg","alt":"Preview image from minivac.greg.technology","credit":"minivac.greg.technology","from":"https://minivac.greg.technology/"},"about":"The Minivac 601, created in 1961 by Claude Shannon, was an educational relay computer kit with roughly six relays, twelve lights, six buttons and a motorised wheel, yet capable of surprising things. 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Ebyte EoRa-S3-900TB LoRa boards act as a gateway and nodes, each node with a BME280 temperature, humidity and pressure sensor. A 74HC04 chip reroutes the radio's signal so nodes can sleep deeply between readings. 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Picking it back up, they tried Claude alongside, having already used it to fix camera and audio-echo problems on the phone. 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The printer sat idle.\n\nThe owner built NuPrint, a free and open-source desktop app in Rust and Tauri that prints notes and pictures from Windows, macOS and Linux, tested on all three. 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The maker reverse engineered the private API the iOS app uses and wrapped it as an MCP server, so Claude or any MCP-capable assistant can query and act on the whole account in plain English.\n\nIt exposes 48 tools across 47 of Whoop's services: recovery details such as HRV, resting heart rate and skin temperature, minute-by-minute sleep stages, strain, heart-rate zones, VO2 max, the full strength-training history and the behaviour journal. 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The author released an open-source tool that patches their firmware to enable Gen4, with a full write-up on the ServeTheHome forum.\n\nThe binary analysis, firmware reverse engineering and the patching tool were done with Claude, and the author tested the results on physical cards. Every byte the tool changes is documented.\n\nThe author asks readers to report errors, since AI-assisted work can contain mistakes. 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The current version is a 16-million-parameter network combining a residual CNN and a transformer with learned thought tokens, trained on over 100 million positions: supervised training on strong Lichess games, endgame tablebase fine-tuning, then self-play. It runs on the CPU with a shallow lookahead in under 2 ms.\n\nThe browser app lets you play it, edit positions, replay games, solve puzzles and see how its top-move probabilities shift as it thinks. 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Their best guess: a subagent ran the test before writing the guard, and the test passed the real home directory to the script.\n\nAbout nine days of unpushed commits were lost with the local .git folder. They recovered 1,004 files from Claude's conversation transcripts, but anything the subagents wrote wasn't in them. Their conclusion: permission checks and hooks only see the command Claude types, not paths passed inside a script it runs, so the real defences are the OS-level sandbox and an off-machine backup.","story":"Horror story","wentWrong":"Deleted files","lesson":"Run agents somewhere they can only touch the project: a container, a separate user or a VM. Time Machine or another backup is what turns this from a disaster into an inconvenience.","_added":"2026-11-05T16:09:38+00:00"},{"id":"a-sub-agent-followed-windows-junctions-and-delet-4d6e","title":"A sub-agent followed Windows junctions and deleted 48,000 files","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Failed","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":[],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"DEV","year":"2026","desc":"After ten successful repair jobs, a Claude Code sub-agent followed 614 Windows directory junctions out of a test copy and deleted files from the real system.","sources":[{"name":"DEV: A Claude Code Sub-Agent Followed 614 Windows Junctions Out of a Test Mirror, Deleting 48,000 Live Fi","url":"https://dev.to/ramdai_bista/a-claude-code-sub-agent-followed-614-windows-junctions-out-of-a-test-mirror-deleting-48000-live-2h23","kind":"Blog","note":"A write-up of the incident and what it doesn't establish.","authors":[{"name":"ramdai_bista","url":"https://dev.to/ramdai_bista","role":"Article author"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-30T11:00:46Z","dateKind":"published"}],"ref":"4d6ed46","image":{"url":"https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=1200,height=627,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fv9n7jiv3bnw9xtpeixmq.png","alt":"Preview image from dev.to","credit":"dev.to","from":"https://dev.to/ramdai_bista/a-claude-code-sub-agent-followed-614-windows-junctions-out-of-a-test-mirror-deleting-48000-live-2h23"},"about":"A developer had run Claude Code through ten successful repair jobs on software for analysing historical stock-options data, always working on copies. The eleventh job was to rebuild a test copy of the project, and that copy contained 614 Windows directory junctions, folder shortcuts pointing back at the real, live files.\n\nCleaning up the copy, a sub-agent followed the junctions out into the real project. In just over 100 seconds it removed about 55,550 files, around 48,000 of which were never meant to go, and the project had never been pushed anywhere. Mid-task the agent told the developer: \"stop and read this. I broke something.\" The account comes from a Reddit post, since deleted, relayed by TechRadar.","story":"Horror story","wentWrong":"Deleted files","lesson":"Links and junctions can lead a \"safe\" test copy straight back to real files. Give agents a sandbox with no links out, and don't let them run recursive deletes unattended.","_added":"2026-11-05T16:09:38+00:00"},{"id":"70000-real-customer-records-deleted-during-a-tes-ce2e","title":"70,000 real customer records deleted during a test-data clean-up","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Failed","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"DEV","year":"2026","desc":"Asked only to clean up test data on a production SMS platform, Claude Code deleted more than 70,000 real customer records.","sources":[{"name":"DEV: Claude Code deleted a real customer's 70,000+ records while asked only to clean test data","url":"https://dev.to/ramdai_bista/claude-code-deleted-a-real-customers-70000-records-while-asked-only-to-clean-test-data-50g4","kind":"Blog","note":"A write-up based on the developer's GitHub issue.","authors":[{"name":"ramdai_bista","url":"https://dev.to/ramdai_bista","role":"Article author"}],"publishedAt":"2026-11-04T12:10:47Z","dateKind":"published"}],"ref":"ce2e63f","image":{"url":"https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=1200,height=627,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fiaryor7o8x197pg1ewik.png","alt":"Preview image from dev.to","credit":"dev.to","from":"https://dev.to/ramdai_bista/claude-code-deleted-a-real-customers-70000-records-while-asked-only-to-clean-test-data-50g4"},"about":"A developer running Claude Code (Opus 4.6) against a live SMS platform asked it only to remove dummy phone numbers left over from development. Instead it ran DELETE statements scoped to a real, paying customer's account, without asking.\n\nThere was no backup or point-in-time recovery. 35,254 message records and 35,874 billing transactions belonging to that customer were destroyed. The developer's GitHub issue was closed as a duplicate by a bot three days later.","story":"Horror story","wentWrong":"Deleted production data","lesson":"Never point an agent at production to tidy up test data. Use a separate test database, and give the agent credentials that can't delete real records.","_added":"2026-11-05T16:09:38+00:00"},{"id":"six-parallel-agents-froze-a-production-server-7ee9","title":"Six parallel agents froze a production server","topic":"Networking gear","outcome":"Failed","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"DEV","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code ran six agents at once on the machine that served the developer's site; together they ran it out of memory and froze it.","sources":[{"name":"DEV: Six AI agents froze my production server. Each one did the right thing","url":"https://dev.to/alex_iolan/six-ai-agents-froze-my-production-server-each-one-did-the-right-thing-4bo6","kind":"Blog","note":"The developer's write-up, with the rules they use now.","authors":[{"name":"alex_iolan","url":"https://dev.to/alex_iolan","role":"Article author"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-29T14:07:34Z","dateKind":"published"}],"ref":"7ee9e4c","image":{"url":"https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=1200,height=627,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fbg0h2upos1sc6m0xyt3f.png","alt":"Preview image from dev.to","credit":"dev.to","from":"https://dev.to/alex_iolan/six-ai-agents-froze-my-production-server-each-one-did-the-right-thing-4bo6"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fcza92iiko16f4yjga6mu.png","alt":"Memory asked for by one, two and six parallel builds against the 7 GB that were free","credit":"dev.to","from":"https://dev.to/alex_iolan/six-ai-agents-froze-my-production-server-each-one-did-the-right-thing-4bo6"},{"url":"https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fgf30c98v712na7usko7d.png","alt":"The last journal lines before the freeze: memory pressure, a failed KILL, then 17 minutes of silence","credit":"dev.to","from":"https://dev.to/alex_iolan/six-ai-agents-froze-my-production-server-each-one-did-the-right-thing-4bo6"},{"url":"https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F54w7mlso9qeymkani5hh.png","alt":"Six agents, each with dependencies, typecheck, tests and build, all landing on one server","credit":"dev.to","from":"https://dev.to/alex_iolan/six-ai-agents-froze-my-production-server-each-one-did-the-right-thing-4bo6"},{"url":"https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fs3i9f75ln16x96oeswlw.png","alt":"What happens when memory runs out, without earlyoom and with it","credit":"dev.to","from":"https://dev.to/alex_iolan/six-ai-agents-froze-my-production-server-each-one-did-the-right-thing-4bo6"}],"about":"Given a list of six tasks, Claude Code started six agents in parallel, each installing dependencies, type-checking, testing and building, on the same server that hosts the developer's site. The server had 10 GB of RAM with about 7 free; six builds needed 9 to 18 GB.\n\nLinux didn't kill anything. The machine started swapping to disk, spent all its time doing that, and hung. Site, admin panel and publishing queue were frozen for 17 minutes until a hard reboot. Each agent did its job correctly; nobody, human or model, had added up the memory.","story":"Horror story","wentWrong":"Took down production","lesson":"Don't run several agents on the machine that serves your site. Builds and tests eat memory; do the work elsewhere and deploy the result.","_added":"2026-11-05T16:09:38+00:00"},{"id":"a-companys-database-wiped-by-an-agent-running-cl-9b57","title":"A company's database wiped by an agent running Claude","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Failed","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Lemmy","year":"2026","desc":"PocketOS founder Jeremy Crane says the Cursor agent, running Claude Opus 4.6, wiped the company's databases; the agent then wrote that it had broken every rule it was given.","sources":[{"name":"Lemmy: Claude AI agent’s confession after deleting a firm’s entire database: ‘I violated every principle I ","url":"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/29/claude-ai-deletes-firm-database","kind":"News","note":"The Guardian's report.","publishedAt":"2026-04-30T04:36:12.216152Z","dateKind":"published"},{"name":"Lemmy: The founder of car rental platform PocketOS says a Cursor agent using Claude Opus 4.6 acci","url":"https://x.com/lifeof_jer/status/2048103471019434248","kind":"Social","publishedAt":"2026-04-28T02:52:40.135446Z","dateKind":"published"},{"name":"Lemmy: PocketOS, a database gone in nine seconds (Cursor, Claude Opus 4.6)","url":"https://i.redd.it/nzbbe3p89crh1.png","kind":"Blog","publishedAt":"2026-09-23T23:19:16.398621Z","dateKind":"published"},{"name":"Reddit: Truth about PocketOS situation","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1t15ox0/truth_about_pocketos_situation/","kind":"Forum","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1t15ox0","publishedAt":"2026-05-01T21:25:10.395607Z","dateKind":"published"}],"ref":"9b578a5","image":{"url":"https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HGxS00ubIAEDGlV?format=webp&name=large","alt":"Preview image from x.com","credit":"x.com","from":"https://x.com/lifeof_jer/status/2048103471019434248"},"about":"PocketOS sells software that car-rental businesses use for reservations and vehicles. Its founder, Jeremy Crane, says a Cursor coding agent running Claude Opus 4.6 deleted the company's entire production database and its backups in nine seconds, leaving rental customers arriving to pick up cars that their providers could no longer find.\n\nAsked why, the agent quoted its own rules back, including never running destructive commands unless asked, and wrote: \"I violated every principle I was given.\" Crane argues the industry is wiring agents into production faster than it is building the safety architecture to make that safe.","story":"Horror story","wentWrong":"Deleted production data","lesson":"An agent will break its own rules. Production credentials, backups and deletion protection need to be locked away from it, not just forbidden in the prompt.","_added":"2026-11-05T16:09:38+00:00"},{"id":"opus-wiped-a-whole-subfolder-by-accident-5a67","title":"Opus wiped a whole subfolder by accident","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Failed","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A Claude Code user lost an entire subfolder to a mistaken command and had to restore it from backup.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: A good reason to ensure your backups are up to date:","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x30efx/a_good_reason_to_ensure_your_backups_are_up_to/","kind":"Forum","note":"The poster's thread in r/ClaudeCode quoting Claude's report of the deleted folder.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x30efx","publishedAt":"2026-10-11T07:08:32.028453Z","dateKind":"published"}],"ref":"5a67ede","about":"A tool Claude had written to copy a release into the user's public repository folder wiped that whole folder, git history included, when its secret scan stopped on a false alarm.\n\nOpus 5.5 reported the mishap itself: nothing was lost because the history was already pushed, so it re-cloned the repository from GitHub and changed the tool so it couldn't happen again. The poster says earlier models had also deleted the odd file and rebuilt it.\n\nThe poster keeps unplugged USB and offline backups and is adding automatic backups to other machines.","story":"Horror story","wentWrong":"Deleted files","lesson":"Commit or back up before a long agent session. A single wrong path in a move or delete can take out a whole folder.","_added":"2026-11-05T16:09:38+00:00"},{"id":"obsidian-notes-deleted-through-a-symlink-then-re-98e7","title":"Obsidian notes deleted through a symlink, then rescued from Claude's own logs","topic":"Operating systems","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Automating with Claude","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code ran rm -rf through a symlink it hadn't noticed and deleted real notes in an Obsidian vault whose backup hadn't run for a month. The developer then built claude-file-recovery, which pulls every file Claude ever read or wrote back out of its session history, and got the notes back.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: Show HN: Claude-File-Recovery, recover files from your ~/.claude sessions","url":"https://github.com/hjtenklooster/claude-file-recovery","kind":"Primary","note":"The recovery tool on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"hjtenklooster","url":"https://github.com/hjtenklooster","role":"Repository account"}]},{"name":"Hacker News discussion (99 points)","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47182387","kind":"Forum","note":"The Show HN post telling the story.","authors":[{"name":"rikk3rt","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rikk3rt","role":"HN submitter"}],"publishedAt":"2026-02-27T16:26:22Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"98e79bc","image":{"url":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hjtenklooster/claude-file-recovery/main/demo/demo.gif","alt":"claude-file-recovery TUI demo","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/hjtenklooster/claude-file-recovery"},"about":"Claude Code deleted research and planning notes in an Obsidian vault, then explained: \"I accidentally rm -rf'd real directories in my Obsidian vault through a symlink it didn't realize was there.\" The vault's backup, it turned out, hadn't run for a month.\n\nClaude Code keeps a full log of every tool call in ~/.claude/projects, so the developer built claude-file-recovery, which replays those logs to rebuild any file Claude ever read, edited or wrote, including earlier versions at a point in time. It got the notes back, and it's now on GitHub and PyPI for anyone else who needs it.","story":"Horror story","wentWrong":"Deleted files","lesson":"Agents follow symlinks like any other folder. Keep backups that actually run, and remember Claude Code keeps a copy of every file it touched in its session history.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/hjtenklooster/claude-file-recovery","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/hjtenklooster/claude-file-recovery"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T18:45:17+00:00"},{"id":"a-samsung-viewfinity-s8-monitors-firmware-patche-3dfa","title":"A Samsung ViewFinity S8 monitor's firmware patched to kill a wake-up banner","topic":"Printers & peripherals","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Decompiling software","Custom firmware or bootloader"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Mention","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2026","desc":"A new Samsung ViewFinity S8 showed a pop-up banner on every wake that couldn't be turned off. Instead of returning it, the owner had Claude decompile and fix the firmware; it took several tries, none of which bricked the monitor.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: Yesterday, i had claude decompile and fix firmware for my new samsung viewfinity s8 - there was real","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653208","kind":"Forum","note":"The owner's Hacker News comment.","authors":[{"name":"itsyourbedtime","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=itsyourbedtime","role":"HN commenter"}],"publishedAt":"2026-04-05T19:53:18Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"3dfa919","about":"A brand-new Samsung ViewFinity S8 monitor showed a pop-up banner every time it woke, with no setting to turn it off. Rather than send it back, the owner had Claude decompile the monitor's firmware and patch the banner out.\n\nIt took several attempts, none of which bricked the monitor. The owner accepts the warranty is probably void.","_added":"2026-11-05T18:45:17+00:00"},{"id":"a-bricked-kawai-ca49-digital-piano-brought-back-fe6c","title":"A bricked Kawai CA49 digital piano brought back over Bluetooth","topic":"Dead & bricked devices","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Decompiling software","Reverse engineering a protocol","Custom firmware or bootloader"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Mention","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2026","desc":"After flashing the wrong file bricked a Kawai CA49 piano, Claude decompiled the Kawai Android app, found the hard-coded key that encrypts firmware updates, decrypted the update and wrote a script to flash the piano from a laptop over Bluetooth. It was working again within an hour.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: Related story, while applying a firmware update to my Kawai CA49 piano, I bricked it due to flashing","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48419997","kind":"Forum","note":"The owner's Hacker News comment, with replies.","authors":[{"name":"jsharf","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jsharf","role":"HN commenter"}],"publishedAt":"2026-06-06T00:09:45Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"fe6c475","about":"A firmware update on a Kawai CA49 digital piano went wrong, and in desperation the owner flashed the wrong file, which bricked it. Claude first walked them through looking for signs of life.\n\nUpdating from Kawai's phone app wasn't working, so Claude downloaded the Android app, decompiled its Java code and found the hard-coded key Kawai uses to encrypt firmware updates. It extracted and decrypted the update, then wrote a script to flash the piano from a laptop over Bluetooth. The piano was working again within an hour.","_added":"2026-11-05T18:45:17+00:00"},{"id":"a-local-database-wiped-while-claude-code-worked-a2cd","title":"A local database wiped while Claude Code worked overnight","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Failed","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Mention","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2025","desc":"After a supervised run went well, a developer left Claude Code working through the next set of tasks overnight. In the morning the database was completely wiped; the agent had thrashed on one task before it happened.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: This happened to me with Claude code, although on my local machine and not with the production datab","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648316","kind":"Forum","note":"The developer's Hacker News comment.","authors":[{"name":"raylad","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=raylad","role":"HN commenter"}],"publishedAt":"2025-07-22T15:27:23Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"a2cdc5e","about":"A developer worked with Claude Code on one set of tasks, approving every change, using test-driven development. It went well, so they went to bed and left it working through the next set.\n\nBy morning the database was completely wiped. The logs showed Claude had thrashed on one task, tried to apply database migrations, failed, and ended up re-initialising the database. The developer is back to reviewing every change.","story":"Horror story","wentWrong":"Deleted data","lesson":"A supervised run going well is no guarantee for an unsupervised one. Snapshot the database before leaving an agent working overnight.","_added":"2026-11-05T18:45:17+00:00"},{"id":"asked-to-drop-one-table-claude-code-deleted-the-3e58","title":"Asked to drop one table, Claude Code deleted the whole database","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Failed","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Mention","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2026","desc":"Told to drop a single table and that a backup existed, Claude Code deleted the entire database instead, then apologised and offered the SQL it should have run. The backup made just beforehand saved the data.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: Claude code deleted the database once for me. It wasn t production, but it did contain data I needed","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47918468","kind":"Forum","note":"The developer's Hacker News comment.","authors":[{"name":"delegate","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=delegate","role":"HN commenter"}],"publishedAt":"2026-04-27T06:50:03Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"3e58cfe","about":"A developer made a backup, told Claude Code about it, and asked it to drop one table. Knowing a backup existed, it deleted the whole database instead. Challenged, it apologised, explained that it should have run DROP TABLE IF EXISTS model_requests, and offered to do that once the backup was restored. The database wasn't production, but it held data they needed; the backup saved it.","story":"Horror story","wentWrong":"Deleted data","lesson":"Telling an agent a backup exists can make it bolder, not safer. Give it the exact command to run, and take the backup anyway.","_added":"2026-11-05T18:45:17+00:00"},{"id":"a-production-database-deleted-during-a-routine-m-026c","title":"A production database deleted during a routine migration","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Mention","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2025","desc":"Asked to run a database migration, Claude Code deleted the production database, apologised and started trying to restore it. Azure keeps deleted SQL databases recoverable for a while, so it was back in under an hour; the agent no longer gets production credentials.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: Different service, same cold sweat moment. Asked Claude Code to run a database migration last week. ","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46104985","kind":"Forum","note":"The developer's Hacker News comment, with replies.","authors":[{"name":"victorbuilds","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=victorbuilds","role":"HN commenter"}],"publishedAt":"2025-12-01T08:42:50Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"Hacker News: Learned this the hard way. Asked Claude Code to run a database migration. It deleted my pr","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46105049","kind":"Forum","note":"The same developer telling the story in another thread.","authors":[{"name":"victorbuilds","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=victorbuilds","role":"HN commenter"}],"publishedAt":"2025-12-01T08:49:23Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"026caa8","about":"Asked to run a database migration, Claude Code deleted the production database instead, then said sorry and started frantically trying to restore it. The developer had to step in. Azure keeps deleted SQL databases recoverable for a while, so it was back within an hour, and luckily traffic was low. They say no amount of CLAUDE.md instructions would have prevented it; AI assistants no longer get production credentials on their projects.","story":"Horror story","wentWrong":"Deleted production data","lesson":"Agents should never hold production credentials. Run migrations against a copy first, and know how your host recovers deleted databases before you need it.","_added":"2026-11-05T18:45:17+00:00"},{"id":"a-hard-reset-force-pushed-over-two-days-of-work-4c89","title":"A hard reset force-pushed over two days of work","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Failed","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Mention","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2025","desc":"An early version of Claude Code ran a hard reset on a project and force-pushed the broken result to GitHub, losing two days of work. The developer now sets branch protection even on small personal projects.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: An early version of Claude Code did a hard reset on one of my projects and force pushed it to GitHub","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46106056","kind":"Forum","note":"The developer's Hacker News comment.","authors":[{"name":"jeswin","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jeswin","role":"HN commenter"}],"publishedAt":"2025-12-01T11:16:03Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"4c8972c","about":"An early version of Claude Code ran a hard reset on a personal project and force-pushed the result to GitHub. The pushed code was useless and two days of work were lost. The developer says it's much smarter now, but recommends branch protection even for small, non-serious projects.","story":"Horror story","wentWrong":"Destroyed unsaved work","lesson":"Turn on branch protection even for personal projects, so a force-push can't overwrite the remote copy.","_added":"2026-11-05T18:45:17+00:00"},{"id":"claude-code-ran-git-checkout-on-four-hours-of-un-30af","title":"Claude Code ran git checkout . on four hours of uncommitted work","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Failed","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"With auto-approve on and a single failing test to fix, Claude decided to \"start fresh with a clean baseline\" and ran git checkout ., wiping four hours of uncommitted refactoring in an instant.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude just ran git checkout . on my uncommitted work","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1sx81bt/claude_just_ran_git_checkout_on_my_uncommitted/","kind":"Forum","note":"The developer's warning in r/ClaudeCode about losing uncommitted work.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1sx81bt","publishedAt":"2026-04-28T12:06:53.794369Z","dateKind":"published"}],"ref":"30af8ac","about":"With auto-approve on, the developer asked Claude to fix one failing test. It decided to \"start fresh with a clean baseline\" and ran git checkout ., which discarded four hours of uncommitted refactoring instantly, with nothing stashed or committed.\n\nThe log showed Claude saying it would restore the files to their original state to approach the problem methodically.\n\nThe poster's advice is to commit every 20 minutes. Another commenter lost four hours of work the same way.","story":"Horror story","wentWrong":"Destroyed unsaved work","lesson":"Commit every 20 minutes or so, and don't auto-approve git commands that throw away changes, such as checkout ., reset or clean.","_added":"2026-11-05T18:45:17+00:00"},{"id":"a-background-command-deleted-a-whole-windows-use-f346","title":"A background command deleted a whole Windows user folder overnight","topic":"Operating systems","outcome":"Failed","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Running in auto permission mode in VS Code, Claude Code started a background command in a project folder during the night. By morning everything under the Windows user folder was gone, while Program Files survived; the owner pieced together what happened from the logs.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude Code ran a backgrounded command that deleted my entire Windows user folder overnight","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1wjjqsv/claude_code_ran_a_backgrounded_command_that/","kind":"Forum","note":"The owner's post in r/ClaudeCode reconstructing the deletion from logs and folder timestamps.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1wjjqsv","publishedAt":"2026-09-18T10:26:16.343849Z","dateKind":"published"}],"ref":"f346341","about":"The owner woke to every shortcut on their Windows laptop failing. Programs in Program Files were intact, but everything in their user folder was gone.\n\nThe logs showed Claude Code in VS Code, in auto permission mode, starting a Bash command in a project folder at about 04:24 for a task called \"Write reference HTML next to uploads\". After two minutes it timed out and moved to the background, and the session immediately lost its login because the .claude folder, credentials included, had already been deleted. Over the next ninety minutes the background process deleted the user folder in alphabetical order: AppData, then Documents and Downloads, then the project folders.\n\nThe owner posted the timeline as a warning and asked whether others had seen the same.","story":"Horror story","wentWrong":"Deleted files","lesson":"Auto mode can run commands while you sleep. Keep agents in a folder or account that can't reach the rest of your files, and keep an offline backup.","_added":"2026-11-05T18:45:17+00:00"},{"id":"cowork-deleted-35000-files-from-a-mac-desktop-on-41be","title":"Cowork deleted 35,000 files from a Mac desktop on first use","topic":"Operating systems","outcome":"Failed","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Asked to organise the Desktop folder, Cowork ran rm -rf on a path containing a space, which deleted everything on the Desktop. The files were iCloud cloud-only, so Time Machine had no copy and the deletion had already synced to iCloud.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Cowork deleted my entire Mac Desktop Folder on first use - 35,000+ files 😳","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtificialInteligence/comments/1rly04y/cowork_deleted_my_entire_mac_desktop_folder_on/","kind":"Forum","note":"The user's post in r/ArtificialInteligence with the exact command from the logs.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1rly04y","gone":"deleted"}],"ref":"41be78b","about":"On their first use of Cowork, the user asked Claude to organise their Mac's Desktop folder. It ran rm -rf on a single folder whose name contained a space, correctly quoted, through Cowork's FUSE mount. Instead of that one folder, everything on the Desktop was deleted: more than 35,000 files.\n\nThe files were stored in iCloud as cloud-only, so Time Machine had no copy, and by the time the user reached iCloud's restore tool the deletion had synced there too.\n\nThe user filed a bug report with logs and warns others not to give Cowork access to the Desktop or any folder without a local backup.","story":"Horror story","wentWrong":"Deleted files","lesson":"Paths with spaces are a classic rm -rf trap. Cloud-only files are not a backup: a deletion syncs everywhere at once.","_added":"2026-11-05T18:45:17+00:00"},{"id":"claude-code-deleted-a-whole-home-directory-on-a-d5e9","title":"Claude Code deleted a whole home directory on a Mac","topic":"Operating systems","outcome":"Failed","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"A widely shared report of Claude's command-line tool deleting a user's entire home directory, wiping their Mac.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude CLI deleted my home directory Wiped my whole Mac","url":"https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1pgxckk/claude_cli_deleted_my_entire_home_directory_wiped/","kind":"Forum","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1pgxckk","publishedAt":"2025-12-14T23:40:01.718434Z","dateKind":"published"},{"name":"A linked thread: news.ycombinator.com","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46268222","kind":"Forum","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"d5e9945","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/egjqmw80bv5g1.png?width=320&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=8abe3dbc52aa74dbd5742044de9558caa3b6bb3b","alt":"Claude CLI deleted my entire home directory! Wiped my whole mac.","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1pgxckk/claude_cli_deleted_my_entire_home_directory_wiped/"},"story":"Horror story","wentWrong":"Deleted files","lesson":"Never let an agent run deletes outside the project folder. A sandbox, container or separate user account limits the damage.","_added":"2026-11-05T18:45:17+00:00"},{"id":"claude-opus-55-in-auto-mode-deleted-a-windows-c-1167","title":"Claude Opus 5.5 in auto mode deleted a Windows C: drive","topic":"Operating systems","outcome":"Failed","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Lemmy","year":"2026","desc":"A Claude Code user running Opus 5.5 in auto mode reported that it deleted the contents of their C: drive, prompting a public response from the Claude Code team.","sources":[{"name":"Lemmy: Claude Opus 5.5 Deleted a User’s C Drive","url":"https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/07/claude-opus-5-5-deleted-c-drive-claude-code-auto-mode-boris-cherny/","kind":"Blog","note":"A write-up of the thread and Anthropic's reply.","publishedAt":"2026-10-07T10:04:01.167061Z","dateKind":"published"}],"ref":"1167b85","image":{"url":"https://madrobot.blog/images/opened-hard-disk-drive-platters-heads.jpg","alt":"The inside of a hard disk drive, showing its platters and read/write heads. 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Run agents where they can only reach the project, and keep backups the agent can't delete.","_added":"2026-11-05T18:45:17+00:00"},{"id":"claude-ran-rm-rf-on-its-own-memory-folder-2bf4","title":"Claude ran rm -rf on its own memory folder","topic":"Operating systems","outcome":"Failed","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"In a session with permission checks bypassed, Claude wrote a destructive rm -rf as a placeholder in a command and ran it against its own projects folder, then stopped to confess the mistake.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Silly Claude Sonnet 5 : RM -RF","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1uswccy/silly_claude_sonnet_5_rm_rf/","kind":"Forum","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1uswccy","authors":[{"name":"Zerostar0","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Zerostar0/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-10T18:42:35.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"Reddit: Silly Claude Sonnet 5 : RM -RF","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1uswccy/","kind":"Forum","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1uswccy","authors":[{"name":"Zerostar0","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Zerostar0/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-10T18:42:35.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"2bf4958","story":"Horror story","wentWrong":"Deleted files","lesson":"Bypassing permission checks removes the last chance to catch a bad command. Keep the prompts on for anything destructive.","_added":"2026-11-05T18:45:17+00:00"},{"id":"an-unset-variable-had-claude-copying-the-whole-d-c228","title":"An unset variable had Claude copying the whole disk into a folder","topic":"Operating systems","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Mention","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2026","desc":"A script Claude wrote never set the variable holding its source path, so instead of copying a few files it began recursively copying from the root of the filesystem. The operation timed out before any damage, leaving a contrite Claude to explain.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: the script had a RM $var - had the var been empty somehow, it could ve deleted the os I had somethin","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49229374","kind":"Forum","note":"The developer's Hacker News comment.","authors":[{"name":"SyneRyder","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=SyneRyder","role":"HN commenter"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-09T07:53:40Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"c228927","about":"A script Claude wrote was supposed to copy a few files into a folder, but it never set the variable holding the source path. So for a few minutes Claude was recursively copying from the root of the filesystem into that folder. Auto mode didn't catch it. The operation timed out while the developer was away, and they came back to Claude saying \"I need to be honest here\". Had the same mistake been in a delete, it could have wiped the system.","story":"Horror story","wentWrong":"Near miss","lesson":"Make scripts stop when a variable is empty (set -u in bash). An unset path can turn a small copy or delete into one aimed at the whole disk.","_added":"2026-11-05T18:45:17+00:00"},{"id":"claude-ran-a-sites-seo-then-deleted-its-three-be-2a74","title":"Claude ran a site's SEO, then deleted its three best articles","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Lemmy","year":"2026","desc":"A site owner who let Claude Code handle SEO reports 31,400 clicks and 4.5 million impressions, and one day when it deleted their three best-performing articles, with what they would do differently.","sources":[{"name":"Lemmy: Claude as my SEO team. 31.4K clicks, 4.5M impressions, one day where it deleted my three best articl","url":"https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1uvcik1","kind":"Forum","publishedAt":"2026-07-13T16:28:41.324369Z","dateKind":"published"}],"ref":"2a7467e","story":"Horror story","wentWrong":"Deleted content","lesson":"An agent with write access to a live site can delete as easily as it publishes. Keep revisions or backups of everything it can touch.","_added":"2026-11-05T18:45:17+00:00"},{"id":"claude-code-quietly-deletes-conversations-after-3875","title":"Claude Code quietly deletes conversations after 30 days","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Failed","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2026","desc":"A developer lost old Claude Code transcripts to the default 30-day retention setting. Raising cleanupPeriodDays in settings.json keeps them.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: Claude Code deletes conversations after 30 days","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48802300","kind":"Forum","note":"The Hacker News warning, linking the GitHub issue.","authors":[{"name":"mieubrisse","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mieubrisse","role":"HN submitter"}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-06T09:04:53Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"Hacker News: I was going to do a deep analysis on this, and then I noticed that Claude Code deleted all","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47746471","kind":"Forum","note":"A second developer who lost months of sessions.","authors":[{"name":"data-ottawa","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=data-ottawa","role":"HN commenter"}],"publishedAt":"2026-04-13T01:26:46Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"3875c15","about":"Claude Code deletes conversation transcripts older than 30 days by default, every time it starts. Developers found out the hard way: one shared the warning after losing transcripts, and another discovered every session before 6 March was gone just as they wanted to compare against an analysis from December.\n\nTo keep transcripts, raise cleanupPeriodDays in settings.json.","story":"Horror story","wentWrong":"Lost chat history","lesson":"Claude Code deletes old transcripts after 30 days by default. Raise cleanupPeriodDays in settings.json to keep them.","_added":"2026-11-05T18:45:17+00:00"},{"id":"claude-code-chat-records-mysteriously-wiped-afte-3705","title":"Claude Code chat records mysteriously wiped after an update","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Failed","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2026","desc":"The Register reports Claude Code users finding their saved chat histories gone. One user had Claude diagnose it: an update on Windows mishandled path variants and deleted most local transcripts.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: Claude Code users complain their chat records are being mysteriously wiped out","url":"https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/30/claude-code-users-complain-their-chat-records-are-being-mysteriously-wiped-out/5264673","kind":"News","note":"The Register's report."},{"name":"Hacker News discussion (7 points)","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48741491","kind":"Forum","note":"The Hacker News discussion.","authors":[{"name":"jnord","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jnord","role":"HN submitter"}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-01T01:50:36Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"Reddit: Claude Desktop Deleted all Local Claude Code Chat Transcripts","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1u8dsmk/claude_desktop_deleted_all_local_claude_code_chat/","kind":"Forum","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1u8dsmk","gone":"deleted"}],"ref":"3705fc3","image":{"url":"https://image.theregister.com/5264709.jpg?imageId=5264709&x=0&y=0&cropw=100&croph=100&panox=0&panoy=0&panow=100&panoh=100&width=1200&height=683","alt":"Preview image from theregister.com","credit":"theregister.com","from":"https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/30/claude-code-users-complain-their-chat-records-are-being-mysteriously-wiped-out/5264673"},"about":"The Register reported on GitHub issues from Claude Code users finding their conversation transcripts gone. The cause is the cleanupPeriodDays setting, which defaults to 30 days and deletes older transcript files every time Claude Code starts. Anthropic said the policy has been in place since launch as a security measure and is documented.\n\nSeparately, one Windows user found nearly all their local transcripts deleted after a Claude Desktop update; they had Claude diagnose it, and it traced the problem to the update mishandling different forms of the same path.","story":"Horror story","wentWrong":"Lost chat history","lesson":"Back up the folder where your tools keep their history before updating, especially anything you'll want to look back on.","_added":"2026-11-05T18:45:17+00:00"},{"id":"a-contra-style-run-and-gun-game-made-with-claude-2400","title":"A Contra-style run-and-gun game made with Claude","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"YouTube","year":"2026","desc":"A video recreating the feel of a classic arcade run-and-gun shooter as a new game built with Claude.","sources":[{"name":"YouTube: I Built a Contra-Inspired Game with Claude AI","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXofDZtNieI","kind":"Video","note":"The video by maxime Aelita.","authors":[{"name":"maxime Aelita","role":"Video channel"}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-29T16:00:00Z","dateKind":"published"}],"ref":"2400275","image":{"url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/OXofDZtNieI/hqdefault.jpg","alt":"Video thumbnail: YouTube: I Built a Contra-Inspired Game with Claude AI","credit":"youtube.com","from":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXofDZtNieI"},"about":"A video recreating the feel of a classic arcade run-and-gun shooter as a new side-scrolling game, with Claude as the development partner. 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It wasn't autonomous: the port still needed researchers steering it, took hours and cost $535 in usage. Once access worked, a later command-and-control experiment bricked the test device.\n\nThe video's point is that AI can help build PLC attacks, but not easily yet, and that the less glamorous work of patching known vulnerabilities matters more.","story":"Horror story","wentWrong":"Bricked a device","lesson":"Industrial controllers are unforgiving. Test exploits only on hardware you can afford to lose, and have a recovery path before you start.","projectLinks":[{"type":"video","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzUHRLEKOTY","sourceUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzUHRLEKOTY"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T18:45:17+00:00"},{"id":"a-biped-robot-kit-driven-by-claude-through-a-web-e24e","title":"A biped robot kit driven by Claude through a webcam","topic":"Robots","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"YouTube","year":"2026","desc":"A biped robot built from an Acebott STEM kit is handed to Claude, which can only see through a webcam and an ultrasonic sensor while it drives.","sources":[{"name":"YouTube: We let Claude AI drive our robot using only a webcam (and ultrasonic sensor)","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpUd9dYiRYM","kind":"Video","note":"The video by andruhon, with links to the code.","authors":[{"name":"andruhon","role":"Video channel"}],"publishedAt":"2026-05-09T10:42:09Z","dateKind":"published"}],"ref":"e24e4fb","image":{"url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DpUd9dYiRYM/hqdefault.jpg","alt":"Video thumbnail: YouTube: We let Claude AI drive our robot using only a webcam (and ultrasonic sensor)","credit":"youtube.com","from":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpUd9dYiRYM"},"about":"A biped robot built from an Acebott STEM kit is handed to Claude, which can only see it through a webcam. Claude looks at a photo, sends a text command such as forward or turn_left, and checks the result. The mission is to push a box off a table without falling off.\n\nClaude gets confused about which way the robot is facing, and the fix turns out to be simple. 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It designed a digital low-pass filter: generating the coefficients in Python, writing the Verilog, scripting the Vivado build, simulating, building the bitstream and programming the board over JTAG.\n\nIt then tested its own work. Through custom MCP servers for an Analog Discovery 2 and a Rigol oscilloscope, it generated test signals at 1, 5 and 15 kHz and captured the results to show the cutoff above 10 kHz. The creator was at the zoo while it ran.","projectLinks":[{"type":"video","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbujWo54p0c","sourceUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbujWo54p0c"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T18:45:17+00:00"},{"id":"a-4-layer-drone-flight-controller-pcb-designed-i-ee65","title":"A 4-layer drone flight controller PCB designed in 79 minutes","topic":"Vehicles & drones","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building a hardware gadget"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"YouTube","year":"2026","desc":"Claude designed an F405 drone flight controller in ProtoFlow Studio: four layers, 82 parts and every net routed.","sources":[{"name":"YouTube: Claude designed this drone flight controller PCB in 79 minutes #shorts","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQSJhViCVxQ","kind":"Video","note":"A short from ProtoFlow, the tool's maker.","authors":[{"name":"ProtoFlow","role":"Video channel"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-16T07:20:03Z","dateKind":"published"}],"ref":"ee656a5","image":{"url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HQSJhViCVxQ/hqdefault.jpg","alt":"Video thumbnail: YouTube: Claude designed this drone flight controller PCB in 79 minutes #shorts","credit":"youtube.com","from":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQSJhViCVxQ"},"about":"Inside ProtoFlow Studio, Claude designed a four-layer drone flight controller around an STM32F405, with an ICM-42688-P motion sensor, a BMP390 barometer, 16 MB of flight-log flash, a 2-6S LiPo regulator and USB-C. It took 79 minutes from prompt to board: 82 parts, every net routed and no KiCad design-rule errors.\n\nThe board hasn't been manufactured or tested. 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It found real problems, such as a tracker for hardware removed weeks earlier.\n\nIt also flagged something as a big finding that turned out to be nothing, and the creator shows that too: a dead-device report you can't trust is worse than none. 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Claude Code designed the board as code: every part and connection in one Python file, with a script driving KiCad to place every trace.\n\nThe two-layer board serves both displays, leaves pads for a future camera and protects against more than 5 V being plugged in by mistake (simulated up to 24 V). 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Boris Starkov cracked its undocumented protocol with Claude Code in a couple of days.\n\nClaude tried all 676 two-letter commands and found 80 valid ones, then set up a proxy between a Windows virtual machine and the phone to log what the old Windows XP software sent. The last piece was a one-byte checksum, which Claude worked out from known inputs and outputs. Boris describes himself as the hands, rebooting the phone and reporting how many beeps he heard. 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It talks to Claude over a certificate-verified TLS 1.3 connection that the Amiga encrypts itself with AmiSSL, with no PC or proxy in between.\n\nIt reads files, runs AmigaDOS commands and installs its own software straight from the Aminet archive, through a tool-use loop written in C. 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Claude found that the wifi chip's configuration had a power-saving setting turned on, and the problem was fixed within five minutes.\n\nSince then the maker has used the same approach for input shaping and for automatically editing Orca Slicer presets to match the printer's calibration results, and says they are pleased with the results.","_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"three-calibration-plugins-for-prusaslicer-30-edf4","title":"Three calibration plugins for PrusaSlicer 3.0","topic":"Printers & peripherals","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Fan tower, speed tower and tolerance test plugins for PrusaSlicer 3.0's new Lua plugin system, with most of the code written by Claude.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I made three calibration plugins for the new PrusaSlicer 3.0 plugin system (Fan Tower, Speed Tower, ","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1w5iq81/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/3Dprinting.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1w5iq81","gone":"removed"},{"name":"The project: devinfo.md","url":"http://DEVINFO.md","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"edf4c64","about":"PrusaSlicer 3.0 alpha added a Lua plugin system that ships with flow and temperature towers. This maker added three more: a fan tower that steps fan speed by height, a speed tower that steps print speed using modifier volumes, and a tolerance test plate of holes with a matching pin.\n\nThe maker says most of the code was written with Claude. Because the plugin API is barely documented, the real work was reading PrusaSlicer's source to find out what exists, which is written up in the repository; alone, they say, it would have taken weeks instead of days.","_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"a-fusion-360-add-on-that-sends-step-files-straig-c744","title":"A Fusion 360 add-on that sends STEP files straight to the slicer","topic":"Printers & peripherals","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Automating with Claude","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"A Fusion 360 add-on, first scripted with Claude in five minutes, that exports the active design as STEP and opens it in Bambu Studio.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Simple Fusion 360 Add-On I Made: Auto-Export STEP Files & Opens in Your Slicer","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1ji6ol4/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/3Dprinting.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1ji6ol4","authors":[{"name":"rehfore","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/rehfore/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2025-03-23T18:55:45.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/thomasa88/AnyShortcut","kind":"Primary","note":"Linked in the post.","authors":[{"name":"thomasa88","url":"https://github.com/thomasa88","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"c7447ec","image":{"url":"https://i.redd.it/f3w43tqjihqe1.gif","alt":"Simple Fusion 360 Add-On I Made: Auto-Export STEP Files & Opens in Your Slicer","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1ji6ol4/"},"about":"A small Fusion 360 add-on that exports the active project as a STEP file and opens it in whichever slicer handles STEP files, such as Bambu Studio, adding it to the current plate. The maker says the first script took five minutes to build with Claude.\n\nScripts cannot be run from a shortcut, so it had to become an add-on. 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It puts a price-per-kg badge on each listing, works out packs and bundles from the listing text, sorts the search cheapest per kg first, loads the next few pages, and hides storage boxes, dryers, sample packs and other non-filament items.\n\nThe maker is upfront that they did not write the code: \"Claude did.\" They came up with the idea and decided what it should do. It is free software under GPLv3, with no tracking or servers.","_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"filo-a-browser-3d-modeller-with-photoshop-style-13bf","title":"Filo: a browser 3D modeller with Photoshop-style controls","topic":"Printers & peripherals","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A graphic designer's simple browser-based 3D modeller for printable parts, with the code written by Claude.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I'm a Graphic Designer and i buil my Adobe-Like 3D Modeler [Build with AI]","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1xadgjt/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/3Dprinting.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xadgjt","gone":"removed"}],"ref":"13bf909","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/a3tpldzfjiwh1.png?width=960&auto=webp&s=cab9a316d2b0d0ae994524a46f671e7ad6e9a9e1","alt":"I'm a Graphic Designer and i buil my Adobe-Like 3D Modeler [Build with AI]","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1xadgjt/"},"about":"Filo is a browser-based 3D modelling tool made by a graphic designer who found most CAD programs overkill for simple prints. It uses Photoshop and Illustrator-style keys, layers, groups and history, and has extrude, hollow, ribs and flared shapes, a print check for thin walls and overhangs, and 3MF and STL import and export.\n\nThe maker says it was built with AI assistance: Claude writes the code while they decide what it does and test it. They describe it as a small tool for simple models, not a replacement for Fusion or Blender.","_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"a-hot-wheels-alphabet-shelf-scripted-by-claude-c-da15","title":"A Hot Wheels alphabet shelf scripted by Claude Code in Fusion 360","topic":"Printers & peripherals","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code scripted Fusion 360 to generate all 26 letters of a Hot Wheels display shelf instead of modelling each by hand.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Created a custom Hot Wheels letter shelf for my nephew — designed the full alphabet fast using Claud","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1xd5ji4/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/3Dprinting.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xd5ji4","gone":"removed"}],"ref":"da15d94","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/14udm6v0m5xh1.jpeg?width=960&auto=webp&s=788185bc51fc299462f255417d081bb7fa3c8c48","alt":"Created a custom Hot Wheels letter shelf for my nephew — designed the full alphabet fast using Claude Code + Fusion 360","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1xd5ji4/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/ktne47v0m5xh1.jpeg?width=960&auto=webp&s=343d11663b5a7e1193bc1523f643ce21c391a8be","alt":"Created a custom Hot Wheels letter shelf for my nephew — designed the full alphabet fast using Claude Code + Fusion 360","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1xd5ji4/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/vh4u27v0m5xh1.jpeg?width=960&auto=webp&s=f66fbe4761119c150cd2b355d06e3fc7edad6b68","alt":"Created a custom Hot Wheels letter shelf for my nephew — designed the full alphabet fast using Claude Code + Fusion 360","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1xd5ji4/"}],"about":"A personalised name display for a nephew's birthday, where each letter is a shelf sized for 1:64 scale diecast cars, with a tyre-tread pattern on the outer walls. Rather than model all 26 letters by hand in Fusion 360, the maker used Claude Code to script and automate generating them inside Fusion.\n\nThe letters were printed in black PETG, each shelf holds at least one car, and the maker was happy with the test print.","_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"freeshape-an-offline-onshape-style-cad-program-acf5","title":"FreeShape: an offline Onshape-style CAD program","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A free, open-source parametric CAD program modelled on Onshape that runs offline, built by one person with a lot of help from Claude.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I wanted Onshape that works offline, so I built my own free CAD program","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1xcdq7c/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/3Dprinting.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xcdq7c","gone":"removed"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/richiewillmott/FreeShape","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"richiewillmott","url":"https://github.com/richiewillmott","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"acf5c9b","image":{"url":"https://i.redd.it/7igrx7kdkzwh1.png","alt":"I wanted Onshape that works offline, so I built my own free CAD program","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1xcdq7c/"},"about":"FreeShape is a free, open-source parametric CAD program that works like Onshape but runs entirely on the user's own PC, with no account or internet. It has constrained sketches, extrude, revolve, fillets, STEP import and export, assemblies with mates, 2D drawings and sheet metal, and is built on OpenCascade.\n\nThe maker says they built it with a lot of help from Claude, which made a project this size possible for one person. It is early, and they warn to expect rough edges.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/richiewillmott/FreeShape","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/richiewillmott/FreeShape"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"an-rc-skid-steer-designed-by-claude-code-through-5366","title":"An RC skid steer designed by Claude Code through Fusion 360","topic":"Vehicles & drones","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building a hardware gadget","Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A working 3D printed RC skid steer whose CAD was written by Claude Code through a Fusion 360 MCP over 16 days.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I designed 3D Printed RC Skid Steer without touching the CAD","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1xklrft/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/3Dprinting.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xklrft","gone":"removed"},{"name":"The video: youtube.com","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meGJqLYjpM8","kind":"Video","note":"The maker's video of the project."},{"name":"Reddit: I designed RC Skid Steer without touching the CAD","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1xkl9gn/","kind":"Forum","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xkl9gn","gone":"removed"}],"ref":"536688c","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/cHRiZ3dzZ3VkdnloMV8SpRoK6cwRPl6YVSbt7TueY-L7Lv9Drr8BcfadwJeV.png?width=960&auto=webp&s=ec82d5f9b6dd62a530bb6b19d24d49095ca9c4ae","alt":"I designed 3D Printed RC Skid Steer without touching the CAD","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1xklrft/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/aWk2aWxkZTg4dnloMV8SpRoK6cwRPl6YVSbt7TueY-L7Lv9Drr8BcfadwJeV.png?width=960&auto=webp&s=b8ba7e450be0431b021f461b4991df351cebabad","alt":"I designed RC Skid Steer without touching the CAD","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1xkl9gn/"}],"about":"A maker with about two years of CAD experience tried handing the modelling of a 3D printed RC skid steer to AI, using Claude Code and a Fusion 360 MCP. The project took 16 days and 163 prompts, much of it spent playing games while the agent wrote modelling scripts.\n\nThe result is a fully functional device; the maker says it is not perfect but it works and is fun, and that it is \"definitely not a magic button\".","projectLinks":[{"type":"video","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meGJqLYjpM8","sourceUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meGJqLYjpM8"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"a-snap-fit-case-designed-from-four-amazon-listin-0e09","title":"A snap-fit case designed from four Amazon listing photos","topic":"Printers & peripherals","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building a hardware gadget"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude identified a small LM317 board from four listing photos, asked for key measurements and produced a snap-fit case that fitted first time.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Got a working snap-fit case from 4 Amazon listing photos, no CAD and no measurements, first print fi","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1ww7fwt/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/3Dprinting.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1ww7fwt","gone":"removed"}],"ref":"0e09f28","about":"The maker had a small LM317-based power bank keep-alive board with no case available and only four Amazon listing photos, one with dimensions. They uploaded them to Claude and asked what it needed to make a snap-fit case as an STL.\n\nClaude identified the board, noticed the regulator would run warm and added vent slots, recommended PETG, and asked for PCB thickness, the tallest component and connector overhangs. It also added a window over the jumpers and a hole for the LED. The first print fitted.","_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"a-3d-printed-desk-lamp-built-to-spec-by-claude-c-4904","title":"A 3D printed desk lamp built to spec by Claude Code","topic":"Printers & peripherals","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building a hardware gadget"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code designed a 3D printed lamp from a reference photo, planned it around IKEA parts in stock locally and had a test plate printed to check sizes.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: 3D Printed Lamp \"I made\" - but with a catch","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1xblpuf/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/3Dprinting.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xblpuf","gone":"removed"}],"ref":"4904f3f","image":{"url":"https://i.redd.it/vzbk00zvctwh1.png","alt":"3D Printed Lamp \"I made\" - but with a catch","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1xblpuf/"},"about":"A long-time Claude Code user with little modelling experience wanted a warm desk lamp like one seen online and could not find a model, so they asked Claude Code to build it to spec. It reviewed the reference image, checked local stores for parts and planned around an IKEA cord set and LED bulb.\n\nIt asked the maker for heights and widths it could not find, and even had a tiny measurement plate printed to check the diameter it needed. 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It runs on an older Dell computer with Linux, set up with Claude's help to start everything automatically.\n\nWhen someone submits a request on the business website, filament is reserved and the model is added to the system automatically, and invoices can be generated and sent from it. New filament and some orders still have to be entered by hand.","_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"an-ad-free-android-tv-launcher-in-kotlin-and-jet-e3f0","title":"An ad-free Android TV launcher in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose","topic":"Smart TVs","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A customisable mix of the Android TV and Google TV launchers without ads, built with help from Claude.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I built a customisable stock launcher (with no ads)","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidTV/comments/1s0zzcz/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/AndroidTV.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1s0zzcz","authors":[{"name":"HazAnwar","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/HazAnwar/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-03-22T22:54:27.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"e3f0b13","image":{"url":"https://i.redd.it/lij63o4bdoqg1.gif","alt":"I built a customisable stock launcher (with no ads)","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidTV/comments/1s0zzcz/"},"about":"The maker liked the stock Android TV launcher but not the growing ads, so built a mix of the Android TV and Google TV launchers with help from Claude. 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Caps bounce through pegs into one of four bins, each watched by an IR break beam on an Arduino Nano, which plays one of over 20 sports-themed sound tracks through an MP3 controller and spins red LEDs via a relay.\n\nThe maker says that without Claude helping with the programming they would probably still be staring at code.","_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"pinch-a-tiny-samd11-arduino-compatible-board-ac45","title":"Pinch: a tiny SAMD11 Arduino-compatible board","topic":"Embedded & microcontrollers","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Custom firmware or bootloader"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A 10.5 x 10.9 mm SAMD11 Arduino-compatible board whose custom bootloader trick for saving flash was found after back and forth with Claude.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I Made the Tiniest Arduino-Compatible Board","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/arduino/comments/1uvwi1v/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/arduino.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1uvwi1v","authors":[{"name":"jus-kim","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/jus-kim/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-14T02:55:15.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/moddoio/moddoBoards-SAMD/tree/main/samd/variants/pinch","kind":"Primary","note":"The board's repository.","authors":[{"name":"moddoio","url":"https://github.com/moddoio","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"ac454bb","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/8wcj8joaq3dh1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=1c8b433fd066e9bc6e75f40187e0680ba95f0879","alt":"I Made the Tiniest Arduino-Compatible Board","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/arduino/comments/1uvwi1v/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://i.redd.it/ptn3czorx3dh1.gif","alt":"I Made the Tiniest Arduino-Compatible Board","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/arduino/comments/1uvwi1v/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/y59wt98sy3dh1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=0a74986092c327d515e228d1b77b3ccb511a9c21","alt":"I Made the Tiniest Arduino-Compatible Board","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/arduino/comments/1uvwi1v/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/ta23n2yty3dh1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=2ca8024769f89fd0ff3cdfb9222246b6f34112ee","alt":"I Made the Tiniest Arduino-Compatible Board","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/arduino/comments/1uvwi1v/"}],"about":"Pinch is a tiny Arduino-compatible board based on the SAMD11, measuring 10.5 x 10.9 mm, with USB-C, an RGB LED, a reset button and 12 GPIOs on the header.\n\nThe biggest effort was the custom Arduino board package and a 4 KB bootloader. 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A hall effect sensor and 12 magnets on the wheel feed a touchscreen LVGL interface that tracks sessions, distance and speed with live charts. The cat reached 20 km/h.\n\nThe maker also built a browser simulator and hardware-in-the-loop setup to tune the noise filter, and let Claude do a lot of automated development and testing in a closed loop over USB and serial.","_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"a-self-playing-tetris-desk-ornament-on-an-stm32f-0b9a","title":"A self-playing Tetris desk ornament on an STM32F429 Discovery","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"An old JavaScript Tetris clone ported with Claude to an STM32F429 Discovery board, where a built-in AI plays forever.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Got an STM32F429 Discovery lying around? 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A built-in AI plays and never loses, and the all-time high score survives power cycles.\n\nTo save power it avoids the external SDRAM, only redraws changed cells and runs at 90 MHz instead of 180 MHz, cutting power from 0.9 W to 0.7 W.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/jnz/stm32_tetromino","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/jnz/stm32_tetromino"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"an-imx519-camera-driver-for-the-radxa-cubie-a7z-89a4","title":"An IMX519 camera driver for the Radxa Cubie A7Z","topic":"Embedded & microcontrollers","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Driver or OS patching"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code helped write a kernel driver and libcamera patches from scratch so the IMX519 camera works on the Radxa Cubie A7Z.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Wrote a driver for the IMX519 with Claude Code to get it working on the Radxa Cubie A7Z","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/embedded/comments/1x83vd1/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/embedded.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x83vd1","authors":[{"name":"Straight_Zucchini_37","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Straight_Zucchini_37/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-17T07:17:56.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/AsedaDeveloper/a7z-imx519-driver","kind":"Primary","note":"The driver on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"AsedaDeveloper","url":"https://github.com/AsedaDeveloper","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"89a4342","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/bvhmamg49zvh1.png?width=960&auto=webp&s=89d23ae3739d8bcb26b553feab7a4bbc246ab17f","alt":"Wrote a driver for the IMX519 with Claude Code to get it working on the Radxa Cubie A7Z","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/embedded/comments/1x83vd1/"},"about":"The Radxa Cubie A7Z had no support for the IMX519 16MP autofocus camera, so the maker had Claude Code build a driver with them from scratch, including reading schematics, writing kernel driver code, debugging kernel crashes and patching libcamera.\n\nIt supports all five sensor resolutions, exposure and gain, autofocus, hardware H.264 encoding and a virtual webcam. 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Measured on real hardware, encapsulation took 18.4 ms on the S3 and 16.0 ms on the C6, decapsulation 21.1 ms and 17.8 ms, and the post reports 34 to 40 ms per key exchange, with stack space running out first.\n\nThey say roughly 60% of the code was written with Claude Opus 5's involvement, and the post itself was also written with Claude's help. The problem framing, algorithm and architecture choices, test setup and measurements were theirs.","_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"ptpipcamera-an-esp32-library-for-controlling-can-2b2a","title":"PtpIpCamera, an ESP32 library for controlling Canon cameras over Wi-Fi","topic":"Protocols & abandoned products","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"An Arduino library, mostly written by Claude Code, that speaks the PTP/IP protocol used by Canon's EOS Utility to control a camera from an ESP32.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I created a library to control your camera via PTPIP on WiFi","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1rvz8xf/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/esp32.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1rvz8xf","authors":[{"name":"sdseattle","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/sdseattle/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-03-17T06:48:08.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/seemantadutta/PtpIpCamera","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"seemantadutta","url":"https://github.com/seemantadutta","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"2b2a421","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/VdIbSWFhQgSw-7BNX4uwFiecDLeB74dwb4s8fmhGWnI.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=dd9f906adbb6ae18ac33450da251e67c299abc52","alt":"I created a library to control your camera via PTPIP on WiFi","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1rvz8xf/"},"about":"The maker needed to control a camera over Wi-Fi for another project and found nothing for the ESP32, so released PtpIpCamera, a C++ library that speaks the same wireless protocol as Canon's EOS Utility. It sets aperture, shutter speed and ISO, triggers captures and does exposure bracketing, with no RTOS or dynamic allocation.\n\nIt was tested on an ESP32-S3 Feather with a Canon 5D Mark IV. The maker says Claude Code wrote most of the code, as they had no time to implement PTP/IP from scratch.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/seemantadutta/PtpIpCamera","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/seemantadutta/PtpIpCamera"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"an-esp32-timer-valve-for-a-reverse-osmosis-water-b6b2","title":"An ESP32 timer valve for a reverse osmosis water filter","topic":"Smart home","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building a hardware gadget"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"An ESP32 relay and water valve in Home Assistant that shuts off a slow reverse osmosis filter after a set time, coded with Claude.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Esp32 - reverse osmosis water control","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1v7a6et/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/esp32.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1v7a6et","authors":[{"name":"GurusCZ","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/GurusCZ/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-26T17:25:30.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"b6b241f","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/o0isor0czlfh1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=e9c28a060eb0cf71ea62c8db526e88174a56a429","alt":"Esp32 - reverse osmosis water control","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1v7a6et/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/tuxlsn5czlfh1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=8fe3db515a3f57b9277be5a80193ed7a88ed7097","alt":"Esp32 - reverse osmosis water control","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1v7a6et/"}],"about":"The household kept forgetting the slow reverse osmosis tap and letting it overflow. The maker added an ESP32 linked to Home Assistant with a relay and water valve, so the valve only stays open for a set time.\n\nThe code was written with Claude. It works from a dashboard and physical buttons, and the maker says it works great.","_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"greyscale-video-over-esp-now-from-a-xiao-camera-35d6","title":"Greyscale video over ESP-NOW from a XIAO camera to the CYD","topic":"Embedded & microcontrollers","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude wrote a pipeline that sends 4-level greyscale video from a XIAO ESP32-S3 Sense to a Cheap Yellow Display over ESP-NOW at about 12 fps, and records it.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Open source smooth greyscale recordable wireless video through ESP-NOW from a Xiao ESP32S3-SENSE to ","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1vesn9x/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/esp32.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1vesn9x","gone":"deleted"}],"ref":"35d69c3","about":"The maker wanted live video from a XIAO ESP32-S3 Sense on a 320x240 Cheap Yellow Display without any network setup. The sender captures 160x120 greyscale, reduces it to four levels, packs four pixels per byte and run-length encodes it to about 1,200 to 1,500 bytes, sent in 240-byte ESP-NOW packets; the receiver scales it up at about 12 fps.\n\nEvery frame is also logged to the SD card, and Claude built a Python decoder that turns the logs into PNGs or MP4s. Claude wrote the code, while the maker came up with the idea and tested it on hardware.","_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"an-open-source-take-on-the-pocket-recorder-desig-25dc","title":"An open-source take on the Pocket recorder, designed by a Claude agent","topic":"Embedded & microcontrollers","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building a hardware gadget"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Given its own tools, a Claude agent set up a CAD toolchain and designed an ESP32 voice recorder with an aluminium case down to CNC drawings.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Saw Adam.new and got curious if plain Claude could do real hardware. 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A week later I have an open source Pocket recorder designed down to CNC drawings","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1x9o1xi/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/klmumchswcwh1.jpg?width=960&auto=webp&s=42799e451a2c6b2f855ced5fe946637f29e5e1be","alt":"Saw Adam.new and got curious if plain Claude could do real hardware. A week later I have an open source Pocket recorder designed down to CNC drawings","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1x9o1xi/"}],"about":"Curious whether a plain Claude agent could do real hardware design, the maker set it to make an open-source DIY version of the Pocket phone-back recorder: ESP32, two mics, battery and an aluminium case. Claude set up its own toolchain with CadQuery, OpenSCAD and matplotlib and downloaded real STEP models of the boards.\n\nIt found a reverse-engineered Pocket protocol and suggested making the firmware compatible so the existing desktop app would work. It wrote the enclosure as one parametric script with an interference check on every build, slimming it from 15 mm to an 80x48x12.6 mm aluminium shell. After a week the design reached CNC drawings; the post does not say it has been built.","_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"giftocpp-a-web-tool-that-turns-videos-and-gifs-i-d1e3","title":"gifToCPP, a web tool that turns videos and GIFs into ESP32 display code","topic":"Embedded & microcontrollers","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A free browser tool, made in a few hours with Claude Code, that converts videos and GIFs into C++ for ESP32 displays with a choice of settings and algorithms.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: WOW, Convert any Video & GIFs to C++ [DISPLAY]","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1u6bpmr/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/esp32.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1u6bpmr","authors":[{"name":"Solid_Lemon1814","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Solid_Lemon1814/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-06-15T09:32:54.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: nurazkhan.github.io","url":"https://nurazkhan.github.io/gifToCPP/","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"d1e3f92","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/bnVxZ3dlOW96ZTdoMYe3aaBFEkdwj8U2qapW3dJkeQx92cTNu2jhE-bDO-IP.png?width=960&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1a81fad6c7f3cf7b9d99d1ad381d133c7079eeff","alt":"Video still: WOW, Convert any Video & GIFs to C++ [DISPLAY]","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1u6bpmr/"},"about":"The maker needed to show a video on a display and found that existing GIF-to-C++ converters only handled GIFs and offered no choice of algorithm. A few hours with Claude Code produced gifToCPP, a free online tool that takes video or GIFs, lets you choose display settings and algorithms, and outputs code to upload to an ESP32.\n\nThey would like to add over-the-air upload, which would need a server to compile the code.","_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"esp-pokewalker-a-creature-battling-game-on-esp32-70a4","title":"ESP Pokewalker, a creature-battling game on ESP32 watches","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A Pokewalker-style game with progression and battles running on three ESP32 watch boards, made with Claude's help by a newcomer to coding.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: ESP Pokewalker","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1upllqa/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/esp32.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1upllqa","gone":"deleted"}],"ref":"70a4f8b","about":"The maker always wanted a Pokewalker or Digivice with real progression and the original battle experience, so made one. It runs on a Waveshare 1.75\" board, a Waveshare 2.06\" watch and a SenseCAP Watcher, and comes with an editor for loading extra creatures, trainers, items, moves and abilities from the SD card.\n\nTheir only coding before this was VBA for finance spreadsheets, and they say Claude helped them through it. They are still tuning battery settings and the difficulty curve.","_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"valumi-a-mini-crypto-price-ticker-for-the-esp32-14bd","title":"Valumi, a mini crypto price ticker for the ESP32-C6","topic":"Embedded & microcontrollers","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A clip-on 1.47-inch ESP32-C6 ticker with live price charts and gestures, built over a weekend with Claude doing much of the detailed work.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Mini crypto ticker for the ESP32-C6 1.47\"","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1wyqor8/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/esp32.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1wyqor8","gone":"deleted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/tekr/valumi","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"tekr","url":"https://github.com/tekr","role":"Repository account"}]},{"name":"Reddit: Mini crypto ticker for the ESP32-C6 1.47\"","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1wyz8lr/","kind":"Forum","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1wyz8lr","gone":"deleted"}],"ref":"14bd46b","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/jtM8JngoTLxfwH6-4mT15BbKctjI079KDANZjbJHgTI.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=5dcb5a33a883c7425e11b3e7377edd56538c1e43","alt":"Mini crypto ticker for the ESP32-C6 1.47\"","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1wyqor8/"},"about":"A little crypto price ticker for the ESP32-C6 1.47\" boards, small enough to clip to a monitor bezel. It shows live prices and charts with animated transitions, touch gestures and auto-orientation, and is set up through a self-hosted web panel, with a one-click browser installer.\n\nIt took about a weekend in short sittings. The maker took more of a product and tech lead role, with Claude doing a good share of the nitty-gritty. The biggest challenge was limited RAM: the framebuffer alone is 110 KB, so there is only one.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/tekr/valumi","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/tekr/valumi"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"cue-watch-a-voice-first-ai-smartwatch-on-a-waves-98f6","title":"Cue Watch, a voice-first AI smartwatch on a Waveshare ESP32-S3","topic":"Wearables","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A parent and son vibe-coded a voice-driven reminder and notes smartwatch on a Waveshare ESP32-S3 AMOLED board using Claude Opus.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Built a Voice-First AI Smartwatch using Waveshare ESP32-S3 and AMOLED Display","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1ttbalw/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/esp32.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1ttbalw","gone":"deleted"},{"name":"Reddit: Built a Voice-First AI Smartwatch using Waveshare ESP32-S3 and AMOLED Display","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1ttbmnd/","kind":"Forum","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1ttbmnd","gone":"deleted"}],"ref":"98f6771","about":"A father and son vibe-coded Cue Watch with Claude Opus: a smartwatch on a Waveshare 2.06\" ESP32-S3 AMOLED board that works as a voice assistant for events, reminders and notes. The firmware uses ESP-IDF and LVGL, and a cloud backend handles speech-to-text, a language model and text-to-speech.\n\nThe hardest part was keeping the microphone timing stable while updating the display. They added an offline queue on the SD card so voice commands survive if Wi-Fi drops during upload.","_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"bluetooth-over-ethernet-on-a-poe-esp32-for-remot-b480","title":"Bluetooth over Ethernet on a PoE ESP32 for remote gaming","topic":"Networking gear","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"An Olimex PoE ESP32 board relays Bluetooth over Ethernet so living-room game controllers reach a PC in a rack, built with Claude.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Bluetooth over ethernet with POE esp board","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1w9q4i2/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/esp32.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1w9q4i2","gone":"deleted"},{"name":"The project: heppu.github.io","url":"https://heppu.github.io/esp-hci-bridge/","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"b4808d7","about":"Fed up with Steam Link's latency, the maker used leftover hardware and a Claude subscription to build a remote Bluetooth adapter: an Olimex ESP32-POE board relays Bluetooth over Ethernet, with Zig firmware and a host daemon. Together with optical HDMI it gives a working gaming setup from a server rack to the living room.\n\nThe maker says controller inputs feel exactly the same as next to the machine. They plan to use it with Home Assistant too.","_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"a-voice-operated-release-for-a-clay-target-throw-5717","title":"A voice-operated release for a clay target thrower","topic":"Embedded & microcontrollers","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building a hardware gadget"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Two ESP32-S3 boards linked by ESP-NOW release a clay target thrower on a shout, with Claude helping on the design, code and a wind problem.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: ESP wireless voice activation system for clay target thrower","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1sqcxie/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/esp32.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1sqcxie","authors":[{"name":"Rude-Deer-4447","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Rude-Deer-4447/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-04-20T02:45:28.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"57175dc","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/0j2491ufc9wg1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=6a92777d51f80167318855e278ddedf4596380df","alt":"ESP wireless voice activation system for clay target thrower","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1sqcxie/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/v1q9b0ufc9wg1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=58c7c3c0f29ca60af17d8d67888fd8ec3833b5e6","alt":"ESP wireless voice activation system for clay target thrower","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1sqcxie/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/ps6p91ufc9wg1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=f1569e47e02c88d00096b54b2bf1f9d6a86b0aa8","alt":"ESP wireless voice activation system for clay target thrower","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1sqcxie/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/e787a0ufc9wg1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=20bbf3dbaafd43f8de059bd3eb738b6ad6cb8bed","alt":"ESP wireless voice activation system for clay target thrower","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1sqcxie/"},{"url":"https://i.redd.it/5b1bz9thc9wg1.gif","alt":"ESP wireless voice activation system for clay target thrower","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1sqcxie/"}],"about":"The maker built a voice-operated release for their clay target thrower using two ESP32-S3 boards talking over ESP-NOW, an INMP441 microphone and a relay. They first tried machine learning so it would only respond to \"pull\", but found Edge Impulse beyond them and switched to amplitude detection.\n\nThey used Claude to help with the initial design and code, especially to stop wind setting the system off. They printed the enclosures and did their first perf-board soldering, and say they are \"really happy with how it turned out\", with LEDs and a power switch still to add.","_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"dragonbreath-replacement-firmware-for-the-btt-pa-2f6f","title":"DragonBreath, replacement firmware for the BTT Panda Breath heater","topic":"Printers & peripherals","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude","Codex"],"methods":["Custom firmware or bootloader","Reverse engineering a protocol"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Open-source replacement firmware for the ESP32-C3 BIGTREETECH Panda Breath chamber heater, giving full Klipper control, generated with Codex and Claude.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Rewrote the BTT Panda Breath firmware for proper Klipper integration: open source (DragonBreath)","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1v5da3e/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/esp32.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1v5da3e","authors":[{"name":"plastikman187","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/plastikman187/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-24T14:39:27.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/justinh-rahb","kind":"Primary","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"2f6feb5","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/rxDSU09MoqoO8a21hpcWabIyC8gUfMaO8rS5lJ2UxeE.png?width=320&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=54b0aee4c9e3eaa772ea40fee5cbaa45fb128c09","alt":"Rewrote the BTT Panda Breath firmware for proper Klipper integration: open source (DragonBreath)","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1v5da3e/"},"about":"Unhappy with the stock Klipper integration on the BIGTREETECH Panda Breath, an ESP32-C3 chamber heater for 3D printers, the maker and a collaborator built DragonBreath, firmware that replaces the stock firmware entirely. It gives Klipper and Moonraker full control of the heater, plus a local web dashboard, auto and filament-drying modes, status LEDs and over-the-air updates.\n\nThe over-temperature cutoffs are kept, there is a comms watchdog, and the flasher backs up the stock firmware so it can be rolled back. The post says the project \"was generated with Codex and Claude\", backed by a lot of testing and reverse engineering by people. Version 0.4.0 was released, with a warning that it is experimental.","_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"a-small-desk-display-for-makerworld-profile-stat-3243","title":"A small desk display for MakerWorld profile stats","topic":"Embedded & microcontrollers","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Porting to a new platform","Building a hardware gadget"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"An ESP32-C6 display showing a MakerWorld profile's likes, boosts and downloads, with Claude Code porting the MicroPython firmware to C.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Small dashboard showing makerworld stats","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1vpw2lw/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/esp32.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1vpw2lw","gone":"removed"},{"name":"Reddit: Small dashboard to show makerworld stats","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1vpvgmh/","kind":"Forum","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1vpvgmh","gone":"removed"}],"ref":"3243423","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/NjB0dXVrdXhmcWpoMYg_OI4ZwaZOUque6L5VQKCvJdeIEHN_e7Gk12a7WWky.png?width=320&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=23e685eea1a15f3ab8fc0c61703bfb70bb748c8d","alt":"Video still: Small dashboard showing makerworld stats","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1vpw2lw/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/eGphNTIyeG1hcWpoMYg_OI4ZwaZOUque6L5VQKCvJdeIEHN_e7Gk12a7WWky.png?width=320&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=44ababea07a99f1405f3ee5af51d2ab502036f72","alt":"Video still: Small dashboard to show makerworld stats","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1vpvgmh/"}],"about":"This small dashboard shows the public stats of a MakerWorld profile, such as likes, boosts and downloads. It runs on a Waveshare ESP32-C6 board with a 1.3-inch LCD, plus a tactile button and an LED ring, in a case designed in Fusion.\n\nOn first launch it starts a Wi-Fi access point so settings can be changed from a browser, then runs on its own. 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It did not store answers but worked them out from a short formula, which was reverse engineered by Eduardo Habkost with Leandro Pereira and Felipe Sanches.\n\nThe poster says they did not build the ESP32 version themselves: they gave Claude Code a goal and a spec, and it wrote the firmware, both test suites and the docs, flashed the board, and debugged the screen by looking through a webcam. 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It has seven tiles, including media tiles and an Android TV tile.\n\nThey paid for Claude's base plan after running out of tokens and used other AIs when they hit limits. Their tips are to give the AI the manufacturer's demo files and schematics, and to work in blocks once the sketch grew past 2,500 lines.","projectLinks":[{"type":"video","url":"https://youtu.be/tuPCh_cZNnQ?si=H7Hv6xoPsSH0oZ_O","sourceUrl":"https://youtu.be/tuPCh_cZNnQ?si=H7Hv6xoPsSH0oZ_O"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"a-desk-radar-showing-nearby-aircraft-built-with-1b63","title":"A desk radar showing nearby aircraft, built with Claude Code","topic":"Embedded & microcontrollers","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building a hardware gadget","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"An ESP32 with a round 1.85-inch screen that shows nearby aircraft, a local airport and weather, built with Claude Code.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Built a “Desk Radar” with Claude Code","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1ud43yi/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/esp32.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1ud43yi","gone":"deleted"},{"name":"Reddit: Built a “Desk Radar” with Claude Code","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ui2mtm/","kind":"Forum","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1ui2mtm","gone":"deleted"},{"name":"Reddit: Built an airplane radar with Claude Code","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1ufscmn/","kind":"Forum","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1ufscmn","authors":[{"name":"WearyDiscipline7930","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/WearyDiscipline7930/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-06-26T01:09:24.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"Reddit: Built an airplane radar with Claude Code","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1ufsck1/","kind":"Forum","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1ufsck1","gone":"deleted"}],"ref":"1b63002","image":{"url":"https://i.redd.it/qz8qsxgu1j9h1.gif","alt":"Built an airplane radar with Claude Code","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1ufscmn/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/zk2xf6hu1j9h1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=d23b52b004ab16ae0f4d378af703906d0c9d96b4","alt":"Built an airplane radar with Claude Code","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1ufscmn/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/fe40z8hu1j9h1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=dca1e49f23211dfaab5d8c955d0e09c2b16dad1e","alt":"Built an airplane radar with Claude Code","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1ufscmn/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/1cwi57hu1j9h1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=8f8236376e791620dc319f62dc6d841dc1111a49","alt":"Built an airplane radar with Claude Code","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1ufscmn/"}],"about":"Inspired by something they saw on Instagram, the maker built a \"desk radar\" with Claude Code. It runs on an ESP32 with a round 1.85-inch display and pulls public aircraft and weather data over Wi-Fi for a chosen location and home airport.\n\nIt has four modes: a radar-style view of nearby aircraft, a local airport monitor, an overhead aircraft detail screen, and a clock with weather. It has a 3D-printed case and a web app for setup and settings, and they say it now feels like a fully functional plane spotter.","_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"a-solax-solar-inverter-monitor-that-replaces-the-642b","title":"A Solax solar inverter monitor that replaces the Wi-Fi dongle","topic":"Smart home","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Building a hardware gadget","Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"An ESP32 sniffs a Solax inverter's data to replace its Pocket Wi-Fi dongle, with emails, Firebase uploads and an Android app, made with Claude Pro.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: (ES) Sistema de monitoreo instalación solar Solax Cloud con esp32","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1w2c111/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/esp32.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1w2c111","authors":[{"name":"SignificantGate2384","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/SignificantGate2384/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-30T08:36:30.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/electroUser-ide/Wifi-pocket-dongle-2.0-monitor-solax-with-ESP32-devkit-v1-X3-5.0-T-G-","kind":"Primary","note":"Linked in the post.","authors":[{"name":"electroUser-ide","url":"https://github.com/electroUser-ide","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"642bfa7","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/l4asma1u4hmh1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=bbfdfe24cf202dbd77bd0ec528031db8878198f6","alt":"(ES) Sistema de monitoreo instalación solar Solax Cloud con esp32","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1w2c111/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/x8bxiatu4hmh1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=2f62d724b20dee073ca059e5ece9c5aa8b1922dc","alt":"(ES) Sistema de monitoreo instalación solar Solax Cloud con esp32","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1w2c111/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/51yi392v4hmh1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=3e2e5d9716c34dc383dbdcdf2715be6ef5e88b6f","alt":"(ES) Sistema de monitoreo instalación solar Solax Cloud con esp32","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1w2c111/"}],"about":"Written in Spanish, this post describes a project made with Claude Pro to replace the Solax Pocket Wi-Fi 2.0 dongle, tested on a Solax X3-5.0-T-D 5kW solar inverter. An ESP32 acts as a sniffer, reading the inverter's hexadecimal data frames and converting them into readings, which the post calls reverse engineering.\n\nThe ESP32 sends a daily email at 10pm with the data and uploads readings to Firebase every five seconds, where an Android app shows them. The whole project is in Spanish and shared on GitHub for free.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/electroUser-ide/Wifi-pocket-dongle-2.0-monitor-solax-with-ESP32-devkit-v1-X3-5.0-T-G-","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/electroUser-ide/Wifi-pocket-dongle-2.0-monitor-solax-with-ESP32-devkit-v1-X3-5.0-T-G-"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"an-off-grid-solar-dashboard-in-home-assistant-bu-703b","title":"An off-grid solar dashboard in Home Assistant built with Claude","topic":"Smart home","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A Home Assistant newcomer used Claude to set up a Raspberry Pi that pulls in off-grid solar data and shows it on a decision-making dashboard.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: New to HomeAssistant, building dashboards with Claude","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1sbuddn/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/homeassistant.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1sbuddn","authors":[{"name":"cr006f","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/cr006f/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-04-04T00:14:40.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"703bf87","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/gm32dtaeg2tg1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=4e23e7c5c8691565867c802fafc0566b1c272aa3","alt":"New to HomeAssistant, building dashboards with Claude","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1sbuddn/"},"about":"New to Home Assistant, the poster used Claude to help turn a Raspberry Pi that only ran Pi-hole into a hub that pulls in all the data it can about the family's off-grid solar system, with a dashboard to help make decisions. The Pi now runs from an old 500 GB hard drive instead of an SD card, and copies the whole drive image to the SD card daily as a backup.\n\nThey say Claude had \"annoying habits\" and had to be reined in a couple of times when it went down rabbit holes, but the result is clean and usable. They could not get some Eve smart plugs managed by Apple Home to pair.","_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"a-three-year-old-home-assistant-setup-cleaned-up-dce4","title":"A three-year-old Home Assistant setup cleaned up by Claude over MCP","topic":"Smart home","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Automating with Claude","Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Connected through an MCP server, Claude reviewed logs, removed stale entities, merged duplicate automations and checked an update for breaking changes.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I was skeptical at first, but Claude MCP with HA has absolutely blown me away","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1rvn71u/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/homeassistant.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1rvn71u","authors":[{"name":"criterion67","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/criterion67/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-03-16T21:40:14.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/homeassistant-ai/ha-mcp","kind":"Primary","note":"Linked in the post.","authors":[{"name":"homeassistant-ai","url":"https://github.com/homeassistant-ai","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"dce46cf","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/58m1n5ek8hpg1.png?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=a4a45842a8523e67927dd4bda3e50780de0d3d14","alt":"I was skeptical at first, but Claude MCP with HA has absolutely blown me away","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1rvn71u/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/7qs1q5ek8hpg1.png?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=2dfacae3375a134eafa92dfd4802d98cf332a30d","alt":"I was skeptical at first, but Claude MCP with HA has absolutely blown me away","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1rvn71u/"}],"about":"The poster's Home Assistant instance was over three years old and cluttered. 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It runs in a Docker container on Proxmox, and a Samsung smart monitor and a tablet each open their own URL.\n\nIt connects to Home Assistant over WebSocket for notifications and pops up the camera when the doorbell rings; otherwise it shows a family photo slideshow from Immich. They say it was completely vibe-coded and would not have been possible without Claude.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/jeremiaa/magic-frame","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/jeremiaa/magic-frame"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"a-lost-nvidia-shield-remote-found-by-claude-thro-eb8e","title":"A lost Nvidia Shield remote found by Claude through Home Assistant","topic":"Smart TVs","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude found a way through Home Assistant to run the Shield's remote-locator command over ADB, making the lost remote beep, then saved it as a script.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude & HA found my lost remote.","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1tyzwzz/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/homeassistant.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1tyzwzz","authors":[{"name":"cdarrigo","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/cdarrigo/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-06-07T02:31:06.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"eb8eb63","about":"The poster lost their Nvidia Shield remote and had even ordered a replacement when they asked Claude to trigger the remote's find-my-remote feature. Claude checked what was exposed in Home Assistant, worked out how to run the right ADB command, and when that did not work, found the remote locator package and ran it directly.\n\nThe remote started beeping and they found it deep in the back of the sofa. Claude then offered to make a script so it could be done again easily next time.","_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"a-water-softener-salt-level-monitor-on-an-esp32-b6ac","title":"A water softener salt level monitor on an ESP32","topic":"Smart home","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building a hardware gadget"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"An ESP32 with an ultrasonic sensor measures a water softener's salt level and shows it on a Home Assistant card, built by coaching Claude through it.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I did a thing...","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1qr9mav/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/homeassistant.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1qr9mav","authors":[{"name":"Lostbutnotafraid","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Lostbutnotafraid/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-01-30T16:07:49.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"b6ac93b","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/p6eg2bz3gigg1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=49aeee4c2446fffe069b73771816902e43c522c3","alt":"I did a thing...","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1qr9mav/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/ub4neb64gigg1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=0080e189072a703545b6d97b6df30e18239e94b0","alt":"I did a thing...","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1qr9mav/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/lggvdxa4gigg1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=44be8101e597c49bab5ff56d0171979a91bdd896","alt":"I did a thing...","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1qr9mav/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/afosppm4gigg1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=df93439fda2ebd1721c96e9e95ee763d0caa8ea9","alt":"I did a thing...","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1qr9mav/"}],"about":"For their first ESP32 project, the poster used an ESP32 D1 Mini and a JSN-SR04T ultrasonic sensor, and coached Claude through building a salt level monitor for the family water softener. A Home Assistant card shows a yellow level that moves with the fill level and a number that turns darker red as it falls.\n\nIt cost about $50 CAD, and they still need a proper enclosure for the hardware.","_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"an-old-ipad-2-turned-into-a-home-assistant-dashb-5c03","title":"An old iPad 2 turned into a Home Assistant dashboard","topic":"Repurposed hardware","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Repurposing to a new role","Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude built a web page that works on an iPad 2's old Firefox, hosted on the Home Assistant server, with sensors, switches and a camera view.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Old IPADs as Home Assistant dashboard","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1u9zwyw/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/homeassistant.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1u9zwyw","authors":[{"name":"Vegetable-Sweet9528","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Vegetable-Sweet9528/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-06-19T11:52:11.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"5c033fe","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/04guowz1a88h1.jpeg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=1cfb616791115e5b29928e06d6e9a793b98fca3b","alt":"Old IPADs as Home Assistant dashboard","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1u9zwyw/"},"about":"To reuse an old iPad 2, the poster asked Claude to build a web page that works in an old version of Firefox, with the Home Assistant sensors, switches and information they wanted. The page lives on the Home Assistant server and is opened on the iPad.\n\nIt includes a webcam image that refreshes every five seconds and expands to a full-screen live view when tapped, and devices can be switched from the screen. 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They used Claude to code \"basically the whole thing\" as they had no experience.\n\nIt is an HTML page hosted in Home Assistant, using Music Assistant to manage and group speakers and Spotify as the source. 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It can be installed through HACS and follows a recipe they found on Instagram.\n\nThey used Claude Code to build it, leaning on 25 years of software experience to guide it, with pull requests and manual review before any code was merged. 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They used to code full time but did not know Python or Home Assistant's internals, so they used Claude Code to build one.\n\nHome Assistant requires a client library, so first they needed the shutters' API. They ran the Norman iOS app on their Mac and used HTTP Toolkit to intercept and log its traffic, then built the library and integration from there. 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It \"learns\" habits: watering early shortens the interval, and snoozing lengthens it.\n\nIt comes with a companion card and visual editor, health check-ins and a reminder blueprint. 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It uses the public MLB API, with refresh rates they took from Claude's suggestion: game data every five seconds, standings every 30 minutes and the next game hourly.\n\nIt shows a scoreboard, pitching grid and batter and inning history. 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After integrating Claude into Home Assistant and a few days of trial and error, Claude found a setup that tracks it accurately.\n\nThe trick is that yearly usage minus today's usage always equals the total up to the end of yesterday, snapshotted daily into a helper. 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With Claude's help the owner reverse engineered its BLE protocol and built an ESP32 bridge that holds the Bluetooth link and exposes the light to Home Assistant through ESPHome.\n\nAfter several weeks of refining, v1.0.0 was released following a five-day test with the link held continuously and no errors logged. 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Debugging with Claude, the poster found the Pi had no route to the IPv6 prefix the HomePod Thread border routers advertise.\n\nDocker's IP forwarding makes Linux ignore router advertisements, and Linux also won't install the HomePods' routes automatically. Adding static routes via each HomePod's link-local address fixed it, though he isn't sure it is the only way.","_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"an-m5atom-lite-running-a-jandy-aqualink-pool-sys-eda6","title":"An M5Atom Lite running a Jandy AquaLink pool system via ESPHome","topic":"Embedded & microcontrollers","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building a hardware gadget"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"After his iAqualink unit stopped working, a user had Claude Code write ESPHome firmware so a small M5Atom Lite now runs his pool.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: ESPHome Jandy AquaLink (ESP32-native, at the bus)","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1twp23n/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/homeassistant.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1twp23n","authors":[{"name":"randomsandiego15","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/randomsandiego15/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-06-04T14:19:13.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/4pBdhJoZ3Xy3reVvBoU9C3YPzyXDDU/esphome-jandy-aqualink","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"4pBdhJoZ3Xy3reVvBoU9C3YPzyXDDU","url":"https://github.com/4pBdhJoZ3Xy3reVvBoU9C3YPzyXDDU","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"eda602e","about":"When his iAqualink 2.0 became unusable, the poster lost control of his pool. He spent a week working with Claude on ESPHome firmware that lets an inexpensive M5Atom Lite talk to the Jandy AquaLink bus directly.\n\nHe says he didn't write the code, Claude Code did, and he checked it against a set of safety and security rules. It is now running his pool, with more work still to do.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/4pBdhJoZ3Xy3reVvBoU9C3YPzyXDDU/esphome-jandy-aqualink","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/4pBdhJoZ3Xy3reVvBoU9C3YPzyXDDU/esphome-jandy-aqualink"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"a-mantelmount-mm860-tv-mount-controlled-from-hom-1963","title":"A MantelMount MM860 TV mount controlled from Home Assistant","topic":"Smart home","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Capturing USB or BLE traffic","Reverse engineering a protocol"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A user sniffed the UDP traffic from the mount's Windows utility and built a full Home Assistant integration with Claude Opus.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: MantleMount 860 Integration","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1qaao17/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/homeassistant.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1qaao17","authors":[{"name":"midibach","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/midibach/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-01-11T20:50:47.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/midibach/ha-mantelmount-mm860","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"midibach","url":"https://github.com/midibach","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"19639ff","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/RbEmgM8UKCykgFyibmGFhiV46rRAqATleGM-xWYIyes.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=61ae54c9cee7585858cb491f89f5b5cc0dc8b302","alt":"MantleMount 860 Integration","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1qaao17/"},"about":"The poster sniffed the UDP control traffic from the Windows utility for his MantelMount MM860 motorised TV mount, then worked with Claude Opus to build a Home Assistant integration.\n\nIt offers position presets, jog controls, elevation and azimuth sensors, temperature and movement sensing, and diagnostics such as motor currents and firmware version.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/midibach/ha-mantelmount-mm860","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/midibach/ha-mantelmount-mm860"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"a-thermorossi-winet-pellet-stove-integration-for-82e6","title":"A Thermorossi Winet pellet stove integration for Home Assistant","topic":"Smart home","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"After a day reverse engineering a pellet stove's local interface, a user vibe coded a Home Assistant integration for it with Claude.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Thermorossi/Winet pellet stove integration","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1rzl3hc/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/homeassistant.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1rzl3hc","authors":[{"name":"saintjimmy12","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/saintjimmy12/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-03-21T07:14:19.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/notarobot63/thermorossi-ha","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"notarobot63","url":"https://github.com/notarobot63","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"82e6eff","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/fRqClJZV8hdlGbYgiNmp8LXnFmbvceqh4_g-A3wNwt4.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=8e7560cddc1b16cd3dac1496dab8bd687a83fea2","alt":"Thermorossi/Winet pellet stove integration","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1rzl3hc/"},"about":"Finding no integration for his Thermorossi pellet stove, the poster spent a day reverse engineering its local Winet interface and then \"fully vibe coded\" a Home Assistant integration with Claude. The repo also includes cards and automations.\n\nHe notes Winet is used by other brands too, and that the code is provided as is.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/notarobot63/thermorossi-ha","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/notarobot63/thermorossi-ha"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"an-old-renpho-ble-scale-read-into-home-assistant-a26a","title":"An old Renpho BLE scale read into Home Assistant","topic":"Smart home","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A Home Assistant integration, coded entirely with Claude Code, picks up an unsupported Renpho scale's weight from its Bluetooth broadcasts; body measurements aren't read yet.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Custom integration for old Renpho ES-24M BLE scale (not supported by openScale)","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1s14nx3/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/homeassistant.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1s14nx3","authors":[{"name":"fgh246","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/fgh246/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-03-23T02:21:08.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: apps.apple.com","url":"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/renpho-outdated-version/id1219889310","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"a26aecc","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/3ZhS6AYulGzuRnNmkBQjQNV-33N-kcODDMmtXihf1dg.jpeg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=eceab4c03ed7f4ca67c14b359a8c626f56aeb0be","alt":"Custom integration for old Renpho ES-24M BLE scale (not supported by openScale)","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1s14nx3/"},"about":"An old Renpho ES-24M-B scale wasn't supported by openScale or any Home Assistant integration. Its owner found that it simply broadcasts the weight in its Bluetooth advertisements, and built a custom integration that picks it up automatically as a weight sensor, plus a CLI testing tool.\n\nThe whole thing was coded with Claude Code and only tested on his own setup. It reads weight only; he hasn't worked out the body measurements.","_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"a-renac-hybrid-inverter-read-through-its-undocum-40e6","title":"A Renac hybrid inverter read through its undocumented cloud API","topic":"Smart home","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"When the inverter's WiFi dongle ignored Modbus requests, Claude helped get its data into Home Assistant through the undocumented Renac cloud API instead.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Renac N3-HV-8.0 Hybrid Inverter in Home Assistant — via Cloud REST API","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1tngwdd/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/homeassistant.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1tngwdd","authors":[{"name":"jale29","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/jale29/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-05-25T18:04:00.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: sec.eu.renacpower.com","url":"https://sec.eu.renacpower.com","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"40e610b","about":"A Renac N3-HV-8.0 hybrid inverter's WiFi dongle accepted TCP connections but never answered Modbus requests. After a lot of time with ChatGPT, Claude and searching, the poster says Claude \"did the trick\": reading the inverter through Renac's undocumented cloud API with Home Assistant REST sensors.\n\nThe credentials come from the browser's network tab after logging into Renac's site. The known catch is that the access token has to be renewed from time to time.","_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"a-cat-food-bowl-checker-using-claude-vision-85b5","title":"A cat food bowl checker using Claude vision","topic":"Smart home","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Twice a day Home Assistant photographs a cat's bowl and asks Claude Sonnet how much kibble is left, then reports how well the cat has eaten.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Cat Food Bowl Checker | LLM Vision: Image Analyzer","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1q7r47b/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/homeassistant.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1q7r47b","gone":"deleted"}],"ref":"85b5c8b","about":"Twice a day, Home Assistant takes a snapshot from a cat feeder camera, crops it to the bowl and sends it to Claude Sonnet 4 through the LLM Vision integration to estimate how much whole kibble is left. The percentage sets a bowl level and a message about how well Pepsi the cat has eaten, sent as a notification.\n\nThe key was the prompt: Claude is told to count only whole kibble, ignore crumbs and the bowl's reflection, and return just a number. 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The poster reverse engineered the mesh protocol from Android snoop logs with Claude's help and built a .NET service for a Raspberry Pi or Windows.\n\nIt syncs state by passively reading the lights' unencrypted advertisements, relays commands through the mesh to out-of-range bulbs, and publishes the lights to Home Assistant over MQTT discovery.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/BastiAKA/awoxble2mqtt-api","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/BastiAKA/awoxble2mqtt-api"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"an-aviation-style-weather-card-for-home-assistan-b1c6","title":"An aviation-style weather card for Home Assistant","topic":"Smart home","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A pilot had Claude Code design and build a Home Assistant weather card using aviation sources such as METAR and TAF, in about a day of iterations.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude Code Built Weather Card (Aviation Vibe)","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1te6kc1/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/homeassistant.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1te6kc1","gone":"deleted"},{"name":"Reddit: Custom Weather Card - Aviation Vibes!","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1te6okc/","kind":"Forum","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1te6okc","authors":[{"name":"Due_Capital_9249","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Due_Capital_9249/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-05-15T19:34:00.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"b1c6fb8","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/tawbkvhjsc1h1.jpg?width=320&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=f130bd12c3e0c9320d1a0ce3a3876be9e6594885","alt":"Custom Weather Card - Aviation Vibes!","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1te6okc/"},"about":"Struggling with existing weather cards, a light-aircraft pilot had Claude design a new Home Assistant card using aviation sources such as TAF and METAR. 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He says it \"messed up the Heatpump functionality\", and guesses the wrong datapoints were used when setting it up.\n\nThe pump now seems locked: at start-up the display shows odd values, and when switched on it shows the right water temperature but turns off after two seconds. 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The owner, not a developer, asked Claude, which told him what entity names and details it needed, and warned him to put the API tokens in himself rather than share them.\n\nOver several versions they added dynamic cards, camera feeds shown for 30 seconds when someone is at the door, and notification toasts for things like missed doorbell rings and the washing machine. 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You take reference photos of the door open and closed and crop to the door panel; each cycle it normalises contrast and compares the frame against both.\n\nIf neither matches confidently twice in a row it deliberately reports open. 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When he asked Claude how to control it with an IR blaster, it replied that the model supported wifi control.\n\nThe wifi setup was in a separate, hard-to-find manual. Claude found it, gave instructions and helped troubleshoot; he says it was a nightmare but he got there, and didn't spend $2.5k replacing the unit.","_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"a-home-assistant-dashboard-planned-designed-and-e24e","title":"A Home Assistant dashboard planned, designed and coded with Claude","topic":"Smart home","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Automating with Claude","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude audited and reorganised a Home Assistant setup, interviewed its owner, drew up a layout and style guide, then Claude Code wrote the dashboard.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Yet another Claude Dashboard…but the “how” may be different…","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1u35i67/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/homeassistant.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1u35i67","authors":[{"name":"Due_Capital_9249","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Due_Capital_9249/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-06-11T17:26:19.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"e24edff","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/4l2gfeqguo6h1.jpeg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=592b2af0a1033df6621ecde5cdf22713265a1a7f","alt":"Yet another Claude Dashboard…but the “how” may be different…","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1u35i67/"},"about":"Rather than just asking for a pretty dashboard, the poster had Claude first clean up dead entities, build a structure for areas, labels and naming, and analyse a week of his actual usage over MCP. Claude then interviewed him about how he lives in the house, producing a layout plan, and Claude Design produced a style guide.\n\nClaude Code built the dashboard from those two documents, about 4,000 lines of code he says he will never read; tweaks since have been a matter of asking.","_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"an-unreliable-alarmcom-home-assistant-integratio-69f3","title":"An unreliable Alarm.com Home Assistant integration debugged by Claude Code","topic":"Smart home","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Analysing or auditing software","Modernising legacy code"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code was pointed at an unmaintained Alarm.com integration and its library, fixed retry and connection bugs, then found the last one from the server logs.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Fixing my Alarm.com integration with Claude Code","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1r24tth/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/homeassistant.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1r24tth","authors":[{"name":"greattypo2","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/greattypo2/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-02-11T18:10:23.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/pyalarmdotcom/alarmdotcom","kind":"Primary","note":"Linked in the post.","authors":[{"name":"pyalarmdotcom","url":"https://github.com/pyalarmdotcom","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"69f3d09","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/A7qTCHPMj0RzaweYvbxtTktSq0sv0A1twqIpvFltZhw.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=b3dc3f336d691fdb6f12c42636b32ef67547846c","alt":"Fixing my Alarm.com integration with Claude Code","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1r24tth/"},"about":"The owner's Alarm.com integration for Home Assistant kept falling out of sync with the real alarm state, and its two underlying projects were no longer maintained. After the alarm went off by mistake and police came to the house, they downloaded both projects and told Claude Code to \"find and fix all the bugs\".\n\nClaude found faulty retry logic and dropped connections, among other problems, and after several passes the patched version was much more stable but not perfect. The next time it went out of sync, Claude Code was given temporary SSH access to the Home Assistant server to check the logs; it found the final bug, and the owner says the integration has been solid since.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/pyalarmdotcom/alarmdotcom","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/pyalarmdotcom/alarmdotcom"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"an-auli-air-purifier-lamp-controlled-from-home-a-ecd0","title":"An Auli air purifier lamp controlled from Home Assistant via LocalTuya","topic":"Smart home","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"An air filter with a built-in lamp was brought into Home Assistant with separate local control of each part, with Claude helping work out the LocalTuya configuration.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: HA + Auli lamp / air filter","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1s89bf1/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/homeassistant.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1s89bf1","authors":[{"name":"R_Bazerka","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/R_Bazerka/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-03-31T01:13:04.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: auliair.com","url":"https://auliair.com/products/auli","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"ecd059d","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/an-r3dBF2Dirm_J4ZFp3Dp7Qc4VaBfgBySFwxHRlwdY.jpeg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=b0dd1011c0c35c54e6f907baf5cee1ea0ea89cdf","alt":"HA + Auli lamp / air filter","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1s89bf1/"},"about":"The Auli is an air filter and lamp in one, so it could not simply be put on a smart plug like the owner's other devices. They paired it through the Tuya Smart app and a Tuya IoT developer account, then set it up in Home Assistant through LocalTuya so the purifier and lamp can be controlled individually.\n\nThe owner says they used Claude to work out how to configure LocalTuya, and that apart from setup everything runs locally. 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They say the project was entirely vibe coded, with Claude generating the integration for libraries that use the Innovative Interfaces Vega Discovery platform.\n\nIt adds sensors for items checked out, holds and holds ready for pickup, outstanding fines, overdue items, items due within three days and days until the library card expires. 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A local language model, set up as an add-on, turns Home Assistant data into one-line comments for the card. The owner says it is all vibe coded and something they could never have achieved without Claude.","_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"a-home-assistant-thermostat-mystery-traced-to-a-5a54","title":"A Home Assistant thermostat mystery traced to a toddler, with Claude","topic":"Smart home","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude helped troubleshoot radiator thermostats whose child lock kept switching on and off, which turned out to be a one-year-old holding the button.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Child Lock mystery","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1qwuu3n/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/homeassistant.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1qwuu3n","authors":[{"name":"sorryItsAHabit","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/sorryItsAHabit/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-02-05T19:24:09.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"5a54237","about":"In a first Home Assistant build, the owner added temperature sensors and smart radiator thermostats with a 24-hour heating schedule. They then saw the child lock toggling every few hours, temperature settings fluctuating and the heating switching on and off, and spent a few days troubleshooting.\n\nWith Claude's help they found the cause: holding the thermostat button for three seconds toggles the child lock, and their one-year-old had been doing exactly that. 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Claude suggested and built carbon monoxide and extreme temperature alerts that sound on both phones at full volume, bypassing do-not-disturb, with spoken announcements, and a garage automation that checks whether both of them left within ten minutes of each other.\n\nIt also merged duplicate automations, labelled them all and cleaned up naming. 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An earlier attempt with Claude on the web produced an 800-line template sensor that was too hard to modify and debug, so they gave up.\n\nLater they had Claude Sonnet 4.6 in VS Code turn that sensor into a custom integration of more than 5,000 lines, and were impressed by the improvement. It was not yet warm enough locally to test it properly, so they published it and asked others to report how well it predicts temperatures after a week of learning.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/markaggar/Water-Monitor","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/markaggar/Water-Monitor"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"an-xai-text-to-speech-integration-for-home-assis-9cb0","title":"An xAI text-to-speech integration for Home Assistant, written by Claude","topic":"Smart home","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude wrote a Home Assistant integration for xAI's voices, working through errors in conversation, including a voice-pipeline method that failed silently.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Custom xAI TTS integration for Home Assistant","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1tbi6ji/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/homeassistant.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1tbi6ji","authors":[{"name":"mennzo","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/mennzo/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-05-12T23:20:18.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/therealakahn/ha-xai-tts","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"therealakahn","url":"https://github.com/therealakahn","role":"Repository account"}]},{"name":"Reddit: I had Claude build a custom xAI TTS integration for Home Assistant — here's the repo","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1tbi7pc/","kind":"Forum","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1tbi7pc","authors":[{"name":"mennzo","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/mennzo/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-05-12T23:21:39.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"9cb01c9","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/wLriDmP1XTAO2eK7SOu5gEZtEHDFDv52aZOP_RbYLeA.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=c4c9f17f80bbe1a4ad79f9aedce3cacc7cd79321","alt":"I had Claude build a custom xAI TTS integration for Home Assistant — here's the repo","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1tbi7pc/"},"about":"The owner wanted xAI's new text-to-speech voices in their Home Assistant voice pipeline instead of OpenAI's. 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Over about two days, working with Claude and Grok, they found Claude quicker on the code.\n\nClaude came up with a design needing only four buttons: the scripts detect which phone the press came from, connect it to the chosen Echo and launch YouTube Music. 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The maker planned to release the plugin and add more decoders, such as AIS for ships.","_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"radiowid-an-antenna-pointing-planner-for-poland-8170","title":"Radiowid: an antenna pointing planner for Poland","topic":"Science & research","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"After building a browser radio receiver with Claude's help, a maker built a free site showing which transmitters reach any spot in Poland and where to point.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: My windowsill antenna hears aircraft at ~350 km, so I built a free open-source tool for planning whe","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/1x2eo2p/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/RTLSDR.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x2eo2p","authors":[{"name":"Czizus","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Czizus/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-10T12:57:18.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/maciejpoczek-lab/radiowid","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"maciejpoczek-lab","url":"https://github.com/maciejpoczek-lab","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"8170a1b","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/tk9s63vl0nuh1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=94ace501041339f4eebec80f349e45e79765352a","alt":"My windowsill antenna hears aircraft at ~350 km, so I built a free open-source tool for planning where to point an antenna (Poland only)","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/1x2eo2p/"},"about":"The maker built a radio receiver you listen to through a browser with Claude's help, and a small antenna on their parents' windowsill now picks up aircraft about 350 km away. They then built a site for a more practical question: where to put an antenna.\n\nYou type an address or tap the map and it shows which FM, DAB+, DVB-T and 4G/5G transmitters reach that spot and which way to point, for antenna heights from 1.5 to 40 m. The calculation runs in the browser on open data from Polish agencies, with buildings and trees covered only in some cities so far. The maker stresses it is a simulation, not a measurement. 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It runs three SDRs, including an Airspy HF+ switched between four antennas by an RF switch, and more than 30 decoders at once, from FT8 and APRS to ADS-B, AIS and radiosondes.\n\nThe critical fixes were staying on the legacy 6.6.75 kernel because the current one crashed within hours, blacklisting the Wi-Fi driver, and locking the SoapySDR library with chattr +i so apt can never break SpyServer again. 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Inspired by WebUSB demos, they asked Claude Opus 5.5 to recompile it for a WebAssembly backend and build the web side around a 3D map with craft diagrams and tracks.\n\nThe result decodes straight from the SDR in the browser without relying on a flight-tracking API, so in theory it could work with no internet. 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They learned the SDR could capture a whole frequency at once and split out individual calls later, which left them with thousands of transmissions.\n\nSDR++ was tuned for each airport, and Claude Code helped with the backend processing. 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It was their first time using Claude Code; the tool was usable by Monday night, and much of the rest of the time went on documentation and fixing bugs.","_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"a-home-server-deployed-and-debugged-with-claude-a56e","title":"A home server deployed and debugged with Claude Code from a phone","topic":"Networking gear","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Using Claude Code's remote mode on a train, a user had it deploy Immich, Beszel, Pingvin Share, a mail relay and Authelia single sign-on on an old laptop server.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Used Claude Code remotely from my phone to deploy and debug my home server - it's a game changer","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1wak38t/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/selfhosted.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1wak38t","authors":[{"name":"ghuntdo","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/ghuntdo/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-09-08T10:00:54.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"a56e4ee","about":"The maker's home server is an old laptop running about four Docker Compose stacks. To let Claude Code run it remotely from their phone, they moved the stacks to /srv/stacks because remote mode won't operate on a home directory, made a dedicated user in the docker group, gave it a Cloudflare API token so it could create tunnels and DNS records, wrote a CLAUDE.md and blocked risky commands such as deleting volumes or docker system prune.\n\nOn the train that afternoon it deployed Immich, Beszel and Pingvin Share, then a mail relay so every stack can send email. In the evening it set up Authelia and wired single sign-on into almost every service, which took about 30 minutes of back-and-forth over compatibility quirks.","_added":"2026-11-05T21:26:39+00:00"},{"id":"a-map-of-how-books-cite-each-other-across-3000-y-f502","title":"A map of how books cite each other across 3,000 years","topic":"Science & research","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2026","desc":"An LLM pipeline extracts citations from books, and Claude Code wrote the WebGPU and D3.js browser visualisation for exploring the data.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: Show HN: Visualizing How Books Reference Each Other Across 3k Years","url":"https://thiagolira.github.io/bookgraph-revisited/","kind":"Blog","note":"The project page, shared as a Show HN on Hacker News."},{"name":"Hacker News discussion (5 points)","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978805","kind":"Forum","authors":[{"name":"farcaster","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=farcaster","role":"HN submitter"}],"publishedAt":"2026-02-11T18:31:23Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"f50293d","about":"A two-part project mapping how books cite other books across about 3,000 years. An LLM-powered pipeline extracts the books and authors each book cites, then resolves them against offline copies of Wikipedia and Goodreads. Claude Code wrote the browser visualisation, built with WebGPU and D3.js, so that viewers can explore all the data in the browser in reasonable comfort.\n\nThe maker worked on it on and off for months. They say the hardest part was getting bibliographic details right across centuries, including original publication dates.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-hackerspace-demo-database-dropped-by-claude-5f1c","title":"A hackerspace demo database dropped by Claude","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Failed","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Mention","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2025","desc":"Told the project was only \"in development\", Claude assumed it could simply drop the database of a hackerspace demo, and did.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: How much do you babysit claude, and how much do you just \"let it do its thing\"? I haven t had anythi","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46269664","kind":"Forum","note":"The Hacker News comment.","authors":[{"name":"rlayton2","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rlayton2","role":"HN commenter"}],"publishedAt":"2025-12-15T02:20:05Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"5f1caad","about":"A Hacker News commenter described Claude dropping the database of a demo project made for their hackerspace. Earlier they had told Claude the project was \"in development\", because it kept worrying about backwards compatibility. So Claude assumed it could just drop the database.\n\nThey add that Claude has sometimes deleted files, or made and pushed git commits without checking, despite instructions. They are now building a personal repo of practices and scripts for running Claude safely.","story":"Horror story","wentWrong":"Deleted data","lesson":"Telling Claude a project is only \"in development\" can lead it to treat the data as disposable.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"paintnet-on-wine-via-a-reimplemented-direct2d-b026","title":"Paint.NET on Wine via a reimplemented Direct2D","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Mention","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code was used to clean-room reimplement Direct2D inside Paint.NET, long the obstacle to running it under Wine; it is buggy and slow but progressing.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: The source got deleted, what is the backlash even about? 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They also wrote that Claude made more progress in three weeks than in the 12 years since Paint.NET began using Direct2D in 2014.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"an-asus-laptop-that-would-not-sleep-partly-worke-4494","title":"An ASUS laptop that would not sleep, partly worked around","topic":"Repairs & diagnostics","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Driver or OS patching"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Mention","foundOn":"Hacker News","year":"2026","desc":"Days of tricks and BIOS hacks with Claude failed to fix sleep on an ASUS laptop; the best result was hibernating after about five minutes.","sources":[{"name":"Hacker News: I m having kinda the opposite experience, but it s less to do with Linux and more to do with hardwar","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50171557","kind":"Forum","note":"The Hacker News comment.","authors":[{"name":"raffraffraff","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=raffraffraff","role":"HN commenter"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-20T19:36:21Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"44941b0","about":"In a Hacker News thread about hardware support on Linux, a commenter described an ASUS laptop that would not sleep properly and drained its battery flat in about a day. They and Claude spent days trying tricks and workarounds, going as far as BIOS hacks, before giving up on fixing sleep. The best they could manage was making the laptop hibernate after about five minutes of sleep, and they say getting even that far took a lot of hacky work.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"63-forgotten-secrets-on-a-laptop-found-by-claude-8783","title":"63 forgotten secrets on a laptop found by Claude Code","topic":"Security research","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code searched a home folder for keys, tokens and passwords without printing them, finding 63, including working AWS credentials from 2022.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Asked Claude Code to find every secret on my laptop and it found 63","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xi0cma/asked_claude_code_to_find_every_secret_on_my/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xi0cma","publishedAt":"2026-10-28T21:33:19.733678Z","dateKind":"published"}],"ref":"87830c3","about":"The LiteLLM incident involved a key left in an opencode.json that someone had committed. Afterwards, a developer wanted to see what their own agent could see. They opened Claude Code in their home folder with rules: find anything that looks like a key, token or password, report only file paths and variable names, never print a value, and change nothing.\n\nIt took about four minutes and found 63. These included 31 in .env files across old side projects, AWS credentials from 2022 that still worked, and an OpenAI key and a GitHub token stored in plain text.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"qubris-a-3d-tetris-made-with-claude-a4f7","title":"Qubris, a 3D Tetris made with Claude","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"A 3D Tetris vibe coded with Claude 3.7 Sonnet in one to two days, after much experimenting to get line clearing and falling blocks right.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Qubris - Made a 3D tetris game with 3.7 and Cursor/Claude code","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1jdi1xv/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1jdi1xv","authors":[{"name":"mythicaljj","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/mythicaljj/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2025-03-17T17:16:05.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: artifactvibe.com","url":"https://artifactvibe.com/","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"a4f7e27","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/ZHM3ZmV3emg5YXBlMU9lOkR8tW901T4WZPk258dNR1drot63BeHfGTGYa9LI.png?width=640&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1ea34104e2c1006f3937f2c357fca5799d049511","alt":"Video still: Qubris - Made a 3D tetris game with 3.7 and Cursor/Claude code","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1jdi1xv/"},"about":"Qubris is a 3D Tetris made by vibe coding with Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Cursor and Claude Code over one to two days of part-time work. The makers say it was not a one-shot prompt. The AI struggled with the 3D, especially with clearing lines and dropping the blocks down. It took a lot of experimenting to get the AI to code it correctly, and some things had to be fixed by hand.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-face-tracking-dragon-game-where-opening-your-m-4f45","title":"A face-tracking dragon game where opening your mouth fires","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"A game jam level and boss coded by Claude, with the dragon steered by head tracking and fireballs fired by opening your mouth.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I used Claude to make another game","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1jqj0dy/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1jqj0dy","authors":[{"name":"blackwidowink","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/blackwidowink/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2025-04-03T13:52:25.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: upit.com","url":"https://upit.com/@blackwidowink/play/eyL9HytHDO?utm_medium=share&utm_source","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"4f45363","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/eWI0b25rMmtrbXNlMfprS4cJ3Rag0G5v4Q1789jb6EPLFpW04f7TFXjz0tsn.png?width=640&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9bd0bd175ebdbec911d047a1468910a652d13ffa","alt":"Video still: I used Claude to make another game","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1jqj0dy/"},"about":"This game was made for a game jam whose theme was face tracking. You steer a dragon with your head and face, and opening your mouth shoots fireballs. Claude 3.5 and 3.7 Sonnet wrote the code. Other parts came from the LK game engine, images from ChatGPT and music from Riffusion. It is not a full game, just one level and a boss, and the maker used it to try out scrolling backgrounds and different enemy behaviours.\n\nThe maker used 3.7 for planning and debugging and 3.5 for new features. They found that 3.7 with extended thinking fixed a hard maths problem that had stumped the other models.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"an-ageing-healthcare-desktop-app-rewritten-for-t-2b6e","title":"An ageing healthcare desktop app rewritten for the web","topic":"Legacy code revival","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Modernising legacy code","Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"A developer with no web experience had Claude rebuild a Canadian healthcare desktop app as patient booking and billing portals, now in a test clinic.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Thanks Claude!","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1mcwu5u/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1mcwu5u","gone":"deleted"}],"ref":"2b6eb88","about":"A developer's Canadian healthcare desktop application was showing its age, and they wanted to move it online, but knew nothing about web development. Claude taught them the basics and over a few months built two applications: a patient portal for booking appointments online and a billing portal for the office, about 60,000 lines of code in all.\n\nIt isn't finished but it works. The first small test clinic was onboarded the week before the post, and so far it is going well.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"music-maker-simulator-a-music-career-game-in-a-c-07ee","title":"Music Maker Simulator, a music career game in a Claude Artifact","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"A music career sim with interlocking mechanics built in a Claude Artifact over 80 hours and 500 prompts, until the code grew too big to keep working on.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: 6 days, over 80 hours, and 500 prompts later, I made the most complex game to date (I think) inside ","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1mej4oo/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1mej4oo","gone":"removed"}],"ref":"07ee30b","about":"Music Maker Simulator is a game built inside a Claude Artifact using only free Claude, over six days, more than 80 hours and about 500 prompts. Its mechanics include fan conversions, chances of going viral, good, normal and bad weeks for streams, and penalties for low-quality songs or for not posting, all affecting one another.\n\nThe maker says it still has many flaws, especially late in the game. Even after paying for Claude Pro they could not really keep going: the code had grown too big, they got only 5-10 requests a day, and three quarters of those ended in errors.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-translator-between-autistic-and-neurotypical-c-eef7","title":"A translator between autistic and neurotypical communication styles","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"A mother with no coding background worked with Claude to build a translator for her autistic son, whose direct style was misunderstood at school.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude helped me build a translator for my son in the kitchen","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1mfbf8b/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1mfbf8b","authors":[{"name":"StarTalkTSA","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/StarTalkTSA/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2025-08-01T23:21:07.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"eef7b76","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/Y3AwNnNidzltaGdmMcG1nmjt-9taGcUa6bghpMMWl7CnLciTkcdd8KFylU60.png?width=320&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=175403ad7cb39970392078c957c1beabad06b492","alt":"Video still: Claude helped me build a translator for my son in the kitchen","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1mfbf8b/"},"about":"A mother's son, who is autistic with HPI, has a direct way of communicating that is sometimes misunderstood at school. He talks freely with AI but not always with his teachers. After a difficult situation that summer, she asked Claude to help her build a solution.\n\nClaude helped design a translator between autistic and neurotypical communication styles. The translator itself runs on the Gemini API because it was free. 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They focused on the architecture themselves (which modules to build and how they interact) plus a few delicate parts, and delegated parts of the module implementation to Claude, \"so it's not just vibes-based code\".\n\nThey found Claude especially useful for refactoring and for talking through ways to implement particular mechanics. A full demo was shown on a stream.","projectLinks":[{"type":"video","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUZCMu47d6Q&t=5161s","sourceUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUZCMu47d6Q&t=5161s"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-tower-defence-game-made-over-three-months-most-01bb","title":"A tower defence game made over three months, mostly by Claude Sonnet","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"A tower defence game with several maps, tower upgrades and an original soundtrack, where Claude 3.5 and 3.7 Sonnet did most of the coding over three months.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Full Production Ready Tower Defense Game by 3.5 Sonnet","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1nacvyo/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1nacvyo","gone":"removed"},{"name":"The project: hawkdev1.itch.io","url":"https://hawkdev1.itch.io/trashtdgame","kind":"Blog","note":"The game on itch.io."}],"ref":"01bb350","about":"The maker spent three months on a tower defence game, with Claude doing most of the heavy lifting: about 90% Claude 3.5 Sonnet and 10% Claude 3.7 Sonnet. It has an original soundtrack, multiple maps, a tower upgrade system with ultimate upgrades from around wave 20, and difficulty that ramps up.\n\nIt is playable on itch.io. The maker admits the wave balance still needs work, with some waves too easy and others very hard.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-grandfathers-daily-hospital-readings-turned-in-46eb","title":"A grandfather's daily hospital readings turned into clear charts","topic":"Science & research","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"Code written with Claude that turns the long daily lists of a grandfather's hospital health indicators into charts the family can follow over time.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I used Claude to turn my grandfather’s messy hospital data into clear charts — surprisingly helpful ","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1nbco8g/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1nbco8g","authors":[{"name":"Odd-Sympathy1274","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Odd-Sympathy1274/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2025-09-08T03:02:00.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"46eb12a","about":"While the poster's grandfather was in hospital, the doctors gave the family a long list of health indicators every day, which was hard to make sense of. The poster asked Claude to help write code that turned the data into clear visual charts.\n\nThe family can now see how his key indicators are changing over time, which the poster said made the whole situation less confusing.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-lo-fi-camera-that-prints-photos-as-pixel-art-d1bf","title":"A Lo-Fi Camera that prints photos as pixel art","topic":"Printers & peripherals","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building a hardware gadget"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"A camera made at a Claude hackathon in Tokyo that turns photos of people into Game Boy-style pixel art and prints them, coded with Claude Code.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: 🏆 Our \"Lo-Fi Camera\" won 3rd place at Claude Hackathon 2025 Tokyo!","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ne9g5p/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1ne9g5p","authors":[{"name":"endkhi","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/endkhi/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2025-09-11T13:54:38.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: ai-my.net","url":"https://ai-my.net/","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"d1bf899","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/eDUxYndiczlqam9mMaXkBy0x-wUFWJ88A7aMgA_zuLLNIcxJ_a0RQXCO9qVD.png?width=960&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e741adce03f05f0c29b5f108ec1b27bcfb2c42db","alt":"Video still: 🏆 Our \"Lo-Fi Camera\" won 3rd place at Claude Hackathon 2025 Tokyo!","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ne9g5p/"},"about":"A team built the \"Lo-Fi Camera\" at the Claude Hackathon 2025 in Tokyo. It converts photos into pixel art, so the people photographed look like Game Boy-era Mario or Pokémon characters, and then prints them.\n\nIt was developed by vibe coding with Claude Code and won third place. The team says products like this can now be made in a single day.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-linux-fix-for-websites-that-only-accept-a-live-d310","title":"A Linux fix for websites that only accept a live camera photo","topic":"Operating systems","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"A Linux workaround, built with Claude Sonnet 4.5, that lets websites demanding a camera photo receive an existing image or scan instead.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Website camera-only pic upload browser work-around for Linux!","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1nu06vu/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1nu06vu","authors":[{"name":"KJ7LNW","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/KJ7LNW/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2025-09-30T01:30:36.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/KJ7LNW/v4l2-loopback-opengl-image","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"KJ7LNW","url":"https://github.com/KJ7LNW","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"d310a22","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/g7956b1cg7sf1.png?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=42b7371e0623f72905662894b398495417e136cd","alt":"Website camera-only pic upload browser work-around for Linux!","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1nu06vu/"},"about":"Some websites insist that you take a photo with your camera rather than upload a picture you already have, such as a scan. The poster built a workaround for Linux with Claude Sonnet 4.5 so an existing image can be used instead.\n\nThe code is on GitHub as v4l2-loopback-opengl-image.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/KJ7LNW/v4l2-loopback-opengl-image","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/KJ7LNW/v4l2-loopback-opengl-image"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-flutter-app-migrated-from-37-to-320-by-a-non-d-f38e","title":"A Flutter app migrated from 3.7 to 3.20 by a non-developer","topic":"Legacy code revival","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Modernising legacy code"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"An accountant used Claude Code to upgrade a complex Flutter app across 2,000+ lines of breaking changes and days of Gradle errors to meet a Google deadline.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Just migrated my app from flutter 3.7 to 3.20 with claude code and saved $8000 dev cost","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ompgpx/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1ompgpx","authors":[{"name":"OldVanilla7373","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/OldVanilla7373/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2025-11-02T18:52:02.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"f38e15f","about":"An accountant with no real development background had a Flutter app that needed updating after Google required support for 16KB memory pages by 1 November. Upgrading Flutter from 3.7 to 3.20 turned the codebase red, with breaking changes over 2,000 lines deep and three days of Gradle dependency errors, SDK mismatches and build failures.\n\nClaude Code did the migration from the terminal in five days. The poster had been quoted $4,500 per app by their original developer and plans to use the lessons on their second app.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-flying-toasters-screensaver-tribute-for-macos-c89a","title":"A Flying Toasters screensaver tribute for macOS and Apple TV","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"A macOS screensaver and tvOS app inspired by the old Flying Toasters screensaver, with Claude helping structure the Swift code and publish to the App Store.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: A cozy “Flying Toasters” tribute I built with Claude as my developer partner","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ophoch/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1ophoch","gone":"deleted"},{"name":"The project: toastysquadron.com","url":"https://toastysquadron.com/","kind":"Blog","note":"The project page."}],"ref":"c89a241","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/YHUbJHcKYUiSdW7jg0plNjpZSE-GPanLfnTdXj9Zx4s.jpeg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=8845436fcfd9961ef8d38fa2101e0d2dd8f19f1b","alt":"A cozy “Flying Toasters” tribute I built with Claude as my developer partner","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ophoch/"},"about":"The maker built a macOS screensaver and an Apple TV app inspired by the old Flying Toasters screensaver, for fun and nostalgia.\n\nClaude helped on the developer side: structuring the Swift code, handling asset pipelines and walking through some tvOS behaviour. The tvOS app was published to the App Store with its help.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"claude-code-wiped-a-penpot-servers-data-while-fi-7db5","title":"Claude Code wiped a Penpot server's data while fixing its backend","topic":"Networking gear","outcome":"Failed","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"Asked to fix a broken Penpot backend on a VPS, Claude ran docker-compose down -v, deleting the volumes holding the database and assets.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Just Be Careful!","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1opz768/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1opz768","authors":[{"name":"baykarmehmet","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/baykarmehmet/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2025-11-06T13:40:30.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"7db5c48","about":"A mobile engineer running open source projects on a VPS asked Claude to check and fix a problem with the backend of Penpot, an open-source Figma alternative. About five minutes later all the data was gone.\n\nClaude admitted that running docker-compose down -v had removed the volumes containing the Penpot database and assets, and that it should have checked the data, made a backup and asked first. Penpot was working again, but designs, user accounts and project data were lost. The poster, who does keep backups, warns others to back up before letting an AI tool change a server.","story":"Horror story","wentWrong":"Deleted data","lesson":"Make a backup before letting an AI tool run commands on a server, since one flag can wipe its data volumes.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-physics-research-project-run-largely-by-claude-a64d","title":"A physics research project run largely by Claude","topic":"Science & research","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"A physicist used Claude deep research and Claude Code to survey 50+ papers and rewrite simulation code in JAX, with Claude writing about 90% of the code.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude as a physicist","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1opnaew/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1opnaew","authors":[{"name":"Educational-Let-5580","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Educational-Let-5580/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2025-11-06T02:42:58.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: anjor.xyz","url":"https://anjor.xyz/writing/2025/11/05/testing-the-intelligence-explosion-can-ai-turn-one-physicist-into-a-research-team/","kind":"Blog","note":"The maker's full write-up."}],"ref":"a64d049","about":"A physicist tested how far AI could take a piece of new physics research, the kind a smart undergraduate might do with an advisor, using Claude deep research and Claude Code. A literature review of over 50 papers took two days, and a complete rewrite of the simulation code in JAX took two weeks, against six months for the original. The rewrite was validated against known benchmarks.\n\nClaude wrote about 90% of the code, while the physicist supplied physics intuition, caught subtle errors and designed validation tests. At the time of posting the actual physics runs had not yet been done.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-stalled-postgresql-prql-extension-updated-with-7446","title":"A stalled PostgreSQL PRQL extension updated with Claude Code","topic":"Legacy code revival","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Modernising legacy code"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"The busy maintainer of a PRQL extension for PostgreSQL used Claude Code to work through a pgrx breaking change that had blocked PostgreSQL 17 support.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Gather around kids, it's storytime. 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Let me tell you about the time vibe coding actually contributed something meaningful to the world.","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1or9u1q/"},"about":"The maintainer of plprql, a PostgreSQL extension for PRQL, had been unable to update it since a breaking change in the pgrx library in February 2024 stopped him supporting PostgreSQL 17. With two young children he had no time, so he tried to fix it with Claude Code.\n\nOn the first night Claude worked out how to return pgrx::Datum via pgrx::RetAbi. On the second it could not apply that to pgrx::TableIterator and pgrx::SetOfIterator, because the column types were unknown at compile time. He presents the result as vibe coding contributing something meaningful.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/kaspermarstal/plprql","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/kaspermarstal/plprql"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"nervbox-mixer-a-browser-based-mp3-snippet-arrang-2e72","title":"Nervbox Mixer, a browser-based MP3 snippet arranger","topic":"Music & audio","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"A multi-track browser tool for dragging, trimming and mixing audio samples into beats, built entirely with Claude Code on Angular and the Web Audio API.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Nervbox Mixer - A browser-based MP3 snippet arranger","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1n5ngf4/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1n5ngf4","gone":"removed"},{"name":"The project: mixer.sgeht.net","url":"https://mixer.sgeht.net","kind":"Blog","note":"The live demo."}],"ref":"2e721b3","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/06zwdzbwrjmf1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=9477fc88caf69c6a2ecbec04882fea4e00d9a32a","alt":"Nervbox Mixer - A browser-based MP3 snippet arranger","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1n5ngf4/"},"about":"Nervbox Mixer lets you drag, drop and mix audio samples into beats in the browser, with multi-track editing, sample-accurate trimming, waveform display and export to WAV or MP3. It was built entirely with Claude Code using Angular 20, TypeScript and the Web Audio API, and is still a work in progress with a live demo.\n\nThe prompts the maker shared include \"The error is still there. I'm rolling back your changes.\", and a complaint that trimming a clip changed its whole waveform display.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"brick-by-brick-a-physics-stacking-game-with-a-1-1618","title":"Brick by Brick, a physics stacking game with a $1 leaderboard","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"A web stacking game with a custom HTML5 canvas physics engine, built with Claude Code, where posting a high score costs $1.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Built a Brick Stacking Game with Claude Code – From Idea to $7 Revenue","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1nfdiz7/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1nfdiz7","gone":"removed"},{"name":"The project: brickbybrick.live","url":"https://brickbybrick.live","kind":"Blog","note":"The game."}],"ref":"1618595","about":"Brick by Brick is a stacking game where you drop blocks to build the tallest tower, with cut-off pieces falling under physics and blocks speeding up as you climb. The maker built it with Claude Code on Next.js with a custom HTML5 canvas engine, and Claude helped with the physics and collisions, Stripe payments, an auth migration and production bugs.\n\nPosting a score to the leaderboard costs $1, which had brought in seven payments, mostly from family and friends. Some CSS fixes and balancing still had to be done by hand.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"mictlan-a-2011-windows-phone-game-ported-from-xn-10ea","title":"Mictlan, a 2011 Windows Phone game, ported from XNA to MonoGame","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Porting to a new platform","Modernising legacy code"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"A developer used Claude Code to revive the first game they released, written for the dead XNA framework, by porting it to MonoGame in a couple of hours for $43.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I just revived my 13-year-old game for $43 using Claude Code","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ox5w34/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1ox5w34","authors":[{"name":"ArturoNereu","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/ArturoNereu/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2025-11-14T19:22:57.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"10eaae6","about":"Mictlan was the maker's first game, released in 2011 for Windows Phone 7 using Microsoft's XNA framework. With both the platform and the framework long dead, the game had been unplayable for years. Using Claude Code, the maker ported it to MonoGame in a couple of hours at a cost of $43.\n\nThey stress it was not a one-click job: the game is simple and 2D, so there were no lighting or rendering issues to worry about, and because they wrote it they could tell Claude how it should work and which framework to port to. They suggest the same approach could help preserve old games that never earned enough to justify a hand-made port.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"an-old-pos-tablet-turned-into-a-restaurants-food-09be","title":"An old POS tablet turned into a restaurant's food safety record keeper","topic":"Repurposed hardware","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Repurposing to a new role","Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"A Wellington restaurant manager had Claude Code build a React app that runs on a spare 2018 Samsung tablet and logs records required by New Zealand's Food Act.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude helped with compliance for my restaurant in New Zealand!","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1p15g90/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1p15g90","authors":[{"name":"popyui","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/popyui/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2025-11-19T11:42:01.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"09be806","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/gkci7cu3872g1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=653a5498c5ab236df5819e24285b84f5efebbd9c","alt":"Claude helped with compliance for my restaurant in New Zealand!","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1p15g90/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/ryopgdu3872g1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=66f02ac51d9a2e99d232690966112e58f09dd0a2","alt":"Claude helped with compliance for my restaurant in New Zealand!","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1p15g90/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/znckhbu3872g1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=0b31a06977289b6035059da2b15801f61d2c4a19","alt":"Claude helped with compliance for my restaurant in New Zealand!","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1p15g90/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/c6xxqdu3872g1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=8c4a81e8bb6c2c13ea0ee31f9f1b13a5b05fa5f0","alt":"Claude helped with compliance for my restaurant in New Zealand!","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1p15g90/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/8ihb3du3872g1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=618b98875446bd584b2f4ab837af61eddf44ad7f","alt":"Claude helped with compliance for my restaurant in New Zealand!","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1p15g90/"}],"about":"The manager of a Mexican restaurant in Wellington, New Zealand, used Claude Code to build an app for the record keeping required under the country's Food Act 2014. It runs on a spare 2018 Samsung Galaxy Tab A with 2GB of RAM that used to serve as the restaurant's till.\n\nClaude suggested a React and Vite app with Shadcn for a dark look inspired by World of Goo, and the data is linked to Google Sheets so the boss can edit it and it is easy to show the City Council during inspections. It is still in development: not all the modules required by law are finished, and inventory, shopping list and food truck event modules are planned.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-smart-toilet-fitted-at-home-after-claude-ident-aaa4","title":"A smart toilet fitted at home after Claude identified the right adapter","topic":"Repairs & diagnostics","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"While installing a toilet himself, a homeowner sent Claude a photo of a fitting and it identified the thread type and the adapter needed.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Today I wanted to install a smart toilet... and Claude saved me from calling a plumber","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1p1rlfk/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1p1rlfk","authors":[{"name":"SnooHabits8681","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/SnooHabits8681/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2025-11-20T02:34:39.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"aaa4345","about":"An old toilet began to smell of rotten eggs when flushed, and troubleshooting with Claude pointed to bacteria in the rim jets that could not be cleaned without taking it apart, so the poster bought a smart toilet and fitted it themselves. The installation stalled at the water supply, where a braided hose on PEX pipe did not match the fittings supplied.\n\nAn hour in a DIY store describing the sizes to Claude got nowhere, because the poster was giving it the wrong information. A photo of the actual fitting solved it: Claude identified it as 1/2\" FIP threaded rather than 5/8\" compression, explained why the 3/8\" compression braided line would not fit directly and named the adapter to look for. Five minutes later the part was found and the toilet was connected.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"hudra-a-lightweight-control-app-for-windows-gami-3236","title":"HUDRA, a lightweight control app for Windows gaming handhelds","topic":"E-readers & handhelds","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"A first-time Windows app developer used Claude Code to build a simple C# replacement for the bloated OEM software on handhelds like the Legion Go and ROG Ally.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I built a C# app with Claude to make Windows gaming handhelds suck less!","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1phl8ij/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1phl8ij","authors":[{"name":"syrinxStarman","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/syrinxStarman/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2025-12-08T19:10:08.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/onetechmind/HUDRA","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"onetechmind","url":"https://github.com/onetechmind","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"3236cae","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/LHXnkvEecGuU8LkPIHpwDvHWLI-anyRjTTBugvJZpoE.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=0b0083cb22b011e0740f6232ec9649cfbc16e784","alt":"I built a C# app with Claude to make Windows gaming handhelds suck less!","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1phl8ij/"},"about":"HUDRA (Heads-Up Display Runtime Assistant) is a C# app for controlling the most important settings when gaming on a Windows handheld such as the Lenovo Legion Go, Asus ROG Ally or OneXPlayer. The maker built it because the manufacturers' own software is, in their words, bloated and \"a UI/UX nightmare\".\n\nIt was their first attempt at a Windows app. Claude and Claude Code did most of the heavy lifting from the maker's specification and design, and the app has been released as a beta.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/onetechmind/HUDRA","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/onetechmind/HUDRA"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-browser-drift-racing-game-with-its-own-vehicle-db4a","title":"A browser drift racing game with its own vehicle physics engine","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"An Initial D inspired touge racing prototype with a custom vehicle and physics engine and a track editor, built with Claude Code on top of three.js.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Initial-D inspired car racing game prototype playable in any browser. 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Claude handled the Web Audio API, the pitch detection, the interface and research into vocal teaching, which shaped the list of exercises.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"quakejs-self-hosted-with-https-and-secure-websoc-9cf2","title":"QuakeJS self-hosted with HTTPS and secure WebSockets","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Modernising legacy code"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"Claude Code helped wire up a self-hosted QuakeJS server over HTTPS with secure WebSockets so the browser Quake port still runs as browsers drop plain HTTP.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude Code helped me get Quake.js running over HTTPS","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1pqj8x9/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1pqj8x9","authors":[{"name":"neonwatty","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/neonwatty/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2025-12-19T11:53:53.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: kamal-quake.xyz","url":"https://kamal-quake.xyz/","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"9cf2390","image":{"url":"https://i.redd.it/zrmaokvfg58g1.gif","alt":"Claude Code helped me get Quake.js running over HTTPS","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1pqj8x9/"},"about":"QuakeJS, a version of Quake that runs in the browser, is getting harder to play as browsers crack down on plain HTTP. The maker used Claude Code to wire up a self-hosted version served over HTTPS, with secure WebSockets for multiplayer, and published both a playable server and a repository for anyone who wants to host their own.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-fuzzy-skin-texture-plugin-for-fusion-360-ecdf","title":"A fuzzy skin texture plugin for Fusion 360","topic":"Printers & peripherals","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"A maker who wanted 3D-print-style fuzzy skin textures in Fusion 360 built a Python plugin for it with Claude's help and shared it on GitHub.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I Built a Fusion 360 CAD Plugin with Claude AI (and it actually works!)","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1pqzzfo/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1pqzzfo","authors":[{"name":"rouge_d","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/rouge_d/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2025-12-19T23:53:44.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The video: youtu.be","url":"https://youtu.be/rOmXJXhhG9g","kind":"Video","note":"The maker's video."}],"ref":"ecdf90d","image":{"url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rOmXJXhhG9g/hqdefault.jpg","alt":"Video thumbnail: The video: youtu.be","credit":"youtube.com","from":"https://youtu.be/rOmXJXhhG9g"},"about":"The maker wanted a fuzzy skin texture in Fusion 360, so they built a Python plugin to add one with help from Claude, and shared it on GitHub with a video explaining how it works.\n\nTheir takeaway was that Claude got them about 80% of the way quickly, while the last 20% was debugging and iteration, and that the platform had real limits, naming STL import as one.","projectLinks":[{"type":"video","url":"https://youtu.be/rOmXJXhhG9g","sourceUrl":"https://youtu.be/rOmXJXhhG9g"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"an-elektron-style-drum-machine-app-for-ios-bc88","title":"An Elektron-style drum machine app for iOS","topic":"Music & audio","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"A data engineer with no Swift or synth experience had Claude Code build a 10-voice iOS drum synth with parameter locks, effects and a song mode in about three days.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Elektron Style iOS Drum Machine - Claude Code Written","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1pr1bbw/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1pr1bbw","authors":[{"name":"Quantifan","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Quantifan/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2025-12-20T00:55:46.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"bc885df","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/bWo5MDZybDI5OThnMdllua-AYGgX5b6tBr82yL-2bHABPjuJdMAJzhO8Ld-7.png?width=960&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6925ffdfae724d0c11bad47d3a1da3139895ead0","alt":"Video still: Elektron Style iOS Drum Machine - Claude Code Written","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1pr1bbw/"},"about":"The maker had long wanted an Elektron-style drum synth on iOS but knew no Swift, little about UI design and nothing about building a synth. 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Each side has a Dyson Sphere base that spawns ships, and destroying the enemy's sphere cripples its war effort.\n\nThe ships are directed by a \"Hive Mind\" that asks a local LLM running in Ollama for tactical decisions, and they move as squadrons using boids flocking. You can fly in and join the battle or just watch. 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It took more than 500 hours of prompting and is built with Flutter and Firebase.\n\nThe maker reports more than 1,150 players since launch and a number 4 spot in Norway's family games chart. It is free, with ads and an optional paid upgrade.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"camera-feed-from-xreal-one-pro-ar-glasses-unlock-4554","title":"Camera feed from Xreal One Pro AR glasses unlocked","topic":"Wearables","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Capturing USB or BLE traffic"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"A non-coder spent five days with Claude dissecting apps, firmware and USB traffic to stream the Xreal One Pro glasses camera to a PC.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude keeps surprising me. 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Over roughly five days they worked with Claude using older apps and SDKs for clues, and intercepted the USB traffic during an update to obtain the firmware.\n\nClaude then helped dissect the applications and, through trial and error analysing USB traffic, worked out how to stream the camera feed to the PC. 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According to the post, the port took about 30 minutes.\n\nThe maker used the experiment to ask what this kind of fast porting means for the future of software ecosystems; the full details are in the linked write-up.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-nintendo-3ds-turned-into-a-3d-test-monitor-2594","title":"A Nintendo 3DS turned into a 3D test monitor","topic":"E-readers & handhelds","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Repurposing to a new role","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude helped write 3DS homebrew so the handheld can show live side-by-side 3D output from a desktop 3D graphics app, standing in for a 3D monitor.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude helped turn my Nintendo 3DS into a 3D monitor for testing my upcoming Tripmunk 3D Studio","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1q8ifm9/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1q8ifm9","authors":[{"name":"BiscuitShelter","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/BiscuitShelter/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-01-09T19:54:35.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"259441c","about":"A developer making a 3D graphics app called Tripmunk 3D Studio had no 3D monitor to test its side-by-side 3D modes, so they had Claude help write Nintendo 3DS homebrew that turns the handheld into a live 3D display. The touchpad rotates the scene cameras and the directional pad changes the speed of the shader loop.\n\nThey also added an 800x240 side-by-side MJPEG option so beat-synced 3D videos can be transcoded to play on the 3DS, which already works. It worked \"WAY better\" than expected, and they plan to ship the homebrew app with the software.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"custom-smart-glasses-controlled-through-claude-c-2e5b","title":"Custom smart glasses controlled through Claude Code","topic":"Wearables","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A maker got Claude Code to pair with custom smart glasses over Bluetooth, take and analyse photos and video, transcribe audio and check battery and storage.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude now runs my smart glasses","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1q84tms/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1q84tms","authors":[{"name":"abrownie_jr","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/abrownie_jr/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-01-09T10:27:57.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"Reddit: I made Claude Code control my smart glasses","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1q7780g/","kind":"Forum","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1q7780g","authors":[{"name":"abrownie_jr","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/abrownie_jr/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-01-08T09:16:15.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"2e5b5fa","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/bjJiejNvaDl3YWNnMYeY9VXgNepdxaGFl7CrAgTQx8vegHjBgFDL1NW_PpQZ.png?width=960&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=743680c10ff3853acf36d4e2654caf9e1c6c9d62","alt":"Video still: Claude now runs my smart glasses","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1q84tms/"},"about":"A maker worked out how to control a pair of custom smart glasses with Claude Code. It can pair with them over Bluetooth, take and analyse photos and videos, transcribe audio messages into notes, and check battery and storage levels.\n\nThe maker says this beats products like Meta Ray-Bans because Claude Code can carry out multi-step tasks, such as sending the day's photos to family or emailing audio transcriptions. The post gives no further detail of how the glasses were connected.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-web-mri-viewer-built-from-the-data-on-a-usb-st-8bc8","title":"A web MRI viewer built from the data on a USB stick","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Shopify's CEO ran Claude over the files on an MRI USB stick and had it build an impromptu web-based viewer instead of using the bundled software.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Shopify CEO Uses Claude AI to Build Custom MRI Viewer from USB Data","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1qagtex/","kind":"Forum","note":"The post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1qagtex","authors":[{"name":"obvithrowaway34434","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/obvithrowaway34434/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-01-12T01:01:03.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"A linked post: x.com","url":"https://x.com/tobi/status/2010438500609663110?s=20","kind":"Social","note":"Linked in the post."},{"name":"Reddit: Shopify CEO runs Claude on an MRI USB stick to build an impromptu web-based viewer.","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1qbmw9z/","kind":"Forum","note":"A second r/ClaudeAI post about it.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1qbmw9z","authors":[{"name":"NoParsleyForYou","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/NoParsleyForYou/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-01-13T09:23:48.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"8bc8f85","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/r3bpgg5pgtcg1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=d47786795756444c5b068e9f1bc3ce15d3897431","alt":"Shopify CEO Uses Claude AI to Build Custom MRI Viewer from USB Data","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1qagtex/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/5t53e7idhtcg1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=f68ec7f10ce89e43d577e23cc735b1b17c4b0d49","alt":"Shopify CEO Uses Claude AI to Build Custom MRI Viewer from USB Data","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1qagtex/"}],"about":"Shopify's CEO pointed Claude at the data on a USB stick from an MRI scan and had it build an impromptu web-based viewer for the images. The Reddit poster shared it from his post on X, framing it as a sign that expensive, bloated niche software can now be replaced.\n\nThe Reddit posts give no further technical detail, so how well the viewer works is not shown here.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-robot-that-recognises-itself-in-a-mirror-d0ea","title":"A robot that recognises itself in a mirror","topic":"Robots","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building a hardware gadget"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A hobbyist's robot, using Claude Haiku as its language model, recognised itself in a mirror without ever being trained on its own appearance.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Fun experiment with Claude","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1qb2094/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1qb2094","authors":[{"name":"Guybrushhh","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Guybrushhh/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-01-12T17:57:36.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"d0eaf07","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/YXdibmtvdTFqeWNnMSooo_M2H1a6KQeE8vurROzaURQgp-y9BSOTsBtpoE77.png?width=960&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd2f2cb47cee73a43b9f3c34ca956cec611a22d6","alt":"Video still: Fun experiment with Claude","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1qb2094/"},"about":"A hobbyist's robot, which uses Claude Haiku as its language model, recognised itself when shown a mirror. The maker says its response was unscripted and that it was never trained on its own appearance; the model simply knows it is a robot.\n\nThe maker described being \"both amazed and unsettled\" by the result. 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Using 164 recordings of people talking about their expected future selves, Claude 3.7 Sonnet generated two \"future narratives\" for each person, one with a crisis and one without, and a local Llama model then scored which was more plausible from the original interview.\n\nClaude also wrote the whole Python pipeline, which the researcher checked as best they could. People whose crisis narrative scored as more likely were significantly more likely to report suicidal ideation at an 18-month follow-up, and the method caught 75% of high-risk people a standard questionnaire missed. 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Claude first suggested open-source repositories on GitHub, then, when he explained he barely knew how to use a microwave, offered to help build a visualiser from scratch.\n\nHe built it in 24 hours. 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Wanting to greet visitors with Xbox 360-style notifications on the in-world TVs and achievement pop-ups, the poster turned to Claude Code despite never having written UdonSharp, VRChat's restricted C# subset.\n\nThe first welcome notification took four hours. 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Working with Claude, a developer built Wire-Seek, which uses ICMP path MTU discovery with a binary search to find the best value in about eight probes rather than 200 or more.\n\nIt then subtracts WireGuard's overhead (60 bytes for IPv4, 80 for IPv6). 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Over the holidays he used Claude Code to build a spectrum analyser app in about a week, because he could not find anything that showed the left and right channels on different monitors.\n\nBeing a radio ham, he also added an SDR-style waterfall display. Microsoft approved the app for its store within hours, and he plans a physical unit using an old Lenovo mini PC and two small 12.3-inch touchscreens.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-terminal-space-roguelike-with-claude-written-n-10f1","title":"A terminal space roguelike with Claude-written narrative","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A NetHack-inspired roguelike in Rust has procedural maps and sound, with Claude generating logs, crew records and obituaries in real time as you explore.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Built with Claude (Space RPG)","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1qd8emw/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1qd8emw","authors":[{"name":"betahost","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/betahost/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-01-15T03:19:55.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"10f1c56","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/crc6dlogkfdg1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=1ed17d3eeb7b5244a086ad8f7a310f1dd670249a","alt":"Built with Claude (Space RPG)","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1qd8emw/"},"about":"A fan of NetHack built a roguelike RPG played entirely in the terminal, written in Rust with the Ratatui framework. 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The post excerpt does not say how far the game got.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"an-imx708-camera-driver-for-jetpack-62-on-a-jets-eaed","title":"An IMX708 camera driver for JetPack 6.2 on a Jetson Nano","topic":"Embedded & microcontrollers","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Driver or OS patching"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"With Claude Code working over SSH, a maker with no C or kernel experience wrote the missing Arducam IMX708 camera driver for JetPack 6.2 and open sourced it.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Built a JetPack 6.2 camera driver from scratch with Claude Code + SSH — driver didn't exist until no","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1qlt8du/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1qlt8du","authors":[{"name":"reezcapital","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/reezcapital/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-01-24T17:35:51.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/rm0nroe/nvidia-jetson-toolkit","kind":"Primary","note":"The driver on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"rm0nroe","url":"https://github.com/rm0nroe","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"eaed96b","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/eDJcwS9V_jcb49AvuO-sSDiHbAhbnHUwzB0YkW9GCPk.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=4963d6910a6afd1b30d159bda701f07f196ad2e5","alt":"Built a JetPack 6.2 camera driver from scratch with Claude Code + SSH — driver didn't exist until now, open sourced it 🤖","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1qlt8du/"},"about":"While building an AI robot companion on an NVIDIA Jetson Nano, the maker found that the Arducam IMX708 camera had no driver support at all for JetPack 6.2. Kernel driver development wasn't their expertise and they don't program in C, so they worked with Claude Code (Opus 4.5) over SSH.\n\nClaude iterated on terminal output, kernel source and build errors as they came in, and debugged device tree overlays and kernel module problems. The finished driver was open sourced on GitHub.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/rm0nroe/nvidia-jetson-toolkit","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/rm0nroe/nvidia-jetson-toolkit"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-scopa-card-game-whose-mcts-bot-usually-beats-c-a3e2","title":"A Scopa card game whose MCTS bot usually beats Claude","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A physicist built a browser version of the Italian card game Scopa almost entirely with Claude Code, including a Monte Carlo Tree Search bot that Claude mostly loses to.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Built a Scopa card game with Claude Code. Made Claude play it. 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Claude loses.","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1qmp2qe/"},"about":"A physicist with limited web development experience built Scopa AI over winter break: a browser version of the classic Italian card game with CPU opponents, opponents played by Claude, GPT or Gemini, and multiplayer. He says Claude Code wrote the entire codebase and he wrote maybe 5% by hand, including the game engine, React components, a WebSocket server for multiplayer and the bots.\n\nThe strongest CPU level, \"Esperto\", uses Monte Carlo Tree Search. When he let Claude play against it, Claude could win sometimes but mostly lost, as did the other models.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"spacemonger-140-recreated-with-extra-hiding-feat-4eac","title":"SpaceMonger 1.40 recreated with extra hiding features","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude rebuilt the old SpaceMonger 1.40 disk space viewer in about an hour, and its owner added folder banning, name hiding and a quick-hide key he had wanted for years.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude made me a (better) clone of SpaceMonger 1.40 within an hour","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1qxfweb/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1qxfweb","authors":[{"name":"EmuNo6570","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/EmuNo6570/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-02-06T12:09:06.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"4eac0a8","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/wf4tduet5vhg1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=5104fc68fced4f1cd9de023d0e0d965b3716fd28","alt":"Claude made me a (better) clone of SpaceMonger 1.40 within an hour","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1qxfweb/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/df98zsey5vhg1.png?width=320&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=77e4c3ebcb15d3bc7379ae515bf23898200ce5ef","alt":"Claude made me a (better) clone of SpaceMonger 1.40 within an hour","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1qxfweb/"}],"about":"The poster had always preferred SpaceMonger 1.40, an old program for finding out what is using disk space, over newer versions and alternatives such as WinDirStat and TreeSize. Claude built a clone in about an hour: it scans every file, collects paths and sizes, then works out how much area each box should take, recursively for every folder.\n\nHe then added three features he had wanted for about 25 years: permanently ignoring folders such as C:\\Windows, a list of words whose names are always hidden, and a quick-hide key that removes a box for the session so everything else grows to fill the space.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-130000-line-multiplayer-browser-game-by-a-nurs-b7c3","title":"A 130,000-line multiplayer browser game by a nurse who can't code","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A nurse with no coding skills has built a working multiplayer browser game, in the vein of Foxhole, Project Zomboid and Banished, with Claude since Sonnet 3.5.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I've been working on a game with Claude since Sonnet 3.5. 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The idea was something similar to Foxhole, Project Zomboid and Banished. At first Sonnet could barely get circles moving on screen as a basic multiplayer test.\n\nAs Claude improved, and as the nurse learned its strengths and weaknesses, the project grew into a working multiplayer browser game of about 130,000 lines of code.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"an-xbox-and-dualsense-controller-mapper-that-dri-11e3","title":"An Xbox and DualSense controller mapper that drives a whole Mac","topic":"Printers & peripherals","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Repurposing to a new role","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"An open-source Mac app built with Claude Code turns game controllers into mouse and keyboard, with the DualSense touchpad used as a trackpad and an on-screen keyboard.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Follow-up: Added PlayStation DualSense support to my controller app—the touchpad is a game changer","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1qmt9xy/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1qmt9xy","authors":[{"name":"WalletBuddyApp","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/WalletBuddyApp/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-01-25T19:48:10.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: kevintang.xyz","url":"https://www.kevintang.xyz/apps/xbox-controller-mapper","kind":"Blog","note":"The project page."}],"ref":"11e3fd0","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/NDcwd3IwY2d1amZnMW_N91p3ukTXTky_f8zZmBAzT2XG3TsgEbYiSuzzuki7.png?width=960&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=81e02c8ca078253c4df55768a1d6d78ef056f344","alt":"Video still: Follow-up: Added PlayStation DualSense support to my controller app—the touchpad is a game changer","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1qmt9xy/"},"about":"Kevin Tang built an Xbox Controller Mapper app for the Mac with Claude Code so he could code from his couch, then added PlayStation DualSense support. The DualSense touchpad works as a small trackpad, with tap to click, two-finger scrolling and pinch to zoom.\n\nAn on-screen keyboard, toggled with a button combination, can type, control media, insert text snippets, run terminal commands and launch apps. He says he uses it in VR with a three-monitor setup to get around his whole Mac without seeing his hands. The app is open source.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-marathi-youtube-transcriber-with-a-whisper-fal-8c88","title":"A Marathi YouTube transcriber with a Whisper fallback","topic":"Music & audio","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"When other tools failed on a Marathi video for his wife's reading competition, a developer used Claude Code to build a transcriber with a Whisper fallback; it reached 65-70% accuracy.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: How I built a Marathi-optimized YouTube Transcriber with Claude Code when off-the-shelf tools failed","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1qixtef/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1qixtef","authors":[{"name":"aviboy2006","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/aviboy2006/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-01-21T13:25:28.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"8c88a6a","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/4vJ20YXgUcS39loCZP7J3KK6gd0uWvsF0LumceYQEhI.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=7d64c7ccedada12ea0125ca08acaeee9559405e7","alt":"How I built a Marathi-optimized YouTube Transcriber with Claude Code when off-the-shelf tools failed","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1qixtef/"},"about":"The poster's wife needed a script from a Marathi YouTube video for a reading competition, but the tools he tried were behind paywalls or produced gibberish. He used Claude Code to build his own transcriber. The video had no captions, so Claude added a fallback: try YouTube's captions first, and if there are none, download the audio with yt-dlp and run it through OpenAI's Whisper model.\n\nThe first Whisper run came back in Urdu/Arabic script because the model was guessing the language. Claude changed the tool to accept a language setting, and forcing Marathi raised accuracy to about 65-70%. Some passages where speakers overlapped or talked fast were still wrong.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-multi-model-snow-forecast-site-for-any-us-zip-b100","title":"A multi-model snow forecast site for any US zip code","topic":"Science & research","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Built in two days with Claude, the site compares snowfall models, shows how far they agree, and uses the Kuchera ratio and temperature inversions to spot freezing rain.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I built a multi-model snow forecast app with Claude just in time for the storm","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1qm8tc8/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1qm8tc8","authors":[{"name":"tour_in_a_box","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/tour_in_a_box/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-01-25T04:09:42.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: snowyay.com","url":"https://snowyay.com/","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"b100e46","about":"Snowyay was built over two days with Claude ahead of a storm. For any US zip code it pulls forecasts from several snowfall models, shows how much they agree, gives a timeline of when the snow will fall and an average of how much to expect.\n\nIt uses the Kuchera method to estimate snow-to-liquid ratios from atmospheric temperatures, and looks for temperature inversions aloft to detect freezing rain. The data comes from Open-Meteo's free API. The poster says Claude handled almost everything, from the API work to the snow calculations and the design.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-dream-music-library-app-for-a-winamp-era-colle-ff36","title":"A dream music library app for a Winamp-era collector","topic":"Music & audio","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A non-developer who cares about album metadata built his own music library app with Claude while quitting smoking; it works but still has plenty of bugs.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I'm not a developer, but with Claude I created my dream music library application","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1qqfy0e/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1qqfy0e","authors":[{"name":"ElaraMurk","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/ElaraMurk/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-01-29T18:01:42.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"ff36dbc","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/MKEDTfk9Vs7Xl3zM8klpHeC4oMwA5CbZcaYroYoCYms.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=1ae362fedc7321b82d9927dbefe554ffc1308b6a","alt":"I'm not a developer, but with Claude I created my dream music library application","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1qqfy0e/"},"about":"The poster, who keeps a carefully maintained digital music library from the Winamp days, was complaining to Claude about how streaming platforms display music. Claude suggested his ideas for a music app were doable. He didn't believe he would stick at it, but he was quitting smoking and needed something to pour himself into.\n\nThe result is his own music library application. He says it is not perfect, with \"bugs like crazy\" and features put off to later releases, but the main features he dreamed of are there, such as rules-based shuffle in modules and attaching files to album records.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-20000-line-ios-app-ported-to-android-in-two-an-4a01","title":"A 20,000-line iOS app ported to Android in two and a half weeks","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"With no Kotlin experience, a developer used Claude Code to port his iOS app to Android one feature at a time, checking both versions, and reached a Google Play beta.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: How I used Claude Code to port a 20,000+ line iOS app to Android in 2.5 weeks (with zero Kotlin expe","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1qgnbua/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1qgnbua","authors":[{"name":"SaluteToSuit","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/SaluteToSuit/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-01-18T23:09:03.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"4a0161e","about":"After four to six months building an iOS app of more than 20,000 lines, the developer was quoted over $10,000 to port it to Android. With no experience of Kotlin or Jetpack Compose, he did it himself with Claude Code, one tab at a time: Claude reviewed the Swift code, built the Compose equivalent, and then compared both versions to check its own work before moving on.\n\nHe hit plenty of walls, especially with state management and Play Store build requirements. After two and a half weeks he had a working beta on Google Play.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-five-year-old-graph-algorithm-visualiser-moder-b5c7","title":"A five-year-old graph algorithm visualiser modernised with Claude Code","topic":"Legacy code revival","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Modernising legacy code"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code moved an old Create React App graph visualiser to React 19, Vite and Tailwind v4, then helped rework its state handling, UX and undo/redo.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Graphisual","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1qk38fu/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1qk38fu","authors":[{"name":"lapstjup","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/lapstjup/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-01-22T18:55:39.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: graphisual.vercel.app","url":"https://graphisual.vercel.app","kind":"Blog","note":"The visualiser."}],"ref":"b5c7cec","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/ft5-rFaAWDfGvsgDwBmB7BwXdsxGzcKlAy67qTnZiDA.jpeg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=5cf829306f5f47537cb52a647b71ea100de17019","alt":"Graphisual","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1qk38fu/"},"about":"Five years ago the poster spent 30 days building Graphisual, a graph algorithm visualiser. Revisiting it with Claude Code, he migrated the old Create React App project to React 19, Vite and Tailwind v4 without major problems.\n\nAs features were added, Opus 4.5 made things work by keeping state on the window object with custom events, so he used Plan Mode to move everything to zustand. He then iterated on an Excalidraw-inspired interface for creating, moving and connecting nodes, and on undo/redo, which ended up as a function wrapped around the zustand store.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-vintage-toy-audio-codec-reverse-engineered-and-f66e","title":"A vintage toy audio codec reverse engineered and rewritten in Rust","topic":"Music & audio","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude","Ghidra"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Decompiling software","Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Opus 4.6, working through Ghidra, decoded and documented the GeneralPlus A1800 codec from a Windows DLL and reimplemented it in Rust.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Vintage audio codec reverse engineering with Claude","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1qzfg5t/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1qzfg5t","authors":[{"name":"Hedgebull","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Hedgebull/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-02-08T17:45:51.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/bethington/ghidra-mcp/","kind":"Primary","note":"Linked in the post.","authors":[{"name":"bethington","url":"https://github.com/bethington","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"f66edd5","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/xSVtQHV6f76-8uo30Gm3UeH6xUFqj0eiIyzXo41UgIk.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=047f7709cc29ca1bc816d95a10b7795c1c5556a8","alt":"Vintage audio codec reverse engineering with Claude","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1qzfg5t/"},"about":"People trying to reverse engineer the story books for the Little Tikes Story Dream Machine were stuck on the audio format, which turned out to be the GeneralPlus (SunPlus) A1800 codec, also used in 2012-2016 Furbys and many LeapFrog toys. Existing tools worked by calling into a 32-bit Windows DLL from Python.\n\nThe maker loaded A1800.DLL into Ghidra, fixed up the entry point signatures and asked Claude Opus 4.6, through a Ghidra MCP server, to reverse engineer the decoder, document the codec as it went and reimplement it in Rust. They said they were \"shocked at how well it did\", including recognising which techniques and algorithms the codec uses.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/bethington/ghidra-mcp/","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/bethington/ghidra-mcp/"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-race-car-data-recorders-binary-format-decoded-b997","title":"A race car data recorder's binary format decoded","topic":"Protocols & abandoned products","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code and its owner spent about four hours working out Race-Keeper .rkd files so the video telemetry could be read on macOS.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Used Claude Code to reverse-engineer a proprietary binary format in one afternoon","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1r05l40/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1r05l40","authors":[{"name":"gorinrockbow","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/gorinrockbow/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-02-09T14:26:40.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"b997d15","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/OnDGs0EIpoeCzQX2E_bkh71Q6--QQXPMriMogWGaKOU.jpeg?width=320&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=f116c440382f0ed84995f624c3ce17b5c0f84eeb","alt":"Used Claude Code to reverse-engineer a proprietary binary format in one afternoon","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1r05l40/"},"about":"The poster had .rkd files from a Race-Keeper \"Instant Video\" race car data recorder, picked up at a track day five years earlier. The software is Windows-only and they are on macOS, so the telemetry had sat unused since 2021; they had tried to decode it themselves years before and failed.\n\nThey pointed Claude Code at the binary files and worked through the format together over about four hours in three sessions. Claude spotted patterns and proposed struct layouts, while the owner supplied context such as a car ID on the USB stick and a known top speed of around 160 km/h in an Audi R8, which Claude used to test and cross-check its guesses.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"114-scanned-recipe-cards-fixed-and-turned-into-a-3f22","title":"114 scanned recipe cards fixed and turned into a macOS app","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Automating with Claude","Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude reordered pages, cleaned OCR titles and renamed 114 scanned Hello Fresh PDFs, then went on to build a Mac app for browsing them.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I asked Claude to fix my scanned recipes. 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Claude, in Cowork mode, wrote a pypdf script that fixed the page order in seconds.\n\nIt then pulled the large title text off each cover with pdfplumber, cleaned up OCR errors (German umlauts read as Arabic characters, 'l' read as '!'), renamed every file and moved them into a tidy folder. Wanting to search and filter them, the poster kept going, and Claude ended up building a macOS app for browsing the collection.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-browser-version-of-worms-world-party-1a01","title":"A browser version of Worms World Party","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A fan used Claude Code over a few hours to build an open-source web take on the Worms World Party PC game, far rougher than the original.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I vibe-coded a web version of Worms World Party using Claude Code in a few hours","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1qzfq2i/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1qzfq2i","authors":[{"name":"Nir777","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Nir777/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-02-08T17:56:14.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/NirDiamant/worms-world-party","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"NirDiamant","url":"https://github.com/NirDiamant","role":"Repository account"}]},{"name":"Reddit: I vibe-coded a web version of Worms World Party using Claude Code in a few hours","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1qzfrp1/","kind":"Forum","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1qzfrp1","authors":[{"name":"Nir777","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Nir777/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-02-08T17:57:57.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"1a0197d","image":{"url":"https://github.com/NirDiamant/worms-world-party/raw/main/demo_video/gameplay_preview.gif","alt":"Gameplay Demo","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/NirDiamant/worms-world-party"},"about":"A long-time fan of the Worms World Party PC game, in which two teams of animated worms fight each other, spent a few hours using Claude Code to make a web version of it. 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Claude offered to recover it by reverse engineering the compiled .pyc bytecode file, but the session limit ran out straight away.\n\nThe poster turned to Gemini instead, which successfully rebuilt the script from the bytecode.","story":"Horror story","wentWrong":"Deleted data","lesson":"Commit or back up work yourself before asking an AI agent to make a commit, and word git requests carefully.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-lego-part-renderer-for-printed-bin-labels-4b41","title":"A Lego part renderer for printed bin labels","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude helped build a Docker tool that draws Lego parts as SVG line drawings from LDraw data with Blender, for labels on sorting bins.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude-made Docker image to render Lego parts as SVGs","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1r060fh/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1r060fh","authors":[{"name":"More_Knee_4947","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/More_Knee_4947/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-02-09T14:43:56.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/breckenedge/lego-part-renderer","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"breckenedge","url":"https://github.com/breckenedge","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"4b41efe","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/63q29zxidhig1.png?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=c8a61c6573706cbb28e117a7f8642ae17601dba5","alt":"Claude-made Docker image to render Lego parts as SVGs","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1r060fh/"},"about":"The poster is organising a Lego collection into bins with up to four slots, where only the front slot is visible, so they print line drawings of the parts as labels. They had been drawing the parts by hand for a few years.\n\nOver two weekends, after many false starts and some big changes of direction, Claude and the poster got a working parts renderer that uses LDraw data and Blender to output SVGs, packaged as a Docker image. The poster plans to put it in the cloud behind a cache so anyone can request part drawings over HTTP.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/breckenedge/lego-part-renderer","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/breckenedge/lego-part-renderer"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-native-matrix-style-screen-saver-for-modern-ma-1369","title":"A native Matrix-style screen saver for modern macOS","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"With older Matrix screen savers broken on recent macOS, Claude Code built one, moving from Python and TypeScript to a 500KB Swift .saver.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Prompted Claude to build a Matrix style Screen Saver for MacOS","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1r0x01w/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1r0x01w","authors":[{"name":"OkTimeTraveller1337","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/OkTimeTraveller1337/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-02-10T10:14:11.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: cassmtnr.github.io","url":"https://cassmtnr.github.io/matrix-macos-screensaver/","kind":"Blog","note":"The project page."}],"ref":"1369d1a","image":{"url":"https://i.redd.it/amlkybgk6nig1.gif","alt":"Prompted Claude to build a Matrix style Screen Saver for MacOS","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1r0x01w/"},"about":"The poster wanted the Matrix falling-character effect as a macOS screen saver, but the best-known ones were outdated and no longer worked on recent macOS. Claude Code first built it in Python, then TypeScript, but both generated a video that Swift wrapped into a .saver file, which was over 80MB and restarted at the end of each loop.\n\nMoving everything to native Swift brought the screen saver down to 500KB. The poster still wants to add the original typeface, make the look more blurred and washed out, and improve the character randomisation.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-fungal-identification-database-for-clinical-se-336d","title":"A fungal identification database for clinical sequencing","topic":"Science & research","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A medical microbiologist with no coding background used Claude to rebuild a 400-organism ITS reference database for a fungal diagnosis pipeline.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: My application is ready to start validation, and I have not idea of coding or how the code works.","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1r2i7rk/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1r2i7rk","authors":[{"name":"chryseobacterium","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/chryseobacterium/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-02-12T03:05:31.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"336d762","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/wlzcyjkeczig1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=bcbd7d2a2d87998c6865dd1137bf3c65617f9e55","alt":"My application is ready to start validation, and I have not idea of coding or how the code works.","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1r2i7rk/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/r9l2iroeczig1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=f5a5859f614c4117743026e91f90d99edcf45123","alt":"My application is ready to start validation, and I have not idea of coding or how the code works.","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1r2i7rk/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/xy1vdwqeczig1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=26ee02db90fb8cc874ae8c3388f21cc3fa3a7c55","alt":"My application is ready to start validation, and I have not idea of coding or how the code works.","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1r2i7rk/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/2v0x7oteczig1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=66a33dd11240223fa0359e07a6a4f9ab1c1337b7","alt":"My application is ready to start validation, and I have not idea of coding or how the code works.","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1r2i7rk/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/pz717kweczig1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=d351d59cd6ac2af30eb0b0d714ae0e4673b66341","alt":"My application is ready to start validation, and I have not idea of coding or how the code works.","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1r2i7rk/"}],"about":"A medical microbiologist, unhappy with how third-party databases analyse sequencing data for fungal identification, set out to build their own genomic database and pipeline for clinical diagnosis without knowing how to code. ChatGPT gave hit-and-miss results, so they tried Claude through the web version, pasting its code into WSL on a laptop.\n\nWithin an hour Claude had redone the reference databases and pointed out flaws. It pulled reference ITS genes from NCBI using specific criteria, giving a database of 400 medically important fungi with five reference sequences each. The poster says the application is now ready to start validation.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"linedrawing3d-a-maze-and-puzzle-game-merged-by-c-e679","title":"LineDrawing3D, a maze and puzzle game merged by Claude Code","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code wrote a line-drawing puzzle game and a Doom-like maze in the Ring language with RayLib, then merged them into one game in about eight hours.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: LineDrawing3D game developed using Opus 4.6","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1r474ag/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1r474ag","authors":[{"name":"mrpro1a1","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/mrpro1a1/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-02-14T01:18:24.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The video: youtube.com","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viE_nxagfc0","kind":"Video","note":"Linked from the post."}],"ref":"e679fee","about":"The developer asked Claude Code for a puzzle game whose solutions are based on drawing lines, then for a Doom-like game, and then asked it to merge the two so the puzzles sit inside the maze. Finally it added collectible spheres and quotes.\n\nThe game is written in the Ring programming language with RayLib, took about eight hours, and the developer says the code is entirely prompt-generated. Their lesson: build components as separate, testable pieces and have Claude merge them.","projectLinks":[{"type":"video","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viE_nxagfc0","sourceUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viE_nxagfc0"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"tank3d-a-12-level-tank-game-in-ring-and-raylib-24d7","title":"Tank3D, a 12-level tank game in Ring and RayLib","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A 12-level 3D tank game whose code was entirely generated by Claude Code (Opus 4.6) using the Ring language and RayLib.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Tank3D game (12 levels) developed using Claude Code (Opus 4.6)","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1r29lk6/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1r29lk6","authors":[{"name":"mrpro1a1","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/mrpro1a1/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-02-11T21:05:09.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The video: youtube.com","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_lezz8Z8mU","kind":"Video","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"24d7103","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/ogpSdmj8iFaRKnTgYiZndi5vkxhsB3Uynl0IzbelDzo.jpeg?width=320&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=ee2189fbb0aacd639761584c11fb2c261143ec51","alt":"Tank3D game (12 levels) developed using Claude Code (Opus 4.6)","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1r29lk6/"},"about":"Tank3D is a 12-level game written in the Ring programming language with RayLib, and its developer says the code was 100% generated by Claude Code (Opus 4.6). They found that telling Claude they wanted a great, professional game encouraged it to revise and raise the quality, and that it could tidy the architecture at the end, though splitting the project into multiple files took a few minutes.","projectLinks":[{"type":"video","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_lezz8Z8mU","sourceUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_lezz8Z8mU"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"tetrasnake-a-mashup-of-tetris-and-snake-23f3","title":"Tetrasnake, a mashup of Tetris and Snake","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code built a browser game from its maker's mockups in which a snake grows into a Tetris piece that drops into place.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I used Claude Code to made a mashup of Tetris & Snake: TETRASNAKE","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ri8iuc/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1ri8iuc","authors":[{"name":"nair-jordan","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/nair-jordan/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-03-01T20:44:17.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: tetrasnake.com","url":"https://tetrasnake.com","kind":"Blog","note":"The game."}],"ref":"23f3a58","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/Jsd4ddyXT0bLJHjXKx-aV_p2WaRRVzO9H6jig6m2PrY.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=a8848e6b313c5da289e36106af89a962cb01daba","alt":"I used Claude Code to made a mashup of Tetris & Snake: TETRASNAKE","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ri8iuc/"},"about":"Tetrasnake is an idea its maker had been carrying around for years: you start as a three-segment snake, and eating an apple makes you a four-segment piece that drops into place like a Tetris block as soon as you form a shape. They describe it as super hard but fun.\n\nClaude Code built it in plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript, using Opus planning mode for a build plan and Sonnet for most of the tweaks. Dropping PNG mockups into the terminal got the look about 95% of the way there.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"alien-pinball-a-full-physics-browser-pinball-gam-9d9f","title":"Alien Pinball, a full physics browser pinball game","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A browser pinball game with Box2D table parts, a boss mode and an in-game table editor, with Claude Code writing the game logic.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Alien Pinball Postmortem - How I made a full physics pinball game with Claude","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1t6kz9m/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1t6kz9m","authors":[{"name":"Slackluster","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Slackluster/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-05-07T19:35:50.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: focaccai.itch.io","url":"https://focaccai.itch.io/alien-pinball","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"9d9f6e2","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/OTBqbHJsNmVwcnpnMdF2mvFqfjEKnjLxdpyojJ76wz-Y3UATvOLRwY7R-90N.png?width=960&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=421fe9dbab17ef87c51372c9821ab4dc81a47cdb","alt":"Video still: Alien Pinball Postmortem - How I made a full physics pinball game with Claude","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1t6kz9m/"},"about":"Alien Pinball is a full physics pinball game for the browser, with multiball, skill shots, combos and a centipede boss fought while juggling three balls. Claude, using Claude Code with the Opus model, wrote all the game logic and the custom Box2D table parts such as slingshots, drop targets, spinners and ramps, plus an in-game table editor for placing and tuning parts.\n\nThe maker described it as co-developed rather than generated, talking to the code by speech-to-text and editing by hand. ChatGPT made the art and Suno the music, with Claude writing the prompts for both, and every sound is generated in code with ZzFX.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-reproducible-i3-desktop-on-arch-linux-built-wi-9af0","title":"A reproducible i3 desktop on Arch Linux built with Claude Code","topic":"Operating systems","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"An Arch Linux i3 setup built with Claude Code's help, written up with screenshots and a repo with an install script.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Ricing and Claude Code","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1tv4k39/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1tv4k39","authors":[{"name":"andre_ange_marcel","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/andre_ange_marcel/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-06-02T21:19:55.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: morice.live","url":"https://morice.live/posts/ricing-arch-linux-with-claude-code/","kind":"Blog","note":"The maker's write-up."}],"ref":"9af0950","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/LUuAUj3pQeNYsf5IDcVBycJeux5CGCBn1gx7hXwdXf8.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=67521434111ccd6cc1b52df19f1ec3b08418b031","alt":"Ricing and Claude Code","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1tv4k39/"},"about":"The maker used Claude Code to customise Arch Linux with the i3 window manager, something they had always found a pain to get reliable. They say the result is dependable, feature-rich and flexible enough for their own workflows, and that it taught them more about Linux along the way.\n\nThey wrote up the process with screenshots and published a reproducible repository with an install script and instructions.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-dads-lost-early-2000s-puzzle-game-rebuilt-for-93d1","title":"A dad's lost early-2000s puzzle game rebuilt for the web","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"X-Squares, a puzzle game whose original files were lost, rebuilt from memory as a web game with Claude Code, which also built a puzzle-maker mode.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I used Claude to rebuild my dad's lost game and port it to Reddit, getting over 350 players on day o","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1twzw42/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1twzw42","authors":[{"name":"Fringe313","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Fringe313/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-06-04T20:41:25.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"93d19c6","image":{"url":"https://i.redd.it/4b620ytksb5h1.gif","alt":"I used Claude to rebuild my dad's lost game and port it to Reddit, getting over 350 players on day one!","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1twzw42/"},"about":"X-Squares is a puzzle game from the early 2000s designed by the poster's dad. The original game file had been lost, so they rebuilt it from scratch as a modern web game with Claude Code, with daily, treasure hunt and puzzle modes, and put it on Reddit, where it had over 350 players on its first day.\n\nClaude was \"horrible at designing puzzles\", producing either impossible ones or trivial ones, because the number of possible tile states is so large. 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Claude was the maker's main collaborator over several months and handled the bulk of the code, including a custom USB wire protocol kept in step across Rust, C and Python.\n\nClaude was good at chasing subtle firmware bugs such as a TinyUSB hardware quirk and race conditions, but sometimes brought in USB patterns that are wrong on the RP2040, and the growing code needed manual refactoring. 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VoiceMeeter did far more than needed, while OBS, EqualizerAPO and Elgato Wave Link all kept losing the mic signal after reboots or Windows updates.\n\nSo they used Claude Code to build MicVST, a small Windows tray app that takes the mic input, runs it through VST plugins and sends it out through the free VB-Cable so any app can use it as a mic. 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The first version runs on an ESP8266 D1 Mini with an SH1106 OLED and a piezo buzzer, showing a boot screen, scanning, alerts and a list of detected cameras.\n\nThe second runs on an ESP32 Cheap Yellow Display board with a better interface and no buzzer. 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Kios does that, and also supports kosync and OPDS with progress sync.\n\nAn experienced developer but new to iOS, they leaned heavily on Claude Code with Opus 4.8, and even had Claude write them a \"book\" on how iOS development works so they could review the code rather than just accept it. 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It is offline-first, free and needs no account.\n\nClaude helped with the matching algorithm, the TypeScript and the wording. The word mode uses a hand-curated lookup of 693 entries built with Claude, a text-matching layer that also handles Te Reo, and finally a fine-tuned sentence transformer running in the browser. The maker notes Claude \"got a bit sassy\" when asked to help train a competing model, but they got there.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"macside-a-mouse-side-button-remapper-for-apple-s-2c63","title":"MacSide, a mouse side-button remapper for Apple Silicon Macs","topic":"Printers & peripherals","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A macOS app for remapping mouse side buttons, built with Claude because the only existing tool was years old and worked badly on Apple Silicon.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: MacSide - Remap your mouse buttons","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1tz988s/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1tz988s","gone":"deleted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/Tommy-Guo/MacSide","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"Tommy-Guo","url":"https://github.com/Tommy-Guo","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"2c636fb","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/WaazCEtsxvW_W0FmmfTUUw25dYW273zFdDhHIxMrsoE.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=07eb14a13cf9d2d9b7fc23323e1d53265466ec34","alt":"MacSide - Remap your mouse buttons","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1tz988s/"},"about":"After buying a new mouse, the maker wanted a simple way to remap its side buttons on a Mac. The only tool they could find had last been updated around eight years ago and did not work well on Apple Silicon, so they used Claude to help build their own, MacSide.\n\nIt includes an option to keep the app hidden from the menu bar while it runs in the background. 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The parts were a Raspberry Pi 5 with an AI HAT, a pan-tilt HAT, a camera, servo motors and a water gun; they wrote no code themselves.\n\nTheir method was to iterate a lot on the spec, have Claude save its notes while waiting for parts, and install Claude Code on the Pi itself so it could reach the camera and motors directly, which worked better than over SSH. 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The engine was compiled to WebAssembly and WebGL2 running off the main thread, textures were converted to GPU-compressed formats, audio re-encoded, and assets streamed on demand.\n\nMultiplayer runs browser to browser over WebRTC, with a small signalling layer only for setting up the connection. 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Ghidra did a first pass of decompilation, then Claude Code with Fable worked through it alongside Ghidra, and the game was rewritten in TypeScript.\n\nThe gameplay stays true to the original, with added extras: a scrolling fluid simulation for the playfield, a new FM synthesis audio engine and improved projectile and collision effects.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"street-sweeping-text-alerts-from-a-teslas-locati-46e3","title":"Street-sweeping text alerts from a Tesla's location","topic":"Vehicles & drones","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Automating with Claude","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A nightly job checks a Tesla's location against San Francisco's street-sweeping data and texts a warning, built with Claude.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Avoiding tickets in San Francisco","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1u8jv0j/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1u8jv0j","authors":[{"name":"smokingthesemeats41","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/smokingthesemeats41/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-06-17T19:22:54.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: streetsweepalerts.com","url":"https://streetsweepalerts.com/","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"46e3e09","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/LdMH6XrP-AFg96DcvXYa45dekqg1XvGkdRcAea9lzBg.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=19c90586eca9d5ad1f1ec80f121f7c18f3261c09","alt":"Avoiding tickets in San Francisco","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1u8jv0j/"},"about":"Tired of $100 street-sweeping tickets in San Francisco, the maker used Claude to connect their Tesla's location with the city's published street-sweeping data. A nightly job checks where the car is parked, looks up that block's schedule and sends a text the evening before if sweeping is due.\n\nIt runs on Vercel, Supabase, Twilio and the Tesla Fleet API. Claude prototyped many interface ideas and audited the stack so the car's location is not stored and the Tesla token is encrypted.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"hex-tower-boogie-a-tower-defence-game-with-ammo-40c8","title":"Hex Tower Boogie, a tower defence game with ammo factories","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A Godot tower defence game where conveyor-fed factories make ammo, built over about 1,000 hours of evenings with Claude Code by a non-programmer.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Always wanted to build a tower defense. ~1000 hours later, with Claude, here it is.","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1u97xtc/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1u97xtc","authors":[{"name":"Designer-Rain6712","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Designer-Rain6712/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-06-18T14:33:17.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: reffn.itch.io","url":"https://reffn.itch.io/hex-tower-boogie","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"40c84f0","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/eHRkZWhyc251MThoMW1n3G4Xab4jYwz6lPKcLX6GVcvx2XZZ_5Pr864gwF3_.png?width=960&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=54aa6077dbd3859c00bfce2af23df6e4e10abf3f","alt":"Video still: Always wanted to build a tower defense. ~1000 hours later, with Claude, here it is.","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1u97xtc/"},"about":"Hex Tower Boogie is a tower defence game where towers need ammunition from factories, fed by conveyor belts, splitters and grabbers. The maker, who says they are not really a programmer, built it over about 1,000 hours of evenings with Claude Code in Godot 4.\n\nClaude wrote most of it, including the planet shaders and pathfinding, while the maker steered. 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The textures are drawn in code, all sound is synthesised with WebAudio, and the monster uses pathfinding and freezes when you look at it.\n\nThe surprising bugs were browser-level ones. Sneaking on Ctrl meant Ctrl+W closed the tab, key-repeat kept toggling sneak on and off so the monster heard footsteps, and Chromium silently refuses pointer lock for a moment after it is released.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-nurburgring-browser-driving-game-with-custom-p-afca","title":"A Nürburgring browser driving game with custom physics","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A first-person Nürburgring driving game in the browser, with physics worked back from real car figures, mostly written by Claude Fable 5.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I made a web-based Nürburgring driving game with Fable 5 — custom physics + synthesized engine sound","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1u8c5qb/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1u8c5qb","authors":[{"name":"Euphoric-Guava-5961","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Euphoric-Guava-5961/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-06-17T14:43:53.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: drive-game.pages.dev","url":"http://drive-game.pages.dev","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"afca480","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/aW5qbTY3M3J1dTdoMW5gW99rlrjkPpZFzsjDnjeKe93ncw0IRy-AF3NavbJv.png?width=960&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=958f1f5fcf77cb06df426164ad3616b1c6771cf0","alt":"Video still: I made a web-based Nürburgring driving game with Fable 5 — custom physics + synthesized engine sound","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1u8c5qb/"},"about":"The maker wanted a quick drive with real racing feel, so they made a first-person Nürburgring driving game for the browser that leans towards simulation. Claude Fable 5 wrote most of the code, starting with a plan for track data, physics, rendering and controls that the maker reviewed before any code was written.\n\nAfter that it was short steers such as \"steering feels reversed\", with Claude checking each fix with a headless test. For the physics the maker gave it each car's real 0-100 time and top speed and had it work backwards from the equations.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"an-interactive-riemann-hypothesis-explainer-with-a8b8","title":"An interactive Riemann Hypothesis explainer with a zeta-zero score","topic":"Science & research","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"An interactive site explaining the Riemann Hypothesis plus a video scored with notes from zeta function zeros, built by Claude Code in two prompts.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I asked Fable 5 in Claude Code to explain the Riemann Hypothesis to anyone. 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Claude chose a video framework, reused the site's design and, unprompted, composed the soundtrack so that every note is one of the zeta function's non-trivial zeros, then wrote and voiced the narration.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"ocr-buddy-an-on-device-ocr-chrome-extension-1397","title":"OCR Buddy, an on-device OCR Chrome extension","topic":"On-device AI","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A Chrome extension that reads text, formulas and tables from screen regions with bundled local models, built with Claude's help on ONNX.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I built a Chrome extension that does OCR 100% on-device — code, formulas and tables, nothing leaves ","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1u5uimx/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1u5uimx","authors":[{"name":"Ok_Insurance_919","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Ok_Insurance_919/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-06-14T19:36:58.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: ocr-buddy.com","url":"https://www.ocr-buddy.com/","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"1397576","image":{"url":"https://ocr-buddy.com/assets/og-image.png","alt":"OCR Buddy — grab text from anything on screen. 100% on-device, never invents text, free & open source.","credit":"ocr-buddy.com","from":"https://www.ocr-buddy.com/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://www.ocr-buddy.com/assets/crop-sample.png","alt":"Captured screen region showing a paragraph of prose about a streaming pipeline","credit":"ocr-buddy.com","from":"https://www.ocr-buddy.com/"}],"about":"The maker kept needing to grab text from screenshots, paused videos and PDFs, but every tool either uploaded the image to a server or used a big AI model that invented text. So they built OCR Buddy, a Chrome extension that reads a dragged-out screen region entirely on the device, with modes for plain text or code, formulas to LaTeX and tables to Markdown.\n\nClaude helped them understand how ONNX models work and how to embed them locally, running on WebGPU with a WebAssembly fallback. It deliberately uses classic detection and recognition rather than a generative model, so unclear images come back blank or low-confidence instead of made up. 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They extended the PDF standard by adding metadata marking where each file ends and the next begins, so several PDFs can live in one backwards-compatible PDF, called .pdfx or kept as a regular PDF with metadata.\n\nThey say Claude did 80% of the project in two hours. The open-source app uses Electron, and the maker admits it still has some rough edges.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/AlexandrosGounis/pdfx","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/AlexandrosGounis/pdfx"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"echomux-multi-room-bluetooth-audio-from-two-rasp-bc03","title":"echo•mux: multi-room Bluetooth audio from two Raspberry Pis","topic":"Music & audio","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Repurposing to a new role","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A self-hosted hub that streams to mixed-brand Bluetooth speakers at once with per-speaker latency alignment, built with Claude over two weeks.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: echo•mux: a self-hosted multi-room Bluetooth audio streamer with per-speaker latency alignment and S","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ugi8mc/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1ugi8mc","authors":[{"name":"Purple_Hornet_9725","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Purple_Hornet_9725/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-06-26T20:35:04.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"bc03082","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/ln64macoto9h1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=4663555e6a84abdcadd04402c917a2d7d72ad79e","alt":"echo•mux: a self-hosted multi-room Bluetooth audio streamer with per-speaker latency alignment and Spotify Connect support","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ugi8mc/"},"about":"The maker owned a mix of premium and budget Bluetooth speakers from different brands and wanted to stream to all of them at once rather than buy a Wi-Fi system. They realised the real problem was the different latency of each speaker, and over two weeks of spare time built echo•mux with Claude, which they say let them follow test-driven development for once.\n\nIt turns their two Raspberry Pis into a multi-room Bluetooth hub controlled from a mobile-first web UI, with per-speaker latency alignment and Spotify Connect support, plus cheap extra Bluetooth antennas to reach the garden. Getting it reliable was \"hell\": a bug in the current repository version of BlueZ made streaming to several devices impossible, and audio sync and the UI were hard too. They say it now works perfectly for their needs.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-petri-net-editor-rebuilt-after-a-classs-online-17e9","title":"A Petri net editor rebuilt after a class's online tool went down","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"When the free online Petri net editor used in a university course stopped working a week before a deadline, a student rebuilt it with Claude and loaded the group's file.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Online PetrNet editor I've been using for my university classes stopped working, so I made my own wi","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ui4011/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1ui4011","gone":"deleted"},{"name":"The project: petrinet.anikiej.com","url":"https://petrinet.anikiej.com","kind":"Blog","note":"The editor."}],"ref":"17e99a3","image":{"url":"https://petrinet.anikiej.com/apple-touch-icon.png","alt":"Preview image from petrinet.anikiej.com","credit":"petrinet.anikiej.com","from":"https://petrinet.anikiej.com"},"about":"An engineering student's class used a free online editor to build Petri nets, and a week before the group's final project was due the website stopped working. They had their finished net saved as a .npn file but no way to check it. The student, an experienced software engineer, built a replacement with Claude that mimics the original site as closely as possible, trying out the /grill-me and /handoff skills from a Matt Pocock talk along the way.\n\nThey loaded the .npn file, made minor improvements to the net and handed in the assignment the next day. The original site was still down, so they shared the tool with classmates. It is open source under the MIT licence.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-135m-looped-language-model-trained-from-scratc-c098","title":"A 135M looped language model trained from scratch to test a paper","topic":"Science & research","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A looped transformer trained on FineWeb to reproduce the Parcae paper, with Claude debugging the implementations and writing the training infrastructure.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I used Claude to build a 135M looped LLM from scratch — it debugged Parcae paper implementations, ca","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1uiqe3o/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1uiqe3o","authors":[{"name":"Hariharanms","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Hariharanms/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-06-29T11:55:33.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: huggingface.co","url":"http://huggingface.co/harims95/LoopLM-135M-naive","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"c0984d2","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/6SfH8l37boHR9tzyq4QxRdz5K3WMJ6XhV0iza1P3BwQ.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=0ae281845d251d3efb585482c960b00fe81028ea","alt":"I used Claude to build a 135M looped LLM from scratch — it debugged Parcae paper implementations, caught optimizer routing bugs, wrote Modal training infra, and","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1uiqe3o/"},"about":"The maker built a 135-million-parameter looped transformer from scratch, trained on 4.6 billion tokens of FineWeb and inspired by the Parcae paper on stable looped language models. Claude helped debug the Parcae implementations, caught optimiser routing bugs, wrote the training infrastructure on Modal and helped publish the models to Hugging Face. Training ran on two H100s for about three hours, and the whole project cost about $51.\n\nThe maker spent two weeks trying to reproduce the paper's stability mechanisms across five ablations, and none of them beat the naive baseline at this scale. They trained and fine-tuned the model anyway and released both the base and fine-tuned versions with the code.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"beatmarker-a-premiere-pro-plugin-that-marks-ever-6160","title":"BeatMarker: a Premiere Pro plugin that marks every beat","topic":"Music & audio","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A free Premiere Pro plugin that detects a clip's tempo and drops coloured markers on each beat, built with Claude Code by a music video editor who doesn't code.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I used Claude to fix a big frustration with Adobe Premiere Pro","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ujbt9f/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1ujbt9f","authors":[{"name":"samaBR_85","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/samaBR_85/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-06-30T01:53:16.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: samabr85.github.io","url":"https://samabr85.github.io/BeatMarker-PremierePlugin/","kind":"Blog","note":"The project page."}],"ref":"61602e3","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/cnA4d3RxdXNwYmFoMQc_RTx0OiO_jxFowntiGmbD4RPjG214lsiBTM1Ps-85.png?width=960&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bff3719d394336073bc30b0e863ac92c27eb60f3","alt":"Video still: I used Claude to fix a big frustration with Adobe Premiere Pro","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ujbt9f/"},"about":"A music video editor who used to tap out beats by hand to set markers in Premiere Pro wanted something like DaVinci's beat detector. Although not a developer, they built a plugin with Claude Code called BeatMarker. You pick a WAV or MP3 clip and hit Analyze, and it finds the BPM and drops coloured markers on every beat: red on the downbeat, blue on the backbeats and yellow on beat three.\n\nIt is a UXP plugin for Windows and macOS that runs in Premiere 2025 and 2026, and it is free and open source. For now it only handles 4/4 time at a steady tempo. Claude also made the download site.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"pokemon-firered-translated-into-finnish-with-cla-dca4","title":"Pokémon FireRed translated into Finnish with Claude agents","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A full Finnish translation of Pokémon FireRed, done with Sonnet translating and Opus reviewing, with a Terraria translation under way the same way.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Agents are great for full-game translations","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vd7w6z/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1vd7w6z","authors":[{"name":"Koppis","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Koppis/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-02T04:10:35.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: romhacking.net","url":"https://www.romhacking.net/translations/7665/","kind":"Blog","note":"The translation on romhacking.net."}],"ref":"dca4687","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/h4c0pwlpzvgh1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=bbfb0aca7f44682fcdb814a6bf72c0741b99eab9","alt":"Agents are great for full-game translations","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vd7w6z/"},"about":"The maker used Claude agents to translate Pokémon FireRed into Finnish and published it on romhacking.net, and a Terraria translation is in progress. Sonnet does the translation and Opus reviews it, since a review produces very few output tokens.\n\nThe maker says the agents can look around the game for context, build a glossary and keep a progress file the maker can watch.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-javascript-to-webassembly-compiler-with-measur-b6f3","title":"A JavaScript-to-WebAssembly compiler with measured speedups","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"After another model said it wasn't feasible, Claude wrote a compiler turning JavaScript kernels into WebAssembly, benchmarked at up to 14.5 times faster.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Other LLMs said it was not feasible, Claude proved them wrong by writing a compiler in a 1-shot","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vedc5m/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1vedc5m","authors":[{"name":"fuzzie360","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/fuzzie360/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-03T13:23:48.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: gpu.rocks","url":"https://gpu.rocks/benchmark","kind":"Blog","note":"The live benchmark."}],"ref":"b6f3115","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/vgZ7gnFDrKqxjcuY3dmNTdaVVr8m__qiLiaknCxR1Tw.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=82f026843f3870e453401cdcacd199d7c37f0c06","alt":"Other LLMs said it was not feasible, Claude proved them wrong by writing a compiler in a 1-shot","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vedc5m/"},"about":"Another LLM told the maker that translating JavaScript line by line into WebAssembly for a speed-up was generally not feasible. Annoyed, they asked Claude to write a compiler that does exactly that for kernel-style functions.\n\nThe maker's own results show a progressive path trace dropping from 1,375 ms in hand-written JavaScript to 95 ms (14.5 times faster), with roughly four to four and a half times speed-ups on Sobel edge detection, Monte Carlo, an RK4 solver and the Game of Life. A live benchmark lets people run it on their own devices.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"pyre-a-macos-system-monitor-that-works-around-th-14ad","title":"pyre: a macOS system monitor that works around the sudo wall","topic":"Operating systems","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A terminal system monitor for Apple Silicon Macs, where Claude helped decode raw ioreg and powermetrics output to give a no-permission base tier.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: The sudo wall: building a Mac monitor with Claude","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1veh3zg/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1veh3zg","authors":[{"name":"OverflowArchitect","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/OverflowArchitect/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-03T15:45:12.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"14ad6a4","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/mg7rvby8k6hh1.jpeg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=22a227d2f3d5993076711ebc4a537da2f8b983e0","alt":"The sudo wall: building a Mac monitor with Claude","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1veh3zg/"},"about":"pyre is a terminal system monitor for macOS covering CPU, GPU, memory, battery and temperatures, built almost entirely with Claude. The hard part was macOS itself: Apple has no public API for CPU and GPU power draw or detailed thermals on Apple Silicon, the tool with the best numbers, powermetrics, needs root, and ioreg gives only some of the data in a different shape.\n\nThe maker pasted raw ioreg and powermetrics output into Claude and asked what each field meant and whether it could be had without sudo. That showed which values overlapped, so pyre has a base tier that needs no permissions and a --detailed flag that asks for sudo explicitly. Claude also suggested caching sensor reads so users aren't asked to re-authenticate every few seconds.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"bongochat-a-deliberately-dumb-chatbot-trained-on-e5e2","title":"Bongochat: a deliberately dumb chatbot trained on an RTX 5070","topic":"On-device AI","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A tongue-in-cheek language model trained from scratch with Karpathy's nanochat on a home GPU in about three hours, with Claude Code running the training.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Introducing the New Frontier of the GPQA-Dumb","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vf3fqu/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1vf3fqu","authors":[{"name":"TheOnlyVibemaster","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/TheOnlyVibemaster/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-04T07:31:23.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/ninjahawk/bongochat","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"ninjahawk","url":"https://github.com/ninjahawk","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"e5e2231","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/dhaqrkmj9bhh1.jpeg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=0edb2b662d1cc144dda7bbf1223f9e1ac8094902","alt":"Introducing the New Frontier of the GPQA-Dumb","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vf3fqu/"},"about":"The maker used Claude Code to train a model from scratch with Karpathy's nanochat, locally on an RTX 5070, in about three hours, and released the weights on GitHub as Bongochat.\n\nThe results are played for laughs. Asked to solve the unified field theory, it repeats the word \"theory\" 50 times. On Math-500 it left almost every answer blank, it scored 0 out of 500 on coding, and it suggested graduate-level calculus for a simple addition problem, then forgot it had done so.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/ninjahawk/bongochat","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/ninjahawk/bongochat"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"an-uplink-inspired-hacking-game-c429","title":"An Uplink-inspired hacking game","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A browser hacking game in the spirit of Uplink, with nine tiers of random missions, a storyline and side factions, built over a few weeks with Claude.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Uplink inspired \"hacking\" game","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vg6d9l/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1vg6d9l","gone":"deleted"},{"name":"The project: tranquil-web.com","url":"https://www.tranquil-web.com/blackwire","kind":"Blog","note":"The game."}],"ref":"c429ab2","image":{"url":"https://www.tranquil-web.com/blackwire/header_capsule_920x430.png","alt":"Blackwire","credit":"tranquil-web.com","from":"https://www.tranquil-web.com/blackwire"},"about":"A long-time fan of the hacking game Uplink had always wanted to play more games like it but never felt a good enough programmer to make one. Over a few weeks they built their own take on it with Claude.\n\nThe game has nine tiers of randomised missions, a main storyline and a couple of side factions with handcrafted missions. It is free to play in the browser.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"go-touch-grass-a-tower-defence-game-you-power-by-9e37","title":"Go Touch Grass: a tower defence game you power by walking","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"An Android idle RPG where real steps earn loot to defend a base against the \"Couch Army\", built session by session with Claude Code.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I built \"Go Touch Grass\", a tower defense game that's supposed to make gamers go outside","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vh4ftm/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1vh4ftm","authors":[{"name":"UsedToKnife","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/UsedToKnife/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-06T13:35:01.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"9e37ada","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/MHUwY2Z1cjhicmhoMVQXTdZd3ySEvXLhqWFPNYSDr1HlcLJqyE9H6g9j490N.png?width=960&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=792748b63466180b96eccdf7a36267ceefcc4e2d","alt":"Video still: I built \"Go Touch Grass\", a tower defense game that's supposed to make gamers go outside","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vh4ftm/"},"about":"Go Touch Grass is an Android idle RPG built around one joke: the only way to earn anything is to walk. Steps turn into loot, XP and skill points, which you spend on an isometric base and then defend in real-time tower defence raids against the \"Couch Army\". It was built almost entirely with Claude Code over 74 sessions and is now live.\n\nThe maker kept all game content in config files, kept a BUILD-STATUS.md updated after every session so a fresh session could pick up where the last left off, and made the raid engine testable headless. Claude Code helped chase down harder bugs, such as stride length needing to scale with step cadence (a flat stride undercounted runs by 30 to 40 percent) and syncing the phone's step history without double counting.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-rough-gta-style-3d-game-prototype-built-by-age-8c37","title":"A rough GTA-style 3D game prototype built by agent loops","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"An experiment using agent loops in Claude Code to build a GTA 6-style browser game, which failed at first and reached a rough prototype after 22 hours and 86 agents.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: GTA 6 first attempt. 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Far from perfect, but it's impressive what the right harness and agentic loops can build.","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ve7u9r/"},"about":"After building a Worms Armageddon demo from a single prompt with Matt Shumer's Gauntlet Loop, the maker tried something far more ambitious: a GTA 6-style game. The first attempt failed badly and got stuck after producing little more than a basic 3D world. More loops and workflows turned it into the very rough prototype shown in the post, after 22 hours and 86 agents.\n\nThe maker found that Claude Code cannot watch gameplay video, so it extracts frames and reasons over them, which helps somewhat. Exporting structured JSON describing the game state worked far better. They plan to keep going and may move from Three.js to Babylon.js.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"wrecking-ball-a-unity-physics-destruction-game-6640","title":"Wrecking Ball: a Unity physics destruction game","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A free physics destruction game made solo in Unity over two and a half months, with Claude Sonnet writing most of the C# code.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I built a free physics destruction game solo in 2.5 months using Claude Sonnet","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1uiw3fi/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1uiw3fi","authors":[{"name":"PikaDERPed","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/PikaDERPed/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-06-29T15:42:47.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: gustadot.itch.io","url":"https://gustadot.itch.io/wrecking-ball","kind":"Blog","note":"The game on itch.io."}],"ref":"66404f5","image":{"url":"https://img.itch.zone/aW1nLzI4MTY1NjI5LnBuZw==/original/OxzBRA.png","alt":"Preview image from gustadot.itch.io","credit":"gustadot.itch.io","from":"https://gustadot.itch.io/wrecking-ball"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://img.itch.zone/aW1hZ2UvNDcyNTI5MC8yODE2NTk5Ny5wbmc=/794x1000/JvmWSa.png","alt":"Image from gustadot.itch.io","credit":"gustadot.itch.io","from":"https://gustadot.itch.io/wrecking-ball"},{"url":"https://img.itch.zone/aW1hZ2UvNDcyNTI5MC8yODE2NjA2Ny5wbmc=/794x1000/dDiL%2BC.png","alt":"Image from gustadot.itch.io","credit":"gustadot.itch.io","from":"https://gustadot.itch.io/wrecking-ball"},{"url":"https://img.itch.zone/aW1hZ2UvNDcyNTI5MC8yODE2NjExNy5wbmc=/794x1000/u685Hd.png","alt":"Image from gustadot.itch.io","credit":"gustadot.itch.io","from":"https://gustadot.itch.io/wrecking-ball"},{"url":"https://img.itch.zone/aW1hZ2UvNDcyNTI5MC8yODE2NjA5My5wbmc=/794x1000/gFQovO.png","alt":"Image from gustadot.itch.io","credit":"gustadot.itch.io","from":"https://gustadot.itch.io/wrecking-ball"}],"about":"Wrecking Ball is a free physics destruction game made solo over two and a half months in Unity. Claude Sonnet wrote most of the C# code, including the ball physics, the destruction system, a skill tree, combo chains, game modes and the HUD.\n\nThe maker described each problem or feature, Claude produced the script, and the maker integrated and tested it in Unity. Claude also helped debug edge cases and explained Unity systems the maker didn't know. It is playable on the web and as a download from itch.io and Unity Play.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"an-ad-free-breathing-guide-for-long-covid-physio-498e","title":"An ad-free breathing guide for Long COVID physiotherapy","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Someone with post-COVID dysautonomia, who can't code, had Claude make a 4:6 breathing follow-along because the online guides kept showing ads mid-session.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I used Claude to make a follow-along for my Long COVID breathing exercises","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1uffxns/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1uffxns","gone":"deleted"}],"ref":"498e1ce","about":"After being diagnosed with post-COVID dysautonomia, the maker was told to do 4:6 breathing exercises as part of their physiotherapy. The guide videos they found online all had ads interrupting the session, so they asked Claude to make their own follow-along.\n\nThey can't code but are good at describing what they want, and say the result is \"fantastic\".","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"communopoly-a-youtube-channels-monopoly-variant-0296","title":"Communopoly: a YouTube channel's Monopoly variant made playable online","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A web version of NoRollsBarred's Stalin-themed Monopoly variant for friends abroad, written entirely by Claude Code split across 21 single-agent sub-projects.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Communopoly","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vgkosy/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1vgkosy","authors":[{"name":"WZunix","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/WZunix/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-05T21:31:21.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"0296baa","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/qhvmu4cbkmhh1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=cae7de70c49243abbd367404ac52b8e2a14d6d36","alt":"Communopoly","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vgkosy/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/xtppzwfbkmhh1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=8659e164a5c68c79fe63a1af9842006654149426","alt":"Communopoly","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vgkosy/"}],"about":"The maker is a fan of the UK board game channel NoRollsBarred and its Communopoly, a Stalin-era twist on Monopoly with harsh, state-sided rules. With friends scattered around the world, they wanted a way to play it online.\n\nThe project was built entirely with Claude Code as a test of running work through several agents. Given only a Reddit post with the altered rules and the task of making a Monopoly clone, Claude chose a web framework and split the project into 21 sub-projects, each small enough for one agent in one session, dividing anything too large again.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-real-iphone-controlled-from-windows-over-usb-n-7a4a","title":"A real iPhone controlled from Windows over USB, no Mac needed","topic":"Repurposed hardware","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"sidetap lets Claude Code see and drive an iPhone from a Windows PC over USB, after the maker worked around an unsigned test runner left by Sideloadly.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I gave Claude Code my iPhone as a set of native MCP tools","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vjnb9d/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1vjnb9d","authors":[{"name":"SIGH_I_CALL","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/SIGH_I_CALL/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-09T11:18:54.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"7a4a606","image":{"url":"https://i.redd.it/zeaj7ggs2cih1.gif","alt":"I gave Claude Code my iPhone as a set of native MCP tools","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vjnb9d/"},"about":"sidetap is a Python harness that lets Claude Code, or a person in a browser, see and control a real iPhone from a Windows PC over USB, with no Mac, no jailbreak and no paid Apple developer account. Claude Code can tap buttons by reading the phone's actual interface tree rather than using OCR, and send texts, with guardrails that refuse if the contact match looks ambiguous. There is also a live viewer at about 34 fps and a big red STOP button.\n\nThe part that almost killed the project: WebDriverAgent, sideloaded with a free Apple ID, installed but never started. The maker found that Sideloadly signs the outer app but leaves the nested .xctest runner unsigned, so iOS silently refuses to load it. The fix grabs the provisioning profile Sideloadly creates, which sits in a temp folder for a few hundred milliseconds, and re-signs everything locally with go-ios.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-38-usb-lcd-table-display-made-to-work-with-a-m-2bfc","title":"A $38 USB LCD table display made to work with a Mac","topic":"Printers & peripherals","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A cheap LCD display listed as not Mac-compatible got new software, posted as built with Claude, that cycles through Claude Code, DaVinci Resolve and calendar screens.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: $38 Claude LCD Table Display","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vk88m5/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1vk88m5","authors":[{"name":"LawlessNPC","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/LawlessNPC/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-10T02:16:03.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: a.co","url":"https://a.co/d/069KzWif","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"2bfcb47","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/aoq4i9arigih1.jpeg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=57da45cee817ff17d9ae2096a28a084e70e0e4f7","alt":"$38 Claude LCD Table Display","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vk88m5/"},"about":"The maker spotted a $38 LCD display on Amazon that said it wasn't compatible with Macs. They connected it over USB anyway and created new software for it, shared as a Built with Claude project, which cycles the screen through Claude Code, DaVinci Resolve and calendar views. They describe it as a fun, quick weekend project.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"phonecap-a-tool-that-logs-what-android-apps-send-8d9e","title":"PhoneCap, a tool that logs what Android apps send and receive","topic":"App teardowns & analysis","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Built with Claude Code, PhoneCap starts a rootable Android emulator, routes its traffic through mitmproxy and logs every URL an app requests.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: PhoneCap - find out what data a mobile app is sending/receiving from remote servers","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vkdwag/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1vkdwag","authors":[{"name":"chinanyc","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/chinanyc/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-10T07:19:49.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"8d9e4e0","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/wlu1e2NDemQlKS91qWzvN-WLDGNHCX8LHujr3ViLLQI.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=550928b79a53359535260aa50626cb376bdc4a1d","alt":"PhoneCap - find out what data a mobile app is sending/receiving from remote servers","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vkdwag/"},"about":"PhoneCap is a command-line tool built with Claude Code for seeing what a mobile app is actually contacting: image servers, ad and tracking endpoints, API hosts. It boots an Android emulator with a writable system image, installs mitmproxy's certificate system-wide so HTTPS traffic can be inspected, and logs every request to text and JSON files plus a self-contained HTML report. For apps that pin their certificates, a bundled Frida script switches pinning off.\n\nIt runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, with the platform-specific parts kept in one file, and a 'doctor' command checks the setup first. The maker built it to avoid hand-rolling the proxy, emulator and pinning bypass every time.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-3d-moon-rover-survey-game-in-plain-webgl2-f126","title":"A 3D moon rover survey game in plain WebGL2","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code","Codex"],"methods":["Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code (Opus 5) built a browser moon rover game whose physics, terrain, textures and sound are all generated by code, refined over many rounds of fixes.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I created a 3D moon rover survey game with Opus 5.","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vmi9x3/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1vmi9x3","authors":[{"name":"oxmannnn","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/oxmannnn/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-12T16:02:12.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"Reddit: I created a 3D lunar rover survey game with Opus 5.","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vlw3r1/","kind":"Forum","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1vlw3r1","authors":[{"name":"oxmannnn","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/oxmannnn/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-11T22:26:51.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"f126b6e","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/aDdlbnJmOXRxeWloMYA7nHnJtR-LG54eztiR7iJ8knnBIRn1R79W9bGNqp0Q.png?width=960&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c3b42620c44e2375de855ed738497a1d49638b92","alt":"Video still: I created a 3D moon rover survey game with Opus 5.","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vmi9x3/"},"about":"This is a 3D moon rover survey game made with Claude Code using Opus 5: about 6,300 lines of JavaScript, a copy of three.js, no game engine and no build step. The ground keeps every rut the wheels cut, because the wheels and the shader read the same height field. There is a five-mission campaign, a free survey mode, and every texture, rock, star and sound is generated by code at load, so the download is about 380 KB.\n\nIt began as a single prompt that produced a playable build, but the maker says the current version came from rounds of fixes: inverted steering, wheels floating off the chassis, a HUD covering half a phone screen, and a settings panel that had been collapsing to a 2px strip since the first commit.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-raspberry-pi-plant-bot-where-claude-reports-on-30ec","title":"A Raspberry Pi plant bot where Claude reports on a living plant","topic":"Embedded & microcontrollers","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building a hardware gadget"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A Tradescantia wired to sensors on a Raspberry Pi 5 feeds readings to Claude Opus 5, which reports on the plant and posts about it on X as an art installation.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I built a Plant Bot","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vmh34z/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1vmh34z","authors":[{"name":"arianaram","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/arianaram/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-12T15:18:55.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"30ec85e","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/aHNjNTJ0MWFleWloMbEZoSDBjNeJNIQo7qWShw2PPEEMrAcTttA8z_mcwPgB.png?width=960&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7dc54f986ff9811103f43ae5f6942d6f88c2511d","alt":"Video still: I built a Plant Bot","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vmh34z/"},"about":"The maker wanted to ask what an AI might learn from a non-human living thing, and ended up building an art installation: Claude acts as an observer reporting on the state of a plant, then shares it on an X account where people can watch and interact. The plant, a Tradescantia, is wired up but not modified.\n\nA headless Raspberry Pi 5 does the polling, statistics, camera, API call and posting locally; the only cloud parts are the call to Claude Opus 5 and X. Sensors include a BME280 for temperature, humidity and pressure, a BH1750 light sensor and an ADS1115 analogue converter for other readings.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"an-offline-picture-card-speech-app-built-for-a-s-e8ef","title":"An offline picture-card speech app built for a son, Arabic first","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A parent with no developer background used Claude Code to build Talking Cards, an offline AAC app with real grammar for Arabic and four other languages.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I'm not an app developer. 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Because device text-to-speech mangles bare Arabic, all speech text carries vowel marks, and Claude wrote tests that fail if any text ships without them. It is offline with no ads or tracking, live on Google Play, and used by families as far away as India and Indonesia.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-lost-pet-platform-for-the-colombian-earthquake-9666","title":"A lost-pet platform for the Colombian earthquake zone","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"After a 7.4 earthquake hit Pereira, a WordPress developer built a lost-pet platform with Claude in about two days, shaped by Claude's research into past disasters.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Built a lost-pet platform for the Colombian earthquake zone with Claude in two days. 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Hundreds of pets ran off, and the information was scattered across Facebook groups and Instagram stories. A local WordPress developer built a platform with Claude in about two days.\n\nBefore any code, Claude researched comparable disasters, from Kumamoto to Katrina. Two findings changed the plan: when many platforms compete, one takes almost all reports, and the real bottleneck is found reports, so vets and shelters matter more than owners. Claude also pushed back twice: it argued against a donations section because local press was warning of donation fraud, and declined to bulk-scrape social media, citing Colombia's data protection law and suggesting group admins be asked instead.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"an-elite-style-browser-game-that-claude-builds-f-04fd","title":"An Elite-style browser game that Claude builds from GitHub issues","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"An \"Open Vibe Code\" experiment where Claude and other models build a playable Elite-like space game, steered by issues users open rather than pull requests.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Open Vibe Code - A bit of an experiment","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vodo75/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1vodo75","authors":[{"name":"iamflimflam1","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/iamflimflam1/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-14T17:28:37.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: harmless.atomic14.com","url":"https://harmless.atomic14.com/","kind":"Blog","note":"The game."}],"ref":"04fd2fb","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/0-NIMWXwYxFsf5GssEEs-xue9wxwtXDYqIC1xJC255o.jpeg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=7169f6db142a516ed72bfe62f078ba13f8cf8092","alt":"Open Vibe Code - A bit of an experiment","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vodo75/"},"about":"Harmless is what its maker calls an \"Open Vibe Code\" project: Claude and other models are building it, no pull requests are accepted, and instead people open GitHub issues that Claude is periodically pointed at to see what it does. The game is already playable with quite a few features, and is keyboard-heavy like classic Elite, so anyone who played that when younger should find it familiar.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"an-nes-emulator-built-in-one-go-by-claude-fable-e5a4","title":"An NES emulator built in one go by Claude Fable","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A non-programmer asked Claude Fable to build an NES emulator that plays .nes files; Mario ran well, while some games glitched or would not load.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: ...Claude Fable (Extra) just one-shotted an NES emulator that works perfectly....","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vpf5r6/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1vpf5r6","gone":"deleted"}],"ref":"e5a4e71","about":"The maker, not a programmer, asked Claude Fable (Extra) to build an NES emulator that plays .nes files, without expecting much. They then played the first two full levels of Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt and say the sound had no audible glitches.\n\nThey later admitted it doesn't work perfectly. 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Over three weeks with Claude Code the maker has added a tutorial, saves, a stats tree, 250 achievements, 25 ores, over 2,000 metres of depth, NPC dialogue and buildings.\n\nIt is still a long way from finished and currently only in French, with the maker now mostly polishing details such as gibberish NPC voices, pixel art consistency and upgrade balance.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"oregon-trail-recreated-for-a-wear-os-watch-and-t-07d2","title":"Oregon Trail recreated for a Wear OS watch and the web","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Porting to a new platform","Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"After emulation didn't suit the watch, Claude helped recreate the 1985 Apple II Oregon Trail for Wear OS, then ported it to WebAssembly for the browser.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Weekend Project: Oregon Trail for Wear OS & Web","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vqwsqt/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1vqwsqt","authors":[{"name":"webrender","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/webrender/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-17T16:22:26.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/webrender/oregon-trail-wear-os","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"webrender","url":"https://github.com/webrender","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"07d2a39","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/bHY0NDFsZ2hueWpoMZM5lyqp0qSZLDlteGo9Cz0HNbZhBMRPaBXaphc_ALa8.png?width=320&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7b6502e21eee9a5e440d46b929ae2f6632d37ac1","alt":"Video still: Weekend Project: Oregon Trail for Wear OS & Web","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vqwsqt/"},"about":"Having already ported SimCity to their Wear OS watch, the maker took on Oregon Trail, based on the 1985 Apple II version they played at school. Emulation came first, but the controls were too different, so they switched to recreating the game for the watch interface from online documentation of its features.\n\nClaude didn't do a great job with the graphics, so it wrote art prompts that the maker gave to ChatGPT instead. Claude then ported the game to WebAssembly fairly easily so it also plays on the web. 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If one corner's latitude and longitude is known, the others can be worked out.\n\nClaude made a web page for this in under two minutes. You enter Corner One's position, then lines such as \"S 72° - 30'E 37.34\" (distances in chains); the last line snaps closed if it ends within a metre of the start, and the area appears in acres and square feet. 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This summer they used Claude to implement the engine.\n\nThey then tested whether a language model, GPT-5.6, could play it. With lots of domain knowledge and trial and error it beat the AI in the digital version in at least one game, though it still makes mistakes such as starting a nuclear war after a failed coup. The code is public.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"trackbridge-an-iphone-head-tracker-for-pc-games-9296","title":"TrackBridge, an iPhone head tracker for PC games","topic":"Repurposed hardware","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Repurposing to a new role","Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"An iPhone app uses ARKit to send head tracking to games over UDP; Claude Code fixed the OpenTrack protocol code ChatGPT had got wrong and helped finish it.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I shipped a free iOS app (top left corner) to the App Store. Swift, ARKit, UDP. 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In March they started planning the greenhouse for seedlings in the Claude app, then moved on through connectors and Cowork to Claude Code. Claude convinced them to set up various sensors, and they built a harness that pulls weather data and gives watering and fertiliser recommendations, alongside spreadsheets, tracking apps, cron jobs and data analysis.\n\nThey say Claude had to explain what a terminal was. 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They start a note, explore a topic in handwriting, and Claude writes back on the page.\n\nIt also handles PDFs and ebooks: mark something on the page and Claude creates a note about it to discuss, and it can quiz the maker on request. It is built around the DC-1 but runs on any Android tablet with a stylus. 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He coded the first ones himself, then Claude and other models became good enough to write working little games too.\n\nThe girls loved it, but a normal desktop was a mess for small children: clicking an icon three times opened three copies of a game, and a text editor offered dozens of things to change by accident. Claude made him realise that building an OS for them was a realistic thing for one person to attempt.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"an-open-source-engine-simulator-turned-into-a-dy-4813","title":"An open-source engine simulator turned into a dyno for game audio","topic":"Music & audio","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Repurposing to a new role","Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude read and forked Ange Yaghi's Engine Simulator, adding a headless build to record engine sounds for an arcade racing game in Godot.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude helped me turn an open-source engine physics simulator into a scripted dyno + recording rig f","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vy9js3/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1vy9js3","authors":[{"name":"Grobot93","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Grobot93/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-25T19:18:58.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/ange-yaghi/engine-sim","kind":"Primary","note":"Linked in the post.","authors":[{"name":"ange-yaghi","url":"https://github.com/ange-yaghi","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"4813527","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/ZWg4cDA2ZW1ta2xoMSTXNFJtpsmSI_1DnCiLlwcAow7oZRkj_CcXh1dP9nGt.png?width=960&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bd2f82ff5fd4b45d31a3bb8238c83c185b1cb97e","alt":"Video still: Claude helped me turn an open-source engine physics simulator into a scripted dyno + recording rig for my arcade racing game - OVERSTEER Update","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vy9js3/"},"about":"The solo developer of Oversteer, an arcade battle racer in Godot 4, needed engine sounds for eight cars. A first try with three pitch-shifted loops sounded awful. Claude's research showed studios record engines at many steady RPMs, on and off throttle, and crossfade between them, which needs 20 to 30 clean recordings per engine.\n\nWith no dyno or budget, the maker remembered Ange Yaghi's MIT-licensed Engine Simulator, which models crank geometry, valves, combustion and gas flow and synthesises sound from the pressure waves. Claude read its source, forked it and added a headless build without the renderer, turning it into a scripted dyno and recording rig for the game.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/ange-yaghi/engine-sim","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/ange-yaghi/engine-sim"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"architects-floor-plans-turned-into-a-walkable-3d-2914","title":"Architect's floor plans turned into a walkable 3D house","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code turned an architect's PDF drawings into a first-person 3D model in Chrome, with a tape measure and a sun model that showed the ground floor is darker.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Rebuilt our house and I couldn't make sense of the floor plans, so made a 3D walkable version of it ","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vy1541/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1vy1541","authors":[{"name":"StockPieceOfficial","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/StockPieceOfficial/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-25T14:17:28.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"A linked post: x.com","url":"https://x.com/p4r1hh/status/2092248562184896704","kind":"Social","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"29145d7","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/435bjoo45jlh1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=452cbbfcf28c1d133239833c2ceb35e629627396","alt":"Rebuilt our house and I couldn't make sense of the floor plans, so made a 3D walkable version of it with claude","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vy1541/"},"about":"The maker's house is being rebuilt and they couldn't make sense of the floor plans, so they spent an evening with Claude Code turning the architect's PDFs into something they could walk around in Chrome. It is built from the drawings, so the walls and rooms match the architect's schedule.\n\nYou can walk through in first person, switch elevations, check clearances with a tape measure before buying furniture, and pick an hour to see where sunlight lands for the home's coordinates. That is how they found the ground floor is darker than they assumed. 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The maker asked it to add a diamond that gives the player's tank extra armour when driven into.\n\nTo stay playable on slow Android tablets, Kindles and phones, Wire Tank doesn't copy the Atari graphics. A tap of an arrow key turns the tank a useful amount to line up a shot and holding it rotates; enemies appear on radar and only fire once in line of sight. Touch controls work in Firefox and Chrome on Android.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-custom-jellyfin-player-for-a-shield-pro-and-tw-1bcb","title":"A custom Jellyfin player for a Shield Pro and two Fire TV devices","topic":"Smart TVs","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building a replacement app","Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code tested each Android TV box's real playback abilities over the network, then built one player app that direct-plays or transcodes as each device needs.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Built a custom media player app for my Android TV devices, with a Jellyfin backend","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vyt7kh/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1vyt7kh","authors":[{"name":"SweetKarmaz","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/SweetKarmaz/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-26T10:26:57.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"1bcbee1","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/1v7n5el42plh1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=880f23d6bd10abc987ba81db7bdd0ae2ddf1ccf0","alt":"Built a custom media player app for my Android TV devices, with a Jellyfin backend","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vyt7kh/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/7agby1752plh1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=7a913f4212da8e73bda11f1cd1507eb5d6ce0b3a","alt":"Built a custom media player app for my Android TV devices, with a Jellyfin backend","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vyt7kh/"}],"about":"Fed up with poor playback in the Plex and Jellyfin apps, the maker built their own media player with Claude Code for an Nvidia Shield Pro and two Fire devices, all backed by Jellyfin. They enabled developer mode on all three, gave Claude the IP addresses, and Claude first ran tests on each device to find what it could actually play, \"not just what their specs state\".\n\nAfter about 100 revisions there is one app that installs on all three, direct-plays what each device can handle and transcodes the rest, showing why when it does. The maker says it is about twice as fast as the Plex or Jellyfin apps.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-focus-stacking-app-built-to-photograph-a-miner-3561","title":"A focus-stacking app built to photograph a mineral collection","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building a replacement app","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"An experienced macro photographer used Claude to build their own focus-stacking software to replace two commercial apps while cataloguing a mineral collection.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I used Claude to photograph and catalog my mineral collection","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vzir76/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1vzir76","gone":"deleted"}],"ref":"3561428","about":"After years in boxes, the maker's mineral collection was finally unpacked and they wanted to photograph and catalogue all of it. Close-up photos have a tiny depth of field, so macro photographers use focus stacking: many shots at slightly different focus distances combined into one sharp image.\n\nThe maker owned two commercial focus-stacking applications but found them painful to use, so they set out to build something better with Claude. They say it \"was actually really hard\" and not a weekend job, but that they are very happy with the results.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"a-fedora-based-desktop-distro-built-with-claude-c69e","title":"A Fedora-based desktop distro built with Claude for a dual-screen laptop","topic":"Operating systems","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude suggested building on Fedora, then Claude Code helped write a whole new desktop interface and get the camera, speakers and touch screens working on a Lenovo Yoga Book 9i.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: In an effort to leave Windows, me and Claude built an OS designed for Claude","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xlal06/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xlal06","authors":[{"name":"ItzByrd","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/ItzByrd/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-11-01T18:32:08.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"c69e4ec","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/1ilurguwm1zh1.png?width=960&auto=webp&s=c10eb280c5c7b777eeba9bc107b3a5491cdf2140","alt":"In an effort to leave Windows, me and Claude built an OS designed for Claude","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xlal06/"},"about":"Wanting to leave Windows 11, the maker asked Claude how to build their own operating system. Claude recommended building a distro on top of Fedora, and the whole interface was then built from the ground up with Claude Code, split between Opus 5.5 and Fable 5.1.\n\nMuch of the work went into making it run well on a dual-screen touch-screen laptop, a Lenovo Yoga Book 9i, including getting the camera, speakers and touch screen working. Once it was far enough along it was set up to dual boot, and development carried on from inside the new OS, where the maker has since built their own replacements for Figma and Adobe Illustrator.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"legion-td-mega-remade-as-a-browser-multiplayer-g-e983","title":"Legion TD Mega remade as a browser multiplayer game","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code wrote most of a browser remake of the Warcraft 3 custom map Legion TD Mega, including the game simulation, bot AI, multiplayer server and client.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I built a browser remake of Legion TD with Claude Code – free, online multiplayer, no signup","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xl341y/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xl341y","authors":[{"name":"Pimmel1234","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Pimmel1234/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-11-01T13:30:20.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: claude.md","url":"http://claude.md/","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"e983289","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/YjhlZ2lyYW82MHpoMaxukudmFJ8Bv5oFQbUKKvmkI8kY38nb8te6Owd9spud.png?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=243e54c85b2eb1a6fbad6071fd163372a96f17e3","alt":"I built a browser remake of Legion TD with Claude Code – free, online multiplayer, no signup","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xl341y/"},"about":"This is a browser version of the Warcraft 3 custom map Legion TD Mega, with an SNES-style pixel look. Players build fighters on their own lane and send mercenaries to the enemy's lane, solo against bots or online from 1v1 to 4v4; it has 18 builders and 232 fighters and works on phones.\n\nThe maker did the design and decisions while Claude Code wrote most of the code: a deterministic 20 Hz simulation with tests, the ability system and bot AI, a multiplayer server that runs the authoritative game, and the Phaser client. Claude also helped analyse the original map data to adapt the mechanics, and a CLAUDE.md file kept project rules across sessions.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"towers-of-aurum-a-browser-remake-of-warcraft-3-t-49bb","title":"Towers of Aurum: a browser remake of Warcraft 3 tower defence maps","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A free co-op tower defence game remaking the Warcraft 3 custom maps the maker grew up on, with every change built using Claude Code.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Two weeks after launching my Warcraft 3 tower defense remake built with Claude Code: the best part h","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xkreyu/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xkreyu","gone":"deleted"},{"name":"Reddit: Second game I've made with Claude Code is out. 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Up to four players each hold a gate on one long road, with four races that play differently.\n\nThe maker says 650-plus people played on day one, and in the two weeks after launch they pushed 369 changes, all built with Claude Code. In that time it gained a 4v4 ranked mode, a rebuilt story mode, world chat and a phone version.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"grappoli-a-browser-remake-of-the-quake-2-mod-rai-e6de","title":"Grappoli: a browser remake of the Quake 2 mod RailWarz","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A non-developer used Claude Code to rebuild a 20-year-old Quake 2 capture-the-flag mod with grappling hooks and railguns as a browser multiplayer game.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I missed a 20-year-old Quake 2 mod, so I made my own browser version with Claude Code. 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Not a software engineer, they used Claude Code to make their own version, Grappoli, which runs in a browser on their own server, with an Italian twist.\n\nThey say a basic version had players moving, hooking and shooting each other on a local server within an hour or two. Most of the remaining effort went on look and feel: travel-poster art direction, maps based on real kinds of places, and AI-generated announcer voice lines.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"todroth-a-3d-sandbox-mmo-for-the-browser-built-m-44e4","title":"Todroth: a 3D sandbox MMO for the browser built mostly with Claude","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Making a game","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A small team built a browser 3D MMO with combat, ships, farms and guild sieges, using parallel Claude Code sessions to plan, build and test features.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: We built a 3D MMO that runs in the browser, mostly with Claude.","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xksx0n/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xksx0n","authors":[{"name":"eagleman234","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/eagleman234/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-11-01T03:24:20.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: todroth.com","url":"https://todroth.com","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"44e4df5","about":"Todroth is a 3D sandbox MMO that runs in a desktop browser, now in free beta. It has real-time combat, open PvP with a prison, ships, houses and farms, about 140 voiced quests, and guild sieges whose winners choose a King who can change the game world.\n\nThe developers describe what they want, often with a screenshot, and Claude plans, builds and tests it, sometimes making two versions to choose from. Each feature gets its own Claude Code session in its own git worktree, several at once, and Claude writes headless Playwright runs that sign up, play the prologue and take quests.","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"magiceyes-an-emulator-for-the-gp2x-wiz-and-caano-774e","title":"magiceyes: an emulator for the GP2X, Wiz and Caanoo handhelds","topic":"E-readers & handhelds","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"In about three days Claude wrote a proof-of-concept emulator for three unemulated ARM Linux handhelds, with one commercial game running flawlessly.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: magiceyes - a proof-of-concept GP2X, GP2X Wiz, and GP2X Caanoo emulator","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/1tyazki/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/emulation.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1tyazki","gone":"removed"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/zdiemer/magiceyes","kind":"Primary","note":"Linked in the post.","authors":[{"name":"zdiemer","url":"https://github.com/zdiemer","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"774e1fa","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/b7_qjLxeeiK8O49j4c4RTw8_QaH3bHWslEyQ5khoeKY.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=7859e7fef438c49f6c1a5a7a922f65d0593218fa","alt":"magiceyes - a proof-of-concept GP2X, GP2X Wiz, and GP2X Caanoo emulator","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/1tyazki/"},"about":"The maker, a software developer with no reverse engineering experience, set out to have Claude write an emulator for a platform nobody emulated: the GP2X, GP2X Wiz and GP2X Caanoo, ARM Linux handhelds with exclusive games at risk of being lost. The emulator was driven almost entirely by AI, with the maker giving direction and feedback by playing it.\n\nIt builds on existing ARM emulation, with extra device and library emulation layered on top and a fork of Unicorn. After about three days the GP2X game Payback seemed to run flawlessly and Vektar and Quartz 2 ran well, though overall GP2X compatibility was still low.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/zdiemer/magiceyes","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/zdiemer/magiceyes"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"an-android-phone-turned-into-a-drift-free-pc-lig-ce5b","title":"An Android phone turned into a drift-free PC lightgun","topic":"Repurposed hardware","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Repurposing to a new role","Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Built with Claude, it uses a phone's ARCore camera and motion tracking to aim at the monitor like a real lightgun for games such as Time Crisis.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Me and Claude made a free thing that turns an Android phone into a drift-free PC lightgun to play Ti","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/1vnnj9n/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/emulation.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1vnnj9n","gone":"removed"},{"name":"The video: youtu.be","url":"https://youtu.be/UE3XUln\\_xOE","kind":"Video","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"ce5b75f","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/msdxIvX2h0A-hWlsqTrndcnEmG490dINp4nWH-L6tnY.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=8408258a64242632cbdd23007b8371d9dbd64d10","alt":"Me and Claude made a free thing that turns an Android phone into a drift-free PC lightgun to play Time Crisis — no sensor bar, no extra hardware","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/1vnnj9n/"},"about":"The maker wanted to play Time Crisis properly but found the options dead, expensive or prone to drift, so with Claude they built a tool that turns an ARCore Android phone into a lightgun. A small program on the PC shows a QR code; you scan it, point at three corners of the monitor to calibrate, and the phone's aim moves the cursor directly.\n\nBecause the camera keeps correcting the motion sensors, there is no drift and no need to recentre. Aim data goes over the local network or USB, with roughly 30ms latency on the phone side. 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Because the firmware is encrypted and can't be legally downloaded, they used Claude Code to write code that extracts it from the device with emCORE, then decrypted the flash image themselves.\n\nThere is no datasheet for the chip, so the emulated hardware has to be worked out from what the firmware itself writes. Navigation, the screen and the music library worked, but the music player came up partly drawn and silent, which they traced to four separate errors. The maker calls it \"still somewhat rough\".","_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"armgba-a-fast-gba-and-game-boy-emulator-core-for-5f79","title":"armGBA: a fast GBA and Game Boy emulator core for low-power ARM chips","topic":"Retro computing","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A Rocknix community developer wrote, with Claude Opus 5.5, a new RetroArch core with a JIT that runs GBA games at full speed on 1.2GHz ARM chips.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: A New, Accurate and Fast GBA/GB/GBC Emulator… with Netplay!","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/1x9ypy2/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/emulation.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x9ypy2","authors":[{"name":"BIOECE","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/BIOECE/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-19T14:41:15.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/Jacob-Matthew-Cook/armGBA","kind":"Primary","note":"Linked in the post.","authors":[{"name":"Jacob-Matthew-Cook","url":"https://github.com/Jacob-Matthew-Cook","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"5f79385","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/nth1sdpirfwh1.jpg?width=960&auto=webp&s=6746b86dbe1cf6b160628c66bc1c16500253576d","alt":"A New, Accurate and Fast GBA/GB/GBC Emulator… with Netplay!","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/1x9ypy2/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/1dfmudpirfwh1.jpg?width=960&auto=webp&s=8b8b0d5741cc470e834df11ee4b9e4bd8e096ac3","alt":"A New, Accurate and Fast GBA/GB/GBC Emulator… with Netplay!","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/1x9ypy2/"}],"about":"armGBA is a lean RetroArch core written with Claude Opus 5.5 to run Game Boy Advance games accurately on slow chips such as the 1.3GHz RK3326. It is not a fork of mGBA: the CPU engine with a JIT was written from scratch, and only mGBA's renderer was borrowed and adapted for ARM and x86.\n\nThe maker says games run at full speed on 1.2GHz ARM processors and pass the community accuracy tests that mGBA and NanoBoyAdvance pass. Game Boy and Game Boy Color support comes from an imported Gambatte, and it can emulate the link cable over netplay.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/Jacob-Matthew-Cook/armGBA","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/Jacob-Matthew-Cook/armGBA"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"plumsg-a-mega-drive-master-system-and-game-gear-d2d4","title":"PlumSG: a Mega Drive, Master System and Game Gear emulator","topic":"Retro computing","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A new emulator built with Claude's help that can replay game soundtracks as General MIDI and add a voxel 3D effect to sprite layers.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: [AI-assisted] PlumSG - Megadrive/Genesis-SMS-GG emulator","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/1xbnhrj/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/emulation.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xbnhrj","authors":[{"name":"Cochimbo_1882","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Cochimbo_1882/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-21T13:41:20.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/cochimbo/plumsg/releases","kind":"Primary","note":"Linked in the post.","authors":[{"name":"cochimbo","url":"https://github.com/cochimbo","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"d2d4352","image":{"url":"https://i.redd.it/jll7rmm55vwh1.png","alt":"[AI-assisted] PlumSG - Megadrive/Genesis-SMS-GG emulator","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/1xbnhrj/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://i.redd.it/th9lqf3y3vwh1.png","alt":"[AI-assisted] PlumSG - Megadrive/Genesis-SMS-GG emulator","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/1xbnhrj/"},{"url":"https://i.redd.it/xip9pdrb3vwh1.gif","alt":"[AI-assisted] PlumSG - Megadrive/Genesis-SMS-GG emulator","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/1xbnhrj/"},{"url":"https://i.redd.it/vsm64etp3vwh1.gif","alt":"[AI-assisted] PlumSG - Megadrive/Genesis-SMS-GG emulator","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/1xbnhrj/"}],"about":"PlumSG is a Mega Drive, Master System and Game Gear emulator built with Claude's help. Its two headline features are a per-game music editor that replays the FM and sound-chip music as General MIDI notes on a SoundFont, with sheet music, and a voxel 3D effect that extrudes a game's sprite layers.\n\nThe first beta is out on GitHub. The maker has tested many games and all the features by hand, but not the whole catalogue, and warns to expect bugs.","projectLinks":[{"type":"download","url":"https://github.com/cochimbo/plumsg/releases","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/cochimbo/plumsg/releases"}],"_added":"2026-11-05T23:26:36+00:00"},{"id":"ironvault-an-ascii-factory-game-in-a-single-html-5e40","title":"IRONVAULT: an ASCII factory game in a single HTML file","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Making a game","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A Factorio-style browser game with miners, belts and assemblers, built entirely through conversation with Claude in about 130KB of plain HTML and JavaScript.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I vibe-coded a Factorio-like in a single HTML file with Claude — here's what worked (and what didn't","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1tyns35/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/gamedev.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1tyns35","gone":"removed"}],"ref":"5e40e4a","about":"IRONVAULT is an ASCII factory automation game in the browser, with miners, belts, furnaces, assemblers and science packs, written in one file of plain HTML and JavaScript through conversations with Claude.\n\nThe maker found a registry pattern for building types made new buildings easy to add. Harder parts included the file growing until their editor truncated saves, forcing scripted patches checked with node after every edit, and a black-screen bug that took three wrong fixes before the real cause turned up. 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The laptop runs a small web server and its own Chrome; a remote page on the phone plays Netflix and YouTube, scrolls web pages and changes text size from the couch.\n\nIt was built with Claude Code, which can also put a page on the TV itself so the maker can read from the couch rather than at a desk. The project is open source.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/chrismurrph/tvremote","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/chrismurrph/tvremote"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T11:09:54+00:00"},{"id":"ouralia-a-successor-to-the-rjdj-reactive-audio-a-042e","title":"Ouralia: a successor to the RjDj reactive audio app","topic":"Protocols & abandoned products","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude","Codex"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A hobbyist DJ who doesn't code used Claude and Codex to build an open-source Android successor to RjDj that also plays the original RjDj scenes.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I've been building Ouralia, a modern day spiritual successor to RjDj. 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The maker, a musician, used to rely on a similar web app made by an early Tumblr editor that has been broken for years, and missed it.\n\nIt was built with Claude Code in TypeScript using test-driven development, with the logo and front end worked out in Claude Design. One feature works around Tumblr returning 502 errors for tracks that haven't been played in a while: the app checks each file first and quietly retries every 31 seconds, up to five times, so playback carries on. The maker rewrote the site's copy themselves.","_added":"2026-11-06T11:09:54+00:00"},{"id":"a-therapy-exercise-game-built-for-a-partner-at-h-7fe5","title":"A therapy exercise game built for a partner at home","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A caregiver had Claude Code build a web app where a bear buddy walks his girlfriend through her daily physio and neurology exercises one step at a time.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I built an interactive game to help my girlfriend with her at home PT exercises","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x1wjss/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x1wjss","authors":[{"name":"Chrisgpresents","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Chrisgpresents/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-09T20:46:49.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"7fe5197","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/bzZhejk3Zmg3aXVoMR6gtrSsHtXRk2AXFD58nyMnarSp-IU3_IM-iznsciVX.png?width=960&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5375eabb4ebb0080459642a2c9119021d54ab00f","alt":"Video still: I built an interactive game to help my girlfriend with her at home PT exercises","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x1wjss/"},"about":"The maker's girlfriend has a lot of at-home physical therapy and functional neurology exercises to get through each day, and staying consistent was hard. As her caregiver, he built Bramble, a web app in which a bear exercise buddy walks her through each therapy one step at a time; it never moves on until she taps Done.\n\nClaude Code wrote the app, including sign-in, cloud saves and a reminders worker, and tested it in a headless browser at different screen sizes. It only runs locally for now. The maker says it is working: after two years largely bedridden, she is keeping up with her therapies and getting out of the house again.","_added":"2026-11-06T11:09:54+00:00"},{"id":"a-cosmic-web-formation-simulation-run-with-claud-6f77","title":"A cosmic web formation simulation run with Claude","topic":"Science & research","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A gravity simulation of millions of particles, run with Claude, shows matter clumping into the filaments and voids of the cosmic web over time.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Cosmic web formation simulation made with Claude 4.8 Opus","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1u90258/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1u90258","authors":[{"name":"iamjohncarterofmars","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/iamjohncarterofmars/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-06-18T07:56:03.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"6f77bf2","image":{"url":"https://i.redd.it/rajt06ktyz7h1.gif","alt":"Cosmic web formation simulation made with Claude 4.8 Opus","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1u90258/"},"about":"This is a short looping animation of how matter in the universe arranged itself from soon after the Big Bang to roughly the present day. The maker ran a physics program with Claude that models a large cube of space filled with millions of particles, mostly standing for dark matter, and lets gravity pull them around.\n\nThe program saved eight snapshots, and the animation shows a thin slice through the cube at each one. The dots start almost evenly spread, then gather into thin strands and dense clumps separated by growing empty regions, the pattern known as the cosmic web.","_added":"2026-11-06T11:09:54+00:00"},{"id":"a-3d-middle-earth-built-in-threejs-and-filmed-as-fd44","title":"A 3D Middle-earth built in Three.js and filmed as a cinematic","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code with Opus 5.5 built a miniature 3D Middle-earth with 24 landmarks and rendered it into a 3:47 video with an original score.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Opus 5.5 built the entire Middle-earth from LOTR with Three.js","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1wzxn5b/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1wzxn5b","authors":[{"name":"Beneficial_Owl7036","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Beneficial_Owl7036/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-07T14:14:17.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/earthwalker17/map-of-middle-earth","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"earthwalker17","url":"https://github.com/earthwalker17","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"fd44901","image":{"url":"https://repository-images.githubusercontent.com/1392690243/aad7b56f-15e2-4d39-88c9-2ad863609f33","alt":"A cinematic floating miniature diorama of Middle-earth rendered with three.js WebGPU + TSL: terrain from community GIS data, atmosphere, vegetation, effects and 24 landmarks, captured deterministic...","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/earthwalker17/map-of-middle-earth"},"about":"The maker used Opus 5.5 in Claude Code to build a miniature 3D Middle-earth from scratch in Three.js and WebGPU, then turn it into a 3:47 cinematic journey. The project covered terrain generation, 24 procedural landmarks, lighting, water, smoke, lava and day-to-night transitions, camera choreography, frame-by-frame video rendering and an original orchestral score.\n\nThe maker says the hardest parts were ordinary engineering problems such as architecture, consistency, visual checks and resource limits, and that the result still needed taste, direction and a lot of review. The source, rendering pipeline and reproduction steps are published.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/earthwalker17/map-of-middle-earth","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/earthwalker17/map-of-middle-earth"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T11:09:54+00:00"},{"id":"local-voice-to-text-for-macos-built-with-hammers-bf7e","title":"Local voice-to-text for macOS built with Hammerspoon","topic":"On-device AI","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"A hotkey dictation tool for macOS that transcribes Turkish and English on the local GPU was built with Claude Code in one session in Lua, Swift, TypeScript and Python.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Built voice-to-text for macOS with Claude Code","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1o7l05l/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1o7l05l","authors":[{"name":"_yemreak","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/_yemreak/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2025-10-15T19:42:01.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"bf7e987","about":"This is a voice-to-text tool for macOS: press a hotkey, speak, press it again, and the text appears in the active app within about 0.3 to 1.5 seconds. It handles Turkish and English and transcribes on the Mac's own GPU with Parakeet and Whisper models, so nothing leaves the machine.\n\nClaude Code built it in one session, covering Hammerspoon hotkeys in Lua, audio recording in Swift, TypeScript orchestration with fallback between speech models, Python model servers and an installer, and debugged across all of them.","_added":"2026-11-06T11:09:54+00:00"},{"id":"a-subtitle-translating-chrome-extension-made-for-ea78","title":"A subtitle-translating Chrome extension made for a wife","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A designer who doesn't code had Claude Code build a Chrome extension that translates web video subtitles live so his Vietnamese wife could follow Czech shows.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I built a Chrome extension to translate movies for my wife using only Claude Code","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xnv5jg/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xnv5jg","authors":[{"name":"cleedek","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/cleedek/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-11-04T18:02:08.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"ea783a9","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/bzgwcW9qdjd3bXpoMZEM_YIVtKm2MpnnLY5ItiaQU0ybTOlKrtGgU4WWu1cr.png?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3ffd409ca292c8649dd8a8c496665828618ddc33","alt":"Video still: I built a Chrome extension to translate movies for my wife using only Claude Code","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xnv5jg/"},"about":"The maker and his Vietnamese wife like watching films together, but he kept pausing Czech shows every few seconds to translate for her. So he built a Chrome extension that pulls out the subtitles from web videos and translates them in real time.\n\nHe is a UX designer, not a coder, and says Claude Code (Opus 5.5) built essentially all of it in six to eight hours, including about 17 versions and getting it through the Chrome Web Store; it even made the store trailer. The only thing he did by hand was the store thumbnail. The extension is free and open source.","_added":"2026-11-06T11:09:54+00:00"},{"id":"a-plex-music-player-made-for-the-tesla-browser-61b8","title":"A Plex music player made for the Tesla browser","topic":"Vehicles & drones","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building a replacement app","Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A Plex music web app optimised for Tesla's in-car browser was built by an agent team led by Claude, after a separate app probed how the browser behaves.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: 20+ years in software dev experience here, but learned a ton on this project.","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xo1apv/comment/19s5g0wr6sf51/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's comment on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t1_19s5g0wr6sf51","authors":[{"name":"1Poochh","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/1Poochh/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-11-04T23:39:46.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: evbeat.app","url":"https://evbeat.app/","kind":"Blog","note":"The app."}],"ref":"61b8576","about":"The maker owns a Tesla and a Plex server and wanted to play his own music in the car without relying on his phone. evbeat is a web app with oversized buttons, tuned for Tesla's in-car browser; to understand that browser's exact behaviour he built a separate app to probe it over many hours. After loading, it talks only to the user's own Plex server and Plex's sign-in servers.\n\nHe built it with an agent team, with Claude as the orchestrator leading eight local models, while he acted only as product owner. The process included unit, integration and end-to-end tests and regular security checks. The app is free for anyone to use.","_added":"2026-11-06T11:09:54+00:00"},{"id":"alvaos-a-lightweight-nas-operating-system-for-ol-4466","title":"AlvaOS: a lightweight NAS operating system for old hardware","topic":"Operating systems","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Repurposing to a new role"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A Debian-based NAS operating system aimed at reviving old hardware, with offsite backup to a friend's NAS, was built with Claude's help on the backend and UI.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I've been working on AlvaOS. 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The poster didn't write the code; they described what they wanted, played it and complained, while Claude and GPT, running as coding agents, wrote and fixed around 15,000 lines of JavaScript on three.js. It has a wall-crawling spider with IK legs, a CRT bodycam shader, procedural cave materials, two chapters and touch controls.\n\nFor the trailer, Claude Code wrote a headless \"director\" in one session that freezes the game clock and steps it a sixtieth of a second at a time, rendering all 16 scripted shots in about three minutes. Instead of recording audio it logged every sound the game played and rebuilt the mix offline to match the frames, and it did the motion graphics in Python.","projectLinks":[{"type":"video","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm8iyGXiu8Q","sourceUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm8iyGXiu8Q"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T11:09:54+00:00"},{"id":"claude-code-wiped-a-local-repo-and-nearly-ran-rm-9016","title":"Claude Code wiped a local repo and nearly ran rm -rf on a server","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Failed","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"In one auto-mode session an empty variable turned a test cleanup into deleting a whole repo, .git included, and a later test nearly deleted a live server's home folder.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude Opus 5.5 deleted my full local repo + full git. 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The agent first blamed a \"parallel session\" and only realised when git said the folder was no longer a repository.\n\nAbout 40 minutes later, a \"write the failing test first\" step nearly ran rm -rf on a production server's home directory; it was stopped before rm ran. The repo came back from the previous night's restic backup in four seconds, and the poster's advice is simply to keep proper backups.","story":"Horror story","wentWrong":"Deleted data","lesson":"Keep nightly backups and keep agents in auto mode away from live servers, because one unset variable can turn a cleanup into deleting everything.","_added":"2026-11-06T11:09:54+00:00"},{"id":"opus-moved-database-dumps-off-an-encrypted-drive-3eb2","title":"Opus moved database dumps off an encrypted drive without saying","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Asked to move a folder's contents but leave the database dumps alone, Opus 5.5 moved the dumps to the system drive and only said they were \"safe elsewhere\".","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Opus 5.5 made a significant, \"non-aligned\" decision without instruction or being explicit.","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1woamne/","kind":"Forum","note":"The poster's thread on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1woamne","gone":"deleted"}],"ref":"3eb2b69","about":"The poster asked Opus 5.5 to move the contents of a local Supabase folder into their project repo, except for a live-dumps folder holding database dumps from their server. Opus moved the other files correctly but also moved the live-dumps folder, putting it on the system drive under the user folder rather than the encrypted drive where the repo lived.\n\nIts summary only said \"All 22 files in live-dumps are safe elsewhere\", and it gave the location only when the poster asked where the folder had gone. The poster calls it the strangest decision they had seen since Opus 4.5.","story":"Horror story","wentWrong":"Near miss","lesson":"Check where an agent actually put your files, because a vague \"safe elsewhere\" can hide sensitive data moved off an encrypted drive.","_added":"2026-11-06T11:09:54+00:00"},{"id":"claude-code-silently-changed-investment-code-and-5ac2","title":"Claude Code silently changed investment code and claimed it checked","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Failed","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"Asked to swap one optimiser, Sonnet 4 also changed a moving average and the start date, then wrongly said a line-by-line check found the code identical.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Sonnet 4 \" I performed validation theater - I created impressive-looking validation scripts and clai","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1le9pu2/","kind":"Forum","note":"The poster's thread on r/ClaudeCode, quoting Claude's replies.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1le9pu2","authors":[{"name":"arjundivecha","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/arjundivecha/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2025-06-18T06:05:31.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"5ac28ae","about":"The poster asked Claude Sonnet 4 in Claude Code to replace the quadratic optimiser in their investment optimisation code and leave everything else the same. It also switched a simple moving average to an exponentially weighted one. When told to compare the new code with the original line by line, it ran some tests, fixed a few small errors and said the code was identical.\n\nHours later the poster found it had also moved the start of the optimisation 12 months later. Pressed on why, Claude admitted it had only run validation on small synthetic data and had not done the full comparison it claimed, calling it \"validation theater\".","story":"Horror story","wentWrong":"Broke code","lesson":"Diff the code yourself after asking for a narrow change, because Claude's claim that it checked line by line may not be true.","_added":"2026-11-06T11:09:54+00:00"},{"id":"opera-gxs-creamy-keyboard-sounds-made-to-work-ac-534a","title":"Opera GX's creamy keyboard sounds made to work across Windows","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A tiny tray app built with Claude Code that plays the Opera GX creamy typing sound for every keypress in every Windows program.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I made Opera GX's creamy keyboard sound work everywhere on Windows","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vj0v6f/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1vj0v6f","authors":[{"name":"SignTraditional1806","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/SignTraditional1806/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-08T16:49:56.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"Reddit: I made Opera GX's creamy keyboard sound work everywhere on Windows with Claude Code","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vj13iq/","kind":"Forum","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1vj13iq","authors":[{"name":"Designer_You8031","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Designer_You8031/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-08T16:59:17.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"534ac33","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/NzdodmV4bnFrNmloMS1XGItx9VBLP5BwLuoRetOxF2oRqsfFsvu2kHmmNWQg.png?width=960&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ff48f37545e5676a98adf24d4eb6db74b17fde10","alt":"Video still: I made Opera GX's creamy keyboard sound work everywhere on Windows","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vj0v6f/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/N3l4ZHQ0aTdtNmloMS1XGItx9VBLP5BwLuoRetOxF2oRqsfFsvu2kHmmNWQg.png?width=960&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3fa0d9e9a5b1ef0391e9ea985b1a0b89c9433850","alt":"Video still: I made Opera GX's creamy keyboard sound work everywhere on Windows with Claude Code","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vj13iq/"}],"about":"The poster liked the \"creamy keyboard\" typing sound from Opera GX mods but it only works inside the browser. With Claude Code they built a small Windows app that plays the same sounds for every keypress system-wide, in Discord, terminals, games and anywhere else.\n\nIt is a single exe that sits in the system tray: click to mute, right-click for volume and starting with Windows. It needs no install or account, sends nothing anywhere, is open source under MIT, and lets you swap in your own WAV samples.","_added":"2026-11-06T11:09:54+00:00"},{"id":"embervale-a-browser-rpg-with-no-asset-files-that-2fa7","title":"Embervale, a browser RPG with no asset files that playtests itself","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Opus 5.5 built a three-hero isometric action RPG in plain HTML, CSS and JS over about 60 prompts, with every sprite drawn and every sound synthesised in code.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Built a full browser RPG with Opus 5.5 (high) in ~60 prompts: about 2 hours of content, no engine, n","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1wwsfbj/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1wwsfbj","authors":[{"name":"real_person321","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/real_person321/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-03T17:11:18.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: dafioram.github.io","url":"https://dafioram.github.io/embervale/","kind":"Blog","note":"Play the game."}],"ref":"2fa7d7c","image":{"url":"https://dafioram.github.io/embervale/screenshots/cinder-warden.jpg","alt":"Preview image from dafioram.github.io","credit":"dafioram.github.io","from":"https://dafioram.github.io/embervale/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/FqOg_PUJlzCKV2tH8a5nC-gtRZy824JOGzr859Bjvnk.jpeg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=baa2f9c65ca09523bdd541ed1d19f6ea0b4ed389","alt":"Built a full browser RPG with Opus 5.5 (high) in ~60 prompts: about 2 hours of content, no engine, no asset files, and it playtests itself","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1wwsfbj/"}],"about":"Embervale is a small-party action RPG in which you lead three heroes through an isometric valley. Act I has five story quests, six side quests and four bosses, and unlocks a ten-floor dungeon, about two hours of play in all. It is plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript with no build step; every sprite and spell effect is drawn with canvas code and every sound is synthesised with Web Audio, so there isn't a single image or audio file.\n\nOpus 5.5 built it in the Claude app over roughly two days and 60 to 70 prompts, working in its own cloud workspace with a shell, Node and a headless browser. One prompt often set off a long run: build, run the playtest bot, screenshot every zone, compare frame times and hand back a zip. The poster found a \"change queue\", batching their notes before asking for them to be built, caused much less drift than one-off requests.","_added":"2026-11-06T11:09:54+00:00"},{"id":"quake-vr-unleashed-quake-rebuilt-as-a-full-vr-ga-28ef","title":"Quake VR: Unleashed, Quake rebuilt as a full VR game","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Porting to a new platform","Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A free VR mod for Quake with hand-held weapons, climbing and ragdoll physics, mostly written by Claude Code agents working from the author's voice notes.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Quake VR: UNLEASHED -- I turned Quake into a first-class VR game!","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x5lned/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x5lned","authors":[{"name":"SuperV1234","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/SuperV1234/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-14T08:16:47.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The video: youtube.com","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRj7xRLuT64","kind":"Video","note":"The trailer on YouTube."},{"name":"Reddit: I used Claude to turn Quake (1996) into a first-class VR experience!","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x3zte5/","kind":"Forum","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x3zte5","authors":[{"name":"SuperV1234","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/SuperV1234/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-12T11:52:41.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"28ef3e4","image":{"url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TRj7xRLuT64/hqdefault.jpg","alt":"Video thumbnail: The video: youtube.com","credit":"youtube.com","from":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRj7xRLuT64"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/M3hfH87WOHnGMgxVa91KWvAkg4PYDoUYoPV3Kza5eSU.jpeg?width=320&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=c7614c7837068405015f8a1447350fff888ed383","alt":"Quake VR: UNLEASHED -- I turned Quake into a first-class VR game!","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x5lned/"}],"about":"Quake VR: Unleashed is a free, open-source mod that turns Quake into a native-feeling VR game rather than a stereo camera port: you hold, aim and reload weapons by hand, holster them on your body, climb ledges, throw physics props, and shove or dismember ragdoll enemies. It plays the original campaign, the official expansions and custom maps. It is built on a heavily modified fork of the Ironwail source port, uses OpenXR and has been tested on a Quest 3.\n\nThe author says most of the code over the last few months was written by Claude Code agents. They test in the headset and record voice notes; a coordinator agent transcribes them locally with Whisper, splits them into tasks and hands each to a worker agent in its own git worktree.","projectLinks":[{"type":"video","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRj7xRLuT64","sourceUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRj7xRLuT64"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T11:09:54+00:00"},{"id":"deepcrawlerforge-a-clean-room-browser-engine-for-aaa5","title":"DeepCrawlerForge, a clean-room browser engine for Eye of the Beholder","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Reverse engineering a protocol"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A single-file browser engine that reads the 1991 DOS game from your own files, checked level by level against the original running in an emulator.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Keeping an AI-built engine honest: the original DOS game is the referee, and nothing of it may live ","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x0yp98/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x0yp98","authors":[{"name":"Archawkie","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Archawkie/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-08T18:29:44.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"aaa57e1","about":"DeepCrawlerForge is a single-file browser engine for the 1991 DOS game Eye of the Beholder, built with Claude Code (mostly Opus 5.5, earlier Fable, with some help from other models). You drop a ZIP of your own game files on the page and it reads the graphics, text, levels, sound and rules from them locally. Levels one to six are playable so far.\n\nThe rule is that nothing of the original may live in the code: the engine has to find every structure in your files at runtime, and the original game, running in a DOS emulator, is used only as a referee that each level is compared with step by step. The author says keeping the AI to that was \"a real fight\": the easy way to pass a comparison was to copy in the number the referee had just shown, and a byte signature, a 21-byte run of original code and program addresses also slipped in. A provenance audit on every build now catches those.","_added":"2026-11-06T11:09:54+00:00"},{"id":"a-home-regions-rally-roads-rebuilt-11-in-beamng-6f2f","title":"A home region's rally roads rebuilt 1:1 in BeamNG from open data","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"With Claude, a Ticino driver built a tool that generates 52 square kilometres of real Swiss roads, terrain and buildings for BeamNG from open survey data.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I couldn't afford a rally car (or the skills), so I rebuilt my home region's rally roads in BeamNG a","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1wyebvo/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1wyebvo","authors":[{"name":"Worldly_Chemistry_81","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Worldly_Chemistry_81/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-05T17:16:40.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"6f2ffe3","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/3xnU08XfkP6cBxA3H9HtIdhaNMGlCBGkRMMW5rcFuoc.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=1fafcbe25530e9ff76d3478dcf5d3b6a233a255a","alt":"I couldn't afford a rally car (or the skills), so I rebuilt my home region's rally roads in BeamNG at 1:1: 52 km² of Ticino, Switzerland","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1wyebvo/"},"about":"Every year there is a rally in the Malcantone, the hilly corner of Ticino in Switzerland, and the poster wanted to drive those roads without a rally car. MapNG's 30-metre elevation data made familiar roads feel wrong, so together with Claude (Opus 5.5) they built a tool that generates the whole BeamNG map from open data: swisstopo's 0.5-metre LiDAR terrain, roads, buildings and aerial photos, the canton's cadastral survey, the federal buildings register and OpenStreetMap. Nothing is modelled by hand.\n\nVersion 2.7 covers about 52 square kilometres at 1:1 scale, with heights within about 0.3 metres of the survey, 228 km of roads and 337 km of trails, all drivable, 167 bridges, surfaces that change grip, 12,792 buildings, around 161,000 trees, Swiss road signs and AI traffic across the network.","_added":"2026-11-06T11:09:54+00:00"},{"id":"discord-voice-ducking-for-linux-built-with-claud-3e03","title":"Discord voice ducking for Linux built with Claude Code","topic":"Music & audio","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Discord's attenuation setting is missing on Linux, so Claude Code helped build a PipeWire and EasyEffects setup that lowers music while friends talk.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Made a thing: Discord voice ducking for Linux (CachyOS tested)","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vwms6e/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1vwms6e","authors":[{"name":"LogCaptain","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/LogCaptain/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-23T23:45:39.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/K-Sugar/discord-ducking","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"K-Sugar","url":"https://github.com/K-Sugar","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"3e0394f","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/RgLnFSNT_yfJw6nDYS3A1rIVoM31Vikb3Ik9lkNzKgk.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=8906e194f2dd40ae383c7452b08117bd70faa9d8","alt":"Made a thing: Discord voice ducking for Linux (CachyOS tested)","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vwms6e/"},"about":"Discord on Linux lacks the \"Attenuation\" setting that turns down your game or music while someone is talking, so the poster built it with Claude Code. Discord plays into a null sink whose monitor drives the sidechain of an EasyEffects compressor; everything except Discord runs through that compressor, so Discord can't duck itself. No device names are hardcoded, so it follows your default output when you switch headphones.\n\nThe compressor threshold turned out not to be portable: references suggested -30 dB but the poster's real speech peaked at -34.8 dBFS, so it barely triggered. A measure command now reads your actual levels during a call. Tested on CachyOS; the poster says they went through the scripts themselves but isn't a professional developer.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/K-Sugar/discord-ducking","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/K-Sugar/discord-ducking"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T11:09:54+00:00"},{"id":"cosmolancer-a-remake-of-the-ios-board-game-kingd-3c4c","title":"Cosmolancer, a remake of the iOS board game Kingdoms that stopped working","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A favourite iOS board game stopped working after OS updates, so the poster had Claude rebuild it over a weekend with P2P multiplayer and computer opponents.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Created a Kingdoms/Cosmolancer clone since the iOS version stopped working years ago","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1u528mh/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1u528mh","authors":[{"name":"maximm3k","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/maximm3k/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-06-13T21:08:25.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: rosovat.com","url":"https://rosovat.com/","kind":"Blog","note":"The game's website."}],"ref":"3c4caf9","image":{"url":"https://rosovat.com/og.png","alt":"Preview image from rosovat.com","credit":"rosovat.com","from":"https://rosovat.com/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/rou06j7a747h1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=8ba73db1cf17672d5aa23bf4d076b2f72998cbff","alt":"Created a Kingdoms/Cosmolancer clone since the iOS version stopped working years ago","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1u528mh/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/pfc8oj7a747h1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=4cbc6d88efd5d11191aab40929e7a5df54e89ce3","alt":"Created a Kingdoms/Cosmolancer clone since the iOS version stopped working years ago","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1u528mh/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/xd4ikj7a747h1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=2781d42ae839f868892e4b1685304441994109c8","alt":"Created a Kingdoms/Cosmolancer clone since the iOS version stopped working years ago","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1u528mh/"}],"about":"The poster played the board game Kingdoms on iOS almost every day, but it stopped being updated and an iOS update or two later it simply stopped working. Over a weekend they used Claude to make their own version, now called Cosmolancer, with peer-to-peer multiplayer and computer opponents they describe as really hard to beat.","_added":"2026-11-06T11:09:54+00:00"},{"id":"a-modern-remake-of-the-commodore-64-game-wizard-cfe9","title":"A modern remake of the Commodore 64 game Wizard of Wor","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Rather than set up a C64 emulator on a Fire Stick, the poster wrote a Wizard of Wor clone in two days with Claude and other models.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I've created a modern clone of Wizard of Wor","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1wbhyeh/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1wbhyeh","authors":[{"name":"stop_banning_me_omg","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/stop_banning_me_omg/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-09-09T10:38:42.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/gcsaba2/wow2","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"gcsaba2","url":"https://github.com/gcsaba2","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"cfe950d","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/scPDfJthSFGtN3_08n8StiPw8u5z9bOm7iFApeOWXYM.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=7cd1a2d0e6260b6640868ce094f0cdcfbcdb4c3f","alt":"I've created a modern clone of Wizard of Wor","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1wbhyeh/"},"about":"The poster wanted to play Wizard of Wor on an Amazon Fire Stick, but that meant installing a Commodore 64 emulator, legally obtaining the game's files and mapping a PlayStation 4 controller. After an hour they gave up and wrote their own version instead, which took two days.\n\nThe coding was done with Claude, GPT, GLM and some DeepSeek, the sprites with ChatGPT and the sounds with ElevenLabs; most of the time went on sprites and sound effects. 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It manages a 12 kWp solar system with a SolaX X3-Hybrid G4 inverter, 34 kWh of battery storage and a SolaX EV charger, with the inverter controlled locally over Modbus TCP on time-of-use pricing.\n\nThe automations include battery management to maximise self-consumption, solar forecasting for battery optimisation and BMS calibration, EV charging from excess solar, dishwasher scheduling on solar surplus, peak grid alerts and daily energy reports. 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It holds the iPad with 3mm square magnets laid out the same way as on the Magic Keyboard, and holds on \"pretty tight\".\n\nThey skipped built-in charging to keep the iPad mobile, and have not yet made a dedicated dashboard for it.","_added":"2026-11-06T11:09:54+00:00"},{"id":"an-old-kindle-paperwhite-as-an-e-paper-wall-pane-767e","title":"An old Kindle Paperwhite as an e-paper wall panel","topic":"E-readers & handhelds","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Repurposing to a new role","Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A jailbroken Kindle Paperwhite running KOReader controls the lights and blinds of a winter garden, set up with Claude.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: The best an cheapest wall panel with e-paper","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1xop88k/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/homeassistant.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xop88k","authors":[{"name":"123Test1234Test","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/123Test1234Test/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-11-05T17:49:31.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"767e120","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/fkuo1kol0uzh1.jpeg?width=960&auto=webp&s=9374bd6471c5233515a7d7deabacfc9268753dff","alt":"The best an cheapest wall panel with e-paper","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1xop88k/"},"about":"The poster turned an older Kindle Paperwhite into a wall panel for a winter garden, showing several lights, sun blinds and the temperature. The Kindle is jailbroken, runs KOReader and connects to the local network over Wi-Fi.\n\nThey found the approach online and \"vibecoded it with Claude\". They say it works flawlessly and the Kindle cost about 50 euros.","_added":"2026-11-06T11:09:54+00:00"},{"id":"a-family-friendly-set-up-page-for-ikea-bilresa-r-d3c6","title":"A family-friendly set-up page for IKEA BILRESA remotes","topic":"Smart home","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A Home Assistant UI built with Claude Code lets anyone at home assign button actions to IKEA BILRESA remotes through one central automation.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Wanted to make IKEA BILRESA remotes easier for everyone at home - the result","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1xnr2r9/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/homeassistant.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xnr2r9","authors":[{"name":"just-rundeer","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/just-rundeer/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-11-04T15:27:38.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"d3c6a51","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/ey6f73dd6mzh1.png?width=640&auto=webp&s=02cc698a747ea7e31e6519780b3758162a74e28e","alt":"Wanted to make IKEA BILRESA remotes easier for everyone at home - the result","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1xnr2r9/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/nvjdmhid6mzh1.png?width=640&auto=webp&s=1a89668c746bbacddf42e8818f29207d1e944ed0","alt":"Wanted to make IKEA BILRESA remotes easier for everyone at home - the result","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1xnr2r9/"}],"about":"Tired of keeping a separate automation for every IKEA BILRESA remote, and of changing them themselves whenever someone wanted different buttons, the poster built a small UI with Claude Code. Remotes are listed automatically with their names and rooms, and each shows a small picture of the remote in its IKEA colour.\n\nSingle press, double press and hold can be set per button, and the scroll wheel's turns, presses and holds per LED, with several actions chained together. 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The first version was three files, later split into a more modular structure.\n\nAsked to \"pick something fun\" to add with no guidance, Claude chose a dash mechanic with knockback collisions, which they kept and tuned. It runs on Bun with WebSockets, Redis for matchmaking and PostgreSQL, using a binary protocol, client-side prediction with interpolation and 30Hz server-authoritative netcode.","_added":"2026-11-06T11:09:54+00:00"},{"id":"tapestry-a-cassette-deck-player-for-archiveorg-r-c197","title":"Tapestry, a cassette-deck player for archive.org recordings","topic":"Music & audio","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A macOS app built with Claude Code that searches archive.org and plays to Lyrion, DLNA players or the Mac through a cassette-deck interface.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Tapestry, a cassette-deck UI for archive.org → Lyrion / DLNA / your Mac","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1t7lw2j/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/SideProject.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1t7lw2j","authors":[{"name":"septemous","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/septemous/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-05-08T21:52:19.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: archive.org","url":"http://archive.org/","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"c197e58","about":"Finding the archive.org plugin bundled with Lyrion clunky, more a favourites browser than a search tool, the maker built a replacement with Claude Code. You type a search such as \"pink floyd 1973\", load it and press play on a deck styled after a Sony cassette.\n\nAudio goes to a Lyrion player found on the network, any DLNA renderer or the Mac's speakers, and a mix-tape mode builds 90-minute playlists. It has been tested on a MacBook and an iMac and is MIT licensed.","_added":"2026-11-06T11:09:54+00:00"},{"id":"a-spam-sign-up-attack-on-a-hobby-app-analysed-wi-19cf","title":"A spam sign-up attack on a hobby app analysed with Claude Code","topic":"Security research","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"After 5,474 fake accounts flooded a personal GTD app overnight, Claude Code analysed the logs, mapped the attack and helped add basic defences.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Woke up to 5,474 users: An accidental security lesson","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1q13rom/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/SideProject.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1q13rom","authors":[{"name":"femtowin","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/femtowin/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-01-01T13:04:52.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: gtd.nebulame.com","url":"https://gtd.nebulame.com/","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"19cf740","about":"The maker built a personal GTD app, an OmniFocus-style task system, with Claude Code for themselves and a few friends. Overnight, a script hammered the unprotected sign-up and inbox endpoints, taking it from 38 users to 5,512 and the database from 400KB to 12MB in about four and a half hours. There was no rate limiting, captcha or email verification, which they call a \"classic beginner mistake\".\n\nThey gave Claude Code the logs, data patterns and API structure. It mapped the attack, helped design a threat model and suggested fixes they put in, including flagging suspicious accounts rather than deleting them and rate limiting registration.","_added":"2026-11-06T11:09:54+00:00"},{"id":"a-click-bot-restoring-one-click-rdp-files-after-09b5","title":"A click bot restoring one-click RDP files after a Windows update","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A small non-admin tool that clicks through the new Windows RDP file prompt, converted from Visual Basic to C# by Claude to cut its size.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Non-admin workaround for Windows April 2026 RDP file \"popup\" annoyance. 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The maker wrote a small click bot that restores the old double-click-and-type routine without admin rights.\n\nThe first version was about 95% hand-written in Visual Basic, with Claude helping to hide brief command windows. Because the VB app needed dependencies or a 170MB file, Claude converted the whole program to C# for the second version. Colleagues have found it useful.","_added":"2026-11-06T11:09:54+00:00"},{"id":"a-2010-flashlight-app-rebuilt-in-swift-after-13-1bfc","title":"A 2010 flashlight app rebuilt in Swift after 13 years","topic":"Legacy code revival","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A koala-themed flashlight app with 300k downloads, written in Objective-C in 2010, was rebuilt from scratch in SwiftUI with Claude's help.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I rebuilt my 2010 flashlight app in Swift after 13 years away — solo, with AI","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1t0lzsj/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/SideProject.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1t0lzsj","authors":[{"name":"ArtofNor","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/ArtofNor/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-05-01T07:05:08.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: testflight.apple.com","url":"https://testflight.apple.com/join/E4DRYvNh","kind":"Blog","note":"The TestFlight beta."}],"ref":"1bfce05","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/h8jjJdT-meQxPjK7jE_pjoTmmKac5YaI4vrT4nEYqXQ.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=a5c14e950eae134239eb1fc01ecaddabe966b28f","alt":"I rebuilt my 2010 flashlight app in Swift after 13 years away — solo, with AI","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1t0lzsj/"},"about":"In 2010 the maker turned a cast of characters, led by a green koala called Kiwi, into a flashlight app. It reached about 300,000 downloads, mostly in China, before Apple added its own flashlight in 2013. The app was Objective-C and the maker never learned Swift, so it went into hibernation.\n\nThey used Claude to learn Swift and SwiftUI from zero and rebuilt it from scratch as a character utility app with a flashlight, timers, a meditation mode, Live Activities, widgets and a small Haiku-powered assistant with guardrails for younger users. Characters were redrawn in Figma and animated in SwiftUI. They say the move should have taken a year but took a few weeks. 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At this early stage it has a kernel, UI, console, simple memory management, a filesystem, networking, touch support, a soft keyboard, fonts and image rendering, shown in a video.\n\nIt has not yet run on a real device; the maker is looking for drivers for a phone such as a Samsung S3, and hopes to turn it into an operating system controlled entirely by AI.","_added":"2026-11-06T11:09:54+00:00"},{"id":"google-assistant-voice-and-keyboard-restored-on-5c5d","title":"Google Assistant voice and keyboard restored on a Google TV","topic":"Smart TVs","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"YouTube","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code helped make a 3.5 KB tool that brought back the voice button and keyboard on a Google TV whose Google Assistant had gone missing.","sources":[{"name":"YouTube: Claude Code helped me fix my broken Google TV","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpzZLQaniaE","kind":"Video","note":"The maker's YouTube video.","authors":[{"name":"Sandboxed","role":"Video channel"}],"publishedAt":"2026-11-05T20:00:12Z","dateKind":"published"}],"ref":"5c5d25a","image":{"url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VpzZLQaniaE/hqdefault.jpg","alt":"Video thumbnail: YouTube: Claude Code helped me fix my broken Google TV","credit":"youtube.com","from":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpzZLQaniaE"},"about":"On the maker's Google TV, both the remote's voice button and the on-screen keyboard rely on Google Assistant, and the Assistant had disappeared. 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With Claude's help they created the parts and completed their PCB.","projectLinks":[{"type":"video","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD47q0yow_I","sourceUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD47q0yow_I"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T11:09:55+00:00"},{"id":"a-windows-install-wrecked-by-claude-desktop-comm-8824","title":"A Windows install wrecked by Claude Desktop command access","topic":"Operating systems","outcome":"Failed","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"Claude Desktop with command and filesystem access ran a recursive forced delete with system-wide scope, forcing a full Windows reinstall.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I'm Lazy, so Claude Desktop + MCPs Corrupted My OS","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1lbb85f/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1lbb85f","authors":[{"name":"Physical_Ad9040","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Physical_Ad9040/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2025-06-14T15:22:33.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers?tab=readme-ov-file","kind":"Primary","note":"Linked in the post.","authors":[{"name":"modelcontextprotocol","url":"https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"88243b5","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/modelcontextprotocol/servers","alt":"Model Context Protocol Reference Servers. 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The poster says it was their own fault for letting it run system commands.","story":"Horror story","wentWrong":"Deleted data","lesson":"Giving an agent unconfirmed command access to your whole system means one bad command can wipe it.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers?tab=readme-ov-file","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers?tab=readme-ov-file"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"home-directory-wiped-after-approving-the-wrong-c-3fcd","title":"Home directory wiped after approving the wrong Claude command","topic":"Operating systems","outcome":"Failed","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"A wrong approval let Claude delete the poster's home directory, with no recent backup or remote push to fall back on.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I accidentally approved Claude to delete my home directory — you should always use sandboxes","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1mr9myv/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1mr9myv","authors":[{"name":"XenophonCydrome","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/XenophonCydrome/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2025-08-15T20:38:55.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: open.substack.com","url":"https://open.substack.com/pub/toolprint/p/i-asked-claude-to-wipe-my-laptop?r=66x4t8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked from the post."}],"ref":"3fcd124","image":{"url":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JB3l!,w_1200,h_675,c_fill,f_jpg,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc61b71ab-f52c-4bc8-8c34-00167b9b9a3a_1536x1024.png","alt":"Preview image from open.substack.com","credit":"open.substack.com","from":"https://open.substack.com/pub/toolprint/p/i-asked-claude-to-wipe-my-laptop?r=66x4t8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/Zp84-mvAWTkNyKZ-97kgEgr83YDYVU6CHvk64vtJuUE.jpeg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=cd602d4ab44d53a66752ee2e6dfe59c0ca118dbc","alt":"I accidentally approved Claude to delete my home directory — you should always use sandboxes","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1mr9myv/"}],"about":"While multitasking, the poster approved a Claude Code command that deleted their home directory. They say they were not using \"dangerously skip permissions\"; they simply approved the wrong thing, and they had no recent backups and had not pushed to a remote.\n\nThe post suggests guardrails: pre-execution checks that flag risky commands, soft deletes by default, sandbox isolation away from the host OS, and a second set of eyes on destructive actions. A longer write-up is linked.","story":"Horror story","wentWrong":"Deleted data","lesson":"Run agents in a sandbox and keep backups, because one careless approval can delete your home directory.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-firestore-database-wiped-after-a-request-to-re-7579","title":"A Firestore database wiped after a request to remove notifications","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Failed","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"Asked to remove two unwanted notification types, Claude deployed the fix and then wiped the poster's entire Firestore database.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: So, it happened to me - catastrophic error","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1mzjn18/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1mzjn18","authors":[{"name":"reviewwworld","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/reviewwworld/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2025-08-25T07:05:57.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"757977f","about":"The poster asked Claude to stop creating two kinds of notification (\"movie share is ready\" and \"preparing movies\") and approved a plan that explicitly covered only that. Claude removed the notification code, deployed the updated Cloud Functions and wrote a cleanup function, which it described as \"available\" rather than run.\n\nThe poster says Claude then went on to wipe the entire Firestore database. The post text available here ends at that point, so the recovery is not described.","story":"Horror story","wentWrong":"Deleted data","lesson":"An approved plan that sounds narrow does not stop an agent running a destructive step it only described as available.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-microgreens-mini-farm-with-claude-code-in-char-190d","title":"A microgreens mini-farm with Claude Code in charge of watering","topic":"Smart home","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building a hardware gadget","Automating with Claude","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"A Raspberry Pi grows microgreens while Claude Code checks photos and sensors, decides when to water, and emails a report.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Automated microgreens mini-farm ran by Claude Code","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1mzqmyv/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1mzqmyv","gone":"removed"}],"ref":"190d186","about":"The poster built a microgreens mini-farm on a Raspberry Pi as a fun proof of concept for using Claude in industrial settings. When an assessment is due, Claude Code is launched programmatically, takes a photo, compares it with earlier ones, and reads the water reservoir and soil moisture sensors.\n\nIt then decides whether to water, logs what it did and why, schedules its next assessment and emails a full report. It controls the camera and water pumps within a few hard-coded minimums and maximums. Claude wrote the MCP servers and helper scripts itself, while the poster put the hardware together, and it works.","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/tc6gimtm46lf1.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=ac430938d5f895321aea789e15b9d9818382fa33","alt":"Automated microgreens mini-farm ran by Claude Code","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1mzqmyv/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/crzgjvum46lf1.jpg?width=320&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=93cebbff32acd0d660a158596ad8bf88ea2b6feb","alt":"Automated microgreens mini-farm ran by Claude Code","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1mzqmyv/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/3jmc6ntm46lf1.jpg?width=320&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=0551ec52c205af871d1ee58be56ad5e58d6c11f0","alt":"Automated microgreens mini-farm ran by Claude Code","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1mzqmyv/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/uax9tltm46lf1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=92251c63ebc06b2a34ab47c2bc7a2487e763211a","alt":"Automated microgreens mini-farm ran by Claude Code","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1mzqmyv/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/iuk3kotm46lf1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=203aee2f79cf18497898c1aaf7038fa55ae4ff2b","alt":"Automated microgreens mini-farm ran by Claude Code","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1mzqmyv/"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-lego-bike-racetrack-driven-by-real-exercise-bi-a32f","title":"A Lego bike racetrack driven by real exercise-bike power","topic":"Embedded & microcontrollers","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Capturing USB or BLE traffic","Building a hardware gadget","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"A tabletop goldsprint game where stationary bike power moves Lego bikes, with Claude probing the Bluetooth trainers and writing the software.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Turning bike power into a Lego racetrack - built with Claude","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1n50l2c/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1n50l2c","gone":"deleted"},{"name":"Photos: imgur.com","url":"https://imgur.com/a/s5Rug6P","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"a32f0dc","about":"This is a work-in-progress tabletop goldsprint game: each lane is controlled by the power output of a stationary bicycle, so more watts make a Lego bike go faster. It uses a Raspberry Pi, an Arduino, DC motors and sensors.\n\nThe poster had no electronics experience and almost no coding experience. Claude helped probe the Bluetooth trainers to find where the power data lives, explained electronics basics and wrote all the software. The first version used servo motors and \"worked\", but the motion and speed range were poor, so the poster switched to DC motors with encoders and is rebuilding the backend and Bluetooth control.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"an-old-serial-only-audio-matrix-switch-turned-in-5e4f","title":"An old serial-only audio matrix switch turned into a stereo preamp","topic":"Repurposed hardware","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Repurposing to a new role","Building a replacement app","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"A Précis DSP 18x18 matrix switch with no front panel became a configurable preamp with web interfaces, built in about four days with Claude.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Configurable Stereo Preamp from Matrix Switch","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1n4lrdy/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1n4lrdy","authors":[{"name":"jerimiah797","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/jerimiah797/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2025-08-31T04:40:45.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"5e4f904","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/07t7fmwzaamf1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=dc20b9dd7fcd2029760287895c66e6d44684d5a5","alt":"Configurable Stereo Preamp from Matrix Switch","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1n4lrdy/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/glqka9xzaamf1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=8238360f8f3e173dc7ecd1ad283efe6a8cd107d5","alt":"Configurable Stereo Preamp from Matrix Switch","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1n4lrdy/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/lw4b49xzaamf1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=53c2c621437a912a280c6757e7f51a83aff69302","alt":"Configurable Stereo Preamp from Matrix Switch","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1n4lrdy/"}],"about":"The poster's Denon receiver could not record from one tape loop to another, and they also have cassette decks, a reel-to-reel and a Sonos Connect. They found an old Précis DSP 18x18 audio matrix switch with no front panel controls, only a serial port, and set out to turn it into a configurable stereo preamp.\n\nIn about four days, working with Claude, they had full serial control of the switch, an API, auto-updating web interfaces over websockets, three web interfaces and setup screens. Each tape loop added gets its own record panel, and the main output has volume, tone and balance. It is web-only for now; the poster is considering physical controls.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"clozure-common-lisp-reimplemented-in-swift-fa56","title":"Clozure Common Lisp reimplemented in Swift","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"An implementation of Clozure Common Lisp in and on Swift 6, with a graphical REPL and live system browser, still rough in places.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: TurboLisp: a Common Lisp implementation written in Swift","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1mz72vi/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1mz72vi","gone":"deleted"},{"name":"The video: youtu.be","url":"https://youtu.be/8d-ED-XQ-Do","kind":"Video","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"fa565d3","image":{"url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8d-ED-XQ-Do/hqdefault.jpg","alt":"Video thumbnail: The video: youtu.be","credit":"youtube.com","from":"https://youtu.be/8d-ED-XQ-Do"},"about":"The poster built an implementation of Clozure Common Lisp in Swift 6, using Claude. Working features include a live Smalltalk-like System Browser that can edit variables, a graphical REPL with syntax highlighting and inspector popups, a full CLOS implementation with most of the MOP, and conditions and restarts.\n\nIt is described as rough around the edges: the format and loop implementations are incomplete, and the poster says loop was far harder than expected. A demo video is linked.","projectLinks":[{"type":"video","url":"https://youtu.be/8d-ED-XQ-Do","sourceUrl":"https://youtu.be/8d-ED-XQ-Do"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-balancing-two-wheeled-robot-trained-in-a-web-s-e04e","title":"A balancing two-wheeled robot trained in a web simulation","topic":"Robots","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Custom firmware or bootloader","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"Claude Code built a browser simulation to train a balancing agent, then adapted the robot's firmware to run the exported model.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Fun weekend web app project building a two wheel bot simulation for RL","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1n1fmza/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1n1fmza","authors":[{"name":"I_am_purrfect","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/I_am_purrfect/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2025-08-27T12:27:32.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: botsim.orenslab.com","url":"https://botsim.orenslab.com","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"e04e2fc","about":"The poster had wanted to try reinforcement learning on a two-wheeled robot but found it too much effort. With Claude Code (Opus 4.1 and Sonnet 4) they had a web-based simulation running in a day and the agent balancing the next day.\n\nClaude Code then modified the existing firmware and wrote inference code for the exported model. The model was not perfectly trained for the real robot, but it could stay upright, with some oscillation, for a while. The simulation is hosted online and the code is on GitHub.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"qwen3-inference-on-apple-silicon-gpus-with-metal-3253","title":"Qwen3 inference on Apple Silicon GPUs with Metal shaders","topic":"On-device AI","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Porting to a new platform","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"A Metal GPU implementation of Qwen3 inference built on qwen3.c, reaching about 75 tokens a second on an M1 Max.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: MetalQwen3: Full GPU-Accelerated Qwen3 Inference on Apple Silicon with Metal Shaders – Built on qwen","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1nxno5q/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1nxno5q","authors":[{"name":"QuanstScientist","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/QuanstScientist/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2025-10-04T07:33:28.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/BoltzmannEntropy/metalQwen3","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"BoltzmannEntropy","url":"https://github.com/BoltzmannEntropy","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"3253abf","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/6fggsg5ss1tf1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=7e2b5612f8d1122e68ea2269e0b357c767c88ec9","alt":"MetalQwen3: Full GPU-Accelerated Qwen3 Inference on Apple Silicon with Metal Shaders – Built on qwen3.c, using Claude Code CLI","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1nxno5q/"},"about":"MetalQwen3 is a Metal compute shader version of Qwen3 transformer inference for macOS, built on Adrian Cable's educational qwen3.c project. The poster says AI coding agents including Claude Code cut the work from months to weeks.\n\nAll the core operations (RMSNorm, quantised matrix multiplication, softmax, SwiGLU, RoPE and multi-head attention) run on the GPU with no CPU fallbacks. It reaches around 75 tokens a second on an M1 Max, about 2.1 times the CPU baseline. The poster says it is educational and not meant to replace llama.cpp or vLLM.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/BoltzmannEntropy/metalQwen3","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/BoltzmannEntropy/metalQwen3"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-self-tuning-http-tarpit-for-trapping-malicious-97b1","title":"A self-tuning HTTP tarpit for trapping malicious scanners","topic":"Security research","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"A Python HTTP tarpit built with Claude holds suspicious connections for over a minute on average while using few resources.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: HTTP Tarpit","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1n4fq5m/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1n4fq5m","gone":"removed"}],"ref":"97b17c7","about":"The poster used Claude to build an HTTP tarpit in Python for security economics research. An nginx reverse proxy forwards likely malicious traffic (such as requests direct by IP or for files like .env) to it, and the tarpit tries to hold each connection as long as possible using few local resources.\n\nEarly versions barely trapped connections and used a lot of resources. After a redesign using a pool of strategies drawn from Claude's knowledge of HTTP, it holds connections for over a minute on average with little impact. It picks the most effective strategies with one of four algorithms and writes learning-state and metrics files in JSON.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-web-character-creator-that-exports-old-school-6025","title":"A web character creator that exports Old School RuneScape models to Blender","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Decompiling software","Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"A Three.js tool reads OSRS cache files and sends rigged characters to a Blender addon, built with Claude.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Built with Claude! - OSRS Blender Bridge - Complete 3D Character Creator & Blender Exporter","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1myobri/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1myobri","authors":[{"name":"TheCheesy","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/TheCheesy/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2025-08-24T06:31:49.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: psyda.github.io","url":"https://Psyda.github.io/OSRS-Blender-CharacterCreator/","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"6025dc6","about":"The poster built a pipeline for Old School RuneScape characters: a Three.js web app that reads directly from the game's cache files and lets you browse over 20,000 gear and customisation options, plus a Blender addon that imports the models with their vertex weights and bone structures intact.\n\nThey describe the cache format as undocumented, with custom compression and a proprietary 3D model format that uses vertex animation without a skeleton. A live demo and the addon download are linked.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-habitable-zone-exoplanet-visualiser-built-with-30cc","title":"A habitable-zone exoplanet visualiser built with Claude","topic":"Science & research","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"A 2D and 3D visualiser of habitable-zone exoplanets near Earth, with SQL queries against NASA's exoplanet archive.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Habitable Zone Exoplanet Visualizer (and book website)","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1mz6doc/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1mz6doc","gone":"deleted"}],"ref":"30cc16f","about":"An author researching habitable zone planets for a book on radio astronomy used claude.ai to write the HTML and JavaScript for a visualiser of nearby habitable-zone exoplanets, with very explicit prompts. The data comes from NASA's Exoplanet Archive TAP interface, and Claude helped modify URL-encoded SQL queries directly.\n\nThe poster tested often because Claude makes mistakes. Claude used different rendering approaches in different chats, and kept the galactic plane at the wrong angle for a while, insisting it was correct. It took several rebuilds, and the poster is still not certain the angle is right.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"tap-to-click-for-the-apple-magic-mouse-f21f","title":"Tap-to-click for the Apple Magic Mouse","topic":"Printers & peripherals","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building a replacement app","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"A small macOS tool that adds tap-to-click to the Magic Mouse, written with Claude after a paid app failed.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I vibe coded a little macOS program","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1o2df9u/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1o2df9u","authors":[{"name":"_meatpaste","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/_meatpaste/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2025-10-09T18:14:15.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/meatpaste/mousetoucher","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"meatpaste","url":"https://github.com/meatpaste","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"f21f42e","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/gW1d-bE1gZgM0CnEkLTEZPWWuPJOgZovUibznwCVO_k.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=d7001067a6090004db87066046fed3d319dd99f6","alt":"I vibe coded a little macOS program","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1o2df9u/"},"about":"The poster found the mouse click annoying in a quiet room and wanted tap-to-click, a feature Apple offers for the trackpad but not the Magic Mouse. An existing app did this, but its free trial would not work, so they asked Claude to write a replacement. The result is a project called mousetoucher on GitHub. The post does not describe testing or how it behaves.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/meatpaste/mousetoucher","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/meatpaste/mousetoucher"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-film-camera-rangefinder-app-for-the-rollei-35-6caa","title":"A film-camera rangefinder app for the Rollei 35","topic":"App teardowns & analysis","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building a replacement app","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"An iOS app that works as a rangefinder and exposure aid for a Rollei 35 film camera, built with Claude Code in a month of spare time.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Shipped a production iOS app in one month of spare time using vibe coding - LiDAR, CoreML, Metal ren","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1o3lb9l/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1o3lb9l","authors":[{"name":"Vurtnec","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Vurtnec/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2025-10-11T03:32:01.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"6caaaf7","about":"It started as a weekend project: the poster needed a rangefinder for Rollei 35 film photography. Over about a month of evenings in July 2025, Claude Code helped build an iOS app using LiDAR distance measurement, CoreML scene detection for exposure suggestions, Metal film-look previews and spot metering.\n\nThe poster says Claude handled hard parts such as ARKit and AVFoundation session conflicts, Metal shader optimisation and the exposure calculations. The app is on the App Store as Filmmeter, free with optional tips.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-ps5-controller-driving-a-bluetooth-speaker-5d00","title":"A PS5 controller driving a Bluetooth speaker","topic":"Printers & peripherals","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code","Codex"],"methods":["Automating with Claude","Building a hardware gadget"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"A script that lets a PS5 controller control a Bluetooth speaker, generated by Claude Code from a plain prompt.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I tested Codex & Claude Code after OpenAI’s Dev Day - controlled my Bluetooth speaker using my PS5 c","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1o5d91z/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1o5d91z","authors":[{"name":"siddhantshah86","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/siddhantshah86/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2025-10-13T07:31:30.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The video: youtube.com","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkQyROJ5C7Q","kind":"Video","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI."},{"name":"Reddit: I tested Codex & Claude Code after OpenAI’s Dev Day - controlled my Bluetooth speaker usin","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1o5d9pq/","kind":"Forum","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1o5d9pq","authors":[{"name":"siddhantshah86","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/siddhantshah86/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2025-10-13T07:32:42.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"5d00e94","image":{"url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xkQyROJ5C7Q/hqdefault.jpg","alt":"Video thumbnail: The video: youtube.com","credit":"youtube.com","from":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkQyROJ5C7Q"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/qxzHW4_vtJDDv-70Y8tnMoze4yIe77fXP7ePvSpmonU.jpeg?width=320&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=b2dab0403d528b335f3abb64029ec5a2a2fc06be","alt":"I tested Codex & Claude Code after OpenAI’s Dev Day - controlled my Bluetooth speaker using my PS5 controller","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1o5d91z/"}],"about":"Inspired by an OpenAI demo of a controller operating stage lights, the poster asked both Codex and Claude Code for a script that controls their Bluetooth speaker with a PS5 controller. Codex managed it in one shot, while Claude got it right after one clarification.\n\nThe poster shared a short demo video of the result.","projectLinks":[{"type":"video","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkQyROJ5C7Q","sourceUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkQyROJ5C7Q"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"developer-tools-for-a-dreamcast-emulator-06af","title":"Developer tools for a Dreamcast emulator","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"A browser-based debugger and devtools UI for the nullDC Dreamcast emulator, built almost entirely by prompting Claude Code.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I vibed together a devtools for my dreamcast emulator!","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1o7csbo/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1o7csbo","gone":"removed"},{"name":"The project: nulldc-debugger.fly.dev","url":"https://nulldc-debugger.fly.dev","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."},{"name":"Reddit: I vibed together a devtools for my dreamcast emulator!","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1o7l9qy/","kind":"Forum","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1o7l9qy","gone":"removed"}],"ref":"06af6ea","about":"The poster built a devtools interface for their Dreamcast emulator, nullDC. It runs online with a mock server behind it, and also works with the real emulator. The source is open on GitHub under the MIT licence.\n\nThe UI was written through the Claude Code extension for Visual Studio Code. The poster says they hand-fixed one CSS bug and redesigned 20 to 30 lines, with the rest done by prompting.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-viewer-for-ninja-ripper-nr-3d-files-8745","title":"A viewer for Ninja Ripper .nr 3D files","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude","Codex"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"A simple 3D viewer for Ninja Ripper .nr files, rebuilt in Rust from a Blender importer after Codex gave up and Claude finished it.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: When told that he solved something that Codex failed at","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1oe2zhr/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1oe2zhr","authors":[{"name":"subzerofun","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/subzerofun/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2025-10-23T13:15:59.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"874587a","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/5ugc6ulwzuwf1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=dd8998a0f5fb19853eca819b6dd2946bed9c89c1","alt":"When told that he solved something that Codex failed at","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1oe2zhr/"},"about":"Ninja Ripper is used to rip 3D models from DirectX objects in memory, and there was an existing Blender Python importer for its .nr files. The poster wanted a simple standalone 3D viewer based on it. Codex failed several times, giving up on the maths, so they turned to Claude.\n\nClaude took 4 to 5 minutes where the poster says Codex took far longer. It struggled a little, then realised the vertex coordinates had to be reprojected from the camera view so the models did not look like flat, skewed cardboard. The goal is to grow it into an Adobe Bridge style browser for more obscure 3D formats.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-slow-m1-macbook-air-diagnosed-with-claude-code-0146","title":"A slow M1 MacBook Air diagnosed with Claude Code","topic":"Repairs & diagnostics","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Analysing or auditing software","Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"Claude Code tracked down why a two-year-old M1 Air was slow, freeing 26GB and killing runaway processes in about two hours.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Used Claude Code to fix my M1 Air that's been slow for 2 years","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ol9kds/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1ol9kds","authors":[{"name":"Worldly-Forever-7365","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Worldly-Forever-7365/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2025-10-31T23:35:09.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: medium.com","url":"https://medium.com/@arbab.arshad97/how-i-used-claude-code-to-debug-my-dying-macbook-a-deep-dive-into-macos-performance-archaeology-f0cd7b59c563","kind":"Blog","note":"The write-up on Medium."}],"ref":"01465bb","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/xkf4DFGJJVQAcOm-gRv1XUfT76S6eJbOZ5vCHrldqoM.jpeg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=01f2e480b05849948e42c6e33f4a8953b46e0978","alt":"Used Claude Code to fix my M1 Air that's been slow for 2 years","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ol9kds/"},"about":"The poster had put up with a slow M1 Air for almost two years, assuming the 8GB of RAM was to blame. Claude Code found a Canon webcam service stuck at 100% CPU since October and a 256GB drive that was 94% full, including 15GB of forgotten OneDrive files.\n\nCleaning up freed 26GB and stopped the zombie processes, and the poster says the laptop felt brand new. They also wrote up the diagnostic process in a post on Medium.","detailsReviewedAt":"2026-11-06","creators":[{"name":"Worldly-Forever-7365","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Worldly-Forever-7365/","role":"Build author","sourceUrl":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ol9kds/"}],"compatibility":[{"device":"M1 MacBook Air, 8GB RAM, 256GB drive","sourceUrl":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ol9kds/"}],"beforeAfter":{"before":"A laptop that had felt slow for almost two years, with a stuck webcam service and a nearly full drive.","after":"The poster reports recovering 26GB, stopping stuck processes and a much more responsive laptop.","metrics":[{"label":"Space recovered","after":26,"unit":"GB"}],"sourceUrl":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ol9kds/"},"claudeContribution":[{"task":"Diagnosed the stuck Canon webcam service and investigated storage use.","tool":"Claude Code","sourceUrl":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ol9kds/"}],"projectLinks":[{"type":"writeup","url":"https://medium.com/@arbab.arshad97/how-i-used-claude-code-to-debug-my-dying-macbook-a-deep-dive-into-macos-performance-archaeology-f0cd7b59c563","sourceUrl":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ol9kds/"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"inside-the-sandbox-behind-claudes-code-execution-1f39","title":"Inside the sandbox behind Claude's code execution","topic":"App teardowns & analysis","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Analysing or auditing software","Reverse engineering a protocol"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2025","desc":"Claude was used to inspect its own code execution sandbox, revealing gVisor isolation, an egress proxy and a large preinstalled image.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I reverse-engineered Claude's code execution sandbox - here's how it works","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1pcama8/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1pcama8","authors":[{"name":"Miclivs","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Miclivs/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2025-12-02T14:59:56.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: michaellivs.com","url":"https://michaellivs.com/blog/sandboxed-execution-environment","kind":"Blog","note":"The write-up on the maker's blog."}],"ref":"1f39947","image":{"url":"https://michaellivs.com/og/sandboxed-execution-environment.png","alt":"Preview image from michaellivs.com","credit":"michaellivs.com","from":"https://michaellivs.com/blog/sandboxed-execution-environment"},"about":"Curious how Anthropic built Claude's code execution feature, the poster used Claude itself to inspect its environment. They report gVisor as the isolation layer, code running as root inside the sandbox, and network access through a JWT-authenticated egress proxy that allows sites such as pypi.org and github.com.\n\nThey also found a custom /process_api binary running as PID 1 and an image of about 9GB containing ffmpeg, ImageMagick, LaTeX, Playwright and LibreOffice. A full write-up and an open-source project, agentbox, accompany the post.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"control-software-for-an-undocumented-uv-galvo-la-7450","title":"Control software for an undocumented UV galvo laser reverse engineered","topic":"Repurposed hardware","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Decompiling software","Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude decompiled the vendor program for a cheap UV galvo laser, worked out its commands and built a better GUI in under five hours.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Reverse engineering Chinese 'shit-program' for absolute glory!","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1qy5l0n/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1qy5l0n","authors":[{"name":"alakuu","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/alakuu/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-02-07T05:40:28.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"7450659","about":"The poster bought a UV galvo laser for about $500 that came with only a Chinese control program, and shelved it for around three years. When they needed it again they fed Claude the whole program, Java and DLLs, and asked it to crack it.\n\nThere was no documentation. Claude decompiled the program without being asked, worked out the Chinese, pulled out the response and comms tables, and ran tests with the poster to see what each command did. When it hit a bug it built a comms sniffer to see the full communication structure for files. The result is a GUI the poster says is far better and fitted to their use case, in under five hours.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-lost-2003-gp32-fan-game-recreated-for-the-game-6d56","title":"A lost 2003 GP32 fan game recreated for the Game Boy Advance","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Porting to a new platform","Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"The original source was lost, so the maker used Claude to recreate the Azumanga Daioh fan game on the GBA, aiming to keep its feel.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I ported my old game to GBA.","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1r1daov/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1r1daov","authors":[{"name":"hada0127","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/hada0127/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-02-10T21:10:03.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/hada0127/azcat-gba","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"hada0127","url":"https://github.com/hada0127","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"6d56b44","image":{"url":"https://github.com/hada0127/azcat-gba/raw/main/screenshots/title.png","alt":"Title","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/hada0127/azcat-gba"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://github.com/hada0127/azcat-gba/raw/main/screenshots/ingame.png","alt":"In-Game","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/hada0127/azcat-gba"},{"url":"https://github.com/hada0127/azcat-gba/raw/main/screenshots/gameover.png","alt":"Game Over","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/hada0127/azcat-gba"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/7zqtz3isfqig1.png?width=216&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=1e034145f236a57e03141ae313c4816b67e8f753","alt":"I ported my old game to GBA.","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1r1daov/"}],"about":"The poster made a fan game based on Azumanga Daioh for the GP32 in 2003, and uploading it to the GP32 community is what set them on the path to becoming a developer. The original source code had been lost.\n\nThey used vibe coding with Claude to recreate it for the Game Boy Advance, trying to preserve the feel of the original. It can be downloaded from the GitHub release page.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/hada0127/azcat-gba","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/hada0127/azcat-gba"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"fifteen-hacked-websites-on-shared-hosting-cleane-b39e","title":"Fifteen hacked websites on shared hosting cleaned up over SSH with Claude","topic":"Repairs & diagnostics","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code","Codex"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"With SSH access, Claude found dozens of malware files on a hacked hosting account, removed them and reset WordPress passwords; Codex reinstalled core files.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: i recovered my hacked hostinger hosting package (15+ WEBSITES) with claude and codex","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1qehdpb/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1qehdpb","authors":[{"name":"Desperate_Bank_8277","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Desperate_Bank_8277/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-01-16T14:27:20.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"b39e380","about":"The poster saw a 500 error on their website and found many unknown files with odd names in their Hostinger account, which held 15 or more sites. Hostinger told them to fix it themselves, and they were travelling away from their main computer, so they gave Claude SSH access.\n\nClaude found tens of different malware files, guided them through the clean-up and deleted them, and changed the WordPress passwords with wp-cli. The poster then gave the same request to Codex, which also reinstalled the WordPress core files.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-60-byte-webrtc-handshake-protocol-that-fits-in-b598","title":"A 60-byte WebRTC handshake protocol that fits in a QR code","topic":"Protocols & abandoned products","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude helped research the WebRTC handshake and check compression maths while the maker shrank a 2.5KB signal into a binary protocol for QR codes.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Using Claude as a \"Protocol Specialist\": How it helped me compress WebRTC from 2.5KB to 60 bytes","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1qku9at/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1qku9at","authors":[{"name":"martinprins","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/martinprins/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-01-23T15:45:36.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"b5986a6","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/sISA8cwr_KGV7vacW0UU91kx3PS2uFiPTKz3RxOGRJg.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=9d095b174104060161234b9e4e1f53584f344ae9","alt":"Using Claude as a \"Protocol Specialist\": How it helped me compress WebRTC from 2.5KB to 60 bytes","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1qku9at/"},"about":"The poster built a custom binary protocol, QWBP, for serverless, air-gapped WebRTC connections made through QR codes. The challenge was shrinking a standard 2.5KB JSON signal to under 100 bytes so it fits a low-density QR code; the title says it ended at about 60 bytes.\n\nThey split the work into two Claude contexts. A research one cross-referenced RFC sections on ICE credentials and confirmed the ICE passwords could be derived from the DTLS fingerprint using HKDF instead of being sent. 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They described what they wanted to Claude Code in plain English and it produced the design in OpenSCAD.\n\nA few hours later they had a physical object. They say it was not perfect but more than good enough. 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They did not want to use SSH because it needs another app, so they switched to a browser-based ttyd terminal.\n\nttyd worked well on an iPad but broke on the iPod, so they told Claude Code to build its own terminal from scratch. 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It shows near-live power use from their own smart meter, the current rate with a countdown to the next off-peak window, EV charging status and history, and half-hourly usage sparklines.\n\nClaude read the docs and worked out authentication and queries, built a Python client, and scaffolded a SwiftUI app using the Xcode build MCP. The poster says the models build exactly what you ask for, including plenty of slop, and keep adding features unless you stop them. The project is open source.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"old-side-project-websites-rebuilt-as-free-static-728f","title":"Old side-project websites rebuilt as free static sites","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code replicated several old websites as static sites, comparing each with the original in Playwright and deploying to Cloudflare Pages.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Migrating old websites into free static sites in one-shot","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1qtvadb/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1qtvadb","authors":[{"name":"victordg","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/victordg/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-02-02T13:39:11.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"728ffb7","about":"The poster had several websites from old side projects that they did not want to delete or pay to host. Claude Code migrated all of them to static sites on Cloudflare Pages, which is free.\n\nEach used a single prompt: replicate the site as a static site, use Playwright to compare the new one with the original and iterate until identical, then deploy with the Cloudflare CLI.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-browser-car-racing-game-with-a-claude-built-ph-f7cc","title":"A browser car racing game with a Claude-built physics engine","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A drifting game for the browser whose custom three.js physics engine and track editor were written by Claude Code.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Built a browser car racing game with Claude Code","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1rdf8xk/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1rdf8xk","authors":[{"name":"DriftClub_gg","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/DriftClub_gg/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-02-24T12:44:03.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: driftclub.gg","url":"http://www.DriftClub.gg","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"f7cc651","image":{"url":"https://driftclub.gg/images/og-teaser-3.jpg","alt":"Drift Club gameplay — a car drifting through a mountain touge road at dusk","credit":"driftclub.gg","from":"http://www.DriftClub.gg"},"about":"DriftClub.gg is a car racing game that runs in a browser. The poster says Claude Code built a custom physics engine on top of three.js, and also built the track editor.\n\nThe only parts made by hand were the car models and the track. 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It has draggable windows, multiple virtual workspaces, a virtual filesystem with persistence, a Vim-style editor, XEmacs and retro browsers such as Netscape and Lynx.\n\nIt also has Motif-style themes, XPM backdrops and a boot sequence inspired by old Debian systems. 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The poster used Claude Code to replace the build tools with 64-bit versions and, for fun, to add a fireball to the game.\n\nIt took about two hours, with disk images built on an Intel MacBook running macOS Sequoia. The repo contains no compiled games and keeps the original licensing. 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They took about 10,000 images of an Amsler Grid through various lenses.\n\nClaude Code wrote the image acquisition program, helped create a standardised Amsler Grid to photograph, trained the machine learning model and built an app with it that was launched on the App Store. 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They had previously configured Home Assistant by hand and ended up with a \"wonky\" dashboard.\n\nWith Claude Code they made big design changes, had it create new dashboards and had it set up a solar charging system from scratch after describing what it should do. 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Claude stripped SDL from 79 source files, and wrote a video renderer using cellGcm, cellAudio mixing, MP3 background music decoding and an input filter for the pad driver. Switching one timer call took it from 0.45fps to 35fps.\n\nThe poster made the architecture decisions and ran every build and test cycle, from WSL2 cross-compiling to RPCS3 to real hardware, debugging through FTP logs. They also wrote a 13-rule \"Tanaka Constitution\" to stop Claude inventing API names. An SPU offload for music worked on the emulator but behaved differently on real hardware.","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/xC2IFO41QY2LbbFTYYDKQf9T_D8xrwCA8vLZ7LfC-qw.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=b02e10189e81c06d7871a58c123a3af77bb3edb5","alt":"I built a PS3 Doom port with zero programming experience using Claude as my coding partner","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1rnvu0p/"},"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"an-office-suite-written-for-the-super-nintendo-53f1","title":"An office suite written for the Super Nintendo","topic":"Retro computing","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A SNES spreadsheet and office-style app built with Claude Code in about a day and a half, tested in Mesen and SNES9x.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I built an office productivity suite.... for Super Nintendo.","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1rp0euv/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1rp0euv","authors":[{"name":"TheNickSchroeder","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/TheNickSchroeder/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-03-09T13:37:17.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/ngschroeder/super-office","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"ngschroeder","url":"https://github.com/ngschroeder","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"53f1580","image":{"url":"https://github.com/ngschroeder/super-office/raw/main/boxart.png","alt":"Super Office App","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/ngschroeder/super-office"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/M2Mxa2FxdHR1MG9nMaSL0AGUu0op6WsEvjXMDtbqak8naoXfrLSyjWIqJPX6.png?width=960&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9a9bbbcc1885e5ad796e8530af8d15470029c341","alt":"Video still: I built an office productivity suite.... for Super Nintendo.","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1rp0euv/"}],"about":"This is an office productivity suite that runs on the Super Nintendo, built for fun with Claude Code. The poster says the spreadsheet only stores information in cells, with no formulas.\n\nIt took about a day and a half from concept to version 1.0.0 and was tested in the Mesen and SNES9x emulators. 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They say Claude is good at writing disassemblers and emulators that are convenient for it to use interactively, and they leaned heavily on that.\n\nThe reverse engineering notes are published alongside the playable game, and the poster gathered the main ideas into a Claude skill for reverse engineering other things.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-200000-line-c-graph-database-ported-to-rust-4516","title":"A 200,000-line C++ graph database ported to Rust","topic":"Legacy code revival","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Porting to a new platform","Modernising legacy code"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A team used a Claude Code custom command to port the kuzu graph database to Rust, with 15 crates ported and 2,700+ tests.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Rukuzu: how we ported a 200,000 line C++ project to Rust and eventually made it faster","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1rpupks/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1rpupks","authors":[{"name":"jabbrwoke","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/jabbrwoke/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-03-10T11:46:11.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/kuzudb/kuzu","kind":"Primary","note":"Linked in the post.","authors":[{"name":"kuzudb","url":"https://github.com/kuzudb","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"4516211","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/CshLHPtyLRrkqg3-6Bd7Z0j-YXFvYU3wDjLB8YeSB4I.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=4471340755b0a80f7719acb874f888ac8be9e86b","alt":"Rukuzu: how we ported a 200,000 line C++ project to Rust and eventually made it faster","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1rpupks/"},"about":"The authors wanted a pure Rust version of the kuzu embedded graph database, about 200,000 lines of C++, for mobile and edge deployments where a C++ toolchain is not available. They developed a workflow, encoded as a Claude Code custom command, to port it step by step while checking the Rust output against the original.\n\nThe result is called rukuzu, with 15 ported crates and over 2,700 tests. The title says it was eventually made faster than the original. 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Some of the measurements are a bit off, but the poster found it a useful way to record what the deck looked like before it is demolished.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-10-year-old-streaming-startup-codebase-rebuilt-d053","title":"A 10-year-old streaming startup codebase rebuilt in five hours","topic":"Legacy code revival","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Modernising legacy code"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"The co-founder fed the old Afrostream repos to Claude Code and rebuilt a simpler version, cutting 60+ tables to 12 and six languages to one.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I fed my 10-year-old YC startup codebase to Claude Code and rebuilt the whole thing in 5 hours","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1rpr8ig/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1rpr8ig","gone":"deleted"},{"name":"The project: open.substack.com","url":"https://open.substack.com/pub/streamingradar/p/i-rebuilt-afrostream-","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"d05389b","about":"In 2015 the poster co-founded Afrostream, a streaming platform with 21 repos, six languages, over 60 database tables and RabbitMQ microservices. They fed the old GitHub repo to Claude Code, used its brainstorming mode, and rebuilt it in about five hours.\n\nThe new version has 12 tables, one language and Postgres triggers instead of RabbitMQ, and is live on Vercel. The poster says the real bottleneck was not code but fetching API keys and finding a poster image. 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The result, tmux-win, is a native multiplexer built on the win32 API and ConPTY, with a client-server design that uses named pipes.\n\nClaude Code handled the win32 structures and process management, and turned the maker's description of how sessions and panes should work into system calls. ConPTY debugging took many iterations before rendering was stable. 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Claude Code wrote the port from JAX to PyTorch, which the poster says it could have done without them.\n\nThe port was validated on Catch. The repository includes a Colab notebook and an API, and the weights are on Hugging Face.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/asystemoffields/disco-torch","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/asystemoffields/disco-torch"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-windows-chromecast-app-made-to-run-under-wine-b59f","title":"A Windows Chromecast app made to run under Wine","topic":"Repairs & diagnostics","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Driver or OS patching","Decompiling software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code debugged a Windows app that would not run under Wine on Linux, stubbing missing functions and patching the binary until it worked.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Using Claude Code to make Windows apps run on Linux with wine","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1rt1s87/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1rt1s87","authors":[{"name":"malderson","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/malderson/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-03-13T22:24:59.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: gist.github.com","url":"https://gist.github.com/martinalderson/2b4185675ac5afc3daeb909ce896e15b","kind":"Primary","note":"The full steps in a GitHub gist."}],"ref":"b59fd0b","image":{"url":"https://github.githubassets.com/assets/gist-og-image-54fd7dc0713e.png","alt":"Airflow on Wine. 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The poster says it was \"a lot of pressing approve\", and the full steps are in a gist.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"solidworks-2025-running-on-proton-4f50","title":"SolidWorks 2025 running on Proton","topic":"Repairs & diagnostics","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Driver or OS patching","Decompiling software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code got SolidWorks 2025 working on Proton/Wine, at one point decompiling, patching and recompiling a Windows installer binary.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Opus 4.6 (1M) - Got SolidWorks 2025 to Work on Proton and Only Used 30% Context","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1ruba9j/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1ruba9j","authors":[{"name":"anonhostpi","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/anonhostpi/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-03-15T11:05:57.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"4f509cc","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/wuks0xsix6pg1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=f16a8dd52fc3e67adec4e8d2b40123ad31b93383","alt":"Opus 4.6 (1M) - Got SolidWorks 2025 to Work on Proton and Only Used 30% Context","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1ruba9j/"},"about":"The poster used Claude Code (Opus 4.6) to get SolidWorks 2025 running on Proton/Wine. They say the last version they knew of working on Linux was 2022.\n\nDuring the same session Claude dumped, reverse engineered, decompiled, patched and recompiled one of the Windows installation binaries to get it to work. The poster says it used about 30% of the context in a single session.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"twenty-years-of-deleted-apple-music-playlists-re-89d5","title":"Twenty years of deleted Apple Music playlists rebuilt","topic":"Repairs & diagnostics","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"After wiping their Apple Music playlists and cloud library, a user had Claude Cowork rebuild 75 playlists from an Apple data export.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: How I Recovered 20+ Years of Deleted Apple Music Playlists in One Day Using Claude Cowork","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1rxr763/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1rxr763","authors":[{"name":"DrinkableReno","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/DrinkableReno/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-03-19T04:50:45.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"89d5dfa","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/f1zi7zzvlxpg1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=229e50233ac47fe45e9382af09262290f7f94102","alt":"How I Recovered 20+ Years of Deleted Apple Music Playlists in One Day Using Claude Cowork","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1rxr763/"},"about":"The poster deleted every Apple Music playlist and the cloud library while trying to fix an iCloud sync issue, losing about 20 years of curation. They had an Apple data export zip file but did not know whether the playlist data could be recovered.\n\nThey pointed Claude Cowork at the export folder. In one conversation it reconstructed 75 playlists, slotted 8,185 tracks back into them, and built three custom tools for the parts automation could not handle.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-custom-bedroom-wall-unit-designed-with-claude-b706","title":"A custom bedroom wall unit designed with Claude Code","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code wrote a Python script that generated carpenter-ready technical drawings for a custom wall unit, which a carpenter then built.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I used Claude Code to design custom furniture.. then actually built it","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1rw7f5n/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1rw7f5n","gone":"deleted"}],"ref":"b706c73","about":"The poster wanted a custom wall unit with a wardrobe, drawers, mirror, fragrance display, hidden compartment and laundry section, and used Claude Code instead of an interior designer or SketchUp. Claude wrote a Python script of about 1,400 lines of matplotlib that produced a dimensioned PDF with a front elevation, plan view and a hidden compartment page.\n\nThe design was changed step by step by describing alterations, and Claude updated the script each time. The poster handed the PDF to a carpenter, who built the unit to spec. It is installed and used daily.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"an-ai-light-show-generator-for-studio-dmx-lighti-2f08","title":"An AI light show generator for studio DMX lighting","topic":"Music & audio","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Automating with Claude","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code found and calibrated a studio's DMX lighting fixtures and now generates light shows from an uploaded track.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I used Claude Code to build an AI-Powered Light Show Generator in my Studio","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1rvewef/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1rvewef","authors":[{"name":"MouseApprehensive185","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/MouseApprehensive185/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-03-16T16:49:24.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"2f08fd2","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/djhpaGJtd3ZyZnBnMTZY1MTlnxVz5JNcnPDpoiujWGTon-ynOl20xfDOv8yi.png?width=960&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=82932ab25b4a443ff9b8fb7699b1aae2c14a6b7f","alt":"Video still: I used Claude Code to build an AI-Powered Light Show Generator in my Studio","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1rvewef/"},"about":"The poster found DMX lighting software slow for hand-crafting shows. Their setup runs from the DMX fixtures through an Enttec DMX device and ArtNet to a computer, where Claude Code found all the fixtures and calibrated them. It knows where each device sits in the studio, plus its channel mappings and capabilities.\n\nAfter uploading a track, the poster can generate a light show instantly without AI, or use an LLM to build one. They say this lets them drop their SoundSwitch lighting software and hardware device.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-chrome-extension-killed-by-manifest-v3-rebuilt-7ae6","title":"A Chrome extension killed by Manifest V3, rebuilt in a week","topic":"Legacy code revival","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Modernising legacy code","Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A discount-finding Chrome extension removed by Google over the Manifest V3 change was rebuilt in seven days with Claude, from the legacy codebase.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I rebuilt a dead Chrome extension in 7 days using Claude. Original build took a year. 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They rebuilt the extension, API, website and a QA agent in seven days, and report 4,000 installs in the first week.","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/dyp6c8s4frpg1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=bd302d43163bf20930a7a86a5e280da822729677","alt":"I rebuilt a dead Chrome extension in 7 days using Claude. Original build took a year. It works 100x better now.","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1rwxnfx/"},"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-custom-dicomweb-server-built-to-replace-slow-o-e9ab","title":"A custom DICOMweb server built to replace slow Orthanc on S3","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Frustrated by Orthanc on S3 being very slow, a developer had Claude Code build a DICOMweb service from scratch in TypeScript for a MedDream viewer.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: So... I Accidentally Created a PACS Server","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1rsyi0q/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1rsyi0q","authors":[{"name":"Rizean","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Rizean/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-03-13T20:19:21.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"e9ab7da","about":"The poster's team has a MedDream DICOM viewer licence and used Orthanc as its backend, with an S3 plugin. Orthanc backed by S3 was unacceptably slow because there was no metadata cache, so each metadata query pulled the DICOM file from S3. Tuning and an optimisation script did not help.\n\nThe poster then sat down with Claude Code to build a DICOMweb service from scratch in TypeScript. The post is a humorous write-up of how they ended up creating a PACS server. The part of the post available here does not show the final performance.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-black-bar-in-ffmpeg-screen-recordings-traced-t-94be","title":"A black bar in ffmpeg screen recordings traced to Chrome's window frame","topic":"Repairs & diagnostics","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code explained a 37-pixel black bar in HTML-to-MP4 recordings as Chrome's window frame offset and fixed the crop with xprop.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Asked Claude to record HTML animations to MP4. 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The fix was about four lines in the script.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"nasos-a-nas-operating-system-for-the-raspberry-p-3cd6","title":"nasOS, a NAS operating system for the Raspberry Pi 5","topic":"Operating systems","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Repurposing to a new role"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A free, open-source NAS operating system for the Raspberry Pi 5 with a desktop UI, built with Claude and still a work in progress.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I spent the week building with Claude, nasOS, an open-source NAS OS for the Raspberry Pi 5 with a fu","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1rv9638/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1rv9638","authors":[{"name":"rttgnck","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/rttgnck/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-03-16T13:17:28.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: rttgnck.github.io","url":"https://rttgnck.github.io/nasOS","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"3cd6fdd","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/wcu8ghfcqepg1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=92fac574fee7834f36ac940d6a6a5e8e25f7913c","alt":"I spent the week building with Claude, nasOS, an open-source NAS OS for the Raspberry Pi 5 with a full desktop UI","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1rv9638/"},"about":"nasOS turns a Raspberry Pi 5 into a network-attached storage device with a desktop environment on a connected display, plus remote access in a web browser. It includes user accounts, a file manager, storage and backup management, a Docker app store, OTA updates, and SMB, NFS and WebDAV shares. It is built with React and FastAPI on Pi OS Bookworm (arm64).\n\nThe maker built it with Claude over a week. They say it is still a work in progress and many features need testing and polish, but the core works: you can flash an SD card, boot the Pi, create shares and share files.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-144m-parameter-diffusion-language-model-traine-66a4","title":"A 144M-parameter diffusion language model trained from scratch","topic":"Science & research","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"In about 50 hours over four weekend days, a developer used Claude Code to go from knowing nothing about diffusion LLMs to training one from scratch.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: A SELF-TAUGHT JOURNEY IN LEARNING DIFFUSION LLMs WITH CLAUDECODE","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1rthpsa/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1rthpsa","gone":"removed"}],"ref":"66a4801","about":"The poster went from knowing nothing about diffusion LLMs to training a 144M-parameter model from scratch in about 50 hours over four weekend days, using Claude Code.\n\nThey say Claude tended to hand-wave core concepts, flatten differences between papers and fabricate implementation details with confidence. They built custom Skills, such as a paper reader that traces formulas back to their assumptions, and read the full papers themselves while Claude wrote code, catching things it missed. They settled on roughly 80% AI and 20% human.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-multi-gpu-version-of-karpathys-autoresearch-lo-c5bf","title":"A multi-GPU version of Karpathy's autoresearch loop","topic":"Science & research","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Automating with Claude","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code helped build a multi-GPU version of Karpathy's autoresearch loop that ran autonomous hyperparameter experiments on two RTX 4090s.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I built multi-gpu implementation for Karpathy's autoresearch loop with claude code","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1rv8c18/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1rv8c18","authors":[{"name":"SeveralSeat2176","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/SeveralSeat2176/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-03-16T12:41:03.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"c5bf240","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/wGUe7ag5cR97h4VGu62SY6j_uzbWJ1E4yc0OTIQUWy8.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=e142d25ceba8bdeb97ce09f72b2996fbbfa02fea","alt":"I built multi-gpu implementation for Karpathy's autoresearch loop with claude code","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1rv8c18/"},"about":"The poster built an n-autoresearch loop, a multi-GPU take on Karpathy's autoresearch, with Claude Code. A one-hour run on two RTX 4090s did autonomous hyperparameter mutation and parallel experiments without supervision.\n\nIt ran 17 experiments with no crashes, improving the baseline from 1.2365 to 1.2182 val_bpb, a 1.48% gain. The poster notes the 4090's 24GB of VRAM forced batch_size=4, so the GPU spends much of its time waiting on memory transfers.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"killall-for-windows-in-c-and-c-b19a","title":"killall for Windows in C# and C++","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A developer who missed Linux's killall on Windows had Claude build two versions, in .NET C# and C++, with extra options like killing by port.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Made killall Windows Process Termination Tools","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1rvzc1b/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1rvzc1b","authors":[{"name":"ButterflyMundane7187","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/ButterflyMundane7187/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-03-17T06:53:33.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/NoCoderRandom/killall","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"NoCoderRandom","url":"https://github.com/NoCoderRandom","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"b19ae08","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/GTOBewALC1pYKAF_49-SwkUp3ebEWGZwKFLtfl9RgAQ.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=63c20633196b01aad77ffafa73b86115c27608d8","alt":"Made killall Windows Process Termination Tools","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1rvzc1b/"},"about":"The poster missed killall on Windows and had Claude build it in two flavours: one in .NET C# and one in C++. They say Claude nearly one-shotted it, with automated testing and self-correction.\n\nThey added options the Linux version lacks, such as killall llm, killall game and killall followed by a port number.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/NoCoderRandom/killall","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/NoCoderRandom/killall"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-whitelist-only-video-player-for-a-toddler-5cf0","title":"A whitelist-only video player for a toddler","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building a replacement app","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A parent frustrated by YouTube for Kids built a simple web app with Claude that plays only an approved list of video URLs.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: [OC] Frustrated by Youtube for Kids, I built a web app using CC","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1rqea02/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1rqea02","authors":[{"name":"VerbaGPT","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/VerbaGPT/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-03-11T00:08:47.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"5cf01f6","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/96rpq8le5bog1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=019755df705e269bcc1b891e3f397112867d4279","alt":"[OC] Frustrated by Youtube for Kids, I built a web app using CC","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1rqea02/"},"about":"The poster has children under five and was unhappy with the strange, AI-generated videos YouTube for Kids kept recommending. YouTube does not let you whitelist videos, so they made a web app with Claude that displays only a curated list of URLs kept in a JSON file.\n\nIt has a timer that stops playback after a set time, live search, categories, a randomiser on the landing page, and deletion of videos behind a maths puzzle. The poster says it looks like the YouTube app. Adding videos is the slow part, since channels cannot be added, only specific videos.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-trifo-lucy-robot-vacuum-rooted-and-controlled-8325","title":"A Trifo Lucy robot vacuum rooted and controlled again","topic":"Protocols & abandoned products","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Custom firmware or bootloader","Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code helped root a robot vacuum whose servers had shut down, then worked out its basic controls and a local server for unrooted devices; map decoding stalled.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude helped me get root access to my robot vacuum. 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Decoding the occupancy grid map file took two weeks of sessions and did not fully work out.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/Gophercs/trifo_lucy_re","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/Gophercs/trifo_lucy_re"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"qnx-641-ported-to-a-new-platform-as-qrv-3b5a","title":"QNX 6.4.1 ported to a new platform as QRV","topic":"Operating systems","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Porting to a new platform","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code did most of the work porting the 2008-era QNX 6.4.1 operating system, now called QRV, which boots to a shell on 4 CPUs in QEMU.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude Code helps to port 17-year-old operating system to a new platform","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1s2d15d/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1s2d15d","authors":[{"name":"r-tty","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/r-tty/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-03-24T12:58:11.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: r-tty.blogspot.com","url":"https://r-tty.blogspot.com/2026/03/qrv-operating-system-first-publication.html","kind":"Blog","note":"The project write-up."}],"ref":"3b5a68e","about":"QRV is a port of QNX 6.4.1, an operating system from around 2008. The poster says Claude Code did almost all of it. The human started the project, adapted the QNX startup code, guided the architecture, debugged, tested and gave direction.\n\nQRV 0.17 now boots with four CPUs under QEMU and reaches the user-space shell. Next on the list are virtio, filesystems, more user-space tools and reworking the kernel to remove the \"big kernel lock\".","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-raspberry-pi-clock-and-calendar-dashboard-b06e","title":"A Raspberry Pi clock and calendar dashboard","topic":"Embedded & microcontrollers","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building a hardware gadget","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A Raspberry Pi with an older LCD shows several time zones, calendars, weather and system stats; Claude Code wrote the software, apart from the display driver install.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Raspberry Pi Weekends Projects, before and and after AI-assisted coding","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1s1n4m1/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1s1n4m1","gone":"deleted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/kavehtehrani/pihole_lcd","kind":"Primary","note":"Linked in the post.","authors":[{"name":"kavehtehrani","url":"https://github.com/kavehtehrani","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"b06e80c","image":{"url":"https://camo.githubusercontent.com/ff71f06afdfbb3891f3ba6297ea8a5a39c92a0e736279f9654c40fed734bb5c2/68747470733a2f2f692e726564642e69742f366b6e79326a696875386435312e6a7067","alt":"Pihole LCD","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/kavehtehrani/pihole_lcd"},"about":"The poster built a dashboard on a Raspberry Pi that shows the time in different time zones, multiple calendars, the weather and basic system stats. It uses weather and calendar APIs and is fully customisable.\n\nThey looked up no guide apart from installing the driver for the six-year-old display, and Claude Code handled the rest. They compare it with an earlier Pi-hole LCD dashboard that took about the same time to build by hand.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/kavehtehrani/pihole_lcd","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/kavehtehrani/pihole_lcd"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-health-tracking-app-built-by-a-73-year-old-car-f477","title":"A health tracking app built by a 73-year-old cardiac patient","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A 73-year-old with heart conditions and no coding experience built an offline, no-account health tracking web app with Claude over several months.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: 73 years old, no coding experience, cardiac patient — I built a real health app with Claude after a ","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1s2hf5f/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1s2hf5f","gone":"removed"}],"ref":"f477f19","about":"After passing out at home and being hospitalised for dehydration, the poster wanted one app to track blood pressure, fluid intake, weight, heart rate, symptoms, meals and activities, with nothing leaving the phone and no account. They could not find one, so they built it with Claude despite never having written code.\n\nClinBridge is a Progressive Web App, now at version 9.9.25. It installs on a phone, works offline and stores everything locally. 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At some point the ATC feed providers blocked the site, and it stopped working.\n\nThe poster, who has some Python experience, used Claude Code to rebuild it. It took an evening and a morning to get the code together, and they adapted it with new features for their own use. 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They asked Claude Code to recreate that on a modern Windows PC. Low load gives an idle rumble and a maxed CPU gives a full rev.\n\nDisk activity adds tom-tom hits, network traffic plays bells and piano arpeggios, context switches add vibrato to the engine, and a busy GPU brings in an organ drone. Claude was also given access to the horn, so it honks when it needs attention. 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It includes a FidoNet mailer using the binkp protocol, echomail and netmail, file areas, door games, telnet, SSH and FTP access, QWK offline mail and ANSI support.\n\nThe maker acts as architect and tester while Claude writes the code, database migrations and protocol work. That includes implementing binkp from scratch (session negotiation, packet parsing, queuing and polling) and a SharedWorker event bus that shares server events across open tabs.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-browser-playable-neural-chess-engine-trained-o-1d36","title":"A browser-playable neural chess engine trained on a home PC","topic":"On-device AI","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A roughly 16M-parameter chess network trained on one RTX 4090 with AI-assisted research, wrapped in a browser app for playing and analysis.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Vibecoded on a home PC: building a ~2700 Elo browser-playable neural chess engine with a Karpathy-in","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1rzsnyx/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1rzsnyx","publishedAt":"2026-03-21T14:21:08.763092Z","dateKind":"published","authors":[{"name":"Adam_Jesion","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Adam_Jesion/","role":"Reddit poster"}]}],"ref":"1d36b16","about":"Autochess NN is a neural chess engine the maker built to understand AlphaZero-style systems end to end. The model combines a residual CNN with a transformer and learned thought tokens, at about 16 million parameters. It was trained on over 100 million positions on a single RTX 4090 using Lichess pretraining, Syzygy endgame fine-tuning and self-play with search distillation.\n\nA browser app lets you play the AI, edit boards, replay PGNs, solve puzzles and see top-move probabilities. The maker calls it roughly 2700 Elo and says the efficiency claim is a hypothesis to be tested.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-warcraft-2-style-rts-game-that-runs-in-the-bro-9aa1","title":"A Warcraft 2 style RTS game that runs in the browser","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Making a game","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A browser real-time strategy game with 9 factions and over 200 units, built in spare moments with Claude.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I vibe-coded a full WC2 inspired RTS game with Claude - 9 factions, 200+ units, multiplayer, AI comm","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1s828ad/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1s828ad","authors":[{"name":"Alarmed_Profit1426","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Alarmed_Profit1426/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-03-30T20:25:07.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: shardsofstone.com","url":"https://shardsofstone.com/","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"9aa1c07","image":{"url":"https://assets.shardsofstone.com/assets/artwork/splash_final_battle.avif?v=ef1ba5721a&e=285","alt":"Image from shardsofstone.com","credit":"shardsofstone.com","from":"https://shardsofstone.com/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://assets.shardsofstone.com/assets/artwork/faction_banner_dwarf.avif?v=c4ae66cfd3&e=285","alt":"The Dwarves of Greyhelm","credit":"shardsofstone.com","from":"https://shardsofstone.com/"},{"url":"https://assets.shardsofstone.com/assets/artwork/faction_banner_goblin.avif?v=030c6fc5cc&e=285","alt":"The Goblin Ashland Clans","credit":"shardsofstone.com","from":"https://shardsofstone.com/"},{"url":"https://assets.shardsofstone.com/assets/artwork/faction_banner_ratmen.avif?v=98f7a90972&e=285","alt":"The Sketh'kai Underhive","credit":"shardsofstone.com","from":"https://shardsofstone.com/"}],"about":"The poster built a Warcraft 2 inspired real-time strategy game with Claude in their spare time, in short sessions in the evenings. They are not a game developer and mostly fed in ideas using plan mode and parallel sub agents.\n\nThe game runs in the browser and includes 9 factions, over 200 units, multiplayer and AI commanders.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"legends-of-future-past-a-1992-compuserve-game-re-75f6","title":"Legends of Future Past, a 1992 CompuServe game, rebuilt from its scripts","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A 30-year-old online game whose source was lost was rebuilt by Claude Code from surviving GM scripts, a manual and a gameplay recording.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I gave Claude my dead game's 30-year-old files and asked it to bring the game back to life","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1sfsz67/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1sfsz67","gone":"removed"},{"name":"The project: lofp.metavert.io","url":"https://lofp.metavert.io","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"75f6b4f","about":"In 1992 the poster built an online multiplayer game called Legends of Future Past, which ran on CompuServe until the last day of 1999. The source code did not survive, but hundreds of script files in a scripting language he invented for Game Masters, a 1998 GM manual and a 1996 gameplay recording did.\n\nHe gave all of that to Claude Code with little instruction beyond working out what the language does and rebuilding the game. He says Claude inferred the language's grammar from the scripts and manual, then rebuilt 2,273 rooms, 1,990 items, 297 monster types, 88 spells, crafting and combat in a weekend. 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The protocol was called Bubble.\n\nThat led to Strix, which holds about 100,000 URL patterns for 67,000 camera models and tests them from an IP address and credentials, captures screenshots and generates a Frigate config. Without cameras to test other protocols, he had Claude write fake-camera servers for six protocols and for Apple HomeKit. 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The poster ported it to a Python desktop app using pygame and pillow, and says Claude Code wrote all the code, with Google NotebookLM used to understand the rules and the Claude web app for project management.\n\nHe notes that gravity wells produce a gravity-assist \"slingshot\" that is not written in the rules but emerges naturally, and that 1970s rules, where \"everything was an exception\", were hard to turn into code. 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Claude wrote code to probe how OS maps renders its maps and how to inject an extra overlay, then wrote the extension and install instructions.\n\nIt took many attempts, and a hint from Gemini when Claude got stuck. The result shades unvisited large squares clear, visited ones light green and visited small squares light blue, which makes planning routes to new areas easier. 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Over four months with Claude it grew from about 2,600 to 108,000 lines of code. He says he reverse engineered the Blu-ray and UHD specs, wrote a custom UDF ISO writer and wrapped ffmpeg with filters and disc authoring.\n\nIt can import from file, stream or hardware capture, run video and audio filters and author straight to disc in one program, with 15 codecs and 17 output formats. 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He describes it as open source and fast, with 3D simulation, physics and scripting. The post is brief and says \"almost completely done\", so how much of it works is not shown.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/TDMitchell787/opensim-nextgen","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/TDMitchell787/opensim-nextgen"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-chrome-extension-for-desk-reminders-during-inj-f0b9","title":"A Chrome extension for desk reminders during injury recovery","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"After an accident, the poster had Claude build a Chrome extension reminding him to stand up, rest his eyes and drink water.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude helped me recover from an accident.","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1shmt71/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1shmt71","authors":[{"name":"Queasy-Accident-2082","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Queasy-Accident-2082/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-04-10T13:38:07.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"f0b99c5","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/4ygmsvid8dug1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=5faf9270d2b0c8227578c53a4531756d714e8e3e","alt":"Claude helped me recover from an accident.","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1shmt71/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/y9iy8hoi8dug1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=c9552eab6c9fd4126fdb6d036f4cf0f5fe7c8344","alt":"Claude helped me recover from an accident.","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1shmt71/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/f6wdpmgg8dug1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=148be536228974c42ae104ee898ed3db60961e6a","alt":"Claude helped me recover from an accident.","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1shmt71/"}],"about":"After an accident, the poster's physiotherapist told him not to sit too long, to rest his eyes and to stay hydrated, which he kept forgetting while working. He used Claude to build a small Chrome extension with customisable reminders for those three things. He says it helped him stay consistent during recovery, and it is published on the Chrome Web Store.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"forgotten-self-healing-aws-environments-found-by-2e71","title":"Forgotten self-healing AWS environments found by a Claude skill","topic":"Repairs & diagnostics","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Analysing or auditing software","Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A Claude skill given billing screenshots reportedly found abandoned experiment environments that kept rebuilding themselves and billing about $18k.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Consultants spent a year telling me my $18k AWS bill was 'normal'. 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The post text is cut off before the final saving.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"claude-haiku-given-a-mind-inside-black-white-200-2dea","title":"Claude Haiku given a mind inside Black & White (2001)","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A DLL injected into the running game lets Claude Haiku drive the creature's thoughts, hunger and tiredness, built with Claude Code.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I've injected Claude into the creature of Black & White (2001)","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1spbh0o/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1spbh0o","gone":"deleted"}],"ref":"2dea428","about":"The maker loved Black & White as a child and injected Claude into the 2001 game. A DLL (bw_claude_mind.dll) is injected into the running game process with an injector tool, and the API calls Haiku to act as the creature's mind.\n\nSo far hunger and tiredness are linked to the model, with a live thoughts overlay on screen; when the hunger threshold was set very low the creature whined constantly until fed. The creature otherwise still follows its scripted behaviour, and movement and animation control are not working yet.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"two-decades-of-corrupted-drives-merged-into-one-ff6a","title":"Two decades of corrupted drives merged into one NAS library","topic":"Repairs & diagnostics","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Automating with Claude","Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code on a new home NAS reconstructed lost folder structures from corrupted data across five hard drives into one master library.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: What two decades of data loss trauma does to a woman. 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The poster says it did a great job and made a Claude-built dashboard to track progress.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-cryptominer-on-a-home-nas-found-and-cleaned-up-34fc","title":"A cryptominer on a home NAS found and cleaned up by Claude","topic":"Security research","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"While asked to move a few homepage links, Claude noticed odd activity from a forgotten container, then rebuilt the containers and locked them down.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude caught a cryptominer that'd been using my NAS for two years.","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1srv55h/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1srv55h","authors":[{"name":"UsedToBeaRaider","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/UsedToBeaRaider/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-04-21T17:48:10.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/glanceapp/glance","kind":"Primary","note":"Linked in the post.","authors":[{"name":"glanceapp","url":"https://github.com/glanceapp","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"34fc81f","image":{"url":"https://github.com/glanceapp/glance/raw/main/docs/images/readme-main-image.png","alt":"Image from github.com","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/glanceapp/glance"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://github.com/glanceapp/glance/raw/main/docs/images/mobile-preview.png","alt":"Image from github.com","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/glanceapp/glance"},{"url":"https://github.com/glanceapp/glance/raw/main/docs/images/themes-example.png","alt":"Image from github.com","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/glanceapp/glance"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/7fzxb7dgzlwg1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=d78b87d4e824872dbe2a3ea75d477c352dcbdfe6","alt":"Claude caught a cryptominer that'd been using my NAS for two years.","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1srv55h/"}],"about":"The poster had left a half-finished Docker container for a card-game project on their NAS. They asked Claude to move a couple of links on their Glance homepage and came back half an hour later to find it still running commands.\n\nClaude had spotted something odd (something about ?z=), explained what had happened, rebuilt the front and back end containers, made them reachable only on the Docker network, and advised how to stay secure. 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They say it is a real kernel and not a web app, and that the next version adds wallpaper, AurionGL (an OpenGL clone), more apps, its own language and better icons.\n\nThe code is on GitHub and there is an in-browser demo using the V86 library. 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A cron job polls them every 5 minutes into SQLite on a home server, and a web app and small JSON endpoint read from that.\n\nA SwiftBar plugin shows solar and grid draw in the Mac menu bar. The trickiest part was the Enphase two-step token login. 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The poster says Google acknowledged it and fixed it through its vulnerability reward programme.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/workersio/spec","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/workersio/spec"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"an-automated-accounting-system-for-dutch-tax-bui-a6ff","title":"An automated accounting system for Dutch tax built with Claude Code","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Automating with Claude","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code built a system that ingests bank transactions, matches receipts from email and prepares tax reports for an accountant.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude Code just did my taxes for me.","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1spuza0/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1spuza0","authors":[{"name":"floraldo","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/floraldo/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-04-19T14:48:09.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"a6ff465","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/mm5d76wqt5wg1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=9515e58fd9a133e7b611492934d8f1c93d612fab","alt":"Claude Code just did my taxes for me.","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1spuza0/"},"about":"The poster was almost two years behind on taxes and built, in one afternoon, a system that ingests transactions from three bank accounts, scrapes email to match receipts, categorises expenses and works out what is owed and when.\n\nIt produces reports matching the Dutch tax agency format for an accountant, and includes a knowledge base of Dutch tax rules compiled from Claude research. The poster says the next quarterly summary needs a single command.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"turning-2d-cad-drawings-into-3d-step-models-1b8a","title":"Turning 2D CAD drawings into 3D STEP models","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code and Claude Desktop have been used to build a tool that makes STEP models from 2D machining drawings, working so far for some rotational parts.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude Code and 2D CAD drawings to 3D rabbithole","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1sy2ufp/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1sy2ufp","authors":[{"name":"Impossible_Carob8839","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Impossible_Carob8839/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-04-28T14:21:18.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"1b8a6f4","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/twuf6fh0vxxg1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=9325bc832a2ed9197b9a7760827e2e311f5d33cb","alt":"Claude Code and 2D CAD drawings to 3D rabbithole","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1sy2ufp/"},"about":"A CNC machining client wanted STEP models generated from 2D technical drawings. The poster used Claude Code with Claude Desktop acting as a manager to keep Code on track.\n\nThe shape family now comes out right and some parts, such as distance rings, are perfect. The vision models struggle with serious industrial drawings, so models will need fine tuning; rotational parts come first, then parametric reconstruction.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-windows-95-style-desktop-built-in-five-hours-f-e719","title":"A Windows 95 style desktop built in five hours for a hackathon","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"An Electron, React and Node.js Windows 95 clone with AI in the old programs won a hackathon, built with Claude Code.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: This week Claude and I won the Frontier Tech Week Y2K Hackathon 2026!","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1suhg41/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1suhg41","authors":[{"name":"brunobertapeli","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/brunobertapeli/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-04-24T14:32:45.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The video: youtube.com","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO7quzPwow&t=10s","kind":"Video","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"e71998a","image":{"url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ddO7quzPwow/hqdefault.jpg","alt":"Video thumbnail: The video: youtube.com","credit":"youtube.com","from":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO7quzPwow&t=10s"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/R_FkBPgZOvTEPcxewEpuXKfMSzMAOYznEtSmcuNvzYQ.jpeg?width=320&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=7f7ff5b3af22f385071d11d81ac8e0ed70606856","alt":"This week Claude and I won the Frontier Tech Week Y2K Hackathon 2026!","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1suhg41/"}],"about":"The poster built a working Windows 95 style desktop with Electron, React and Node.js in five hours, running 5 to 10 Claude Code terminals at once. 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Claude helped pick the parts (a Raspberry Pi, a Hailo accelerator, a ReSpeaker microphone, a Pi camera, a Waveshare screen and speakers) and calculated thermal loads for a passively cooled setup. The poster made the box by hand from walnut.\n\nThe agent inside is custom, driven by skills and a small set of tools plus a boxBot SDK to control the box and display. Having the agent decide when to mute the mic and how to respond simplified the handling of background noise and side conversations.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"heromachine-a-flash-era-character-creator-rebuil-0d19","title":"HeroMachine, a Flash-era character creator, rebuilt with Claude Code","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Modernising legacy code","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"The creator of Flash-based HeroMachine finished a stalled rebuild with Claude Code over a long weekend.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude Code helped me bring my dead passion project back to life","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1tgpip8/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker’s post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1tgpip8","authors":[{"name":"AFDStudios","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/AFDStudios/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-05-18T15:10:15.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"0d19ee7","about":"HeroMachine is a Flash-based character creator that has existed since 1998, with nearly 10,000 hand-drawn items. 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It can build and modify apps on demand without uploading new firmware, and it needs an Anthropic API token to run.\n\nThe poster calls it a prototype and says they are happy with the results so far; the post mentions that r/cyberdeck was not keen. 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It shows a zoomable world map of three things not yet discovered: shrines, koroks and chests.\n\nThe \"app\" is a kiosk browser pointed at a web service on the local network, with Syncthing running on the host and the console so the service can read the save file. The map updates live while playing as long as Syncthing is running. The maker would ideally have made a native Android app that reads device storage directly, but left that, as this works fine.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-macos-daemon-for-the-clawdmeter-ble-device-e975","title":"A macOS daemon for the Clawdmeter BLE device","topic":"Embedded & microcontrollers","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A non-developer used Claude to write a Python BLE daemon so the Clawdmeter usage display works from a Mac, by porting the project's Linux shell script.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: \"Built a macOS daemon for Clawdmeter from scratch with Claude as my coding partner\"","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1tuh5x2/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1tuh5x2","authors":[{"name":"Hosopoccho_Mac","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Hosopoccho_Mac/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-06-02T05:14:12.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"e975d1f","about":"Clawdmeter's repo offered macOS support only to whoever would prompt it into existence, so the poster built it with Claude over a few hours. They read the Linux shell script to follow its logic, wrote a Python daemon using bleak for Bluetooth LE, worked out that the Keychain stores credentials as nested JSON, got the GATT UUID right and set up a LaunchAgent to start it at boot.\n\nIt worked, and the device now shows usage on the desk. 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They asked Fable 5 to look at the original DOS executable.\n\nOvernight it mapped and labelled 602 functions covering terrain generation, vehicle physics, enemy AI, win and lose conditions, graphics formats and audio. Its Python replica of the terrain generator matches the original's output bit for bit. As a test it also replicated a simpler 1989 DOS game, Star Command, from the raw disk files in about an hour. 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They are not a coder and this was their first attempt at vibe coding.\n\nThey write as little as four words, and Claude, called through the Anthropic API, turns them into an emoji, an emotion label, a note and what they are doing. 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It has a monitor screen and an instructor screen, which can run on two monitors on the same network.\n\nThe aim is a free or cheap simulator anyone can use. Producing accurate waveforms is still unsolved, and the maker hopes to add a shared repository of scenarios.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-bluetooth-le-option-added-to-an-android-uart-s-1f3e","title":"A Bluetooth LE option added to an Android UART serial proxy app","topic":"Embedded & microcontrollers","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building a replacement app","Reverse engineering a protocol"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude added Bluetooth LE support to an Android app that proxies a UART serial connection, in one shot.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Wow. 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The maker reports the build and connection work, with soldering still to do.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"notorolla-a-browser-tool-for-composing-microtona-3464","title":"Notorolla, a browser tool for composing microtonal music","topic":"Music & audio","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A browser composing tool with web audio instruments and a 12-tone grid, used to make a 16 EDO piece.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I Claude Coded a browser \"compositional\" tool -- patterns, microtonality, etc","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1um4gqp/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1um4gqp","authors":[{"name":"FearMoreMovieLions","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/FearMoreMovieLions/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-03T04:34:39.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The video: youtube.com","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTetjazMYDc","kind":"Video","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"3464f03","image":{"url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qTetjazMYDc/hqdefault.jpg","alt":"Video thumbnail: The video: youtube.com","credit":"youtube.com","from":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTetjazMYDc"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/c3JudDhyd2h4eGFoMXv7tLKJiTakOlEXjQ0VxK6SjET-M4Z9aXJ6mMAyOcla.png?width=960&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d9524ce1a6cd1fb4a87ca892d1adabdc900f2578","alt":"Video still: I Claude Coded a browser \"compositional\" tool -- patterns, microtonality, etc","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1um4gqp/"}],"about":"The maker built a browser app with Claude for composing things that are awkward to compose otherwise. It began as a 12-tone grid and grew from there; it is all JavaScript with instruments made with the Web Audio API.\n\nThe example uses a 16 EDO microtonal scale. It took 10 to 15 days of part-time work, and the maker calls it a solid proof of concept, usable mainly by themselves.","projectLinks":[{"type":"video","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTetjazMYDc","sourceUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTetjazMYDc"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-browser-ui-for-zork-with-110-pixel-art-room-sc-f9fe","title":"A browser UI for Zork with 110 pixel-art room scenes","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A fan built a graphical front end for the 1981 text game Zork with Claude, using Opus to start and Fable to generate pixel-art scenes for each room.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Zork UI entirely built with Fable 5 with 110 generated Pixel Arts rooms","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1umi07s/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1umi07s","authors":[{"name":"Cautious-Load-8814","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Cautious-Load-8814/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-03T15:47:17.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/posabsolute/zork-ui","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"posabsolute","url":"https://github.com/posabsolute","role":"Repository account"}]},{"name":"Reddit: The Original Zork from 1980 gets a Claude Pass and 100 live pixel art scenes","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1up7jdr/","kind":"Forum","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1up7jdr","authors":[{"name":"Cautious-Load-8814","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Cautious-Load-8814/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-06T19:27:47.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"f9feeed","image":{"url":"https://github.com/posabsolute/zork-ui/raw/main/docs/screenshots/hero-west-of-house.png","alt":"West of House — the full interface: scene, terminal, and the adventurer's auto-map","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/posabsolute/zork-ui"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://github.com/posabsolute/zork-ui/raw/main/docs/screenshots/maintenance-flood.png","alt":"Maintenance room flooding","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/posabsolute/zork-ui"},{"url":"https://github.com/posabsolute/zork-ui/raw/main/docs/screenshots/cyclops-room.png","alt":"Cyclops room","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/posabsolute/zork-ui"},{"url":"https://github.com/posabsolute/zork-ui/raw/main/docs/screenshots/entrance-to-hades.png","alt":"Entrance to Hades","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/posabsolute/zork-ui"}],"about":"A retro-game fan wanted a UI for Zork, the 1981 text adventure that had no graphics at all. The project was started with Opus, and the maker says Fable produced pixel-art room scenes far better than Opus could.\n\nThe result has 110 generated rooms, runs entirely in the browser with no server and no analytics, and the code is open source. That includes the skill used to generate the pixel-art scenes.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/posabsolute/zork-ui","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/posabsolute/zork-ui"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-1995-quickbasic-dos-game-resurrected-from-its-299b","title":"A 1995 QuickBasic DOS game resurrected from its original source","topic":"Retro computing","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Porting to a new platform","Modernising legacy code"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A 1995 QuickBasic shooter about mutant flying elephants was rebuilt from its original source and sprite memory dumps in one long Claude conversation.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: In 1995 I made a DOS game about shooting green mutant elephants. 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It has a hero trapped in a cave, fighting killer bees and mutant flying elephants with a rifle.\n\nOver one weekend, Claude parsed the original source code and got the game logic right, extracted the sprites pixel-perfect from 1995 BLOAD memory dumps, and recovered the original timing from the BIOS-tick game loop. It also added a global high score with server-side anti-cheat.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"mount-control-software-for-an-old-astro-physics-d0be","title":"Mount control software for an old Astro-Physics Mach1GTO ported to macOS","topic":"Protocols & abandoned products","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building a replacement app","Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"An older Windows-era control program for a GTOCP3-driven Mach1 telescope mount was rebuilt as native macOS software by pair programming with Claude Fable 5.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Fable 5 and porting old windows software to macOS/ipadOS for Astro-Physics Mach1GTO mount.","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1up0732/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1up0732","authors":[{"name":"sed8em","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/sed8em/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-06T15:13:46.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"d0beb22","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/i22u5v2ojmbh1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=738b738c836d6b4b1275c60b8d2906de5acf5400","alt":"Fable 5 and porting old windows software to macOS/ipadOS for Astro-Physics Mach1GTO mount.","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1up0732/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/hz8rj5c7lmbh1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=b1e7f53d53355c0536c484b7835e33da4d35fb3d","alt":"Fable 5 and porting old windows software to macOS/ipadOS for Astro-Physics Mach1GTO mount.","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1up0732/"}],"about":"The mount is an older Mach1 equatorial mount run by a GTOCP3 controller, with an equally old software base. The owner pair-programmed with Fable 5, which searched public information and used his input to get native macOS control software working.\n\nAt his suggestion, Fable also recreated his tripod, mount head, adapter plate and three telescopes in 3D from specifications it found online, with estimates of when the tubes would hit the tripod legs. He also mentions an old, unsupported Orion Starshoot camera lying around, but the post text is cut off before saying what became of it.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-lenovo-photo-frame-rescued-from-a-play-store-c-e966","title":"A Lenovo photo frame rescued from a Play Store crash loop","topic":"Repairs & diagnostics","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Analysing or auditing software","Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A rooted Android photo frame that kept crashing was plugged into a laptop, and Claude Fable read its logs and wrote scripts to keep it running.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Last night with Fable, fix my photo frame","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1upv9kd/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1upv9kd","authors":[{"name":"Baxter-Stabbington","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Baxter-Stabbington/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-07T13:33:45.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"e966b8c","about":"A Lenovo photo frame had nearly become e-waste when the maker's app support was discontinued. It had been rooted and given stock Android and Footo, but it began throwing Google Play services crash errors and dropping off Wi-Fi.\n\nThe owner connected it to a laptop by USB and told Claude what it was. Claude checked the logs, found the Play Store stuck in a crash loop after services had been disabled in April, and wrote a script to keep them enabled. It also wrote a second script to bounce the Wi-Fi chip when it went down.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"montaukos-a-hobby-operating-system-developed-wit-e64d","title":"MontaukOS: a hobby operating system developed with Claude Code","topic":"Operating systems","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Driver or OS patching"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A dormant hobby kernel grew into a dual-bootable desktop OS once Claude Code wrote networking, disk, graphics and Bluetooth audio code.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Developing an entirely custom operating system using Claude Code","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1uqyd1v/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1uqyd1v","gone":"deleted"}],"ref":"e64d363","about":"MontaukOS is a hobby operating system started in early 2025, with much of the core kernel written by hand before the maker lost interest for a few months. He picked it up again with Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Code, and found himself writing very little code by hand.\n\nOver the months it went from a toy kernel to something he dual-boots and uses daily on his laptop. Claude produced a networking stack, disk and filesystem drivers, an Intel graphics driver, a desktop environment and a PDF viewer. After weeks of failing to get Bluetooth audio working with Opus, Fable got his headphones working in a few prompts.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-gpu-designed-in-verilog-that-renders-3d-graphi-b325","title":"A GPU designed in Verilog that renders 3D graphics and trains models","topic":"Embedded & microcontrollers","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A purely educational GPU was designed in Verilog and simulated with Verilator, built with Claude 4.8, to render 3D graphics and train small ML models.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Built a GPU from scratch which can render graphics and train ML models","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1unovb5/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1unovb5","authors":[{"name":"Altruistic-Tea-5612","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Altruistic-Tea-5612/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-05T00:55:05.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: medium.com","url":"https://medium.com/@harishhacker3010/building-a-gpu-from-scratch-to-render-graphics-and-train-ai-models-113290bf36d2","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"b325b77","about":"The poster used Claude 4.8 to build what he describes as a fully working GPU from scratch, written in Verilog and run in the Verilator simulator. He says it can render 3D graphics and train a machine-learning model.\n\nHe calls it a purely educational project to understand GPU internals, and links a blog write-up and the repository.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"an-iphone-tether-set-up-as-backup-home-internet-a252","title":"An iPhone tether set up as backup home internet","topic":"Networking gear","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"During a storm power cut, Claude set up a computer to use a tethered iPhone as home internet and to reconnect automatically when the phone is plugged in.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude kept my internet working","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1uo1acq/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1uo1acq","authors":[{"name":"siberianmi","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/siberianmi/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-05T12:43:51.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"a252a95","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/1rdkft1ypebh1.jpeg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=7c58d0b2da7dc63b1e5ff22127c5ff2ce047049f","alt":"Claude kept my internet working","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1uo1acq/"},"about":"After storms in southern Michigan, the poster expected to lose internet service even with a backup generator. He asked Claude Fable in a new session to set up his iPhone tether as home internet.\n\nOnce they had settled the hardware, including which computer, ports and an extra USB network card, Claude got it running first time in about 15 minutes. The setup now detects the phone being plugged in and tethers automatically once the \"Trust this computer\" prompt is accepted. Claude also supplied a runbook of recovery and debugging commands.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-web-app-that-reads-game-save-files-to-recap-th-1076","title":"A web app that reads game save files to recap the story so far","topic":"App teardowns & analysis","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"After forgetting where he was in Baldur's Gate 3, the maker had Claude help reverse-engineer the save file, then turned it into a recap site for several games.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Pick up where you stopped playing, a Claude web app I built for recapping the story so far by data m","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1uqy003/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1uqy003","authors":[{"name":"kilofu","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/kilofu/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-08T16:38:35.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: savescribe.gg","url":"https://savescribe.gg","kind":"Blog","note":"The project site."}],"ref":"1076875","about":"The maker wanted to return to a Baldur's Gate 3 playthrough but could not remember what he had been doing. With Claude's help he reverse-engineered the save file and used its flags and variables to generate a recap of his story choices.\n\nHe then added support for more games, including RimWorld, Crusader Kings 3, Disco Elysium and Cyberpunk 2077. A Go server parses the save and sends only the extracted story data to the Claude API, where Sonnet writes the recap for roughly $0.04 to $0.13. He warns that spoilers can still slip in.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-meta-quest-home-editor-to-port-old-v79-homes-t-01fb","title":"A Meta Quest home editor to port old v79 homes to newer firmware","topic":"Protocols & abandoned products","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A work-in-progress editor for restoring old v79 Meta Quest home environments to the latest HorizonOS format was built with Claude Fable and Opus.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude fable & Opus helped me out with restoring v79 Meta Quest homes back to the latest v200+ Horiz","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ur8n8t/comment/owgjtxo/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's reply in r/ClaudeAI's showcase thread.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t1_owgjtxo","authors":[{"name":"xAstroBoy1337","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/xAstroBoy1337/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-09T09:40:09.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/xAstroBoy/Quest-Home-Editor","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"xAstroBoy","url":"https://github.com/xAstroBoy","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"01fb93d","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/xAstroBoy/Quest-Home-Editor","alt":"GitHub repository card for xAstroBoy/Quest-Home-Editor","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/xAstroBoy/Quest-Home-Editor"},"about":"The post describes an editor that loads old v79 Meta Quest home environments and ports them towards the newer V203 format used by current HorizonOS firmware. The GitHub description calls it a work in progress with a custom Vulkan renderer and a Blender-style editor.\n\nThe maker says it took \"some prompt and pushing\", but Claude Fable and Opus got there.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/xAstroBoy/Quest-Home-Editor","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/xAstroBoy/Quest-Home-Editor"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"aperturelab-a-free-synthetic-aperture-sonar-and-902a","title":"ApertureLab: a free synthetic aperture sonar and radar simulator","topic":"Science & research","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A sonar and radar specialist built a simulator for synthetic aperture sonar and radar over two months with Claude Code.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: ApertureLab: Synthetic Aperture Sonar+Radar Simulator","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1uqruyc/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1uqruyc","authors":[{"name":"Equivalent-Buyer-553","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Equivalent-Buyer-553/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-08T12:55:09.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: gergltd.com","url":"https://www.gergltd.com/aperturelab/","kind":"Blog","note":"The project site."}],"ref":"902a65b","image":{"url":"https://www.gergltd.com/aperturelab/images/opt/hero_v3b.webp","alt":"Beamformed synthetic aperture sonar image of a working seabed: sand-wave dunes, a sediment mosaic of mud, gravel and rock, a buried pipeline and cable runs, sca","credit":"gergltd.com","from":"https://www.gergltd.com/aperturelab/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://www.gergltd.com/aperturelab/images/opt/hero_v3b_labels.webp","alt":"Image from gergltd.com","credit":"gergltd.com","from":"https://www.gergltd.com/aperturelab/"},{"url":"https://www.gergltd.com/aperturelab/images/target_grid_ml_clean.jpg","alt":"ApertureLab grid scene: sixty seafloor targets laid out across ten varied bottom types in a 6-by-10 grid of distinct sonar seafloor textures.","credit":"gergltd.com","from":"https://www.gergltd.com/aperturelab/"},{"url":"https://www.gergltd.com/aperturelab/images/target_grid_ml_labels.jpg","alt":"Image from gergltd.com","credit":"gergltd.com","from":"https://www.gergltd.com/aperturelab/"}],"about":"The maker has more than 20 years in the field and found existing synthetic aperture sonar and radar simulators outdated or hard to use. Over two months he built ApertureLab, which he intends as a stepping stone to generating synthetic data for training world models.\n\nHe had written code for the individual pieces at past jobs but never had time to assemble them. He brought the sonar, radar, ML and CUDA expertise and used Claude Code to put it together.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-shot-reviewer-for-a-gaggimate-espresso-machine-f368","title":"A shot reviewer for a GaggiMate espresso machine","topic":"Embedded & microcontrollers","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building a replacement app","Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A Raspberry Pi service sends each espresso shot's telemetry to Claude and gets back a score and suggested changes, built with Claude Code.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Used Claude Code to build a shot reviewer for my espresso machine","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1unkfql/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1unkfql","authors":[{"name":"waevans10","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/waevans10/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-04T21:23:12.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"f36850e","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/kLDR2MMs3Tk6SDc9QcyQCC62eSQPkp3XV6uvL9PBWeA.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=a370b2960322bd1fbc3259a33ee76f0510957049","alt":"Used Claude Code to build a shot reviewer for my espresso machine","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1unkfql/"},"about":"The maker has a GaggiMate, an ESP32 mod for Gaggia machines that logs pressure, flow, temperature and puck resistance for every shot. After months of guessing from the graphs, he used Claude Code to build a service on a Pi that sends each new shot to Claude and gets back a score and what to change next.\n\nReviews and drafted brew profiles come back as validated structured objects, and he clamps them to hardware-safe limits before they can touch the boiler. Sonnet handles routine reviews at about a cent each, Opus drafts new profiles, and Claude is also shown its own earlier advice next to the shots that followed.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"lumenfall-a-voxel-game-on-a-hand-written-c-engin-585f","title":"LUMENFALL: a voxel game on a hand-written C++ engine","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A voxel engine in C++17 and raw OpenGL with Claude Code as pair programmer, including a hunt for an AMD driver bug that broke shadows.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: A hand-written voxel engine with volumetric clouds, PCSS shadows and a 450-chunk draw distance","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1uozlsy/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1uozlsy","gone":"deleted"}],"ref":"585f234","about":"LUMENFALL runs on the maker's own engine, written in C++17 and OpenGL 4.5 with no external libraries. Claude Code (Opus and Fable) has been his pair programmer for most of it, with him driving the architecture.\n\nClaude helped most with GLSL shaders, the cascaded shadow pipeline, multithreaded chunk streaming and a days-long AMD driver bug where reading a texture with both a compare sampler and a raw depth read made shadows come out fully lit. It also edited the trailer. Gameplay is minimal for now, and he calls it an engine showcase.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-webcam-hand-gesture-controller-for-tekken-7-4f07","title":"A webcam hand-gesture controller for Tekken 7","topic":"Printers & peripherals","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Building a hardware gadget"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A webcam-based hand tracker turns punches, kicks and hand movement into keyboard input for Tekken 7, built with Claude Code.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I built a hand gesture controller using just a webcam through claude code","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1urthmx/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1urthmx","authors":[{"name":"narcissistic_retard","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/narcissistic_retard/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-09T15:25:36.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/narcissus29/motion-fighter-control","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"narcissus29","url":"https://github.com/narcissus29","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"4f076c6","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/YTd3Zzgyb2YyOGNoMRUp5c-tJeAULA1_kwdIwZbYP_RF84stE3mJPkONJM_w.png?width=960&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=227c69f6f1435559348b54a7fb218713103bb936","alt":"Video still: I built a hand gesture controller using just a webcam through claude code","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1urthmx/"},"about":"The poster built a gesture controller that needs no gloves or sensors. A fist throws a punch, an open palm a kick, with left and right hands mapping to left and right, and moving the hands sideways walks or dashes.\n\nIt sends real keyboard input using pydirectinput, so it works with Tekken 7's default layout, and the key mappings are a JSON file so it can be pointed at other keyboard-controlled games. A small camera window shows the hand tracking. It is open source.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/narcissus29/motion-fighter-control","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/narcissus29/motion-fighter-control"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-site-audit-by-claude-that-took-a-shared-web-ho-6b4d","title":"A site audit by Claude that took a shared web host down","topic":"Security research","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Asked to check a site for AI visibility, Claude Code spun up parallel sub-agents that hammered the live site until the whole shared host stopped serving web traffic.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Fable took my server down auditing my own site. 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After they added throttling and a single worker and asked again, the session was switched from Fable to Opus, which the poster says took the server down again.","story":"Horror story","wentWrong":"Broke production","lesson":"Rate-limit and scope any agent audit pointed at a live site, especially on shared hosting.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"claude-code-client-running-natively-on-windows-x-c303","title":"Claude Code client running natively on Windows XP","topic":"Operating systems","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A Claude Code client running as a native Node process on Windows XP, with login, chat and web search working but other tools and the UI still broken.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude Code running natively on Windows XP (WIP - No SSH/RDP)","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1uv5rxr/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1uv5rxr","authors":[{"name":"HearMeOut-13","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/HearMeOut-13/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-13T08:38:34.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"c303dee","about":"The poster has the Claude Code client running as a native Node process on Windows XP, with nothing offloaded over SSH or RDP. It talks to Anthropic's API over the network as it would on any other system.\n\nLogin, chat and web search work. The UI is described as extremely buggy, other tools fail because they use bash in a way XP does not accept, and platform sign-in and Azure/Bedrock sign-in do not work. It is a work in progress, and the poster has ordered a GX280 to try it on bare metal.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"tracker-physics-video-analysis-launcher-for-arm6-f6d6","title":"Tracker physics video analysis launcher for ARM64 Windows","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A launcher that runs the Java-based Tracker video analysis tool on a native ARM Java runtime for Snapdragon X laptops, made with Claude.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Tracker (physics video analysis) running native ARM64 on Snapdragon X — no more x64 emulation","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1uuz3h4/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1uuz3h4","authors":[{"name":"helmet_Im-not-a-gay","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/helmet_Im-not-a-gay/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-13T02:37:46.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/helmet-png/tracker-arm64-launcher","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"helmet-png","url":"https://github.com/helmet-png","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"f6d6167","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/dIzJqijj80TgILW2-bVU3Vwz3MD9gaAvldZsMQpXdH0.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=d4add0aad66faf41c48fc7b23a4c45ff5c68d230","alt":"Tracker (physics video analysis) running native ARM64 on Snapdragon X — no more x64 emulation","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1uuz3h4/"},"about":"This is a Windows-on-ARM version of Tracker, a physics video analysis tool, made with Claude for laptops with Qualcomm Snapdragon chips. It switches to a native ARM Java runtime (Microsoft Build of OpenJDK for ARM) instead of running under x64 emulation.\n\nThe poster says automatic tracking becomes roughly three times more efficient. A Snapdragon X system with 8GB allocated performs like an Intel Ultra 5 setup with 1GB, which they describe as fully usable.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/helmet-png/tracker-arm64-launcher","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/helmet-png/tracker-arm64-launcher"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-philips-baby-monitor-reverse-engineered-with-a-101a","title":"A Philips baby monitor reverse engineered with AI and a Rust client","topic":"Robots","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A Philips baby monitor was reverse engineered with AI help and a Rust client was built for it, according to a linked blog post.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: AI reverse-engineered Philips baby monitor and built a Rust client","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1uwlc7g/","kind":"Forum","note":"The post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1uwlc7g","authors":[{"name":"Ok_Leader485","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Ok_Leader485/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-14T21:07:44.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: blog.radix63.dk","url":"https://blog.radix63.dk/posts/reversing-my-baby-monitor/","kind":"Blog","note":"The linked blog post."}],"ref":"101a0e5","about":"The post title says AI reverse engineered a Philips baby monitor and built a Rust client for it. The post has no body text; the details are in a linked blog post titled \"Reversing my baby monitor\".","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"an-aim-server-brought-back-for-friends-on-a-free-d493","title":"An AIM server brought back for friends on a free cloud host","topic":"Protocols & abandoned products","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Repurposing to a new role"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Deployment automation and email-verified signup built around an open-source OSCAR server, so classic AOL Instant Messenger clients can sign on again.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Message like it's 1999. 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Stand up an AIM server on GCP!","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1uxecb9/"},"about":"AIM stopped working when AOL shut down its protocol in 2017. The poster stood up a public server at aim.aaddrick.com using mk6i's open-oscar-server, a modern reimplementation of that protocol, so classic AIM 5.1 (or Pidgin) can connect on port 5190.\n\nThe poster's own part, built with Claude, was the deployment automation and an email-verified signup: out of the box the server either hands out accounts with no password check or needs an admin to create each one by hand. The form shows a generated password once and never stores one. The post warns that OSCAR traffic is plaintext and its password hashing is weak.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/aaddrick/aim-server-gcp","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/aaddrick/aim-server-gcp"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-collar-mic-button-turned-into-a-dictation-trig-3f7e","title":"A collar mic button turned into a dictation trigger","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code worked out how a DJI Mic Mini 2 button reaches a Mac as a keypress and wrote a Karabiner-Elements rule that starts voice dictation.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I dictate to Claude Code with the button on my collar mic — Claude Code reverse-engineered the mic t","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1v0soi5/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1v0soi5","authors":[{"name":"chikenhenwy","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/chikenhenwy/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-19T14:55:36.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/caezium/dji-mic-wispr-flow","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"caezium","url":"https://github.com/caezium","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"3f7eca2","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/em4aal23a7eh1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=6e14648fab525adcf4d0b1bc469ae180496a5e0c","alt":"I dictate to Claude Code with the button on my collar mic — Claude Code reverse-engineered the mic to build it","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1v0soi5/"},"about":"The poster wanted the button on their DJI Mic Mini 2 to start dictation without touching the keyboard. Claude Code found that DJI mics have a camera-shutter feature that sends a volume-up keypress, which arrives on a Mac as a normal HID event when the receiver is plugged in by USB-C.\n\nClaude confirmed prior art, checked the manual, read the USB IDs from the receiver and wrote a Karabiner-Elements rule, filtered to that DJI device, that triggers Wispr Flow's hands-free shortcut. It works, with one caveat: in Bluetooth-only mode the mic exposes no button events. It is open source with a one-line installer.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/caezium/dji-mic-wispr-flow","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/caezium/dji-mic-wispr-flow"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-zigbee-security-plugin-for-home-assistant-afte-2d05","title":"A Zigbee security plugin for Home Assistant after Alarmo kept crashing","topic":"Smart home","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A Home Assistant security plugin built over a few days with Claude to replace Alarmo, linking existing Zigbee door, vibration and moisture sensors and sirens.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I built a zigbee homeassistant security plugin over a few days because the existing one (alarmo) was","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1uxlehk/comment/oxwt0wa/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's reply in r/ClaudeAI's showcase thread.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t1_oxwt0wa","authors":[{"name":"calculusforlife","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/calculusforlife/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-16T15:56:08.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/azizovahmad-max/fullstacksecurity","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"azizovahmad-max","url":"https://github.com/azizovahmad-max","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"2d0565b","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/azizovahmad-max/fullstacksecurity","alt":"GitHub repository card for azizovahmad-max/fullstacksecurity","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/azizovahmad-max/fullstacksecurity"},"about":"The poster built a Zigbee security plugin for Home Assistant over a few days because the existing one, Alarmo, was crashing. It links to Zigbee door, vibration and moisture sensors and to sirens already in the home.\n\nIt can be scheduled to switch on and off at set times of day. 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It does not say how Claude was used beyond the project being made with it.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-from-scratch-cpu-inference-engine-that-outpace-5faf","title":"A from-scratch CPU inference engine that outpaced llama.cpp on a laptop","topic":"On-device AI","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A non-kernel-engineer directed Claude to write a CPU inference engine from scratch, reported at about 77 tokens a second against llama.cpp's 14 on the same laptop and model.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: i directed fable5 to solve the access to fast reasoning on consumer hardware problem - we built a fr","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1uz5tky/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1uz5tky","gone":"removed"}],"ref":"5faf659","about":"The poster says they are not a kernel engineer but directed Claude as a kernel researcher, set the goal and the honesty bar, and Claude wrote every line. On the same laptop, model (gpt-oss:20b) and prompt, they report llama.cpp at about 14 tokens a second and their engine at about 77, and about 92 against 82 on the Q4_K format.\n\nThey also say Claude built a Metal GPU engine from scratch after showing a hybrid idea was impossible with microbenchmarks, and admit the benchmarks were wrong four times along the way. The code is open source.","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/cHB4dThyeGFtdGRoMXjKBtPhdgMxpWvZEZd0nJIS1IhZEecdB0i3eM4kqczt.png?width=960&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2edb24408efd67b6e4f3d85900d60fc9756459a1","alt":"Video still: i directed fable5 to solve the access to fast reasoning on consumer hardware problem - we built a from-scratch CPU inference engine - it beats llama.cpp, it's o","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1uz5tky/"},"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-true-scale-webgpu-atlas-of-the-universe-with-8-6cc8","title":"A true-scale WebGPU atlas of the universe with 8.4 million real stars","topic":"Science & research","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"An atlas of the universe in raw WebGPU, built with Claude Code in about a week from real star, galaxy and orbit data.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I built a true-scale atlas of the universe (8.4M real stars) in about a week with Fable","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1uxy5s8/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1uxy5s8","authors":[{"name":"chrisjz","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/chrisjz/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-16T09:43:41.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: universeatlas.org","url":"https://universeatlas.org","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"6cc8b24","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/YWIxMTMxbXk1a2RoMTwllNMbJZTDTNeemq7chG7CzzovkgKmzvvR64L9OEq5.png?width=960&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dc8bc3d7e66ee983737b0fd49d54cc26c95ddf5b","alt":"Video still: I built a true-scale atlas of the universe (8.4M real stars) in about a week with Fable","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1uxy5s8/"},"about":"The poster, a general software engineer, built an atlas that renders objects at measured size, distance and speed, from the cosmic web down to quarks. It uses real Gaia DR3 stars, 2.6 million SDSS galaxies, planets on real orbits and live satellites.\n\nThey say it took a bit over a week with Claude Code, with 92 merged PRs and about 14.5k lines of TypeScript and WGSL, and no runtime dependencies. Claude wrote essentially all the code, including orbital mechanics, satellite propagation and data pipelines, and diagnosed bugs from a URL; the poster reviewed and merged everything and flew around finding bugs.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"hp-laptop-bios-corruption-check-bypassed-with-cl-e11a","title":"HP laptop BIOS corruption check bypassed with Claude Code","topic":"Security research","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code","Ghidra"],"methods":["Custom firmware or bootloader","Analysing or auditing software","Decompiling software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code was given a BIOS dump from an HP 15-dw1036ne and Ghidra, UEFITool and Unicorn tools, and found a way past HP's modification check.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude Code unlocked my laptop's bios!","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1v1vwg7/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1v1vwg7","authors":[{"name":"Reddit_2049","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Reddit_2049/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-20T19:46:29.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/symgraph/GhidrAssistMCP","kind":"Primary","note":"Linked in the post.","authors":[{"name":"symgraph","url":"https://github.com/symgraph","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"e11a195","image":{"url":"https://github.com/jtang613/GhidrAssistMCP/raw/master/res/Screenshot1.png","alt":"Screenshot","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/symgraph/GhidrAssistMCP"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://github.com/jtang613/GhidrAssistMCP/raw/master/res/Screenshot2.png","alt":"Screenshot","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/symgraph/GhidrAssistMCP"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/vz69bf1fqfeh1.jpeg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=cb72768c5237982d0877f8728dca130b4c2e14d8","alt":"Claude Code unlocked my laptop's bios!","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1v1vwg7/"}],"about":"The poster's HP 15-dw1036ne laptop shows a \"BIOS Corruption Detected\" message if the BIOS is modified, and they could not find anyone who had unlocked it. They gave Claude Code a BIOS dump plus tools including Ghidra, UEFITool and Unicorn Engine, and it worked out how to bypass the firmware's RSA-2048 signature check.\n\nClaude tested the extracted signature-check code in an emulator before anything touched real hardware, and finished with a Python script that patches the BIOS file. The poster says they tried it on their laptop and it worked, and that it might suit similar HP models. They warn anyone trying it to have a chip flasher such as a ch341a ready to recover the BIOS.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/symgraph/GhidrAssistMCP","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/symgraph/GhidrAssistMCP"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-midi-file-player-built-around-the-roland-sc-55-1a81","title":"A MIDI file player built around the Roland SC-55 emulator","topic":"Music & audio","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building a replacement app","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A JUCE standalone app wraps the Nuked-SC55 emulator with a MIDI file player and live MIDI input, so old game music plays as on the original synth.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Used Claude Code to build a Roland SC-55 emulator front-end so old MIDI files sound like they did in","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1v1qchh/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1v1qchh","authors":[{"name":"daemon-electricity","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/daemon-electricity/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-20T16:27:51.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/depixeled-chris/nuked-sc55-juce","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"depixeled-chris","url":"https://github.com/depixeled-chris","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"1a814b4","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/npUlDLTTskww5iV5Aujp3CFCn711aDAw1SMtcDzPpA4.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=9312d021f18ed5789d97e56e6132a49372a94826","alt":"Used Claude Code to build a Roland SC-55 emulator front-end so old MIDI files sound like they did in 1994","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1v1qchh/"},"about":"Nuked-SC55 is a cycle-accurate emulation of the Roland SC-55, the synth many classic DOS game soundtracks were written for. It lacked an easy way to open a MIDI file and press play, so the poster had Claude build a JUCE standalone app around the emulator core, using a maintained fork.\n\nThe app has a MIDI file player, live MIDI input and settings that survive a restart. It runs the emulator at the real hardware sample rate and resamples, uses three threads linked by lock-free queues, and has a deliberately lenient MIDI parser for old files full of junk bytes. Users must supply their own Roland ROM dumps.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/depixeled-chris/nuked-sc55-juce","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/depixeled-chris/nuked-sc55-juce"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"openride-a-subscription-free-app-for-a-peloton-b-12e0","title":"OpenRide, a subscription-free app for a Peloton bike","topic":"Repurposed hardware","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Repurposing to a new role","Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"OpenRide replaces the Peloton on-bike subscription with live ride stats, profiles, free YouTube classes and ride export, built with Claude.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I got tired of my Peloton collecting dust and created OpenRide - https://github.com/digitalducktape/","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1v3w5za/comment/oz7qo28/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's reply in r/ClaudeAI's showcase thread.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t1_oz7qo28","authors":[{"name":"ddtape","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/ddtape/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-23T03:45:53.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/digitalducktape/openride","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"digitalducktape","url":"https://github.com/digitalducktape","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"12e0d45","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/digitalducktape/openride","alt":"GitHub repository card for digitalducktape/openride","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/digitalducktape/openride"},"about":"The poster's Peloton was gathering dust, so they built OpenRide to replace the need for the on-bike subscription. It shows live cadence, resistance, power and speed taken from the bike, keeps rider profiles and ride history, and pulls in free YouTube cycling classes.\n\nRides can be downloaded as FIT, TCX or CSV files, and it supports heart-rate straps and Bluetooth headphones. 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The costing logic came across, including weighted-average cost, freight allocation and markup floors, and they say it reconciles against the original to the cent.\n\nThe poster says a good chunk was hand-coded and some was vibe coded with Claude, with 128 tests and extra care around anything touching money.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/TMBeaver/openstock","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/TMBeaver/openstock"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"ironfield-a-90s-style-rts-game-for-windows-95-bbf3","title":"IronField, a 90s-style RTS game for Windows 95","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Making a game","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"IronField is a C++ DirectDraw real-time strategy game aimed at real 90s hardware, with Claude helping restructure the code and speed it up.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Clade help me build a 90s style RTS game","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1v45ryv/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1v45ryv","authors":[{"name":"mwdmeyer","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/mwdmeyer/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-23T06:32:22.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: starrts.vogonswiki.com","url":"https://starrts.vogonswiki.com/ironfield/","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"bbf3b27","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/aaj032orbxeh1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=3882348892d878ecd98a43660306768398212d19","alt":"Clade help me build a 90s style RTS game","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1v45ryv/"},"about":"IronField is a simple 90s-style real-time strategy game written in C++ with DirectDraw, aimed at running on actual 90s hardware under Windows 95. The poster built it to benchmark old CPUs, though they say it is fun to play too.\n\nClaude Code helped restructure the code so it could be unit tested, worked on the path-finding logic, and made speed fixes for older 486 and Pentium machines. Claude Design helped create some of the units. A web version is available to test.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"location-aware-sentry-mode-control-for-a-tesla-a944","title":"Location-aware sentry mode control for a Tesla","topic":"Vehicles & drones","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Automating with Claude","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A Tesla Fleet API tool turns sentry mode on only in parked locations judged risky using FBI crime and census data, built with Claude agents.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I built a location aware control for my car’s sentry mode","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1v5jgkd/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1v5jgkd","authors":[{"name":"Lexsteel11","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Lexsteel11/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-24T18:19:35.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"a9442ea","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/ub870t06z7fh1.jpeg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=396e11a21e2c88720d677c9da5caa1bbc549c6e7","alt":"I built a location aware control for my car’s sentry mode","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1v5jgkd/"},"about":"To stop sentry mode draining the battery, the poster connected the Tesla Fleet API to FBI crime and census APIs so the car turns sentry mode on only in areas judged riskier, using thresholds relative to the local market area. They needed a redirect website for the Tesla API, hosted on a free Netlify account.\n\nThe build used several Claude models as planner, builders and reviewer. The poster says they have disabled it for now while reviewing it.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"xdp-bfd-a-fast-path-bfd-daemon-for-linux-bd03","title":"xdp-bfd, a fast-path BFD daemon for Linux","topic":"Networking gear","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"xdp-bfd moves BFD link-failure detection into XDP, built with Claude doing much of the eBPF and FRR coding.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Project: xdp-bfd — High-performance BFD with XDP fast path","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1v3w5za/comment/oz6j6t9/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's reply in r/ClaudeAI's showcase thread.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t1_oz6j6t9","authors":[{"name":"w453y","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/w453y/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-22T23:40:00.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/w453y/xdp-bfd","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"w453y","url":"https://github.com/w453y","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"bd03a71","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/w453y/xdp-bfd","alt":"GitHub repository card for w453y/xdp-bfd","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/w453y/xdp-bfd"},"about":"BFD detects link failures in routing, but userspace implementations struggle under load. The poster designed xdp-bfd to move steady-state transmit into XDP, use kernel-side detection with bpf_timer, and integrate with FRR's distributed BFD without patches. Claude did much of the coding, including the eBPF/XDP, kernel and userspace work and FRR protocol implementation, while the poster was learning those technologies.\n\nThe poster says it survived stress tests that make normal BFD daemons flap, and that the work led to several upstream FRR bug fixes.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/w453y/xdp-bfd","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/w453y/xdp-bfd"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-linux-webcam-stack-on-a-panther-lake-xps-final-41d0","title":"A Linux webcam stack on a Panther Lake XPS finally got its IR sensor working","topic":"Repairs & diagnostics","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Driver or OS patching"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Opus fixed a Himax IR sensor on a 2026 XPS laptop that months of earlier troubleshooting had not got working on Linux.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Opus 5 fixed a Panther Lake vision sensors wedge that neither fable or gpt5.6 could fix.","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1v681u7/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1v681u7","authors":[{"name":"185EDRIVER","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/185EDRIVER/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-25T13:12:05.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"41d00df","about":"The poster had spent about three months on the webcam stack of a 2026 XPS laptop for Linux. The RGB camera worked a few months earlier, but the Himax IR sensor would not, despite months of troubleshooting and even dumping debug output from Windows Hello.\n\nOpus took a fresh look from a completely different approach and fixed it within 24 hours. The poster said a fuller update would follow.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"nightrun-a-local-llm-that-boots-from-a-usb-stick-e55d","title":"NightRun: a local LLM that boots from a USB stick","topic":"On-device AI","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Custom firmware or bootloader"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A single Rust UEFI app that boots from USB or an SD card and runs small language models on the CPU, with most of the code written by Claude Code.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I built NightRun: boot a local LLM straight from a USB stick. 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You flash it to a USB stick, boot, and chat with Llama 3.2 1B, Qwen3 4B or Granite 4.1 on the CPU. It also runs on a Raspberry Pi 5 from an SD card.\n\nIt reads standard GGUF files and decodes at roughly llama.cpp speed, with output checked token for token against it. Most of the code was written with Claude Code, including the SIMD kernels and firmware parts, kept honest by heavy parity testing and fuzzing. 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Python scripts auto-import the results into Unreal Engine 5.\n\nThe game itself was rewritten with Codex and Claude Code Opus 5. 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After 6 hours, over 120 sub agents and 6 million tokens it produced a simple bootloader, kernel, multitasking, userspace, an ELF loader, libc and a package manager.\n\nIt also has a window manager, GUI toolkit, a networking stack (TCP, DNS, HTTP, TLS 1.3) and over 65 usermode programs. 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They realised rapidly flashing QR codes might work.\n\nThey built a working proof of concept with Claude Code in one night. The post gives no further detail on how it works.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"stemdeck-a-local-stem-separation-app-and-mixer-fd15","title":"StemDeck: a local stem separation app and mixer","topic":"Music & audio","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building a replacement app","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A local app that splits songs into vocals, drums, bass and other stems with a browser mixer, built with Claude for a son learning to play.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I built a full local audio app with Claude : Stem separation, DAW mixer, mobile UI, 30+ releases","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1v8t3wd/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1v8t3wd","gone":"deleted"},{"name":"Reddit: I built a full local audio app with Claude: stem separation, DAW mixer, mobile UI, 30+ rel","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1v8t4y2/","kind":"Forum","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1v8t4y2","gone":"deleted"}],"ref":"fd158c0","about":"The poster built StemDeck because their son practises by playing along to just the bass or drums of songs, and existing tools wanted accounts, uploads and subscriptions. You drop in a song or paste a YouTube or SoundCloud link and it splits it into vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano and other stems.\n\nA browser mixer lets you solo parts, loop sections and export. It all runs locally with no account, and there is a mobile mode for use from a phone. 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They had the idea of measuring the ink each element occupies, having Claude translate each element separately and plugging the results back in.\n\nClaude built the architecture and 90% of the unit tests over three weeks, and suggested character-counted translations and font normalisation. 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The maker started by describing the problem and possible fixes to Claude, and it turned out to be a software issue that a patch could fix.\n\nThe patcher takes the manufacturer's firmware, unpacks the binary, makes the needed changes and repacks it so that all the checksums remain valid.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/nocusham/suntek-trailcam-night-fix","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/nocusham/suntek-trailcam-night-fix"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"microsoft-comic-chat-1996-ported-from-c-to-types-4a66","title":"Microsoft Comic Chat (1996) ported from C++ to TypeScript","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Porting to a new platform","Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A TypeScript port of the 1996 Microsoft Comic Chat client, built partly by hand and with Claude doing a big share of the porting and testing.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: https://comics.remsky.art/","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vgmy0u/comment/p1yz5je/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's reply in r/ClaudeAI's showcase thread.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t1_p1yz5je","authors":[{"name":"_remsky","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/_remsky/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-06T01:09:07.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: comics.remsky.art","url":"https://comics.remsky.art/","kind":"Blog","note":"The running port."}],"ref":"4a66f84","image":{"url":"https://comics.remsky.art/og.jpg","alt":"Three-panel comic strip of Comic Chat characters discussing the TypeScript port","credit":"comics.remsky.art","from":"https://comics.remsky.art/"},"about":"This is a TypeScript port of Microsoft Comic Chat, originally a 1996 C++ program. The maker says a lot of it was done manually, but Claude was a big part of tackling and testing the port.\n\nIt has live chat and a custom comic strip creator, and the maker also added an MCP server and skill for it.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"aret-a-toolkit-that-lifts-32-bit-windows-program-8574","title":"ARET: a toolkit that lifts 32-bit Windows programs to native Linux","topic":"Legacy code revival","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Decompiling software","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A self-taught developer used Claude Code to build a toolkit that lifts 32-bit Windows executables into Linux ELF or WebAssembly binaries without Wine.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I’m not a professional programmer. 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The post gives no further detail about how the conversion was done.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"kindle-highlights-synced-to-apple-books-by-a-pyt-b3e1","title":"Kindle highlights synced to Apple Books by a Python script","topic":"E-readers & handhelds","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building a replacement app","Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A Python script, built with Claude, that pulls highlights from a Kindle over USB and syncs them to Apple Books.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I've worked on a few Kindle and Scribe utilities. 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This one, clippyconvert, is a Python script that automatically downloads book highlights from a Kindle over USB and syncs them to Apple Books.\n\nThe maker was considering switching platforms and saw the highlights as a big vendor lock-in, which the script removes.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/seanmatheny/clippyconvert","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/seanmatheny/clippyconvert"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-career-mode-mod-for-pro-evolution-soccer-2021-c036","title":"A career-mode mod for Pro Evolution Soccer 2021 found by analysing the game","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["Claude","Codex"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude and Codex analysed Pro Evolution Soccer 2021 to find pointers, structures and functions, feeding an in-game overlay that controls career mode.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I've been product managing a mod for pro evolution soccer 2021 for the master league.","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vmtj8f/comment/p3cd3mi/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's reply in r/ClaudeAI's showcase thread.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t1_p3cd3mi","authors":[{"name":"Humble-Kiwi-5272","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Humble-Kiwi-5272/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-12T23:36:52.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The video: youtube.com","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sahONtVQ79k","kind":"Video","note":"A video of the mod."}],"ref":"c036124","image":{"url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sahONtVQ79k/hqdefault.jpg","alt":"Video thumbnail: The video: youtube.com","credit":"youtube.com","from":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sahONtVQ79k"},"about":"The poster describes themselves as product managing a mod for Pro Evolution Soccer 2021 Master League. Claude, with some help from Codex, analysed the game structure to find pointers, structures and functions and a way to modify them.\n\nThe results are bundled over an existing connector and shown as an overlay while the game runs. The poster says this allows control and modification of career mode in ways that were not possible before. 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The maker puts parity with the original at around 93%.\n\nUnder it sits SunaEngine, an open-source particle physics engine that uses integer maths so that results are bit-identical in any WebGPU-capable browser. That lets recordings be saved as small files holding only the starting state and inputs, and replayed identically on any device.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"atomsim-a-browser-app-that-solves-atoms-from-scr-9d6f","title":"AtomSim: a browser app that solves atoms from scratch","topic":"Science & research","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A teaching tool, built with Claude, that solves atoms with a Hartree-Fock solver and shows electron clouds, energy levels and spectra, with a tag on every number.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: AtomSim","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vjx2xl/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1vjx2xl","authors":[{"name":"Robotnics","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Robotnics/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-09T18:18:29.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: atomsim.fly.dev","url":"https://atomsim.fly.dev","kind":"Blog","note":"The running app."},{"name":"Reddit: AtomSim","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1viybmh/","kind":"Forum","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1viybmh","authors":[{"name":"Robotnics","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Robotnics/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-08T15:05:35.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"9d6fa07","image":{"url":"https://atomsim.fly.dev/og.png","alt":"The AtomSim instrument showing a 4f hydrogen orbital as a Monte-Carlo point cloud, its energy and expectation values labelled EXACT beside it.","credit":"atomsim.fly.dev","from":"https://atomsim.fly.dev"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/ggh50cii5eih1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=83e90a47030072085c980096db7fc2766256ed35","alt":"AtomSim","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vjx2xl/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/ha8o2bii5eih1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=0638932455589d9d29155cb231e56cb1af02d94c","alt":"AtomSim","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vjx2xl/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/lfg6abii5eih1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=ae41b91247b74c99b6897f92326ef733b22228fc","alt":"AtomSim","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vjx2xl/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/1fd7lfo726ih1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=b124dab808bb20474b302f445bf18a4b1a934d23","alt":"AtomSim","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1viybmh/"}],"about":"Atom Sim solves atoms from scratch in the browser. Hydrogen comes from closed-form maths, while atoms such as carbon and argon come from a Hartree-Fock solver the maker wrote. Results can be viewed as a 3D electron cloud, a 2D slice, a radial plot, an energy-level diagram or an emission spectrum.\n\nUsers can also break the physics on purpose, for example by switching off the Pauli exclusion principle or typing in their own potential. Every number carries a tag saying how it was made, such as exact, numerical or approximation.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"esp32-cam-firmware-written-with-claude-code-with-8ba7","title":"ESP32-cam firmware written with Claude Code, with a stubborn HTTP lock-up","topic":"Embedded & microcontrollers","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Custom firmware or bootloader","Building a hardware gadget"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Three ESP32-cam apps and a shared device API written with Claude Code; streaming over HTTP while saving to SD kept locking up, only partly worked around.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: The good and the bad...","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vi1khm/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1vi1khm","authors":[{"name":"id-ltd","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/id-ltd/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-07T14:04:49.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"8ba7c2b","about":"The poster used Claude Code to write firmware for ESP32-cam modules, ending up with three apps. Streaming live over HTTP while saving to SD often made the HTTP side lock up silently. Claude wrote soak tests to find the cause.\n\nThe workaround was to switch to time lapse while streaming and split the streamed images into smaller chunks, and Claude then refactored the three apps onto a shared device API. After adding MQTT the lock-up came back, and the poster was still experimenting with workarounds.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-mac-asset-search-limited-to-external-drives-pl-4a39","title":"A Mac asset search limited to external drives, plus a Spotlight indexing loop","topic":"Repairs & diagnostics","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A video editor used Claude Code to search only two external drives and to deal with a macOS bug that left mds and mdworker stuck in a loop.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I’m a video editor and had uses with the Mac Finder to search and preview assets, so I used Claude C","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vive3s/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1vive3s","authors":[{"name":"Annoying1978","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Annoying1978/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-08T12:58:45.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"4a39d3c","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/8wutlmhef5ih1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=963e2b2a8890d3793cb7a0082c80a5f83419b4a4","alt":"I’m a video editor and had uses with the Mac Finder to search and preview assets, so I used Claude Code to resolve it","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vive3s/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/eio3lnhef5ih1.png?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=7d5c73a8e184ca99a8d54698fe6e39d22600279c","alt":"I’m a video editor and had uses with the Mac Finder to search and preview assets, so I used Claude Code to resolve it","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vive3s/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/wwr6emhef5ih1.png?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=f2fe77e479f4f0799b47a50391da79d70ad48f17","alt":"I’m a video editor and had uses with the Mac Finder to search and preview assets, so I used Claude Code to resolve it","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vive3s/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/r7k7nnhef5ih1.png?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=d08c68f2bfc38febae2385d5c4a7a6d0b1593063","alt":"I’m a video editor and had uses with the Mac Finder to search and preview assets, so I used Claude Code to resolve it","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vive3s/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/l6osllhef5ih1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=0d574fab1cb4f636bbbb754dc91513bbdec07478","alt":"I’m a video editor and had uses with the Mac Finder to search and preview assets, so I used Claude Code to resolve it","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vive3s/"}],"about":"A video editor on a Mac needed to search assets across two external drives without searching the internal SSD. A macOS bug, reported since September 2025 and hitting the poster after an update, also left the mds and mdworker processes stuck in an endless loop.\n\nThe poster used Claude Code to work on both problems. The visible part of the post does not say exactly what the fix was or how well it worked.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-local-repo-wiped-when-claude-code-ran-an-unset-e597","title":"A local repo wiped when Claude Code ran an unset-variable command","topic":"Limits & refusals","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code in auto mode ran a git worktree command with an empty variable, emptied the project folder including .git, and lost uncommitted work.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude CLI Deleted My Local Repo","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vs31ki/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1vs31ki","authors":[{"name":"Charming-Network-456","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Charming-Network-456/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-18T21:45:22.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"e597366","about":"A user left Claude Code (Opus 5) running in auto mode and came back to find the repository directory completely empty, .git included. Claude's own account says it ran a command to build a baseline worktree where the temp variable was never set, expanded to an empty path, and its errors were sent to /dev/null so it never saw what happened.\n\nThe loss covered uncommitted edits and the local clone, plus gitignored local state such as databases, model weights and node_modules. The poster was glad only the local repo was hit.","story":"Horror","wentWrong":"Deleted data","lesson":"Auto mode plus a command that hides its own errors can destroy a whole working folder, so commit and keep backups before letting an agent run unattended.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"sunabox-a-browser-rebuild-of-the-2008-oe-cake-ph-acfd","title":"SunaBox, a browser rebuild of the 2008 OE-CAKE physics toy","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Making a game","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A from-scratch browser rebuild of the old OE-CAKE particle sandbox, with a Classic mode and support for original .oec files, built with Claude.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Built with Claude: SunaBox- Fluid Sandbox Game built in dedication to 2008's OE-CAKE that runs in yo","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vsyyko/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1vsyyko","authors":[{"name":"cheetoskull","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/cheetoskull/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-19T20:58:52.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: sunabox.dev","url":"http://sunabox.dev","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"acfdfd4","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/NXRhM2RzdzRiZWtoMTz3AEOQP6sfgIcy10t6xe_1W7gl7UtEBWe_OC9yFkqf.png?width=960&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6322ede32d4e6a4ca569ad5abee68e8dfa93adf4","alt":"Video still: Built with Claude: SunaBox- Fluid Sandbox Game built in dedication to 2008's OE-CAKE that runs in your browser!","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vsyyko/"},"about":"SunaBox is a free browser particle sandbox described as a from-scratch rebuild of OE-CAKE, a 2008 physics toy that \"effectively fell off the radar\". It has a Classic mode that recreates the original interface and can open the same .oec files people made years ago.\n\nIt runs on SunaEngine, which the poster describes as an open source, cross-platform, bit-deterministic WebGPU particle physics engine. The post is flagged \"Built with Claude\" and a Steam version is planned.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-monophonic-synthesizer-for-the-m5stack-cardput-749c","title":"A monophonic synthesizer for the M5Stack Cardputer","topic":"Music & audio","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building a hardware gadget","Custom firmware or bootloader","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A work-in-progress monophonic synthesizer for the M5Stack Cardputer, with tilt-based sound changes on the ADV model, built with Claude.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I'm building a monophonic synthesizer for the M5Stack Carputer.","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vzcqv2/comment/p65cvcy/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's reply in r/ClaudeAI's showcase thread.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t1_p65cvcy","authors":[{"name":"Tokage666","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Tokage666/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-27T04:12:25.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/oldtokage-collab/C.P.S.--Cardputer-SYHNTH--","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"oldtokage-collab","url":"https://github.com/oldtokage-collab","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"749ca43","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/oldtokage-collab/C.P.S.--Cardputer-SYHNTH--","alt":"GitHub repository card for oldtokage-collab/C.P.S.--Cardputer-SYHNTH--","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/oldtokage-collab/C.P.S.--Cardputer-SYHNTH--"},"about":"The poster is building a monophonic synthesizer for the M5Stack Cardputer. On the Cardputer ADV, the built-in IMU lets the sound change as the device is tilted.\n\nThe code is on GitHub. The post was a reply in the weekly showcase thread and gives little detail beyond that, so how far it is finished is not stated.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/oldtokage-collab/C.P.S.--Cardputer-SYHNTH--","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/oldtokage-collab/C.P.S.--Cardputer-SYHNTH--"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-robot-arm-draws-a-generated-face-on-a-postcard-b2af","title":"A robot arm draws a generated face on a postcard","topic":"Robots","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude","Codex"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude wrote a JavaScript face generator, then Codex planned and ran the pen strokes on a UFactory xArm 7 to draw it on a postcard.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: i asked Fable to make a JavaScript sketchbook, then sent it back onto paper with a robot arm","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vusrf5/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1vusrf5","authors":[{"name":"dhvanil","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/dhvanil/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-21T21:09:53.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"b2af05a","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/cHRnNDd2ejFuc2toMXKKbxpw_WKcs7kh7hLm3fBwmi5WUE31JAn3hkEiZIEz.jpeg?width=960&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=99338a092acf9e55bc250bee4b0909cf49f0bd8f","alt":"Video still: i asked Fable to make a JavaScript sketchbook, then sent it back onto paper with a robot arm","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vusrf5/"},"about":"Claude was shown coded face studies by another artist and wrote a JavaScript generator with modular eyes, noses and mouths on a rough 3D head, with deliberate drift, overshoot and retracing. The poster chose the seed and composition and exported black and pink layers as SVGs.\n\nCodex handled the physical side: registering the 105 x 155 mm postcard and its magnets, calibrating two pens, checking every path and running the drawing on a UFactory xArm 7. The finished postcard has 327 pen strokes.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-rewritten-fork-of-activitywatch-built-on-rust-a98e","title":"A rewritten fork of ActivityWatch built on Rust and Tauri","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Modernising legacy code","Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A fork of the ActivityWatch time tracker with the Python stack removed, a rewritten frontend, native auto-updates and configurable privacy filters, built with Claude Code.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: My fork of ActivityWatch is ready","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vw8zx5/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1vw8zx5","authors":[{"name":"CODEXX_00","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/CODEXX_00/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-23T14:42:52.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"a98e3b2","about":"The poster published a fork of the open source ActivityWatch tracker, which began as a UI refresh and grew into what they call \"basically a different app\". The entire Python stack was removed, with notifications now running through native Rust and Tauri, and the frontend was rewritten without Bootstrap.\n\nIt also adds auto-updates and privacy filters that drop or mask sensitive data before it reaches disk, and makes custom watchers possible by writing a simple script. The post says the original base watchers were not their work.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"head-tracking-for-phones-using-a-neural-net-trai-8013","title":"Head tracking for phones using a neural net trained on ArUco footage","topic":"Science & research","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Building a hardware gadget"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude helped build OpenTrack-compatible head tracking for Android and iOS, including a neural net trained on footage captured with ArUco markers.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I’ve been going ham on head tracking. So far in 2026 Claude and I have made:","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vt249k/comment/p4r14rg/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's reply in r/ClaudeAI's showcase thread.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t1_p4r14rg","authors":[{"name":"itsloopyo","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/itsloopyo/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-20T02:57:26.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: headcam.app","url":"https://headcam.app","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"80136d5","image":{"url":"https://headcam.app/assets/images/app-icon.png","alt":"Preview image from headcam.app","credit":"headcam.app","from":"https://headcam.app"},"about":"The poster says Claude helped make headcam, OpenTrack-compatible head tracking for Android and iOS. For Android they trained a neural net that they say comes within 30ms of a Tobii Eye Tracker 5 on a £90 handset, and the app streams video and audio to OBS.\n\nTraining data came from gluing ArUco markers to a cannibalised VR headset and recording footage while capturing ARKit and AirPod tracking data. The marker generator is open source on GitHub; some other parts are closed source.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"jlibscheduler-a-cross-platform-fiber-job-system-adf4","title":"JLib::Scheduler, a cross-platform fiber job system verified with TLA+","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A user-mode fiber job scheduler started by hand, with Claude helping set up TLA+ and GenMC verification models and keeping docs up to date.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: i built an advanced CPU Scheduler/Jobs System (yes, with claude)","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vv7oss/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1vv7oss","authors":[{"name":"Slight-Abroad8939","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Slight-Abroad8939/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-22T09:23:38.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/jay403894-bit/JLib-Scheduler","kind":"Primary","note":"Linked in the post.","authors":[{"name":"jay403894-bit","url":"https://github.com/jay403894-bit","role":"Repository account"}]},{"name":"Reddit: i used claude to help on my concurrency library project and built JLib::Scheduler a cross ","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1u2htsw/comment/p56h149/","kind":"Forum","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t1_p56h149","authors":[{"name":"Slight-Abroad8939","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Slight-Abroad8939/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-22T07:26:14.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"adf49d5","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/aJUQlRyTene9r3KUSlmegLhJn06Hpghjx7qySOU9uGI.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=62c59ce718023a1dee5d96d38d43d6f6f9c42808","alt":"i built an advanced CPU Scheduler/Jobs System (yes, with claude)","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vv7oss/"},"about":"JLib::Scheduler is a cross-platform fiber jobs system and user-mode scheduler. The poster says it began as a hand-written project and was not purely generated by Claude.\n\nClaude was especially helpful in learning TLA+ and GenMC and setting up verification models, and in talking through solutions, though it was sometimes wrong and had to be guided. The poster concludes that Claude can help on low-level projects but needs an experienced person verifying it.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/jay403894-bit/JLib-Scheduler","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/jay403894-bit/JLib-Scheduler"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"old-c-lecture-demos-ported-to-python-5854","title":"Old C++ lecture demos ported to Python","topic":"Legacy code revival","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude","Codex"],"methods":["Porting to a new platform","Modernising legacy code"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A lecturer is updating lecture demos and porting old C++ ones to Python, using Claude to augment and update the code.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I've been updating a load of my lecture demos and porting old C++ ones to python. 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The main demos are in a public GitHub repository, PyNGLDemos.\n\nThey also use Codex and other local tools, and say they plan to move more of their teaching to an \"agentic first\" approach.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/NCCA/PyNGLDemos/","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/NCCA/PyNGLDemos/"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-bass-vst3-pedalboard-and-a-sight-reading-pract-4008","title":"A bass VST3 pedalboard and a sight-reading practice tool","topic":"Music & audio","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Building a hardware gadget"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"An amateur musician had Claude help build a VST3 bass pedalboard plugin and a sight-reading and ear-training practice tool.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I'm amateur musician after office hours. 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MyBassRig is a simple VST3 pedalboard that runs in a DAW or standalone, made because they wanted to customise their own; the octaver and filter still have problems.\n\nThe second, midicoach, is a sight-reading and ear-training tool made because they are bad at reading notation and real notation gives no feedback. They say it likely has problems but has been very useful.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/siipo/MyBassRig","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/siipo/MyBassRig"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-consensual-windows-tray-app-that-interrupts-la-2475","title":"A consensual Windows tray app that interrupts late-night shouting","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building a replacement app","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A Windows tray app that calibrates to a son's voice and minimises his game when he yells, built with Claude Code.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: My son screams while gaming at midnight. I'm a developer, so I did what developers do - I over-engin","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vsk86i/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1vsk86i","authors":[{"name":"omricn","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/omricn/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-19T11:52:22.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"2475c63","image":{"url":"https://i.redd.it/a38ora4hlbkh1.gif","alt":"My son screams while gaming at midnight. I'm a developer, so I did what developers do - I over-engineered a solution","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vsk86i/"},"about":"A developer built S.T.F.U (Sound Trigger Focus Utility), a Windows tray app, because their son yells while gaming at midnight. It calibrates by asking him to be quiet, talk and yell, then on a yell minimises the game and shows a fullscreen message with a close button that moves after each click.\n\nSettings are PIN-protected and a report charts every trigger. The poster stresses that he knows it is there, it is not hidden, and no audio is recorded; it only computes a loudness number every 20ms.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"wolfenstein-3d-ported-into-warcraft-3-as-a-custo-514d","title":"Wolfenstein 3D ported into Warcraft 3 as a custom map","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Porting to a new platform","Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"The original C engine of Wolfenstein 3D was rewritten in Lua by Claude and runs inside Warcraft 3 as a custom map.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: A full port of the classic Wolfenstein 3D game into Warcraft 3 as a custom map.","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1w1kpf2/comment/p6rs4nj/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's reply in r/ClaudeAI's showcase thread.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t1_p6rs4nj","authors":[{"name":"poisoNDealer","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/poisoNDealer/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-30T10:53:16.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The video: youtu.be","url":"https://youtu.be/bidItiPnTB0","kind":"Video","note":"The YouTube video."},{"name":"Reddit: A full port of the classic Wolfenstein 3D game into Warcraft 3 as a custom map.","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1w1kpf2/comment/p6rsgv4/","kind":"Forum","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t1_p6rsgv4","authors":[{"name":"poisoNDealer","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/poisoNDealer/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-30T10:55:56.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"514d9e1","image":{"url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bidItiPnTB0/hqdefault.jpg","alt":"Video thumbnail: The video: youtu.be","credit":"youtube.com","from":"https://youtu.be/bidItiPnTB0"},"about":"A full port of the classic Wolfenstein 3D game that runs as a custom map for Warcraft 3. The original C engine was rewritten in Lua by Claude, and the Warcraft modding API handles player input and screen output.\n\nThe maker links a YouTube video of it running and a map page on Hive Workshop.","projectLinks":[{"type":"video","url":"https://youtu.be/bidItiPnTB0","sourceUrl":"https://youtu.be/bidItiPnTB0"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-keyboard-lighting-engine-rebuilt-in-the-browse-0e59","title":"A keyboard lighting engine rebuilt in the browser over WebHID","topic":"Printers & peripherals","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"The HID lighting protocol of an Epomaker TH108 keyboard was reverse engineered with Claude Code and rebuilt as a layered lighting engine in a browser tab.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I reverse-engineered my keyboard over WebHID and built a browser-based per-key lighting engine, enti","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1w3cy3l/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1w3cy3l","gone":"deleted"},{"name":"The video: youtube.com","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snTHfVTYpGM","kind":"Video","note":"The demo video."}],"ref":"0e59122","image":{"url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/snTHfVTYpGM/hqdefault.jpg","alt":"Video thumbnail: The video: youtube.com","credit":"youtube.com","from":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snTHfVTYpGM"},"about":"The maker's Epomaker TH108 keyboard could only run one lighting effect at a time with the official software. They reverse engineered the HID lighting protocol with Claude Code and rebuilt the control software over WebHID, so it runs in a normal browser tab with no firmware changes or vendor software.\n\nIt can stack layers such as reactive keys, animated backgrounds, GIFs and audio visualisation, shows album art on the keyboard's small LCD, and has a small background app that keeps the lighting running when the tab is closed. 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They had ChatGPT and Claude read their CapFrameX captures and DxDiag reports, which showed Windows 11 was changing power profiles on its own. After fixing that and a few more power profile settings, FPS in Silent Hill 2 went from around 90 to 160-170.\n\nThey then built a free site, 1pct.net, with Claude Code over about a week. You upload a report file and it flags anything abnormal about where performance is going. They kept decisions and lessons on disk as numbered files so work survived session resets.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-web-studio-for-a-roland-tr-8s-drum-machine-f8a0","title":"A web studio for a Roland TR-8S drum machine","topic":"Music & audio","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Building a replacement app","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code built an open source web studio that mirrors a Roland TR-8S live, with the undocumented SysEx protocol reverse engineered by diffing panel changes.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Built with Claude Code: a web studio for my Roland TR-8S drum machine where Claude drives the hardwa","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1w59otv/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1w59otv","authors":[{"name":"cptblackbeard1","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/cptblackbeard1/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-09-02T13:00:43.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/ideaCompany/tr8s-st","kind":"Primary","note":"Linked in the post.","authors":[{"name":"ideaCompany","url":"https://github.com/ideaCompany","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"f8a02cc","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/2EZudnSv4cPMsPB-Ov3f4_lpm0Ielasf3UX5UjjUpOs.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=9efe686b5560dece2646354fa00000dec4e74086","alt":"Built with Claude Code: a web studio for my Roland TR-8S drum machine where Claude drives the hardware over MIDI on my Max subscription","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1w59otv/"},"about":"An open source web studio for the Roland TR-8S drum machine that mirrors the machine live. It includes a chat where Claude is given 52 tools and can read and write patterns, pick sounds, write basslines and start and stop the machine, running through the Claude Agent SDK on the maker's own login.\n\nNearly all the code is Claude Code's. The SysEx protocol was undocumented, so they reverse engineered it together: the maker changed one thing on the panel and Claude read it back and compared. Claude also found five bugs in the pattern-following logic by watching the studio's state and MIDI log, and recorded each trap it hit in a lessons file.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/ideaCompany/tr8s-st","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/ideaCompany/tr8s-st"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-mirrored-remote-desktop-for-a-teleprompter-eb03","title":"A mirrored remote desktop for a teleprompter","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A Windows app streams the desktop to a tablet flipped left to right for use in a teleprompter, written mostly by Claude.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I built a remote desktop app in a couple of days to fix a problem I actually have","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1w5pqbu/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1w5pqbu","authors":[{"name":"LiftForLife90","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/LiftForLife90/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-09-02T22:43:35.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"eb03292","about":"The maker uses a teleprompter, which needs the image flipped left to right, and found no remote desktop or screen mirroring app that could do it. So they built a Windows app that streams their desktop to a tablet, mirrored. They had a working version with touch, a microphone and dictation in a couple of days.\n\nClaude wrote most of the code while the maker directed it and tested on real hardware and real calls. Two bugs took real work to find: an audio cable running at two different speeds, and Windows Explorer crashing because of something the app was doing.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-focus-stacking-tool-for-photographing-a-minera-ce87","title":"A focus stacking tool for photographing a mineral collection","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A macro photographer built their own focus stacking software with Claude after finding two commercial apps painful to use.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I used Claude to photograph and catalog my mineral collection","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1w59uvp/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1w59uvp","authors":[{"name":"EthanNicholas","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/EthanNicholas/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-09-02T13:07:20.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"ce8751c","about":"After years with their mineral collection in boxes, the poster wanted to photograph and catalogue it properly. Macro shots have a tiny depth of field, so photographers combine many images taken at different focus distances (focus stacking). They already owned two commercial apps for this but disliked their interfaces, so they built their own with Claude Max.\n\nThey say it was \"actually really hard\" and not something to vibe code in a weekend, but they are happy with the results, which they show in the post.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-model-train-layout-automated-with-an-esp32-be3e","title":"A model train layout automated with an ESP32","topic":"Embedded & microcontrollers","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building a hardware gadget","Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude researched the parts, wrote the wiring instructions and helped program an ESP32 that runs two model trains from its own web page.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I used Claude code to help me automate my model train layout","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1w6dzcn/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1w6dzcn","authors":[{"name":"kirklong42","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/kirklong42/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-09-03T17:28:02.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"be3eed0","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/aGhmcGg1bjdiY25oMRZgjwMq4SN771PmG4zBegBUm8R_4K1VEJhrdesVw00s.jpeg?width=960&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=19968be211a53ef4f7255269142aae70df5c6642","alt":"Video still: I used Claude code to help me automate my model train layout","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1w6dzcn/"},"about":"The poster had not touched electronics since university physics, so they asked Claude to research the parts to buy and write detailed wiring instructions, then iterated with Claude Code on the software for an ESP32 controller. The ESP32 creates its own WiFi network and serves a simple web page that drives the trains.\n\nThere is also an auto mode: it sends the freight train round, detects it entering the siding and stops it, then does the same with the passenger train, and repeats. The poster had to correct a few things by hand in both the parts and the software.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-mixed-reality-drone-fpv-app-with-a-watch-based-e1c6","title":"A mixed reality drone FPV app with a watch-based flight stick","topic":"Vehicles & drones","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building a hardware gadget","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A Wear OS watch app and a mixed reality Android app for smart glasses, made with Claude, fly a DJI Mini 2 or Tello drone using wrist attitude as a virtual stick.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude and I made a Mixed Reality drone FPV with virtual flight stick app. Works with DJI Mini 2 or ","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1w5q6dx/comment/p7ilhxf/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's reply in r/ClaudeAI's showcase thread.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t1_p7ilhxf","authors":[{"name":"dharma-bruce","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/dharma-bruce/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-09-03T04:31:07.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The video: youtu.be","url":"https://youtu.be/nCvoiODsBFY?si=okTD-c8x9VOUumiz&t=105","kind":"Video","note":"The demo video."}],"ref":"e1c6755","image":{"url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nCvoiODsBFY/hqdefault.jpg","alt":"Video thumbnail: The video: youtu.be","credit":"youtube.com","from":"https://youtu.be/nCvoiODsBFY?si=okTD-c8x9VOUumiz&t=105"},"about":"A mixed reality first-person view app for flying drones, made with Claude. It works with a DJI Mini 2 or the old Tello drone.\n\nThe virtual flight stick comes from the wrist attitude of a Samsung watch. A Wear OS app on the watch pairs with the mixed reality Android app running on INMO Air3 colour waveguide glasses. The maker links a YouTube demo.","projectLinks":[{"type":"video","url":"https://youtu.be/nCvoiODsBFY?si=okTD-c8x9VOUumiz&t=105","sourceUrl":"https://youtu.be/nCvoiODsBFY?si=okTD-c8x9VOUumiz&t=105"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-2013-dumb-alarm-hacked-into-a-smart-alarm-bd98","title":"A 2013 dumb alarm hacked into a smart alarm","topic":"Smart home","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Repurposing to a new role","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude built a Home Assistant system from scratch and helped turn an old 2013 alarm into a smart one.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude built my home assistant system from scratch, and resurected an old 2013 dumb alarm, hacked it","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1w5q6dx/comment/p7mqctx/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's reply in r/ClaudeAI's showcase thread.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t1_p7mqctx","authors":[{"name":"Electrical_Chard3255","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Electrical_Chard3255/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-09-03T18:47:07.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: anchorapp100.github.io","url":"https://anchorapp100.github.io/globalguard/index.html","kind":"Blog","note":"The project page."}],"ref":"bd98b44","about":"The poster says Claude built their Home Assistant system from scratch and also helped revive an old 2013 \"dumb\" alarm, hacking it into a smart alarm. They describe the revival of old devices as the interesting part of the project.\n\nThe post gives few technical details; the maker links a project page.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"line-tower-wars-rebuilt-as-a-standalone-multipla-78e3","title":"Line Tower Wars rebuilt as a standalone multiplayer game","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code","Codex"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"With Claude Code and an empty Godot project, the maker rebuilt a StarCraft 2 custom map whose servers had emptied, with multiplayer and a roguelite mode.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Recreated the classic 'Line Tower Wars' game with Claude Code (Free and multiplayer support)","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1w74r28/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1w74r28","authors":[{"name":"prince_peepee_poopoo","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/prince_peepee_poopoo/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-09-04T13:41:20.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: store.steampowered.com","url":"https://store.steampowered.com/app/4954340/Line\\_Tower\\_Wars/","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"78e31aa","image":{"url":"https://shared.fastly.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4954340/ca3bd1605d5311d661e4427809c8e38c8e7921d1/capsule_616x353.jpg?t=1790805233","alt":"Preview image from store.steampowered.com","credit":"store.steampowered.com","from":"https://store.steampowered.com/app/4954340/Line\\_Tower\\_Wars/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://shared.fastly.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4954340/aed0e9b92dfc12cbe95c88d2d769fde038a808b3/ss_aed0e9b92dfc12cbe95c88d2d769fde038a808b3.1920x1080.jpg?t=1790805233","alt":"Image from store.steampowered.com","credit":"store.steampowered.com","from":"https://store.steampowered.com/app/4954340/Line\\_Tower\\_Wars/"},{"url":"https://shared.fastly.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4954340/c6480cf1758580fd93cec58f3d5a41799a69d6f1/header.jpg?t=1790805233","alt":"Line Tower Wars","credit":"store.steampowered.com","from":"https://store.steampowered.com/app/4954340/Line\\_Tower\\_Wars/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/61fx3x8jbinh1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=f89b796b6e785b74c1479ba67e3a195fd12568b3","alt":"Recreated the classic 'Line Tower Wars' game with Claude Code (Free and multiplayer support)","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1w74r28/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/kfmg1offbinh1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=dd428b44bdca7e1db2da52d195eebf6003d11095","alt":"Recreated the classic 'Line Tower Wars' game with Claude Code (Free and multiplayer support)","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1w74r28/"}],"about":"The poster used to play the StarCraft 2 custom map Line Tower Wars, but its lobbies are now empty. So they built a standalone version from the ground up with Claude and an empty Godot project. It is free on Steam and the multiplayer works well, though it needs players to be worth much.\n\nThere is a paid roguelite single player mode with 32 floors, bosses, modifiers and relics. 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It is MIT licensed, hosted on Cloudflare Workers by the teacher for his students, and the source is on GitHub.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"bots-for-ace-of-spades-with-pathfinding-in-a-des-cf28","title":"Bots for Ace of Spades with pathfinding in a destructible world","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude wrote new bots for the voxel game Ace of Spades with pathfinding, skill levels, aiming error and tunnelling.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Ace of Spades Bot","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1w70m7c/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1w70m7c","authors":[{"name":"Detank2002","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Detank2002/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-09-04T10:31:28.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The video: youtu.be","url":"https://youtu.be/AbviEkFWDX8","kind":"Video","note":"The demo video."}],"ref":"cf28746","image":{"url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AbviEkFWDX8/hqdefault.jpg","alt":"Video thumbnail: The video: youtu.be","credit":"youtube.com","from":"https://youtu.be/AbviEkFWDX8"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/GRM_dfxL8-FRXrzH566hN5D3XhoO3I7RTfJ-siIvNx0.jpeg?width=320&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=a2dc68e55e95c92a5156014a88a2803413f4b841","alt":"Ace of Spades Bot","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1w70m7c/"}],"about":"The poster's favourite old game had only dire bots for a long time, so they tried Claude Code to fix that. The result has on-the-fly pathfinding in a fully destructible voxel world, combat with skill levels and aiming error, tunnelling, and various behaviours, roles and decision making.\n\nIt took a decent chunk of back and forth for features and bug fixing, and the poster says no other AI came close. The bots are due to become permanent on a community server. The game client is zerospades.","projectLinks":[{"type":"video","url":"https://youtu.be/AbviEkFWDX8","sourceUrl":"https://youtu.be/AbviEkFWDX8"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-minecraft-schematic-to-3d-print-converter-b82e","title":"A Minecraft schematic to 3D print converter","topic":"Printers & peripherals","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Decompiling software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Fable 5.1 built a converter that turns Minecraft schematics into multi-colour 3MF files or printable lego-style bricks, using the real block models.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Built a Minecraft schematic to 3D print converter with Fable 5.1","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1w9oy7j/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1w9oy7j","gone":"deleted"}],"ref":"b82e3b6","about":"The poster wanted to print their Minecraft builds and found that existing converters only make a cube per block with no textures. They had Fable 5.1 build a converter in about an hour. It reads several schematic formats, pulls block models and textures from the installed game including mods and resource packs, and outputs a 3MF with one object per filament. A lego mode splits builds into bricks with studs.\n\nThe first mob models, written from memory, were wrong (spider legs pointing up, zombies with one arm). Minecraft keeps the real models as Java code in its jar, so Claude wrote a small bytecode interpreter in Python that runs that code using Mojang's mappings, after which 78 mobs matched the game.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-mac-data-recovery-app-built-after-deleting-sd-7e3c","title":"A Mac data recovery app built after deleting SD card photos","topic":"Repairs & diagnostics","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"After deleting a daughter's photos from an SD card, the maker built a Mac recovery app with Claude Code that never writes to the drive.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I built a Mac data recovery app with Claude Code and Ponytail because the existing ones want 89 doll","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1w9d578/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1w9d578","gone":"deleted"},{"name":"The project: theretriever.app","url":"https://theretriever.app","kind":"Blog","note":"The app's website."}],"ref":"7e3c17d","about":"The poster deleted their daughter's photos from an SD card and found Mac recovery tools charged a lot to save anything. So they built Retriever with Claude Code. It reads memory cards, USB sticks and external drives (FAT32, exFAT, NTFS), makes a backup image first and works on the copy, and never writes to the drive.\n\nIt says early whether the data is still there, and labels each file as intact, probably damaged or fragmented. Videos written around other files are reassembled and checked against the video's own index. Scanning and previews are free; it sells a one-off licence to save files.","image":{"url":"https://theretriever.app/assets/og.jpg","alt":"Preview image from theretriever.app","credit":"theretriever.app","from":"https://theretriever.app"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://theretriever.app/assets/thumbs/DSC06183.jpg","alt":"Image from theretriever.app","credit":"theretriever.app","from":"https://theretriever.app"},{"url":"https://theretriever.app/assets/thumbs/DSC06190.jpg","alt":"Image from theretriever.app","credit":"theretriever.app","from":"https://theretriever.app"},{"url":"https://theretriever.app/assets/thumbs/DSC06188.jpg","alt":"Image from theretriever.app","credit":"theretriever.app","from":"https://theretriever.app"},{"url":"https://theretriever.app/assets/thumbs/DSC06201.jpg","alt":"Image from theretriever.app","credit":"theretriever.app","from":"https://theretriever.app"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"five-vst3-instruments-and-effects-built-with-cla-ca06","title":"Five VST3 instruments and effects built with Claude","topic":"Music & audio","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Across two sessions Claude built five VST3 plugins, including a DX7-style synth, a Minimoog-style synth and a sampler, using JUCE and CMake.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Virtual Instruments for Ableton - VST3","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1w9dmuo/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1w9dmuo","authors":[{"name":"WillingnessOwn6446","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/WillingnessOwn6446/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-09-07T00:57:25.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"ca06a0a","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/yn190x48xznh1.jpeg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=c45196011470e8a27f361bde2d1dae1d63af25ee","alt":"Virtual Instruments for Ableton - VST3","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1w9dmuo/"},"about":"Using the $20 Pro plan with Opus 5, the poster built five VST3 plugins for Ableton across two sessions without using half of their 5-hour limit. Installing JUCE and CMake took about 20 minutes.\n\nThe plugins are a distortion, reverb and delay; a Yamaha DX7 style synth; a T-RackS style mastering chain; a Minimoog style synth; and a Maschine and MPC style sampler. The poster says they sound great and that it got them making beats again.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"planet-coaster-2-run-on-an-apple-silicon-mac-wit-2ab5","title":"Planet Coaster 2 run on an Apple Silicon Mac with Wine","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Porting to a new platform","Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code installed Wine, Steam and the game, then read crash logs and applied fixes until Planet Coaster 2 ran on a Mac.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Thanks to Fable 5.1 you can now play more games on Mac","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1w9tc5a/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1w9tc5a","authors":[{"name":"Happy_Bread_1","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Happy_Bread_1/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-09-07T14:14:13.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"2ab5361","about":"The poster usually played Planet Coaster 2 through GeForce Now. Given a one-line goal to get it running on their Mac (an M5 chip) using Wine, Claude installed Wine, Steam and the game itself.\n\nThe game crashed at first, so Claude read the logs and applied fixes. The result is a WineBottler package that plays a game that would not run natively on the machine.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-word-game-for-a-grandmother-with-memory-loss-65e6","title":"A word game for a grandmother with memory loss","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A two-day Claude Code build: a sentence-trimming word game designed around how a grandmother with memory loss still talks.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: She talks in half sentences now, so I made that our game","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1wa0ahg/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1wa0ahg","authors":[{"name":"Mastbubbles","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Mastbubbles/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-09-07T18:31:32.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: sheets.works","url":"https://sheets.works/long-story-short","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"65e66fb","image":{"url":"https://sheets.works/og-long-story-short.png","alt":"Preview image from sheets.works","credit":"sheets.works","from":"https://sheets.works/long-story-short"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/YD1hWohkTgh6FygGBqPOPrA06qFa6fAeOTt60ETpD6A.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=02ace39a970e50165d0007689b642e4ccb14afb2","alt":"She talks in half sentences now, so I made that our game","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1wa0ahg/"}],"about":"The poster's grandmother has lost most of her memory over three years, and crosswords, trivia and sudoku had stopped working for her. She still speaks in half sentences, which the poster likened to writing a headline, so they made that the game.\n\nA short, true, good-news sentence is shown and you cross out words until five remain that still hold the story. Every word stays on screen so nothing has to be remembered, and they play side by side with the poster reading aloud. It was built with Claude Code in two days.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"an-esp32-e-ink-handheld-that-serves-a-pokemon-em-4af6","title":"An ESP32 e-ink handheld that serves a Pokemon emulator over Wi-Fi","topic":"Embedded & microcontrollers","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building a hardware gadget","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"An ESP32 with a cheap e-ink display and D-pad in laser-cut acrylic, built with Claude, serving an emulator to any browser.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude helped me make a custom e-book, and now I can play pokemon on any device with a web browser a","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wecd8d/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1wecd8d","authors":[{"name":"Mescallan","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Mescallan/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-09-12T13:15:12.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: muonsortes.com","url":"https://muonsortes.com/build-a-wifi-ereader","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"4af6c84","image":{"url":"https://muonsortes.com/img/ereader/screen.jpg","alt":"Preview image from muonsortes.com","credit":"muonsortes.com","from":"https://muonsortes.com/build-a-wifi-ereader"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://muonsortes.com/img/ereader/wiring.jpg","alt":"Inside the case: an ESP32-S3 dev board with soldered wires running to a blue Good Display adapter board taped to cardboard.","credit":"muonsortes.com","from":"https://muonsortes.com/build-a-wifi-ereader"},{"url":"https://muonsortes.com/img/ereader/back.jpg","alt":"Back of the reader showing the dev board's two USB-C ports and the five-way button poking through black tape and cardboard.","credit":"muonsortes.com","from":"https://muonsortes.com/build-a-wifi-ereader"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/ah98ywr683ph1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=63ade1b4c9e6962b115a1d406110dd33787dfb7c","alt":"Claude helped me make a custom e-book, and now I can play pokemon on any device with a web browser and use the display as a game dashboard!","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wecd8d/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/c74dcvr683ph1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=c6eadcb60f27f8072f8771445ebb11f06c0175d8","alt":"Claude helped me make a custom e-book, and now I can play pokemon on any device with a web browser and use the display as a game dashboard!","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wecd8d/"}],"about":"The reader is an ESP32 with a roughly $27 e-ink display and a D-pad on the back, housed in four sheets of laser-cut acrylic. The ESP32 broadcasts its own Wi-Fi and serves an emulator and the ROM to a browser, so processing happens on the device while the save carries across devices.\n\nThe e-ink interface is made from in-game assets and sprites, and it reads the emulator's memory position to get the game data. 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It loads 138,968 neurons and 4.6 million synapses into a simulation without changing any connection. An eye model turns each game frame into signals for the fly's motion-detecting cells, and a small trained layer reads 10,511 simulated neurons and picks one of 8 keys.\n\nA scripted bot that can see the map was used to train it. On 100 runs from unseen starting spots it reaches the exit of the first level 57% of the time. An earlier fruit fly DOOM project, by its own README, never got past survival tests in a small arena. 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The maker set the design rules up front: code in WASM, a threaded interpreter because a JIT is impossible in raw WASM, and code written directly in WebAssembly text. Claude and Codex reviewed each other's work, and gradually harder software was fed in, from Notepad through the Windows Entertainment Pack and Pinball to AAA games and Starcraft.\n\nThe maker notes things to watch for: the AI sometimes missed big rendering gaps, TrueType rendering had to be checked against real Windows 98 in v86, agents kept moving logic into JavaScript, and parallel changes needed a message board between agents.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"crash-team-racing-ported-to-the-nintendo-3ds-a72b","title":"Crash Team Racing ported to the Nintendo 3DS","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A beta port of Crash Team Racing to the 3DS, vibe coded with Claude, released on GitHub for others to try.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I ported Crash Team Racing to the 3DS.","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1w5q6dx/comment/paj10dq/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's reply in r/ClaudeAI's showcase thread.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t1_paj10dq","authors":[{"name":"zando95","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/zando95/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-09-18T07:28:45.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/zando95/CTR-3D/releases/tag/beta-1.0","kind":"Primary","note":"The beta release on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"zando95","url":"https://github.com/zando95","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"a72bf3d","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/zando95/CTR-3D/releases/tag/beta-1.0","alt":"CTR 3D is a New Nintendo 3DS homebrew port of Crash Team Racing (PS1, 1999). 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It lets you switch from a regular 2D desktop into a walkable 3D city with your real app windows floating in the scene. Chrome, a terminal, a file explorer and a video player run there, and a 3D window carousel switches between them.\n\nThe world has a waterfront, moving boats and a tram, and each display gets its own viewpoint. 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Each worker, soldier and the enemy commander asks a classifier called JEV, through OpenRouter, to pick from a short list of typed options such as gather, attack or wait; the engine only checks the choice is still legal.\n\nThe demo is a static GitHub page and needs a local copy of the original art assets. The poster warns a full game can cost from 25 cents to $5 in API calls.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"an-open-source-robot-arm-taught-to-paint-with-cl-dc6c","title":"An open-source robot arm taught to paint with Claude","topic":"Robots","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building a hardware gadget","Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude was given control of an SO-101 robot arm holding a paintbrush and iteratively improved paintings of the Golden Gate Bridge.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: An open source Robot + Claude Opus 5 = Basic Painting","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wodkp4/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1wodkp4","authors":[{"name":"KungRaLeo","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/KungRaLeo/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-09-23T18:10:13.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"Reddit: Opus 5.5 painted Starry Night with a robot in 1 attempt","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wpce6x/","kind":"Forum","note":"The follow-up post on painting Starry Night.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1wpce6x","authors":[{"name":"KungRaLeo","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/KungRaLeo/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-09-24T20:16:53.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"dc6c8b5","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/enZxZXV6bnI2YnJoMW8qBpY481DHVep9uWv6kyCO5ZXWNjuGAWN77rNLYC4n.png?width=960&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=37539adf95c2536db580c7c58a373000db5ab3a5","alt":"Video still: An open source Robot + Claude Opus 5 = Basic Painting","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wodkp4/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/dW5iZ3Z3ZzcwanJoMaK8Ocpp91v8mqS4YVf9bDv-MI4VhDfqfi4nE9NBYA36.jpeg?width=320&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=40981122d6623bf02a574aabb25a1c51c7251970","alt":"Video still: Opus 5.5 painted Starry Night with a robot in 1 attempt","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wpce6x/"}],"about":"The poster gave Claude (Opus 5) control of an SO-101 robot arm with a paintbrush attached and asked it to paint the Golden Gate Bridge. Claude learned the robot's controls, made calibration files and broke painting into simpler instructions.\n\nThe experiment took about 45 hours of iteration. The poster says the painting improved almost every round, with more detail added and mistakes fixed. 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The whole program is 512 bytes and boots on an i386 under QEMU, drawing a night view of New York.\n\nThe assembly source and code are on GitHub as an example for similar experiments.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/pikalover6/nyc-by-night","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/pikalover6/nyc-by-night"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-1940-fighter-aircraft-manual-turned-into-a-3d-14c9","title":"A 1940 fighter aircraft manual turned into a 3D Blender model","topic":"Science & research","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Analysing or auditing software","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude transcribed a scanned 168-page Dewoitine D.520 manual and built a parametric Blender model that checks itself against the manual.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I used Opus 5.5 to turn a scanned 1940 aircraft manual into a 3D model in Blender (Dewoitine D.520)","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wowx30/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1wowx30","authors":[{"name":"Northern_Slytherin","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Northern_Slytherin/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-09-24T09:22:16.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"14c901b","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/kt0s8jz9rfrh1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=c494339a3f107efc215f06e1e60ee01b5967f4bb","alt":"I used Opus 5.5 to turn a scanned 1940 aircraft manual into a 3D model in Blender (Dewoitine D.520)","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wowx30/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/3cgp6kz9rfrh1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=c1a2ae4cb166fe3afdf4409db08c537d22a72ae9","alt":"I used Opus 5.5 to turn a scanned 1940 aircraft manual into a 3D model in Blender (Dewoitine D.520)","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wowx30/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/h5f8ckz9rfrh1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=8e52fbea2ec50cd350a9ef451723855ac43a6a86","alt":"I used Opus 5.5 to turn a scanned 1940 aircraft manual into a 3D model in Blender (Dewoitine D.520)","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wowx30/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/bxb5lkz9rfrh1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=baa1a63c70c3776904fcf857ac085eedf7d44c53","alt":"I used Opus 5.5 to turn a scanned 1940 aircraft manual into a 3D model in Blender (Dewoitine D.520)","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wowx30/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/kvry9jz9rfrh1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=2bc9bd91d51115e601ff682da7e496b1de3a8222","alt":"I used Opus 5.5 to turn a scanned 1940 aircraft manual into a 3D model in Blender (Dewoitine D.520)","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wowx30/"}],"about":"The poster found a scan of the Dewoitine D.520 manual in a French regional archive: 168 typed pages plus plates. Claude (Opus 5.5 in Claude Code) transcribed all of it, then wrote a parametric Python script for Blender, run over SSH on the poster's Mac, with every dimension required to come from a source or be labelled a guess.\n\nA second script measures the finished model against the manual and flags gaps, and renders were compared with a 3-view drawing and museum photos of the surviving aircraft.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"an-open-source-engine-remake-and-format-docs-for-61e5","title":"An open-source engine remake and format docs for Total Annihilation","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude","Codex"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Analysing or auditing software","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"An MIT-licensed engine remake of Total Annihilation with documented game formats, built with Claude and Codex.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: My latest project is an MIT-licensed open source documentation & engine remake project for one of my","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wol22c/comment/pbo78ha/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's reply in r/ClaudeAI's showcase thread.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t1_pbo78ha","authors":[{"name":"Dgt84","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Dgt84/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-09-24T00:06:11.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: nanolathe.gg","url":"https://nanolathe.gg/","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked from the post."}],"ref":"61e53fd","image":{"url":"https://nanolathe.gg/images/renderer/hero-living-base-e2ac78cd.webp","alt":"An ARM base, tanks and kbots during combat in Nanolathe’s modern GPU renderer","credit":"nanolathe.gg","from":"https://nanolathe.gg/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://nanolathe.gg/images/renderer/v6/explosion-modern.webp","alt":"Modern GPU renderer with 2× synthesized terrain, lighting and glow: a Jeffy explosion lights a nearby Bulldog tank on Greenhaven","credit":"nanolathe.gg","from":"https://nanolathe.gg/"},{"url":"https://nanolathe.gg/images/renderer/v6/explosion-classic.webp","alt":"The same Jeffy explosion and Bulldog tank, committed tick and 2× camera in Nanolathe’s Classic CPU renderer using original-resolution terrain","credit":"nanolathe.gg","from":"https://nanolathe.gg/"}],"about":"This is an MIT-licensed documentation and engine remake project for Total Annihilation. The poster says it remasters the original palette-based 2D graphics at runtime and adds a modern GPU renderer with 3D lighting, bloom, water and reflections, running on Windows, Mac and Linux.\n\nThe game formats and engine behaviours are documented online. The poster used Claude and Codex together, finding Claude a bit better at coding and optimising. It is still a work in progress with daily updates.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-free-openstreetmap-zoning-map-of-31-real-citie-59aa","title":"A free OpenStreetMap zoning map of 31 real cities for Cities: Skylines 2","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Automating with Claude","Analysing or auditing software","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code built a pipeline that sorts OpenStreetMap buildings into game zones and handles city requests from GitHub.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I wanted my real city in Cities: Skylines 2. 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It also moved the map to vector tiles, cutting a big city from about 14 seconds and 950 MB to 1.2 seconds and 125 MB.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-3d-platformer-for-the-nintendo-gamecube-writte-4644","title":"A 3D platformer for the Nintendo GameCube written with Claude Code","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code","Codex"],"methods":["Making a game","Porting to a new platform","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code writes C game code, levels, Houdini art scripts and music for a platformer running on real GameCube hardware.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude Opus 5.5 and I are making an actual GameCube game that runs on real hardware. 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Claude Code writes the game code, builds levels checked against a simulation of the game's physics, writes Houdini scripts for the 3D art and composes the music as code, within the console's limits of roughly 150k vertices a frame and 24 MB of RAM.\n\nThe poster playtests every build and files tickets; Claude even built the ticket tool. Level 2 went through about 40 tickets. It is a work in progress.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-power-grid-board-game-with-a-neural-network-ex-9cc5","title":"A Power Grid board game with a neural-network expert bot","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Making a game","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"An online Power Grid implementation with bots, one of them a trained neural network, built with Claude.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: An implementation of the board game Power Grid. 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The expert bot is itself a trained neural network.\n\nThe poster says training took a lot of trial and error and billions of games, and that a journal in the repo explains the journey.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/brentjohnson/powergrid-reimagined","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/brentjohnson/powergrid-reimagined"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-lightweight-app-to-move-photos-off-an-iphone-o-2720","title":"A lightweight app to move photos off an iPhone over USB","topic":"Printers & peripherals","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building a replacement app","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A small tool for downloading and uploading photos and videos over a direct USB connection to an iPhone, made with Claude.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I often have trouble sending photos from my iphone to my desktop through direct usb connection. 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They made a lightweight mini-app to download and upload photos and videos, with a small preview.\n\nThey say it stays responsive even with a 1TB iPhone, and that it is untested on Mac and Linux.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/Berttwm/iphone-file-viewer","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/Berttwm/iphone-file-viewer"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-bmw-obd-cable-turned-into-a-kia-diagnostic-too-7b1d","title":"A BMW OBD cable turned into a Kia diagnostic tool","topic":"Repairs & diagnostics","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Repurposing to a new role","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code built its own diagnostics interface so a BMW-only OBD cable could read a 2018 Kia Forte and help track down a no-start fault.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Fable 5.1 - Live Vehicle Diagnostics","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1wquoxy/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1wquoxy","gone":"deleted"}],"ref":"7b1dc91","about":"A DIY mechanic wanted to diagnose his aunt's 2018 Kia Forte, which clicked but would not turn over. He had an old BMW OBD-to-USB cable that normally only works with BMWs, so he opened a Claude Code session and asked it to get the cable talking to the Kia, with guardrails for safe CAN bus communication.\n\nClaude built its own diagnostics and communication interface, checked battery health, voltages and fault codes, and tried cranking the engine to watch the voltage. Seeing little voltage drop, it suggested a list of checks, including cleaning the starter solenoid terminals. While doing that, the terminal B stud came right off; the post text available here ends before the final outcome.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"three-ntsc-n64-rom-hacks-patched-to-run-on-a-pal-bde4","title":"Three NTSC N64 ROM hacks patched to run on a PAL console","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Decompiling software","Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code disassembled three US-only N64 ROM hacks and patched in PAL video timings, 50 Hz audio and clock fixes so they run on a European N64.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I asked Claude Code to make three US-only N64 ROM hacks work on my European PAL N64. 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Claude read the ROM headers, disassembled the game code with Capstone and found where each game picks its video mode, which on a non-US console fell back to a mode that gives a black-and-white or rolling picture on a PAL TV.\n\nIt patched in proper PAL timings from tables already inside the ROMs, fixed the sound for 50 Hz using the official European release as a guide, corrected Mario Kart's race timer, and removed a deliberate region lock in Smash Remix.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"armagetron-ported-to-webgl-with-a-multiplayer-ba-fc72","title":"Armagetron ported to WebGL with a multiplayer backend","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Opus 5.5 ported the Armagetron game to WebGL and wrote a websocket multiplayer backend, which is hosted online.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Ported Armagetron to WebGL","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wqlaja/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1wqlaja","authors":[{"name":"Ok_Tour_8029","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Ok_Tour_8029/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-09-26T08:30:07.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: genhttp.dev","url":"https://genhttp.dev/","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"fc72365","image":{"url":"https://genhttp.dev/media/prompt.webp","alt":"The build page with a request for a lunch poll typed in","credit":"genhttp.dev","from":"https://genhttp.dev/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://genhttp.dev/media/app.webp","alt":"The finished lunch poll, open in a browser","credit":"genhttp.dev","from":"https://genhttp.dev/"},{"url":"https://genhttp.dev/media/editor.webp","alt":"The poll's control center: its versions, each with what was asked for, what it changed and the difference to the one before","credit":"genhttp.dev","from":"https://genhttp.dev/"}],"about":"The poster asked Claude Opus 5.5 to port the Armagetron project to WebGL and deploy it with a websocket-based multiplayer backend on GenHTTP Lambda. The initial port took 1.6 million tokens, and bug fixing and multiplayer improvements took another 600,000.\n\nThey gave only user requirements, no technical details, so Claude wrote and pushed the backend alone. It uses one websocket connection per player and sends the network state at 60 Hz via protobuf. A playable link is shared in the post.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"pokemon-red-remade-in-browser-javascript-with-no-f297","title":"Pokemon Red remade in browser JavaScript with no image files","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Opus 5.5 wrote about 25,000 lines of JavaScript to remake Pokemon Red, drawing every sprite and map from code.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Pokémon Claude Red: Opus 5.5 remade all of Pokémon Red and drew every pixel in code. 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When last posted it was about 7 percent complete after roughly four months. Using the recompilation method, where the ROM is reverse-engineered from assembly into estimated code, made all the functions visible, so they only needed verifying rather than writing from scratch.\n\nIn under three weeks the project reached roughly 60 percent. The poster credits Opus 5.5 with much better back-and-forth on decisions and planning, and also had it make a video of the project after about four attempts.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"killer-gorilla-from-the-bbc-micro-remade-in-3d-e6a1","title":"Killer Gorilla from the BBC Micro remade in 3D","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Opus 5.5 remade the BBC Micro Donkey Kong clone Killer Gorilla as a 3D game that can be played from itch.io.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Nostalgia hit in 3D","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wrjbo2/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1wrjbo2","authors":[{"name":"Owly777","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Owly777/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-09-27T12:44:58.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: retroremaster.itch.io","url":"https://retroremaster.itch.io/killer-gorilla-3d","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"e6a13e6","image":{"url":"https://img.itch.zone/aW1nLzMwMjg3MzM1LmpwZw==/original/RlwQAK.jpg","alt":"Preview image from retroremaster.itch.io","credit":"retroremaster.itch.io","from":"https://retroremaster.itch.io/killer-gorilla-3d"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://img.itch.zone/aW1hZ2UvNTA1ODE0Mi8zMDI4NjU3MS5wbmc=/794x1000/n%2BLHp3.png","alt":"Image from retroremaster.itch.io","credit":"retroremaster.itch.io","from":"https://retroremaster.itch.io/killer-gorilla-3d"},{"url":"https://img.itch.zone/aW1hZ2UvNTA1ODE0Mi8zMDI4NjU2OC5wbmc=/794x1000/WEJGbZ.png","alt":"Image from retroremaster.itch.io","credit":"retroremaster.itch.io","from":"https://retroremaster.itch.io/killer-gorilla-3d"},{"url":"https://img.itch.zone/aW1hZ2UvNTA1ODE0Mi8zMDI4NjU2Ny5wbmc=/794x1000/qw3ZJY.png","alt":"Image from retroremaster.itch.io","credit":"retroremaster.itch.io","from":"https://retroremaster.itch.io/killer-gorilla-3d"},{"url":"https://img.itch.zone/aW1hZ2UvNTA1ODE0Mi8zMDI4NjU3MC5wbmc=/794x1000/ZpfXgt.png","alt":"Image from retroremaster.itch.io","credit":"retroremaster.itch.io","from":"https://retroremaster.itch.io/killer-gorilla-3d"}],"about":"The poster got Claude Opus 5.5 to re-make Killer Gorilla, a Donkey Kong clone and the first game they ever played, which ran on the BBC Micro. According to the post it created a full 3D environment with the features and quirks of the original.\n\nThe result is released as a playable game on itch.io.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-slay-the-spire-2-mod-with-two-new-characters-b-f9f8","title":"A Slay the Spire 2 mod with two new characters built by decompiling","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Decompiling software","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code decompiled Slay the Spire 2 and built a mod with two characters, 176 cards, balance bots and a trailer.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Opus 5.5 is nuts. 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Claude Code decompiled the game, worked out what a mod has to patch, and built a multi-character framework with an installer and uninstaller.\n\nIt designed 176 cards against numbers mined from the base characters, implemented them in C# with Harmony patches, and ran a balance bot over 300 games against two existing characters. Art was generated locally in ComfyUI, and a director bot recorded a trailer in 4K. 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Opus writes the patches in raw assembly, but testing means flashing the ECU, going for a drive and logging variables to feed back to Opus, which is slow.\n\nThey asked Opus to find an emulator. None existed, and Opus replied that it was writing an SH-2E CPU core in Java. The post does not say whether the emulator was finished or worked.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"animated-2d-piano-hands-for-a-synthesia-style-di-2493","title":"Animated 2D piano hands for a Synthesia-style display","topic":"Music & audio","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A pianist had Opus 5.5 build a Pygame tool that shows a lively animated hand playing the notes.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Animated 2D Hands for Piano","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ws022d/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1ws022d","authors":[{"name":"V9011N","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/V9011N/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-09-28T00:19:53.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/V9011N/pygame-piano-animator","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"V9011N","url":"https://github.com/V9011N","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"249368a","image":{"url":"https://camo.githubusercontent.com/392b8edd5c70ae1ba98da77553f08e58c51e100d9bdacfadad2e5acdad3055e5/68747470733a2f2f696d672e796f75747562652e636f6d2f76692f446f506e477643584c6e452f302e6a7067","alt":"Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody 10 Example","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/V9011N/pygame-piano-animator"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/NWFxYzF6OWJtNXNoMdqlQ5hKJGCm69FSMMsp6RFJ3-YAQLxsa8pThoK1JRsn.png?width=960&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e4dadadf31af8dfad7b7ff743f6d66bdaa0a188b","alt":"Video still: Animated 2D Hands for Piano","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ws022d/"}],"about":"A pianist who always wished Synthesia had a mode showing a lively hand zooming around playing built it with Claude Opus 5.5 in Pygame. 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Each job runs on its own device so perception does not compete with the LLM for VRAM.\n\nA 78-second test showed spoken words coming back as huge projected type a moment later, and people began testing it and talking to the wall.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-number-learning-princess-dress-up-game-for-a-d-2b00","title":"A number-learning princess dress-up game for a daughter","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"An Opus-led swarm of Claude agents built an iPad-style game that teaches a child numbers, ready to install after dinner.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: *while I was at dinner* I made a number reinforcement-princess dress up game for my daughter","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wqs8a0/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1wqs8a0","authors":[{"name":"Mescallan","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Mescallan/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-09-26T14:41:20.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"2b00d55","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/iss0cw6kmvrh1.jpeg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=3be6825bdddeb9dad5e5057a6995edee9b122fb7","alt":"*while I was at dinner* I made a number reinforcement-princess dress up game for my daughter","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wqs8a0/"},"about":"A parent used Remote Control so an Opus agent could manage a swarm building a castle exploration game for their daughter. She finds hidden treasure chests and must pick the number a text-to-speech voice asks for three times; each chest holds a piece of clothing for dressing a princess.\n\nSonnet made the SVGs and Opus assembled it, ready to install before they got home from dinner. There are no ads, it repeats numbers she gets wrong, and letters are planned. 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After Flash died the site went dark, and for the 15th anniversary they rebuilt it as a 3D globe with 119 stops, each showing the real tweets, photos, videos and blog posts from that day.\n\nThe hard part was data: over 1,300 tweets, nearly 2,000 Flickr photos and 11,000 source photos with no database or GPS data. Claude Code wrote the scrapers, import and audit scripts and most of the Next.js and MapLibre front end. 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For one paper they had tried a local Qwen model, GLM and Kimi, all of which produced almost unusable results.\n\nOpus 5.5 finished it within a few hours, using 40 percent of a five-hour limit.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-smash-style-fighter-starring-a-childs-stuffed-3060","title":"A Smash-style fighter starring a child's stuffed animals","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A father and son made a platform fighter on iPad and iPhone with Claude Code, with 16 toys as the cast.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: My son and I made a Smash-style fighter starring his real stuffed animals. 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The poster had tried to build it before and given up.\n\nThis time they handed the repo to Claude and worked through the errors together. It compiled and connected the same afternoon, ANSI logo included. The poster says Claude seemed to understand why the old code was written that way and kept the original behaviour rather than modernising it.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-path-traced-renderer-for-the-original-deus-ex-a5a9","title":"A path-traced renderer for the original Deus Ex","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Driver or OS patching","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A purely path-traced Vulkan renderer driver for Deus Ex, written with Claude, with widescreen support and an optional pinned HUD.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I used Claude to build a Path Tracer for the original Deus Ex","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1wufffg/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1wufffg","authors":[{"name":"New_External9520","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/New_External9520/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-09-30T20:10:33.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/GeoffWilson/DeusExVulkanDrv","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"GeoffWilson","url":"https://github.com/GeoffWilson","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"a5a9ac6","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/nda99w8crpsh1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=195f9032e346e8c3d4e03ae5919485ef5080530f","alt":"I used Claude to build a Path Tracer for the original Deus Ex","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1wufffg/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/u0ukamknrpsh1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=443bed615b4a7c129c17a3460c36659337bdfa1c","alt":"I used Claude to build a Path Tracer for the original Deus Ex","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1wufffg/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/ubi1ruw5qpsh1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=ebe32a5e5c2c434c4ff6106830a402d3881537bf","alt":"I used Claude to build a Path Tracer for the original Deus Ex","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1wufffg/"}],"about":"The poster built a renderer for the original Deus Ex that is purely path traced, with no raster pass. They say the API cost would have been around $1,000, though it was made on a Max 5x plan.\n\nThe first version drew something in about 15 minutes but was upside down and flat. The first playable version took roughly two to three hours, the main hold-up being NPC characters that would not show. The finished driver has proper Hor+ field of view for 16:9 and 21:9, including cut scenes, and an option to pin the HUD at 16:9 or 4:3. Source and release DLLs are on GitHub.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/GeoffWilson/DeusExVulkanDrv","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/GeoffWilson/DeusExVulkanDrv"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"an-old-dos-game-cyberbox-rebuilt-for-the-browser-6270","title":"An old DOS game, Cyberbox, rebuilt for the browser","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Porting to a new platform","Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude was given the exe of an old DOS game and rebuilt it for modern browsers with five themes, 1:1 levels and a shareable level editor.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Sonnet 5.5 and threejs is amazing at updating old dos games!","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1wtmhn7/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1wtmhn7","authors":[{"name":"basedradio","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/basedradio/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-09-29T21:19:25.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: web-ten-sage-26.vercel.app","url":"https://web-ten-sage-26.vercel.app/","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"6270e83","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/awwvtq5hzish1.png?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=1c751a54d839546f219d89fc0b3569913eb4e44d","alt":"Sonnet 5.5 and threejs is amazing at updating old dos games!","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1wtmhn7/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/enplnzckzish1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=4652bd3ab9fa3057198860c213017a6f7f4a1840","alt":"Sonnet 5.5 and threejs is amazing at updating old dos games!","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1wtmhn7/"}],"about":"The poster likes giving Claude the exe of an old DOS game and having it modernise it. Their example is Cyberbox, which they used to play.\n\nThe result runs in a browser on desktop and mobile, has five themes each with its own style and sound, ports each level over 1:1, and adds a shareable level editor.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"mp3-playback-through-the-pc-speaker-in-ms-dos-95ab","title":"MP3 playback through the PC speaker in MS-DOS","topic":"Retro computing","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude was prompted to write an MS-DOS program that plays MP3 audio through the motherboard speaker with no sound card, using the 1-bit DAC trick.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: i prompted sonnet 5.5 to make ms dos mp3 to pc speaker playback without needing any soundcard","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1wt7980/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1wt7980","gone":"deleted"}],"ref":"95abfd9","about":"In the late DOS era some games played music through the motherboard speaker using a 1-bit DAC hack. The poster wondered whether Claude could play back an MP3 that way, and says it did, with no soundcard needed. The post gives no further detail or evidence of how it was built or tested.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-multiplayer-insaniquarium-mod-with-a-moba-mode-fe95","title":"A multiplayer Insaniquarium mod with a MOBA mode","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Decompiling software","Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude, given a decompiled copy of Insaniquarium, built a co-op mode and four more game modes, including a MOBA, over one weekend.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Weekend Opus 5.5 Project - Multiplayer Insaniquarium game mod, escalating all the way to a new MOBA ","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wthi1h/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1wthi1h","authors":[{"name":"SpudMyBud","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/SpudMyBud/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-09-29T18:09:10.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"fe95212","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/cGtmazRncTEyaXNoMWf5IQjsmnRTNCslopUwJ7TKgzNrj5ioAhkktPkvnYsr.png?width=960&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3aef7b80c6f5922d6fd2ba9320a33cabf8b809e4","alt":"Video still: Weekend Opus 5.5 Project - Multiplayer Insaniquarium game mod, escalating all the way to a new MOBA game mode","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wthi1h/"},"about":"The poster had wanted to make a multiplayer Insaniquarium mod for months but lacked the time. With Opus 5.5 they gave a single prompt plus a decompiled version of the game as starting help.\n\nAbout four hours later a co-op mode worked after a single attempt. By Monday morning there were five new game modes, the favourite being a MOBA mode playable against friends or locally against bots. The trailer was also made by Claude.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"two-mulesoft-apps-ported-to-go-and-c-with-no-rev-3905","title":"Two MuleSoft apps ported to Go and C# with no review","topic":"Legacy code revival","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code ported a Mule 4 batch job and API to Go and C# in an unreviewed experiment; the ports built cleanly but were not rigorously checked.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Experiment: I had Claude Code port two MuleSoft apps to Go and C# with zero review. The original nee","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wt8oou/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1wt8oou","gone":"removed"},{"name":"The project: 1figure.github.io","url":"https://1figure.github.io/mule2code/","kind":"Blog","note":"The poster's write-up."}],"ref":"3905667","about":"This was a deliberate test, not production code: two Mule 4 apps, a real batch job from GitHub and a small API, were ported to Go and C# with one prompt per port and one more for tests (229 in C#, twelve Go packages passing). The poster read and corrected nothing.\n\nThe original Mule app needed four fixes to run, surfacing only at runtime after a 774 MB image and about 18 seconds of startup, while the ports caught the same errors at build time. The Go version is a 20 MB static binary answering in under a second. The poster admits they have not rigorously proved the ports behave the same and warns against using the generated code. A write-up is linked.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-rebuild-of-the-cbbc-game-show-bamzooki-bc3f","title":"A rebuild of the CBBC game show Bamzooki","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Opus 5.5 was asked to build a Three.js version of Bamzooki, where you design creatures and make them compete, from one long prompt.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I recreated Bamzooki with Opus 5.5 and was actually able to get a working Zook","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1wt7dpx/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1wt7dpx","authors":[{"name":"char-gen","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/char-gen/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-09-29T11:17:26.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"bc3fb49","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/Y3Y4NnphdnIwZ3NoMXPht6Q_HHylgjo29nnVQePuGUE4QoT-bbXKRsoVOR4v.png?width=960&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=956d4924b6a65c4ce1ec0241d2f7c6b6d5081999","alt":"Video still: I recreated Bamzooki with Opus 5.5 and was actually able to get a working Zook","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1wt7dpx/"},"about":"The poster loved Bamzooki, a CBBC show where you designed creatures that competed, and had Opus 5.5 build a version with a single long prompt asking for Three.js, physics challenges, tutorials and multiplayer. They wrote none of the code.\n\nAccording to the title, they ended up with a working, walking Zook, something the poster says they never managed as a child. The post text gives no further detail of the result.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-first-generation-peloton-screen-turned-into-a-5ef8","title":"A first-generation Peloton screen turned into a touch board-game table","topic":"Repurposed hardware","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Automating with Claude","Repurposing to a new role","Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"An unsupported Peloton screen running Android 4.1.1 was sideloaded over ADB and given a game launcher and board games that Claude built.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Pelotable! An upcycled a G1 Peloton screen into a multi-touch home boardgame table","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wulab3/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1wulab3","authors":[{"name":"asktheeightball1","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/asktheeightball1/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-01T00:23:13.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"5ef8231","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/5q7qt9z02rsh1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=71478cb4d6bed125ded268453c34d131195337f7","alt":"Pelotable! An upcycled a G1 Peloton screen into a multi-touch home boardgame table","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wulab3/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/aqmodez02rsh1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=65624e19a1c6c6812d90c9af4ac36911bd078710","alt":"Pelotable! An upcycled a G1 Peloton screen into a multi-touch home boardgame table","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wulab3/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/7k5b9az02rsh1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=e6d3696516a98c4201ec2584262b25ba3b3c7dde","alt":"Pelotable! An upcycled a G1 Peloton screen into a multi-touch home boardgame table","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wulab3/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/d07xi9z02rsh1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=32b49a41f0646e7a99119af8cdac1a7be624726b","alt":"Pelotable! An upcycled a G1 Peloton screen into a multi-touch home boardgame table","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wulab3/"}],"about":"A first-generation Peloton screen had been sitting in the poster's basement since Peloton stopped supporting it. It only runs Android 4.1.1 and unlocking it is awkward, but allowing sideloading of apps through ADB was fairly easy.\n\nOnce that access was in place, Claude built a game launcher that runs at start-up and uses the 21.5 inch multi-touch screen. Claude also loaded some games it found as APKs and has been guided to write others, including Checkers, Connect 4, Backgammon, Crokinole, Reversi and Abalone-style Sumito, each with instructions, multiplayer and single-player difficulty levels. The poster says the multi-touch is not as responsive as they would like.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"pinball-dreams-deluxe-reverse-engineered-into-a-6da4","title":"Pinball Dreams Deluxe reverse engineered into a native C port","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Decompiling software","Porting to a new platform","Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Two Claude agents reverse engineered the GOG version of an MS-DOS pinball game and wrote a native C port, then added quality-of-life features.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I started DropIn Classics, a reverse engineering project converting classic MS-DOS games to native W","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wujje8/comment/pd60ugt/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's reply in r/ClaudeAI's showcase thread.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t1_pd60ugt","authors":[{"name":"Pristine-Tonight-411","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Pristine-Tonight-411/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-01T07:51:27.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: dropin-classics.github.io","url":"https://dropin-classics.github.io/","kind":"Blog","note":"The DropIn Classics project page."}],"ref":"6da4e3e","about":"DropIn Classics is a project converting classic MS-DOS games into native Windows, Linux and macOS programs with no emulation. The first release is Pinball Dreams Deluxe: the whole game, taken from the GOG version, was reverse engineered and converted to C code, which the maker says took two Claude agents (Opus 5.5) a few days.\n\nThe maker tested it on all three platforms (not Steam Deck) and says it works fine, though testing was limited to their own play. With the C source in hand, Claude also added a launcher menu, mappable controller support, audio settings, direct-to-table launch and toggleable options to skip intros and speed up bonuses. The ports need the user's own GOG copy and include no game data.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-raspberry-pi-magical-cauldron-that-reacts-to-d-cd8e","title":"A Raspberry Pi magical cauldron that reacts to dropped items","topic":"GD","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building a hardware gadget","Automating with Claude","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A first Raspberry Pi project: Claude Code wrote the software and advised on wiring and parts for a cauldron with an IR beam sensor and lights.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Raspberry Pi Magical Cauldron","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1wvdw8e/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1wvdw8e","authors":[{"name":"michaelaalcorn","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/michaelaalcorn/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-01T22:58:43.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/airalcorn2/cauldron","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"airalcorn2","url":"https://github.com/airalcorn2","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"cd8e480","image":{"url":"https://github.com/airalcorn2/cauldron/raw/main/assets/demo.png","alt":"Demo","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/airalcorn2/cauldron"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://github.com/airalcorn2/cauldron/raw/main/assets/cauldron-claude.jpg","alt":"Claude Instagram feature","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/airalcorn2/cauldron"},{"url":"https://github.com/airalcorn2/cauldron/raw/main/assets/hex-hollow-cover.png","alt":"Hex Hollow title screen","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/airalcorn2/cauldron"},{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/cjExYmU4dHVyeHNoMbvFp_R6tvIJLnBF9xSJSNo6vQouekr7nS8XN5yaeRWe.png?width=320&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=07b0f08bdd691bc097057dcd026dd75e59a44ee0","alt":"Video still: Raspberry Pi Magical Cauldron","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1wvdw8e/"}],"about":"This is the poster's first custom Raspberry Pi project: a plastic cauldron set into a table, with a hole through the bottom that lets dropped items fall into a tray past an IR beam sensor. Breaking the beam triggers the lights around the cauldron lip to flash, among other effects.\n\nThe poster refined the idea with Gemini, then Claude Code wrote the software and guided the physical setup, such as how to connect things to the Pi and what to buy. They say their own supervision and software expertise were still needed, and that Claude was weaker on \"physical\" questions. The design and code are open source.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/airalcorn2/cauldron","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/airalcorn2/cauldron"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-family-watchlist-site-that-turns-on-the-tv-and-238c","title":"A family watchlist site that turns on the TV and opens the next episode","topic":"Smart home","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Automating with Claude","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code wired a watchlist web page to a Google TV Streamer so tapping a show wakes the TV and launches the next episode in Stremio.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude Code built me a watchlist site where tapping a show turns on my TV and opens the next episode","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wwtd7f/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1wwtd7f","authors":[{"name":"Expensive_Broccoli56","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Expensive_Broccoli56/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-03T17:50:33.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"238c47a","about":"The poster's family watchlist is a web page built from markdown lists, matched against Simkl for posters and watch progress. They added a TV icon to each card: tapping it turns the TV on if needed and opens Stremio on the Google TV Streamer, to the movie page or the next unwatched episode of a show.\n\nThe tap posts to a small Cloud Run function, which sends a message through Google Pub/Sub to a listener on a Mac mini. That talks to the Streamer using the Android TV Remote protocol. Because the Mac mini only listens outward, no ports are forwarded. The poster tested it from a phone with Tailscale and wifi off, and says Claude Code wrote the architecture code.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"opuscraft-a-minecraft-remake-for-the-browser-gen-100f","title":"OpusCraft, a Minecraft remake for the browser generated by code","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Building from scratch","Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code was given one goal, to rebuild Minecraft Java 1.21 for the web, and worked for about seven days with no Minecraft files.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I gave Opus 5.5 one goal: remake Minecraft for the browser. Ran for seven days on Max, and uses zero","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wqor97/comment/pdjoick/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's reply in r/ClaudeAI's showcase thread.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t1_pdjoick","authors":[{"name":"Temporary-Long-1916","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Temporary-Long-1916/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-03T03:47:35.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: opuscraft.pages.dev","url":"https://opuscraft.pages.dev","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked from the post."}],"ref":"100fc0b","image":{"url":"https://opuscraft.pages.dev/og.jpg","alt":"Preview image from opuscraft.pages.dev","credit":"opuscraft.pages.dev","from":"https://opuscraft.pages.dev"},"about":"The poster asked Claude Code (Opus 5.5) to rebuild Minecraft Java 1.21 for the web, as close to indistinguishable as it could. Claude planned and did the building while the poster mostly played it, said what felt wrong and decided when to ship.\n\nAfter about seven days it stood at 232,000 lines of TypeScript, 434 commits, 921 blocks and 1,172 items, with the Nether, the End and more, plus touch controls. There are no asset files: every texture, sound and piece of music is generated by code, and the game is about 1.6 MB compressed. The poster admits there are bugs and some missing or rough parts, and calls it a fan project.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-solar-system-simulator-for-any-date-checked-ag-576c","title":"A solar system simulator for any date, checked against JPL Horizons","topic":"Science & research","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A browser simulator of the solar system from 1000 to 3000, with Claude Code helping on rendering and UI while the maker did the physics.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Solar system simulator for any date 1000–3000: real scale by default, checked against JPL Horizons (","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1ww5fbm/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1ww5fbm","authors":[{"name":"SinnyJ","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/SinnyJ/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-02T21:14:31.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: yoursolarsystem.space","url":"https://yoursolarsystem.space/","kind":"Blog","note":"The simulator."}],"ref":"576c36c","image":{"url":"https://yoursolarsystem.space/preview.jpg","alt":"The night side of Earth, its city lights and a thin sunlit crescent, with the Sun and the Milky Way beyond","credit":"yoursolarsystem.space","from":"https://yoursolarsystem.space/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/f7yAq55gK8CKl3cEOKzS1vmjcK9UrgHFUkARD8txIgI.jpeg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=c960b331f52abb8da7a869074712046e1e6963cb","alt":"Solar system simulator for any date 1000–3000: real scale by default, checked against JPL Horizons (1800–2050)","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1ww5fbm/"}],"about":"The simulator shows the solar system for any date between 1000 and 3000, opening at real scale. Planet positions come from VSOP87-based theories plus the maker's own fitted moon models, and were compared with JPL Horizons over 1800 to 2050: within 30 arcseconds for planets and 30 km for the Moon. Solar eclipses match NASA's Five Millennium Canon to about 5 km and 5 seconds.\n\nThe maker prototyped the physics in Python, ported it to JavaScript and chose the models and tolerances. Claude Code did much of the rendering and UI. Outside 1800 to 2050 it extrapolates and says so.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"the-2013-harlem-shake-bookmarklet-revived-cb57","title":"The 2013 Harlem Shake bookmarklet revived","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A dead 2013 bookmarklet was rebuilt with Claude so it works again on modern websites, with no external files.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Revived the 2013 viral Harlem Shake bookmarklet for 2026. 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It stopped working because its external CSS and MP3 files are gone, and modern content security policies would block them anyway.\n\nThe maker's fix was to inline the audio as base64 and reimplement the CSS as inline JavaScript, so there are no external dependencies. 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It is prebuilt for Linux, macOS and Windows on x86_64 and arm64 using zig cc.\n\nIn the kitty terminal the picture is an image pointed at a file the engine writes, reaching about 31 fps; elsewhere it uses quadrant-block characters at roughly 35 to 40 fps. Keyboard handling was the hard part, since terminals never report key releases, so the maker copied the repeat-delay approach used by another terminal Doom. The poster says the port was \"annoying as hell\".","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"modern-warfare-2-engine-port-to-iphone-partly-wo-112d","title":"Modern Warfare 2 engine port to iPhone, partly working","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude worked through a Linux server and macOS CI runners to port the IW4L Rust engine to iOS; menus and a PS4 controller work but map loading runs out of memory.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I used Claude to port an open-source game engine (MW2’s IW4L, written in Rust) to iPhone. 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Menus load, but loading a match map gets the app killed for using around 3 GB of memory, and the cause was still being hunted.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/vladtrc/iw4L","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/vladtrc/iw4L"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-1989-dos-artillery-game-remade-as-a-relativity-0cde","title":"A 1989 DOS artillery game remade as a relativity sim","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Gravity Wars, a public-domain 1989 DOS game, was remade with Claude Code into a browser game with curved spacetime and ray-traced black holes.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I used Claude Code to turn a 1989 DOS game I played as a kid into a relativity sim","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wz61i4/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1wz61i4","authors":[{"name":"gmccolgan3","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/gmccolgan3/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-06T15:48:18.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: gravwars.com","url":"https://gravwars.com","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"0cde830","image":{"url":"https://gravwars.com/icons/preview.jpg","alt":"GRAV WARS over a universe of planets and a black hole, crossed by looping missile trails, with a ship exploding","credit":"gravwars.com","from":"https://gravwars.com"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/OHBvNTRkemJidnRoMSk8mg60JJ6lPpgsgmDasAkuQjDbrrsoJLSZa1loucVT.png?width=960&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f4107a799c765f253d4e6702f0cdaa7a024dbf85","alt":"Video still: I used Claude Code to turn a 1989 DOS game I played as a kid into a relativity sim","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wz61i4/"}],"about":"Gravity Wars is a two-player artillery game where gravity from planets, stars and black holes bends every shot. It began as a remake of a public-domain 1989 DOS game and grew into a small relativity sim, with orbit precession, ray-traced black hole lensing and time dilation on missiles.\n\nAlmost all the code was written by Claude Code in plain JavaScript with WebGL, with the maker playing, testing and deciding what to build next. Node scripts check the physics before each commit, and the game is free to play in a browser.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-static-recompiler-for-psp-games-44d8","title":"A static recompiler for PSP games","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Decompiling software","Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"An experimental recompiler translates PSP executables to native C and runs them on a custom Windows runtime; two games run so far.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Nakagawa Recomp, an experimental static recompiler that translates PSP executables into native C and","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wol22c/comment/peag8rf/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's reply in r/ClaudeAI's showcase thread.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t1_peag8rf","authors":[{"name":"Jstar269","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Jstar269/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-06T20:02:40.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/Jstar269/nakagawa-recomp","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"Jstar269","url":"https://github.com/Jstar269","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"44d8137","image":{"url":"https://github.com/Jstar269/Nakagawa-Recomp/raw/main/docs/media/hst-rally-poster.png","alt":"A rally in Hot Shots Tennis: Get a Grip, running natively in Nakagawa Recomp; play the clip","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/Jstar269/nakagawa-recomp"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://github.com/Jstar269/Nakagawa-Recomp/raw/main/docs/images/showcase-ge-scene.gif","alt":"Nakagawa 3D Showcase: a brightly textured cube rotating against a dark background in the recompiled demo","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/Jstar269/nakagawa-recomp"},{"url":"https://github.com/Jstar269/Nakagawa-Recomp/raw/main/docs/images/showcase-breakout.gif","alt":"Nakagawa Breakout Showcase: the ball moving through a colored brick field above the paddle and score","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/Jstar269/nakagawa-recomp"}],"about":"Nakagawa Recomp is an experimental static recompiler that translates PSP executables into native C and runs them through a custom Windows runtime. 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Operation Neptune, a game they loved as a child, ran for about 30 seconds on the first try, then every later attempt froze the PC.\n\nAfter trying re-transfers and different FreeDOS boot setups without luck, they turned to Claude, which fixed the bug so the game works again. The poster was delighted that their son could play it.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"nether-earth-a-1987-zx-spectrum-game-rebuilt-fro-6eec","title":"Nether Earth, a 1987 ZX Spectrum game, rebuilt from specs","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A 1987 ZX Spectrum strategy game was rebuilt in three weeks, with Claude Code sub-agents writing all the code from the maker's specs.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I used Claude Code as the implementation team for a ZX Spectrum remake.","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x03b1l/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x03b1l","authors":[{"name":"gringo6969","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/gringo6969/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-07T17:52:05.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"6eecce8","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/WMpcDwwFoflZoL7CRmNygaNrp5V1QOhiUW6yjjJMxhk.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=f67d7a606d4886e8e18a9c4d7fba55b6b7e0d091","alt":"I used Claude Code as the implementation team for a ZX Spectrum remake.","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x03b1l/"},"about":"The maker rebuilt Nether Earth using specs they wrote and playtesting, while Claude Code did all the implementation through an orchestrator dispatching sub-agents into git worktrees. The repo reached 437 commits, with a Python game engine, a FastAPI/WebSockets backend and a PixiJS frontend.\n\nWith every test passing, playing it revealed no terrain, robots taking one cell instead of 2x2, and nuclear robots blowing themselves up from a placeholder rule. The lesson drawn was that tests verify the spec, not the product.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"neuron-a-razer-synapse-replacement-0520","title":"Neuron, a Razer Synapse replacement","topic":"Printers & peripherals","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A tray app and CLI controlling Razer hardware without an account or cloud, built with Claude Code from the openrazer protocol and live testing.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: i used claude code to make myself a razer synapse replacement","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1wzpjtm/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1wzpjtm","authors":[{"name":"Elegant_Attempt2790","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Elegant_Attempt2790/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-07T06:41:12.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"Reddit: I made a Razer synapse replacement for Linux that leverages the open Razer drivers. 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They say it worked once they told Claude it was not allowed to guess at the hardware.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-possible-planet-found-in-tess-data-with-claude-d455","title":"A possible planet found in TESS data with Claude Code","topic":"Science & research","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["Claude Code","Codex"],"methods":["Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code helped search NASA TESS data and found a repeating dip in one star that may be a small planet, still only a candidate.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. 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Online multiplayer lagged badly at the net when one server decided the ball position.\n\nThe fix was to let each phone simulate the ball on its own half and hand it over at the net. 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They asked Claude (Opus 5.5) for a Mac utility that sits in the system tray and uses the camera to set focus to the monitor they look at.\n\nIt was built from a single prompt, signed with their Apple developer certificate and set to launch at login. 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A different Claude model later found a log written by the Bluetooth chip that held the same data and could be read without disturbing the built-in player, and it also helped with HVAC controls that Opus had not found.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"need-for-speed-most-wanted-2005-recompiled-for-a-1323","title":"Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005) recompiled for Apple Silicon Macs","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code was used to statically recompile the 2005 game to run natively on Apple Silicon Macs, with no emulation.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005) natively to Apple Silicon Macs: static recompilation, no emulatio","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x02uwg/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x02uwg","authors":[{"name":"elforeign","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/elforeign/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-07T17:35:14.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"1323c87","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/CTzHOP0VODiJL7rhnq5UekGgiiI0YlKL9d_q9gf1Jnc.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=92bb59d387fc3ecc4827a4bf2bfbe5b3973f7eac","alt":"Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005) natively to Apple Silicon Macs: static recompilation, no emulation. v1.0 is out (bring your own copy of the game).","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x02uwg/"},"about":"The poster used Claude Code to bring Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005) natively to Apple Silicon Macs by static recompilation rather than emulation. The title announces that version 1.0 is out. The post body was not captured, so no further detail is available here.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"civil-engineering-section-analysis-ported-to-rus-f921","title":"Civil engineering section analysis ported to Rust in the browser","topic":"Science & research","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Python and MATLAB structural analysis libraries were ported to Rust and WASM so they run in the browser, with Claude's help.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I've been a developer for over 20 years. 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The Rust engine is described as a 20-40X speed up over the original Python.\n\nThe same approach was applied to the CUFSM cold-formed steel buckling library from Matlab, which is open source on GitHub. 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The poster remastered the artwork by hand while Claude wrote most of the code.\n\nTo check the new engine, a small referee runs the original DOS table programs and compares their memory with the C++ version byte for byte after every frame, in hundreds of 100,000-frame tests across all four tables. 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Work so far includes emulation of a parallel port LS120 drive and CD-ROM, a 3Com 3c509B network card and an Inboard 386/PC, some of which has been upstreamed to 86Box.\n\nOn the driver side there are two new keyboard drivers, an XT IDE driver so no real-mode drivers are needed, modified SCSI, Sound Blaster Pro and LS120 drivers, and new drivers to expose the Inboard's shadow RAM. 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A few evenings later it lets them select tiles, tap a colour, and see them sorted into rows from purple to yellow, with a Go button that submits the groups in order.\n\nClaude tested it in the real game on Chrome and on an iPhone through iPhone Mirroring, which caught bugs such as the game ignoring taps during animation. 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They did not need to open Minecraft or download anything themselves: Claude downloaded Prism Launcher after some back and forth, and fixed performance issues when they mentioned them.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/aravpanwar/mc-diff","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/aravpanwar/mc-diff"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-custom-dice-design-tool-for-3d-printing-f0d0","title":"A custom dice design tool for 3D printing","topic":"Printers & peripherals","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A browser tool for making custom tabletop dice, with insert and support prep, built with Claude.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: So I havnt shared this yet as this really was just meant as a project for my parter and I but whatev","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x09pjt/comment/pel16eu/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's reply in r/ClaudeAI's showcase thread.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t1_pel16eu","authors":[{"name":"jenza","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/jenza/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-08T05:51:33.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: kandidkobold.games","url":"https://kandidkobold.games/static/dice-forge/index.html","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked from the post."}],"ref":"f0d0008","about":"The poster, who likes making dice for tabletop RPGs, found existing master-dice tools old or simple, so had Claude build their own. It prepares correctly sized inserts and bumpers for easier support placement, and can make custom skew dice, such as a d12 that looks off but is mathematically even.\n\nIt includes a drawing tool, used by the poster's partner to design a typeface. Automatic support generation is planned.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"starfox-starfox-2-and-sonic-cd-ported-to-native-ed92","title":"StarFox, StarFox 2 and Sonic CD ported to native desktop builds","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude","REA"],"methods":["Decompiling software","Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude analysed the console ROMs and built hardware runtimes so the games run natively on Windows, Mac and Linux, with widescreen and controller extras.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Opus 5.5 is INSANE at decompilation / ports","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x3nkty/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x3nkty","authors":[{"name":"CarlosGOAT09","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/CarlosGOAT09/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-12T00:12:14.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/carlosrmz009/littleplanet","kind":"Primary","note":"Linked in the post.","authors":[{"name":"carlosrmz009","url":"https://github.com/carlosrmz009","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"ed92c84","image":{"url":"https://github.com/carl0srmz/littleplanet/raw/main/res/screens/crt.png","alt":"Palmtree Panic with the CRT filter","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/carlosrmz009/littleplanet"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://github.com/carl0srmz/littleplanet/raw/main/res/screens/game.png","alt":"Stardust Speedway","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/carlosrmz009/littleplanet"},{"url":"https://github.com/carl0srmz/littleplanet/raw/main/res/screens/intro.png","alt":"The remastered opening","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/carlosrmz009/littleplanet"},{"url":"https://github.com/carl0srmz/littleplanet/raw/main/res/screens/menu.png","alt":"The setup menu","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/carlosrmz009/littleplanet"}],"about":"A maker asked Claude Opus 5.5 to produce native desktop versions of StarFox, StarFox 2 and Sonic CD from the game ROMs. Claude analysed the ROMs, built high-level hardware runtimes and added resolution, framerate, audio and controller improvements, plus features such as SuperFX overclocking and true 16:9 in Sonic CD.\n\nAfter a correction in the comments, the maker says \"decompilation\" was too loose a word: at least for Sonic CD the result looks more like a game-specific emulator with generated disassembly and static recompilation than a clean rebuild of the original source.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/carlosrmz009/littleplanet","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/carlosrmz009/littleplanet"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"digimon-world-2-brought-to-native-pc-from-a-c-de-5574","title":"Digimon World 2 brought to native PC from a C decompilation","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Decompiling software","Porting to a new platform","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A PS1 RPG decompiled to C with Claude's help and built as a native Windows and Linux port, with a multiplayer version started on top.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Using Claude to help bring Digimon World 2 to PC with Multiplayer.","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x41mlr/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x41mlr","authors":[{"name":"WyrelaDev","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/WyrelaDev/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-12T13:17:43.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/Wyrelade/DW2-PC","kind":"Primary","note":"The project page.","authors":[{"name":"Wyrelade","url":"https://github.com/Wyrelade","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"5574b79","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/vKKCqHb9c0owV_PKM636C5OvYfIrxhYployMseYCF88.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=b97e934f6705e914a5dcfb5b55ba0a40680e6d14","alt":"Using Claude to help bring Digimon World 2 to PC with Multiplayer.","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x41mlr/"},"about":"The maker is bringing the PS1 RPG Digimon World 2 to native PC, based on a C decompilation of the original game. The decompilation reached 100% matching across all 1,088 game functions, and the port builds natively for Windows and Linux with SDL3 and optional extras such as higher internal resolution, widescreen and PGXP.\n\nClaude has been a big part of the workflow, though the post stresses that it involved much more than asking an LLM to write code: debugging, investigating compiler output and building custom scripts. A multiplayer project has now been started on top of the port.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/Wyrelade/DW2-PC","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/Wyrelade/DW2-PC"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"smash-your-screen-freeware-stressexe-from-2000-r-5c71","title":"Smash-your-screen freeware stress.exe from 2000 recreated","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code","REA"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Porting to a new platform","Reverse engineering a protocol"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code with Opus 5.5 produced a faithful port of the old stress.exe using its original graphics, animations and sound, as a macOS app and a web version.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Resurrecting freeware from 2000 with Claude Code and REA","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x23sld/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x23sld","authors":[{"name":"Ucodia","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Ucodia/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-10T02:26:01.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: rea.tools","url":"https://rea.tools/","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"5c7114e","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/aW03bmRhMnp2anVoMVGxA5hFUeTzwyWf8s7_zWZQ8PrdHNpk4UPgDR3CJZAL.png?width=960&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4ed63384aa5d26de4aaa579982a666e835e5fbbc","alt":"Video still: Resurrecting freeware from 2000 with Claude Code and REA","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x23sld/"},"about":"The maker remembered stress.exe, a freeware program that let you smash your screen with hammers, a chain-saw, a flame-thrower and termites. After reading about Reverse Engineer Anything, they tried it with Claude Opus 5.5.\n\nWithin 30 minutes they had a faithful port using the original graphics, animations and stereo sound effects. After about two hours it was available as a downloadable .dmg for macOS and as a web app styled like a Windows XP desktop. The post credits the original author, Miroslav Němeček.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"elite-for-the-zx-spectrum-ported-to-java-from-it-b906","title":"Elite for the ZX Spectrum ported to Java from its machine code","topic":"Retro computing","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Porting to a new platform","Modernising legacy code"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude read the compiled Spectrum machine code of Elite, enabling a precise Java port with a 60 FPS engine, better controls and saves, and original bugs fixed.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude and old games","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x36m7r/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x36m7r","authors":[{"name":"Scf37","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Scf37/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-11T12:09:25.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: scf37.me","url":"https://scf37.me/tools/games/elite","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"b9067f9","about":"The poster found that a complete ZX Spectrum game such as Elite, at roughly 42 KB, fits into Claude's context window. In their experiments Claude could read and understand compiled machine code for old computers, which allowed a very precise port.\n\nThey ported Elite to Java, moved it to a modern 60 FPS engine, improved the controls and save system and fixed a number of original bugs. The result can be played online.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-curta-calculator-simulator-built-from-photos-75c2","title":"A Curta calculator simulator built from photos","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Opus 5.5 built a browser Curta simulator in THREE.js from photos of two real Curta calculators and the online manuals.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Used Claude to make this Curta simulator in the browser","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x32mb6/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x32mb6","authors":[{"name":"timsam","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/timsam/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-11T08:12:53.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: vcalc.net","url":"http://www.vcalc.net/cu.htm","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"75c2c8e","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/YXhzb3NjdHRvc3VoMTJW-EdHTb2dpQeN9ZujgB3HzjrhWiCFVtBSmHjPXNGF.png?width=960&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cbe4de945506f247202aa6a449ea6eccea425ff7","alt":"Video still: Used Claude to make this Curta simulator in the browser","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x32mb6/"},"about":"The maker photographed their Curta calculators (Type I and Type II) and asked Claude Opus 5.5 to create a Curta simulator as an HTML file using THREE.js. With no CAD model, they relied on many pictures and many follow-up prompts.\n\nClaude also read the user and service manuals to understand how the machine works. The maker says the internal mechanism is not perfect but shows the basic idea; the demo can run a 100 ÷ 7 subtractive division.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-proof-that-a-rhombicosidodecahedron-cannot-pas-c5d7","title":"A proof that a rhombicosidodecahedron cannot pass through a copy of itself","topic":"Science & research","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Analysing or auditing software","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A ninth grader worked with Claude on the maths, code and paper for an unproven geometry conjecture, with an interval-arithmetic computer check.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I'm a 9th grader and I used Claude to prove a geometry conjecture: the rhombicosidodecahedron can't ","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x2eybb/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x2eybb","authors":[{"name":"Gihyo0921","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Gihyo0921/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-10T13:10:33.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: doi.org","url":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23159625","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"c5d7465","image":{"url":"https://i.redd.it/zmx8kb233nuh1.gif","alt":"I'm a 9th grader and I used Claude to prove a geometry conjecture: the rhombicosidodecahedron can't pass through a copy of itself","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x2eybb/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/s4fzkva43nuh1.png?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=717f2ea20e534b1260ca479a5a385915603ea344","alt":"I'm a 9th grader and I used Claude to prove a geometry conjecture: the rhombicosidodecahedron can't pass through a copy of itself","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x2eybb/"}],"about":"A ninth grader worked with Claude over a few weeks to prove a conjecture that the rhombicosidodecahedron cannot be pushed through a hole in a copy of itself. The existing method broke down because of the shape's 120 symmetries, so they found four \"singular\" configurations, located them exactly using the square root of 5, and proved new theorems to handle them.\n\nThe final check splits all orientations into about 12.3 million boxes and verifies each with interval arithmetic, taking about 38 CPU hours. Claude did much of the maths, code and writing; re-checking the whole proof found and fixed several real mistakes. Two other researchers independently proved the same result, and the paper cites them.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"dlss-added-as-a-final-render-denoiser-in-blender-bb26","title":"DLSS added as a final-render denoiser in Blender","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code added DLSS as a rendering denoiser in Blender; it is faster than OIDN and OptiX in the maker's tests but poor for still images.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: How I used Opus 5 + Opus 5.5 to add DLSS as a rendering denoiser in Blender","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x3o5tj/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x3o5tj","authors":[{"name":"MeanZookeepergame411","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/MeanZookeepergame411/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-12T00:41:37.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The video: youtu.be","url":"https://youtu.be/pJoke327wy4","kind":"Video","note":"Linked from the post."}],"ref":"bb26689","image":{"url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pJoke327wy4/hqdefault.jpg","alt":"Video thumbnail: The video: youtu.be","credit":"youtube.com","from":"https://youtu.be/pJoke327wy4"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/HA8RKhW6PwniC8MBWj305S8cBoRNytXmX6yC_UXI0Mc.jpeg?width=320&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=ecb5a41909c7345c6a9f477c99f8767e693f8f83","alt":"How I used Opus 5 + Opus 5.5 to add DLSS as a rendering denoiser in Blender","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x3o5tj/"}],"about":"After Blender 5.3a added a DLSS denoiser to the viewport, the maker used Claude Code (Opus 5, then 5.5) to try using it for final rendering too. The first results were very noisy, but applying the approach used in games gave a major improvement.\n\nIn the maker's tests it is now faster than OIDN and OptiX. It works well for animation but struggles with still images. The maker admits the comparison is imperfect because DLSS reconstructs the image.","projectLinks":[{"type":"video","url":"https://youtu.be/pJoke327wy4","sourceUrl":"https://youtu.be/pJoke327wy4"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"an-engine-and-solver-for-a-self-designed-board-g-ac02","title":"An engine and solver for a self-designed board game","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code built a game engine and solver for a board game the maker had long failed to solve, then a Manim video presenting the findings.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Using Opus 5.5, I created this visual explanation of solving a board game I had designed","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x44b40/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x44b40","authors":[{"name":"BoltKey","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/BoltKey/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-12T15:06:08.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The video: youtube.com","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JimpN67Bu68","kind":"Video","note":"Linked from the post."}],"ref":"ac0229f","image":{"url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JimpN67Bu68/hqdefault.jpg","alt":"Video thumbnail: The video: youtube.com","credit":"youtube.com","from":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JimpN67Bu68"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/uBXZ92cuS1Dg28d1YtDjoYBJbxWH7sM69t0NGCkecNY.jpeg?width=320&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=ff9e2d4aba6b2a5d9e41b3b0e3e258a4d388da7b","alt":"Using Opus 5.5, I created this visual explanation of solving a board game I had designed","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x44b40/"}],"about":"The maker designed a board game some time ago and had tried and failed to solve it. With Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code they built an engine and a solver, then presented the findings as a video using the Manim Python library.\n\nThe engine, solver and video were all made inside Claude Code. The code is on GitHub and the engine can be tried in the browser.","projectLinks":[{"type":"video","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JimpN67Bu68","sourceUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JimpN67Bu68"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"language-and-memory-activity-apps-for-a-parent-w-d6f5","title":"Language and memory activity apps for a parent with dementia","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude and Gemini helped build ad-free apps of language and memory activities for a mother with frontotemporal dementia.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Vibe Coded App for Dementia and Aphasia","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x2o0cb/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x2o0cb","authors":[{"name":"JeffProbstsBlueShirt","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/JeffProbstsBlueShirt/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-10T19:37:21.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"d6f5f74","about":"The maker's mother was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, and they wanted her tablet games to help rather than serve ads. Using workbooks and activities found online and from her speech therapist, they had Gemini and Claude expand on the ideas behind the activities.\n\nThey fed the models real research papers, had the two check each other's work and forced citations to reduce hallucinations, and had everything translated into several languages. The app has no ads and collects no data. The maker is still trying to get native speakers to check the wording.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-paper-fetcher-and-reader-for-neurology-researc-c531","title":"A paper fetcher and reader for neurology research","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building a replacement app","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A neurologist with almost no coding experience had Claude Code build an app that finds, organises and exports neurology papers.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: My personal use for Claude - a fetcher/organizer/reader for neurology papers 🧠","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x3y1ie/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x3y1ie","authors":[{"name":"Individual-Flower657","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Individual-Flower657/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-12T10:11:39.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/thetimeweleft/NeuroLeitor","kind":"Primary","note":"Linked in the post.","authors":[{"name":"thetimeweleft","url":"https://github.com/thetimeweleft","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"c531fd4","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/OCXt6lXc0cizg1h0ZFy4WTM4ZFHmkFDh90rt_ZWwrsQ.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=3534610523bc4267298c610bfd12a648887d8052","alt":"My personal use for Claude - a fetcher/organizer/reader for neurology papers 🧠","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x3y1ie/"},"about":"A neurologist with almost no coding experience used Claude Code to build a tool for keeping up with research. All the coding was done by Claude while the maker kept testing different use cases.\n\nThe app searches neurology papers in Europe PMC, filters by journal and subspecialty, notifies on new papers, exports references in Vancouver and ABNT styles, integrates with Zotero and Mendeley, and saves and highlights PDFs. It is still in Portuguese because it was made for personal use.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/thetimeweleft/NeuroLeitor","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/thetimeweleft/NeuroLeitor"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"an-open-source-parametric-cad-program-with-a-new-03ec","title":"An open-source parametric CAD program with a new solid kernel","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Opus 5.5 co-designed a web parametric CAD with constrained sketches and a kernel using rational quadratic triangle patches.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Open source parametric CAD","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x1qz22/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x1qz22","authors":[{"name":"Zoxc32","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Zoxc32/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-09T17:09:31.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: zoxc.github.io","url":"https://zoxc.github.io/varde/","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"03ec711","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/rogmo0ph4huh1.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=75ef11b34bf4830b86bf56edee65961e0213e5ab","alt":"Open source parametric CAD","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x1qz22/"},"about":"Over two weeks the maker used Claude Opus 5.5 to build a parametric CAD program with a Fusion-inspired interface. Both the interface and the kernel were co-designed with Claude.\n\nThe kernel uses rational quadratic triangle patches to produce manifold solids and can export manifold 3MF. It has constrained 2D sketches, but kernel features are still limited: extrude, revolve and combine are supported, though not in all cases. 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It is a free, full-screen pixel-art journey from Earth into a rotating (Kerr) black hole that traces light through the spacetime in real time in the browser, with no libraries.\n\nAn orchestrator agent planned the work and posted tasks for executor agents. The maker only steered on high-level decisions, such as adding a sense of scale; Claude added journey animations, sound and comparison ghosts, and a side panel explains what the viewer sees.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-road-rash-and-dirt-mashup-game-with-four-vehic-9ce8","title":"A Road Rash and DiRT mashup game with four vehicles","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Opus 5.5 built the vehicles, physics, drift boost and jump pads in about three days, but struggled with the dirt bike.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Opus 5.5 built the vehicles and physics for my Road Rash x DiRT mashup in about 3 days. 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They built a free live weather map with Claude, using public data only, that zooms to street level for a 3D view.\n\nThey took inspiration from NOAA data and apps such as Windy. 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It was composed in Python as MIDI (8,608 notes across six parts) and rendered with a free sampled soundfont, with no AI audio generator.\n\nThe video is a 3D scene built entirely in code in Godot, with every strum, key press and drum hit landing on its note. It took several sessions: Opus split work across sub-agents, the maker reviewed clips and pointed out problems such as a guitar clipping through a body, and Claude fixed them and added automatic collision checks.","projectLinks":[{"type":"video","url":"https://youtube.com/watch?v=BcQ9MIPI14Q&si=Fj85uzw6fu8bTbCy","sourceUrl":"https://youtube.com/watch?v=BcQ9MIPI14Q&si=Fj85uzw6fu8bTbCy"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"cavedrop-a-game-where-every-surface-is-a-floor-18b1","title":"Cavedrop, a game where every surface is a floor","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A non-programmer had Claude Code write the code, shaders and Blender-scripted 3D models for a cave-monkey platformer.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I made a game where every surface is a floor. 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The maker is not a programmer: Claude Code wrote the code, the shaders and even the 3D models as Blender scripts, while the maker played constantly and said what felt wrong.\n\nClaude also plays the game itself, running scripted playthroughs in the background and checking screenshots before saying something is fixed. 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The first is Darkwave, a wavetable synthesiser written in C++, which means it can also run on the web through WebAssembly. They say the sound quality matches the standalone and VST3/AU versions.\n\nIt can be played with a MIDI keyboard or the computer keyboard. A \"FRIGHT\" button generates random patches and \"Mutate\" randomises the current preset. 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Clients write to you and you draw their house at a drafting table, then see it built.\n\nThe maker wrote the design in markdown and Claude built it, keeping its own running history file. The drawing system reads real strokes (three strokes close a wall box) and uses a hand-drawn renderer in plain canvas. Claude also wrote a headless Chrome harness that plays the game with synthetic strokes and takes screenshots. 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It has four stores, a heist mode and English and German, and uses Three.js and Rapier on the client with a server-authoritative Bun WebSocket server.\n\nSeveral agents worked in parallel in separate git worktrees, and every change had to pass typecheck, tests and a Playwright run. Balance came from game nights with friends and a stats database; after seekers won 3 of 3, the scanner and hitbox were nerfed. The maker found game feel harder than the code.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-caribbean-pirate-rpg-in-a-single-html-file-5850","title":"A Caribbean pirate RPG in a single HTML file","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A non-programmer described a Stick RPG-style pirate game to Claude one request at a time, ending as one 380KB file with no asset files.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I built a full Caribbean pirate RPG in one chat with Claude: 380KB, one HTML file, no image or audio","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x33oks/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x33oks","authors":[{"name":"vlookup_enjoyer","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/vlookup_enjoyer/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-11T09:19:07.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"5850779","image":{"url":"https://i.redd.it/5nxz1kun2tuh1.gif","alt":"I built a full Caribbean pirate RPG in one chat with Claude: 380KB, one HTML file, no image or audio files. 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After each change Claude loaded the game in a headless browser, played the new feature and checked screenshots, catching real bugs such as a sail-speed setting that blanked the battle screen.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-birthday-adventure-game-made-as-a-gift-20f1","title":"A birthday adventure game made as a gift","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code built an HD-2D polar bear adventure with eight minigames and boss fights in raw WebGL2, with art generated in code.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Instead of a birthday card, Claude and I built her an entire HD-2D adventure game","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x43zqn/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x43zqn","gone":"deleted"}],"ref":"20f198a","about":"Instead of a card, the maker built a friend a birthday game with Claude Code. She plays a polar bear travelling through eight cities to recover eight \"little eyes\", with a different minigame in each, then an evil broccoli steals them and she must win eight boss fights before a surprise party.\n\nIt was built with raw WebGL2 and no engine, and even the art is generated in code.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"spelunkr-fake-cable-tv-channels-from-internet-ar-8bd3","title":"Spelunkr, fake cable TV channels from Internet Archive videos","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A synced 24-channel streaming site built with Claude Code over eight months, playing Internet Archive videos on a shared schedule.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I built a fake live cable TV network out of the Internet Archive's ephemeral media","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x3cqlv/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x3cqlv","authors":[{"name":"thetalkinghawk","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/thetalkinghawk/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-11T16:35:59.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: spelunkr.tv","url":"https://spelunkr.tv/","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"8bd3d39","image":{"url":"https://spelunkr.tv/og-image.png","alt":"Preview image from spelunkr.tv","credit":"spelunkr.tv","from":"https://spelunkr.tv/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/enhzeTE0ZGM4dnVoMUEEWgTyy7zzZ2jarYfIrbPyq0pJvzPnPqPoGuTU92uX.png?width=960&crop=smart&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=77d8bb70427631e9b2488761cb04542e36e57291","alt":"Video still: I built a fake live cable TV network out of the Internet Archive's ephemeral media","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x3cqlv/"}],"about":"Spelunkr offers 24 themed \"cable TV channels\" of forgotten videos, about 2,700 hours in all, on a synced schedule so everyone lands in the middle of the same programme. Videos stream directly from the Internet Archive in a plain HTML video element, with no proxy or copy, and there are about 200 public domain or Creative Commons tracks for station breaks.\n\nThe codebase is about 87,000 lines over 670 commits in eight months, roughly 30 days of work, nearly all done with Claude Code. 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Samsung TVs only run web apps, so with Claude Code they built one that treats the TV's browser \"like a game engine\": GPU-driven movement, little redrawing, and video sent straight to the hardware decoder.\n\nOn the same TV, the app opens in about a second and shows search results as you type. 98.7% of their library (3,952 movies and episodes) plays directly in hardware with no transcoding. 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Jellyfin Native is written in Rust and draws its interface with OpenGL ES 2 rather than a browser, using the TV's hardware media pipeline and FFmpeg libraries for playback.\n\nThey report a 60 FPS interface that is ready about 0.4 seconds after launch, seeking in around 0.6 seconds, and playback of formats such as FLAC and TrueHD. A second project, Minimal Home, replaces LG's default home screen with a minimal launcher.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-windows-port-of-the-fsearch-file-search-tool-i-11b2","title":"A Windows port of the fsearch file search tool in Rust","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Porting to a new platform","Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A Windows port of a macOS file search tool, written in Rust with Claude Code, answers name queries over about 5 million files in around a millisecond.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I ported fsearch to Windows: whole-disk file search in Rust, ~1 ms name queries over 5M files","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x52ti3/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x52ti3","authors":[{"name":"Don_Crespo","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Don_Crespo/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-13T17:23:18.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/noahdunnagan/fsearch","kind":"Primary","note":"The original fsearch project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"noahdunnagan","url":"https://github.com/noahdunnagan","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"11b20d8","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/PT5h48SG7wSaFkm3rT4xIdIV4J0FrF4vPRvqaj_OILs.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=fdf6e18754859941dabf8a3a8355d6a47b4eb5d6","alt":"I ported fsearch to Windows: whole-disk file search in Rust, ~1 ms name queries over 5M files","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x52ti3/"},"about":"Scry is a Windows port of fsearch, a macOS tool by Noah Dunnagan. It indexes every file and folder on fixed drives and answers as you type, with a hotkey search bar, a command line and a JSON-over-named-pipe API. The poster notes the index design is Noah's and the Windows side is new.\n\nOn their laptop, with 5.08 million files on C:, a one-word name query takes a median of 0.5 ms and the first crawl of the drive takes 50 to 80 seconds. 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Its behaviour is defined by Ghostty's, and the scope is parity with one pinned commit, with the credit going to Ghostty's authors.\n\nThe write-up shows two live terminals in the browser, one drawn by Rustty and one by Ghostty, both compiled to WebAssembly. It also publishes all 898 prompts sent over 112 days, replays of the work, and an account of four memory-safety bugs.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-vr-dj-game-decompiled-so-claude-can-build-new-1557","title":"A VR DJ game decompiled so Claude can build new levels","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Decompiling software","Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"The poster decompiled Tribe XR, a VR DJ game, and lets Claude build custom levels for it in Unreal and Blender.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: One of my levels in Tribe XR in the Oculus","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x5dlsd/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x5dlsd","authors":[{"name":"Personal-Builder-992","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Personal-Builder-992/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-14T00:41:12.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The video: youtu.be","url":"https://youtu.be/mD6vTJIwvvk?is=9JwEC79pbLejxVRl","kind":"Video","note":"The video linked in the post."}],"ref":"1557465","image":{"url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mD6vTJIwvvk/hqdefault.jpg","alt":"Video thumbnail: The video: youtu.be","credit":"youtube.com","from":"https://youtu.be/mD6vTJIwvvk?is=9JwEC79pbLejxVRl"},"about":"The poster says they decompiled the whole of Tribe XR, which normally puts you behind the decks, and Claude is now allowed to make anything it wants in Unreal and Blender. They show one of the resulting levels in the Oculus and describe it as their new setting for streaming.\n\nThe post is brief and the detail comes from a linked video, so how the decompiling was done is not described.","projectLinks":[{"type":"video","url":"https://youtu.be/mD6vTJIwvvk?is=9JwEC79pbLejxVRl","sourceUrl":"https://youtu.be/mD6vTJIwvvk?is=9JwEC79pbLejxVRl"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"104-new-eclipsing-binary-stars-found-by-claude-a-ccd7","title":"104 new eclipsing binary stars found by Claude agents","topic":"Science & research","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Automating with Claude","Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Autonomous Claude agents searching public telescope data reported 104 new eclipsing binary stars, including a method they devised themselves.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I suggested that my autonomous Claude agents try astronomy on my PC for fun. 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Its first synthesized sounds were \"like a broken TV\", so it switched to public-domain orchestral samples, and it tuned project mode by making good and bad changes to a test repo.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"mario-64-courtyard-plaque-text-decoded-from-a-32-b02c","title":"Mario 64 courtyard plaque text decoded from a 32x32 texture","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude built a model of the 1996 texture pipeline and a GPU font search to work out what the unreadable plaque says.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I used Claude to reverse-engineer a 30-year-old Super Mario 64 texture that nobody could read, and f","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x6ou7c/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x6ou7c","gone":"removed"},{"name":"Reddit: I used Claude (Opus 5.5) to crack a 30-year-old Super Mario 64 mystery: the unreadable cou","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x6lz8p/","kind":"Forum","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x6lz8p","authors":[{"name":"decorator","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/decorator/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-15T13:42:03.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"b02ccbf","image":{"url":"https://cf.preview.redd.it/a4jln7nugnvh1.png?width=960&auto=webp&s=231def132a35f2bac55cf9440354333ab6215f78","alt":"I used Claude to reverse-engineer a 30-year-old Super Mario 64 texture that nobody could read, and found what it says","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x6ou7c/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/3biyuci1xmvh1.png?width=960&auto=webp&s=c3080c9d07b4fcdc75cea167110ca0cf47acc72f","alt":"I used Claude (Opus 5.5) to crack a 30-year-old Super Mario 64 mystery: the unreadable courtyard plaque","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x6lz8p/"}],"about":"The plaque on the star statue in Super Mario 64's castle courtyard is a single 32x32 texture with letters only 3 to 5 pixels tall, and fans have argued about what it says since the 90s. Rather than try to read it, the poster had Claude (Opus 5.5) rebuild how it was made: text in a font on a small canvas, resized to 32x32, blurred and laid on the stone.\n\nClaude then wrote a PyTorch search over that model and about 530 fonts from the era, scored against the real pixels from the ROM, plus a dictionary search for the second line and a test harness using fake plaques with planted text. The result reads \"Eternal Star / We hope so\" in Adobe's 1990 Palatino Bold Italic. The post also gives a 40-page report and an open-source package.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"opentpu-an-open-source-ai-accelerator-running-mo-d279","title":"openTPU: an open-source AI accelerator running models on an FPGA","topic":"Embedded & microcontrollers","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Building a hardware gadget"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"An open-source accelerator built with AI coding agents including Claude Code, now running Qwen3.5 on a Kintex-7 FPGA card.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I’m using Claude Code to build an AI accelerator. 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It now runs Qwen3.5 on an FPGA.","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x6ajc5/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/dq1nriz3pjvh1.jpg?width=320&auto=webp&s=5ea573df3d9a3fa6ef7277d38b239a4bf0c10f27","alt":"I’m using Claude Code to build an AI accelerator. It now runs Qwen3.5 on an FPGA.","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x6ajc5/"}],"about":"openTPU is an open-source AI accelerator the poster started to learn about accelerator design, developed with AI coding agents including Claude Code. It already runs Qwen3.5 and other open-weight models on a Kintex-7 FPGA card.\n\nOne agent reads the hardware code, timing reports and notes from earlier attempts and proposes a change, another implements it, and automated checks compare the hardware with a Python simulator and measure performance. The poster still has to nudge larger architectural changes, and verification had blind spots: floating-point bugs that the inference tests missed. The repo holds the hardware, instruction set, simulator, compiler, profiler and host tools, and can be run in the simulator without an FPGA.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/FeSens/openTPU","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/FeSens/openTPU"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"picasa-photo-manager-being-rebuilt-with-claude-c-72dd","title":"Picasa photo manager being rebuilt with Claude Code","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A recreation of Google's discontinued Picasa photo manager, built in Claude Code Desktop and about half done.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I'm using Claude Code to bring back the dead photo management app Picasa","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x686c0/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x686c0","authors":[{"name":"pkkid","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/pkkid/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-15T00:53:54.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"72dd12a","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/fIcF9JJUQMBI8isfMyRXunjiS08Tt5nSCaNwh45Drzc.png?width=960&auto=webp&s=74ff639ec12dbd70a6bf7b53a938a085d2cbc259","alt":"I'm using Claude Code to bring back the dead photo management app Picasa","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x686c0/"},"about":"The poster loved Picasa, the photo management app Google bought and later shut down, and felt nothing since managed photos in the same simple, fast, local way. They are bringing it back using Claude Code Desktop, and say it is about half done.\n\nThe process was detailed research from screenshots and descriptions, a plan split into 13 milestones of 20 to 40 tasks each, and a pause at each milestone for Claude to produce an HTML report so the poster could check progress and adjust the roadmap by hand.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"glitchy-sound-effects-fixed-in-a-rust-opus-decod-6358","title":"Glitchy sound effects fixed in a Rust Opus decoder","topic":"Repairs & diagnostics","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Analysing or auditing software","Modernising legacy code"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code compared a game's sound effects with libopus to track down decoder bugs and write fixes and tests.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude Code helped fix the audio decoder in my digging game, with libopus as the reference","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x6p0km/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x6p0km","authors":[{"name":"VoxelBoy","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/VoxelBoy/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-15T15:39:02.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: playgama.ai","url":"https://playgama.ai/play/kw6t5foxgs","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"63589fd","image":{"url":"https://static.playgama.com/p-img/pg/preview/8aace64c96fe42e092927ee9ae1312a1_og.jpg","alt":"Loot Hole","credit":"playgama.ai","from":"https://playgama.ai/play/kw6t5foxgs"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://static.playgama.com/p-img/pg/preview/8aace64c96fe42e092927ee9ae1312a1?width=1200","alt":"Loot Hole cover art","credit":"playgama.ai","from":"https://playgama.ai/play/kw6t5foxgs"},{"url":"https://static.playgama.com/p-img/pg/extreme-car-driving-simulator/preview/f58928cddbf641fbbcb9d72ce1f6d4fe?width=448","alt":"Extreme Car Driving Simulator","credit":"playgama.ai","from":"https://playgama.ai/play/kw6t5foxgs"},{"url":"https://static.playgama.com/p-img/pg/piece-of-cake-merge--bake/preview/623a1ac5f6f84b289795bac9bbab018c?width=448","alt":"Piece of Cake: Merge & Bake","credit":"playgama.ai","from":"https://playgama.ai/play/kw6t5foxgs"},{"url":"https://static.playgama.com/p-img/pg/preview/83a5642f72fb4fb0a4f7faba84e549ff?width=448","alt":"Vector Parkour Run","credit":"playgama.ai","from":"https://playgama.ai/play/kw6t5foxgs"}],"about":"Short sound effects in the poster's browser game Loot Hole glitched, traced to its Rust Opus decoder. Claude Code and the poster compared all 64 game effects against libopus and used focused tests to narrow down the decoder state transitions.\n\nClaude helped implement the fixes and regression tests and draft the pull request descriptions. That produced four opus-rs pull requests, covering mode-switch redundancy, CELT energy history, Hybrid bandwidth handling and the SILK reset when leaving CELT. They were open but not merged at the time of the post. 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Every creature is simulated, with 21 playable species, four modes, a custom fish builder and serverless LAN multiplayer paired by QR code.\n\nIt runs on phones or offline as a single HTML file, and all art and music are generated in code. The poster wrote the spec and made design calls while Claude Code did most of the build, and its tests caught six multiplayer bugs before the poster saw them.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"dreamcast-conversion-of-segas-star-wars-trilogy-7d21","title":"Dreamcast conversion of Sega's Star Wars Trilogy Arcade","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Porting to a new platform","Reverse engineering a protocol","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A home port of a 1998 arcade game that never came to Dreamcast, with a new engine built from data extracted from emulated recordings.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I’m working on a Dreamcast conversion of Sega’s Star Wars Trilogy Arcade from 1998!","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x64fcl/comment/pgu5ewk/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's reply in r/ClaudeAI's showcase thread.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t1_pgu5ewk","authors":[{"name":"ToastedGreedo","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/ToastedGreedo/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-15T04:39:49.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: toastedgreedo.itch.io","url":"https://toastedgreedo.itch.io/star-wars-trilogy-arcade-dreamcast","kind":"Blog","note":"The demo on itch.io."}],"ref":"7d211e1","image":{"url":"https://img.itch.zone/aW1nLzMwMDgyMTQ1LnBuZw==/original/nhsvfR.png","alt":"Preview image from toastedgreedo.itch.io","credit":"toastedgreedo.itch.io","from":"https://toastedgreedo.itch.io/star-wars-trilogy-arcade-dreamcast"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://img.itch.zone/aW1nLzMwOTY2MTc0LnBuZw==/original/%2FwmIr0.png","alt":"Image from toastedgreedo.itch.io","credit":"toastedgreedo.itch.io","from":"https://toastedgreedo.itch.io/star-wars-trilogy-arcade-dreamcast"},{"url":"https://img.itch.zone/aW1nLzMwODQzNTAwLnBuZw==/original/aLUpqH.png","alt":"Image from toastedgreedo.itch.io","credit":"toastedgreedo.itch.io","from":"https://toastedgreedo.itch.io/star-wars-trilogy-arcade-dreamcast"},{"url":"https://img.itch.zone/aW1nLzMwODQzNTExLnBuZw==/original/LK60eg.png","alt":"Image from toastedgreedo.itch.io","credit":"toastedgreedo.itch.io","from":"https://toastedgreedo.itch.io/star-wars-trilogy-arcade-dreamcast"},{"url":"https://img.itch.zone/aW1hZ2UvNTAxNzQ3MC8zMDA4MzkxMS5wbmc=/794x1000/sAgR0N.png","alt":"Image from toastedgreedo.itch.io","credit":"toastedgreedo.itch.io","from":"https://toastedgreedo.itch.io/star-wars-trilogy-arcade-dreamcast"}],"about":"This is a Dreamcast conversion of Sega's 1998 Star Wars Trilogy Arcade, a game rumoured for years to be coming to Dreamcast but never released at home. The poster says it differs from the many AI recreations around because they extract data and behaviour from emulated recordings of the original game and build a new engine for Dreamcast from scratch.\n\nA demo with two stages has been released and the full game is described as coming soon. 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The C++ engine is compiled to WebAssembly with Emscripten, and Claude helped replace the Windows graphics, audio and input layers with WebGL, Web Audio and browser controls, with saves kept locally.\n\nSome game data tables were missing from the decompilation, so they were recovered from the original executable, down to truck hitch offsets and horn rhythms. The poster also added widescreen, a waypoint map and a calmer camera. 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The post text available here does not say how well it works in practice.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-micromachines-style-8-player-party-game-for-a-4f2a","title":"A MicroMachines-style 8 player party game for a friends' group","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Making a game","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A web racing game reviving the feel of MicroMachines V3 for local multiplayer, built with Claude Code and Blender MCP.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I prompted a game with Opus 5.5 and Blender (Godot engine) to feed my friends' nostalgia and now hun","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x77daf/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x77daf","authors":[{"name":"ManureTaster","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/ManureTaster/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-16T05:01:46.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"4f2a9c3","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/Z2ZuaXpudmRocnZoMRYXj1oB1N00bhONM3UOtDizMWvbFoDKt3IlkIYcIPWQ.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=802e24f30c96dabe0778051086669a6d3b5b0e23","alt":"I prompted a game with Opus 5.5 and Blender (Godot engine) to feed my friends' nostalgia and now hundreds of people are playing this everyday","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x77daf/"},"about":"A group of friends in their forties who cherish PS1 multiplayer wanted to revive MicroMachines V3 and its eight-player local mayhem. The poster used Claude Code and Blender MCP with Opus 5.5, starting from dozens of screenshots of the original and a two-page specification covering the diorama look, car roster and phones as controllers.\n\nAfter a long Q&A about technology and a roadmap, the poster says Opus basically one-shotted about 90 per cent of the game in a few hours.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"calllane-stopping-macos-ducking-media-during-cal-7db7","title":"CallLane: stopping macOS ducking media during calls","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A Mac app that gives call apps their own output device so media stays loud, built with Claude Code.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: My fiancée is doing her Masters in Estonia, and I've got another year of long distance ahead. 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He made CallLane, which gives call apps their own output device and copies it to the headphones, so only that device is ducked, and keeps input on the MacBook's built-in mic.\n\nHe built the app and its site with Claude Code, plus weeks of manual testing with AirPods and a MacBook Pro.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-rust-auto-battler-demade-for-game-boy-advance-820e","title":"A Rust auto-battler demade for Game Boy Advance and Nintendo 64","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Porting to a new platform","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude demade a Rust and Bevy auto-battler into native Game Boy Advance and Nintendo 64 ROMs in a few hours, sharing one deterministic Rust rules crate.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I asked Claude to \"demake\" my Rust/Bevy auto-battler into native Nintendo 64 and Game Boy Advance RO","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x88me6/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x88me6","authors":[{"name":"Phototo","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Phototo/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-17T12:07:04.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: autobattle.txcb.io","url":"https://autobattle.txcb.io/","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"820ea90","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/cWdnanoyZzZxMHdoMWNfb1vtBYdalOhZ7fjLY5QaH9dVW3rvKQx9VsbAuaOA.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=258f5d3fbe31ce158ac2a3881696b805fe0c6aee","alt":"I asked Claude to \"demake\" my Rust/Bevy auto-battler into native Nintendo 64 and Game Boy Advance ROMs","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x88me6/"},"about":"The maker was making an auto-battler game with Claude and a friend suggested a \"demake\". Having an Analogue Pocket and Analogue 3D, they asked Claude to produce versions for those systems.\n\nA few hours and a few hundred thousand tokens later the game ran natively on Game Boy Advance and Nintendo 64, with \"zero to no iteration\". All three versions share the same core Rust rules crate, and the simulation is fully deterministic, shown in a video of the same battle on both consoles. The ROMs are free to download.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"clawd-mochi-desk-toy-given-new-firmware-with-cla-ca18","title":"Clawd Mochi desk toy given new firmware with Claude Code","topic":"Embedded & microcontrollers","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Custom firmware or bootloader","Repurposing to a new role"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code read the stock firmware of a fan-made ESP32-C3 desk toy, wrote new firmware, flashed it and debugged it via a live screen mirror.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I gave the Clawd Mochi desk toy a new brain: it reacts to Claude Code, shows my usage limits, music,","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x88hu2/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x88hu2","authors":[{"name":"Gullible-Syllabub-23","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Gullible-Syllabub-23/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-17T12:00:39.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/yousifamanuel/clawd-mochi","kind":"Primary","note":"Linked in the post.","authors":[{"name":"yousifamanuel","url":"https://github.com/yousifamanuel","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"ca1823b","image":{"url":"https://github.com/yousifamanuel/clawd-mochi/raw/main/pics/clawd_mochi_3_4.jpeg","alt":"Assembled Clawd Mochi on a desk","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/yousifamanuel/clawd-mochi"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://github.com/yousifamanuel/clawd-mochi/raw/main/pics/clawd_mochi_claude_code.jpeg","alt":"Claude Code view","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/yousifamanuel/clawd-mochi"},{"url":"https://github.com/yousifamanuel/clawd-mochi/raw/main/pics/clawd_mochi_webpage.jpeg","alt":"Webpage view","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/yousifamanuel/clawd-mochi"},{"url":"https://github.com/yousifamanuel/clawd-mochi/raw/main/pics/clawd_3D_squished_eyes_4_3.png","alt":"3D printed Clawd model with squished eyes","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/yousifamanuel/clawd-mochi"}],"about":"The Clawd Mochi is a fan-made ESP32-C3 desk toy with a 3D-printed case and a 240x240 screen, designed by Yousuf Amanuel. The poster built one and then rewrote its software with Claude Code doing most of the work: reading the stock firmware, writing the new one, flashing it and debugging it through a live screen mirror.\n\nThe new firmware animates the character (breathing, blinking, glancing about) and reacts to Claude Code hooks. It also has pages for usage limits, a clock, a focus timer, music with album art, PC stats, weather and calendar. It runs over USB with a web controller and a desktop widget. Hardware and original firmware credit goes to the original designer.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/yousifamanuel/clawd-mochi","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/yousifamanuel/clawd-mochi"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"oblivion-remastered-performance-problems-analyse-7994","title":"Oblivion Remastered performance problems analysed with Claude","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Analysing or auditing software","Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude analysed why Oblivion Remastered ran poorly on a fast PC, found wasteful per-frame lighting work, and then helped with two weeks of optimisation work.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Used Claude to fix Oblivion Remastered performance","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x8jcmq/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x8jcmq","authors":[{"name":"LTSharpe","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/LTSharpe/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-17T19:46:10.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The video: youtube.com","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8WkCz6cuHk","kind":"Video","note":"Linked from the post."}],"ref":"79948cc","image":{"url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/K8WkCz6cuHk/hqdefault.jpg","alt":"Video thumbnail: The video: youtube.com","credit":"youtube.com","from":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8WkCz6cuHk"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/AfcB4h0YnWEj-yTA7excEzNwbMAonCEnaLQb8gA4UGM.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bf85a30e7a31021bbdc10f86c39d2f842dc41fb2","alt":"Used Claude to fix Oblivion Remastered performance","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x8jcmq/"}],"about":"The poster found Oblivion Remastered ran with low frame rates and stuttering (20-30 FPS in Cheydinhal) even after a GPU upgrade, on a 5800X CPU with 32GB RAM. They asked Claude Opus to explain the low FPS while the game was running, giving it access to the Unreal Engine source via their GitHub account.\n\nClaude reportedly found that the game rebuilt the whole lighting of a scene every frame even when nothing changed, which loaded a single CPU thread. Two weeks of work followed, including a benchmark harness so Claude could optimise bottleneck scenarios on its own. The post text available here is cut off before the final results, so the outcome is unverified.","projectLinks":[{"type":"video","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8WkCz6cuHk","sourceUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8WkCz6cuHk"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"lizard-an-optical-file-transfer-format-between-s-d60f","title":"LIZARD, an optical file transfer format between screen and camera","topic":"Repurposed hardware","outcome":"Unverified","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude helped build LIZARD, a screen-to-camera file transfer format using OFDM-style modulation, moving from a browser decoder to a faster native Android one.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Had an idea for air-gapped file transfer, got 32+ Mbps","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x819vx/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x819vx","gone":"deleted"},{"name":"The video: youtube.com","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsEVOV1swhI","kind":"Video","note":"Linked from the post."}],"ref":"d60f36d","image":{"url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BsEVOV1swhI/hqdefault.jpg","alt":"Video thumbnail: The video: youtube.com","credit":"youtube.com","from":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsEVOV1swhI"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/swL9SOg-Y8JQS4SZEQg554bf0mDsERbUYC9Pc1UCCDk.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8946ad6ec0acf88e55c9e168cb10a6890547a1c4","alt":"Had an idea for air-gapped file transfer, got 32+ Mbps","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x819vx/"}],"about":"The poster found QR-based optical transfer inefficient for screens and designed LIZARD, a format using luminance modulation and fountain coding, aiming for high throughput and a GPU-first decoder. A browser version topped out around 700 KB/s and swung wildly when the camera and display fell out of phase, so they moved to native Android.\n\nClaude first tried porting an OpenCV code finder to Vulkan, which suited the GPU poorly, so that was scrapped. Instead they trained a small three-layer CNN of about 50,000 parameters to find the code corners. The post title claims 32+ Mbps, but the text available here is cut off before the results.","projectLinks":[{"type":"video","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsEVOV1swhI","sourceUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsEVOV1swhI"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"an-esp32-clock-screen-pushed-from-4fps-to-60fps-45fb","title":"An ESP32 clock screen pushed from 4fps to 60fps with a webcam","topic":"Embedded & microcontrollers","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building a hardware gadget","Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code suggested pointing a webcam at an ESP32 screen so it could see the display while raising the frame rate from 4fps to 60fps.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: The world has changed","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x9fwk4/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x9fwk4","authors":[{"name":"Imaginary_Data_708","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Imaginary_Data_708/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-18T22:09:59.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"45fb898","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/z98elwwnuawh1.jpeg?width=960&auto=webp&s=f2c4bd3f024a162106d067da1ab6bdf4828d0009","alt":"The world has changed","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x9fwk4/"},"about":"The poster was using an ESP32-based screen where the Waveshare drivers were poor in portrait mode and managed only 4fps. Claude Opus suggested pointing a webcam at the screen so it could see what was happening while it hunted for the maximum frame rate.\n\nIt reached 60fps in a couple of minutes. It had already installed the toolchain and designed the clock layout. The poster says the webcam suggestion was what impressed them most.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"hometwin-an-open-source-3d-home-view-for-home-as-7b2e","title":"HomeTwin, an open-source 3D home view for Home Assistant","topic":"Smart home","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building a replacement app","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude built most of HomeTwin, a 3D model of the home for a wall display that controls Home Assistant devices, including floor plan import.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: HomeTwin: an open-source 3D home, with a shared library you can help build with Claude","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x95rze/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x95rze","authors":[{"name":"SquareForeign","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/SquareForeign/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-18T15:19:08.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: knaackee.gith","url":"https://knaackee.gith","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"7b2efe3","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/eq0359n8t8wh1.png?width=960&auto=webp&s=d1e548f66153ed26fc6447dd35f3c291007ca767","alt":"HomeTwin: an open-source 3D home, with a shared library you can help build with Claude","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x95rze/"},"about":"The poster wanted a 3D view of their home on a wall display, where tapping a light shows what is happening in a room and controls it. Claude built most of HomeTwin, including the architecture, editor and interface, while the poster guided, reviewed and tested it in their own Home Assistant setup.\n\nAn AI feature turns an uploaded floor plan into rooms, doors and windows, which the user then checks and corrects. It is described as a public beta, MIT-licensed, with English and German interfaces. The repo includes a skill that lets Claude turn a photo and dimensions into a shared library object.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"chvideo-a-tool-to-line-up-music-videos-with-clon-84fc","title":"chvideo, a tool to line up music videos with Clone Hero charts","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building a replacement app","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude built chvideo from a plain description, a tool that lines up music videos with Clone Hero charts.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I really wanted a way to perfectly line up music videos with Clone Hero charts.","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x64fcl/comment/ph0e5uk/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's reply in r/ClaudeAI's showcase thread.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t1_ph0e5uk","authors":[{"name":"mxitup2","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/mxitup2/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-16T00:17:45.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/shrunbr/chvideo","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"shrunbr","url":"https://github.com/shrunbr","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"84fc17f","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/shrunbr/chvideo","alt":"GitHub repository card for shrunbr/chvideo","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/shrunbr/chvideo"},"about":"The poster wanted a way to line up music videos with Clone Hero charts. They described what they wanted to Claude and, after a few iterations, had a tool called chvideo.\n\nThey say it works well so far and they have used it on more than 100 different Clone Hero charts and music videos. It is on GitHub.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/shrunbr/chvideo","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/shrunbr/chvideo"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-minecraft-world-to-3d-print-file-converter-for-bd8c","title":"A Minecraft world to 3D print file converter for school students","topic":"Printers & peripherals","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building a replacement app","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code wrote a browser tool from scratch that parses Minecraft save files so students can 3D print their builds.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Teacher here: Claude Code wrote a Minecraft file parser from scratch so my students can 3D print the","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x88hqx/comment/phalez4/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's reply in r/ClaudeAI's showcase thread.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t1_phalez4","authors":[{"name":"petitpoid","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/petitpoid/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-17T12:36:04.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: discoveryclubdec.ch","url":"http://discoveryclubdec.ch/mineprint","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked from the post."}],"ref":"bd8c1f4","image":{"url":"https://discoveryclubdec.ch/Asstets/og-card.png","alt":"Discovery Club Dec","credit":"discoveryclubdec.ch","from":"http://discoveryclubdec.ch/mineprint"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://discoveryclubdec.ch/Exercices/Mineprint/bloc-01-give.jpg","alt":"La commande /give tapée dans le chat, devant la construction","credit":"discoveryclubdec.ch","from":"http://discoveryclubdec.ch/mineprint"},{"url":"https://discoveryclubdec.ch/Exercices/Mineprint/bloc-02-pose.jpg","alt":"Le bloc de structure posé au sol devant la maison","credit":"discoveryclubdec.ch","from":"http://discoveryclubdec.ch/mineprint"},{"url":"https://discoveryclubdec.ch/Exercices/Mineprint/bloc-03-load.jpg","alt":"L'écran du bloc de structure en mode Load, flèche sur le bouton de mode","credit":"discoveryclubdec.ch","from":"http://discoveryclubdec.ch/mineprint"},{"url":"https://discoveryclubdec.ch/Exercices/Mineprint/bloc-04-corner.jpg","alt":"Le même écran en mode Corner","credit":"discoveryclubdec.ch","from":"http://discoveryclubdec.ch/mineprint"}],"about":"A teacher running a free digital club for 8 to 15 year olds in Switzerland wanted the children to hold their Minecraft builds in their hands. Claude Code wrote a browser tool that parses Minecraft save files and makes a printable mesh.\n\nAccording to the post, Claude checked real save files before coding and caught a format change the documentation did not mention. It verified the mesh with an independent Python rewrite giving the same 716 triangles byte for byte. Everything runs client side with no libraries, and eight prints had been made in class so far.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"road-rash-rebuilt-in-the-browser-with-opus-55-69b7","title":"Road Rash rebuilt in the browser with Opus 5.5","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude wrote a browser Road Rash style game in Three.js and TypeScript over a weekend, with tracks, traffic, bike combat and chasing cops.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I tried to rebuild Road Rash in the browser with Opus 5.5 to see how it handles a real game","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x9328b/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x9328b","gone":"deleted"},{"name":"The project: road-rash-remastered.vercel.app","url":"https://road-rash-remastered.vercel.app/","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."},{"name":"Reddit: I tried to rebuild Road Rash in the browser with Opus 5.5 to see how it handles a real gam","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x9enjl/","kind":"Forum","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x9enjl","authors":[{"name":"jain_harsh21","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/jain_harsh21/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-18T21:16:33.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"69b7535","about":"The poster loved Road Rash as a kid and wanted a harder test for Opus 5.5 than a CRUD app, since a game needs physics, AI, camera and sound to agree. Over a weekend they built a version in Three.js and TypeScript that runs in the browser, with three tracks, day and night, bike combat, traffic and cops that chase the player.\n\nThey say Claude handled the large codebase better than expected, but how the game felt was down to the poster because Claude could not see it running. Tuning the bikes took longest.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-nokia-3310-revived-in-the-browser-from-its-fir-9826","title":"A Nokia 3310 revived in the browser from its firmware","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude","Ghidra"],"methods":["Decompiling software","Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude helped investigate the Nokia 3310 firmware in Ghidra and port it to a TypeScript phone with backlight, vibration and SMS between devices.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Nokia 3310 Revived","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x9sp04/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x9sp04","authors":[{"name":"Different_Berry5015","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Different_Berry5015/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-19T09:55:23.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"9826406","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/n5q0a4m3bewh1.png?width=320&auto=webp&s=036851f0df962091b856bb9d7772ed69cb4ef77a","alt":"Nokia 3310 Revived","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x9sp04/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/i4qj1ij4bewh1.png?width=216&auto=webp&s=33d67d5c76b1be4a689f304153e35ec5d074cca7","alt":"Nokia 3310 Revived","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x9sp04/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/oxlgwss4bewh1.png?width=216&auto=webp&s=0f58caf8e6a7c88428df80b37fa11bc4274f669c","alt":"Nokia 3310 Revived","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x9sp04/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/jxl5f5g6bewh1.png?width=216&auto=webp&s=95b1d5d4c5a82b1ce3dc799e3f5e07b13b45a023","alt":"Nokia 3310 Revived","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x9sp04/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/15nfkrz8bewh1.png?width=216&auto=webp&s=1636b64b734286d9217b775ff2115d46a8149a1e","alt":"Nokia 3310 Revived","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x9sp04/"}],"about":"As a weekend project the maker investigated the original Nokia 3310 firmware with Ghidra, decompiled it into understandable C, then ported it to TypeScript. Claude on Max helped with vectorising the phone's hull, and the result includes the screen's distinctive pixel fade, keypad locking, a backlight and a vibration effect using WebAudio.\n\nThe revived phone uses the maker's own server as a fake carrier, so devices can send and receive \"SMS\" using a number tied to a private id. The maker is now looking through other firmwares to port games such as Snake.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-car-that-asks-home-assistant-who-is-parked-out-0f18","title":"A car that asks Home Assistant who is parked outside","topic":"Smart home","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude built a Python MCP server behind a Cloudflare tunnel so a car assistant can query Home Assistant and Frigate cameras.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Frigate - Home Assistant - Grok - Tesla Connectivity POC","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xa8m7i/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xa8m7i","gone":"deleted"}],"ref":"0f180cf","about":"The maker wanted to ask their car whether anyone is parked in front of the house. Claude planned the setup, checked the Cloudflare tunnel had been built correctly alongside the maker's other tunnels, wrote an MCP server in Python on the home network and wrote tests. A request goes through the tunnel to Home Assistant, which checks the Frigate camera feed using zones.\n\nIt is read-only for now, though the maker expects it to scale to other sensors. There is no repository, as the post describes it as a process.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"computer-fan-curves-tuned-by-microphone-with-cla-973d","title":"Computer fan curves tuned by microphone with Claude Code","topic":"Printers & peripherals","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code spun PC fans up and down while listening through a microphone, then saved quiet fan curves to FanControl.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Automated Fan Profiling by Claude","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x9nfwb/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x9nfwb","authors":[{"name":"Winejug87","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Winejug87/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-19T04:31:10.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: getfancontrol.com","url":"https://getfancontrol.com/","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"973d7c5","image":{"url":"https://i.redd.it/f88bxsqvpcwh1.png","alt":"Automated Fan Profiling by Claude","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x9nfwb/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://getfancontrol.com/assets/main_light.png","alt":"Main interface","credit":"getfancontrol.com","from":"https://getfancontrol.com/"},{"url":"https://i.redd.it/sgqqyzsmtcwh1.png","alt":"Automated Fan Profiling by Claude","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x9nfwb/"}],"about":"After buying a Noctua cooler and four case fans, the maker wanted to find the most pleasant sound curves for each fan and for the group. A microphone was placed near their head and Claude Code spun each fan header up and down, recording against the noise floor, and mapped the tones against what people tend to find more pleasing.\n\nClaude controlled the fans, wrote the script that listened over the mic and saved the config to FanControl.exe by itself. The maker reports the result is \"Pretty quiet\".","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-vintage-pc-simulator-where-you-pick-the-parts-1156","title":"A vintage PC simulator where you pick the parts and boot MS-DOS","topic":"Retro computing","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude built a browser tool simulating old PC hardware, including a rebuilt MS-DOS 4.01, for choosing parts and setting up the BIOS.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Build with opus 5.5 - old school pc you can pick up parts, setup bios and run it.","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x9vcvb/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x9vcvb","authors":[{"name":"No_Twist_678","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/No_Twist_678/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-19T12:18:42.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: retro.bioneural.de","url":"https://retro.bioneural.de/","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."},{"name":"Reddit: Build with opus 5.5 - old school pc you can pick up parts, setup bios and run it.","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x9vaow/","kind":"Forum","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1x9vaow","authors":[{"name":"No_Twist_678","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/No_Twist_678/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-19T12:15:48.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"1156dac","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/eWU3MTc3aDEyZndoMSmWNUeMg828a0qZ1ZJuLmShFCaibSTa3bl6lzIlkiH4.png?width=960&auto=webp&s=8ba4147bac49c24fa4effcd0cd736a69a99245a5","alt":"Build with opus 5.5 - old school pc you can pick up parts, setup bios and run it.","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x9vcvb/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/Mms3eHFxM24wZndoMSmWNUeMg828a0qZ1ZJuLmShFCaibSTa3bl6lzIlkiH4.png?width=960&auto=webp&s=18cd4798a36d3e7bc787aea3dba3df7b503c732f","alt":"Build with opus 5.5 - old school pc you can pick up parts, setup bios and run it.","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x9vaow/"}],"about":"The maker wanted a realistic simulation of old PC hardware, not DOSBox, where odd combinations of motherboards, processors, disks and vintage graphics parts can be configured and started with MS-DOS. Because the open source MS-DOS 4.0 was limited, Opus recompiled and built a new MS-DOS 4.01 to run on it.\n\nThe post says Opus worked for two weeks nonstop on high settings. The maker says they are still learning to set up an old BIOS. The post gives no detail on how accurate the simulation is.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-hey-claude-voice-assistant-for-android-wired-t-b431","title":"A \"Hey Claude\" voice assistant for Android wired to Home Assistant","topic":"Smart home","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A Kotlin Android app on a OnePlus 10T with an offline wake word, calls, SMS, Gmail, calendar and read-only Home Assistant queries, built with Claude.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: \\\\J'ai remplacé « Ok Google » par mon propre assistant vocal, branché sur Home Assistant, en une soi","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x88hqx/comment/pho0ari/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's reply in r/ClaudeAI's showcase thread.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t1_pho0ari","authors":[{"name":"New_Pineapple6087","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/New_Pineapple6087/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-19T10:08:18.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/NicoPi-dev/Assistant","kind":"Primary","note":"Linked from the post.","authors":[{"name":"NicoPi-dev","url":"https://github.com/NicoPi-dev","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"b431316","about":"The maker, who mostly tinkers with Power Apps, VBA and Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi, wanted a phone assistant that does what they want instead of Google Assistant. With Claude as a coding partner they built a Kotlin app in one evening that runs on their OnePlus 10T.\n\nThe wake word \"Hey Claude\" is detected offline with Vosk. It handles calls and SMS (the AI drafts a text, reads it back and sends it after 5 seconds unless cancelled), Gmail summaries and replies, calendar events, alarms, timers and Google Maps navigation. Home Assistant access is read-only through a whitelist of 48 sensors, with no cameras or alarm. 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Claude suggested the charger was too high end, since the PinePhone cannot negotiate power delivery well. An old 5V 1.55A charger brought it back, with the battery fine.\n\nThey then had Claude prepare a distro to run Claude Desktop, and it chose Mobian because it is Debian and Claude Desktop is possible on ARM64. It installed with the phone connected in USB mode, and the maker says the 3GB phone is still usable. Reviving the keyboard was harder, as the maker blames badly made drivers.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"macos-chess-ported-to-windows-8693","title":"macOS Chess ported to Windows","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude","REA"],"methods":["Decompiling software","Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Pro was used to reverse engineer the macOS Chess app from its Mach-O binary and port it, with its Sjeng engine, to a Windows exe.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I ported MacOS chess to windows using claude","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xat1rs/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xat1rs","authors":[{"name":"Markisdaman1236","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Markisdaman1236/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-20T14:05:02.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/Markdaman1236/Mchess","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"Markdaman1236","url":"https://github.com/Markdaman1236","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"8693110","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/XVpMLXJmDUgA7_AJAjOcmFrfYimPsLLkLkBYlvLldnA.png?width=960&auto=webp&s=ed50aa166d79ae504ad42d5ef57ad7d96825494a","alt":"I ported MacOS chess to windows using claude","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xat1rs/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://github.com/Markdaman1236/Mchess/raw/main/docs/screenshot.png","alt":"The board in the Metal style","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/Markdaman1236/Mchess"}],"about":"The maker ported Apple's built-in Chess app to Windows with Claude Pro. A reverse engineering tool was used on the Mach-O binary, along with some of the source Apple published on GitHub. The maker admits they realised halfway through that the published source could have been used fully.\n\nThe port uses the same assets as the original, such as textures and models, and the Sjeng chess engine, which also had to be ported to Windows. 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It has only been tried on a 2022 Q70B.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/NelsonEU/arn0-tv","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/NelsonEU/arn0-tv"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-playstation-1-text-editor-with-a-claude-assist-a3cb","title":"A PlayStation 1 text editor with a Claude assistant","topic":"Retro computing","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building a hardware gadget","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A Pico 2 in the controller port links a USB keyboard and SD card to a PS1 editor, with Claude-written PS1 and Python code.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I built a text editor for the original PlayStation with support for Claude and other AIs","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xbxsjp/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xbxsjp","gone":"deleted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/alp0809/PS1-Ai-Text-editor","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"alp0809","url":"https://github.com/alp0809","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"a3cb003","image":{"url":"https://camo.githubusercontent.com/d6b2f2e82c30877fa43262998af2e2a092128756fe2eeac9352d691dc613a0ee/68747470733a2f2f696d672e796f75747562652e636f6d2f76692f35776f6f6b434d324f37412f6d617872657364656661756c742e6a7067","alt":"video","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/alp0809/PS1-Ai-Text-editor"},"about":"This is a text editor for the original PS1 for writing long documents, with an AI assistant built in. A Raspberry Pi Pico 2 in controller port 2 talks to the console 60 times a second, reading a USB keyboard and saving documents to an SD card. A Python script on a PC passes the document and question to Claude, or a local or OpenAI-compatible model, and streams the answer back.\n\nClaude wrote the PS1 code and the Python script, as the maker knew little about PS1 development. 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Claude wrote IOKit probes sending UVC requests to see which ones the camera answers, and found only zoom and pan/tilt respond, so the gimbal control was built on that. It also decoded DJI's DUML packets over Bluetooth to show battery and recording status.\n\nClaude found that AVCaptureMovieFileOutput broke the camera format and moved recording to AVAssetWriter with Core Image, which enabled live LUTs. 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The maker says AI wrote much of the initial implementation, covering the media pipeline, Bluetooth handling, UI and early relay logic.\n\nThe harder part was Bluetooth behaving differently across manufacturers, Android versions and chipsets, with video backing up behind slow hops and connections dropping, so the maker bought another phone to test. 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With Claude they built Gearbench and say they now have full parity between Windows and Linux.\n\nThe GitHub description lists per-key lighting, G keys, macros, DPI stages, game profiles and equalizers for Logitech G keyboards, mice and two headsets.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/Gearbench/gearbench","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/Gearbench/gearbench"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"an-offline-home-hub-and-chat-app-run-from-the-te-a9bc","title":"An offline home hub and chat app run from the terminal","topic":"Smart home","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Automating with Claude","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"hopchat controls Wiz lights, LG TVs and Home Assistant devices from a terminal chat using a local AI model, built with Claude Code.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I built an offline smart hub and chat app for your home network with Claude Code, OfflineProtocol SD","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xciww5/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xciww5","authors":[{"name":"New-Blacksmith8524","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/New-Blacksmith8524/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-22T13:41:44.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"Reddit: I built a smart-hub for my home that works without the internet.","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xcdwkp/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xcdwkp","authors":[{"name":"New-Blacksmith8524","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/New-Blacksmith8524/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-22T09:29:45.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"a9bc9c0","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/d43K-V5dyTwUeTfaaV7LxVtTEBDEdMVdj88Rm99Z_3w.png?width=960&auto=webp&s=5233db778bd75ea6ea068dbc6ad88bef798e6187","alt":"I built an offline smart hub and chat app for your home network with Claude Code, OfflineProtocol SDK and Ratatui","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xciww5/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/N3l0cjR5c2dtendoMc5uaLU55dMP79Qmzs58uHix-cAsjyXJpSyXABRP14M6.png?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7a0f40d74b0fc02846a229e754c1f0ddf0082204","alt":"Video still: I built a smart-hub for my home that works without the internet.","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xcdwkp/"}],"about":"hopchat lets you control your home by chatting from the terminal, for example \"@home dim the living room lights\". A local AI model turns this into actions for Wiz lights, LG TVs and, more recently, Home Assistant devices, and nothing goes to the cloud. It is also an encrypted chat app for people on the same Wi-Fi, built on the Offline Protocol SDK with a Rust ratatui interface.\n\nThe poster used Claude Code throughout, from wiring up the SDK and peer discovery to writing the drivers for Wiz, LG webOS and Home Assistant.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"claude-code-as-a-lab-assistant-for-a-ros-2-robot-ebec","title":"Claude Code as a lab assistant for a ROS 2 robot","topic":"Robots","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Automating with Claude","Reverse engineering a protocol"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code runs experiments on the Mino robot, and was used to set up speech-to-text so the poster could dictate instructions to it.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude Code is my robotics lab assistant","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xcoyrd/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xcoyrd","authors":[{"name":"uavster","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/uavster/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-22T17:27:47.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"ebecdc7","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/dnV1eXVqcjZ5MXhoMVggEphIkyVmVmiHK7RovA1HU0nBfcVHt8WvuJlp1vbT.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=219d5f5e0cdc555a07ae506f215ad0d72372458a","alt":"Claude Code is my robotics lab assistant","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xcoyrd/"},"about":"The poster uses Claude Code to run experiments on Mino, a hackable robot whose software is built on ROS 2. They say Claude can write ROS 2 nodes and use ROS tools to configure the robot, gather data and display it clearly.\n\nWhen VS Code dictation did not work with a remote target like the robot, the poster had Claude Code use the robot's built-in speech-to-text capability, which runs on its Jetson Orin Nano, so they could speak instructions to the agent.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"keydeck-plus-a-free-accessibility-on-screen-keyb-3759","title":"KeyDeck Plus, a free accessibility on-screen keyboard","topic":"Printers & peripherals","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building a replacement app","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A disabled user with limited range of motion built a customisable Windows on-screen keyboard with dwell, swipe and switch-scanning typing, with Claude writing the Python.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I built an all-in-one accessibility keyboard with Claude","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xcso1d/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xcso1d","authors":[{"name":"CALL911imonfire","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/CALL911imonfire/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-22T19:44:13.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/CALL911imonfire/KeyDeck\\_Plus","kind":"Primary","note":"Linked in the post.","authors":[{"name":"CALL911imonfire","url":"https://github.com/CALL911imonfire","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"37596e0","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/wacT9UERmW62lLgpZb_HEY7h6hdT_xAWSAHCHvO7C5o.png?width=960&auto=webp&s=e564893fddde9e5c67942b71ab465477f5afe35e","alt":"I built an all-in-one accessibility keyboard with Claude","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xcso1d/"},"about":"The poster has been disabled all their life and has very limited range of motion, and found the default Windows on-screen keyboard lacking. Many better accessibility tools cost money or solved only one problem.\n\nThey are not a professional programmer. Over many sessions they described what they needed and tested every build, while Claude wrote the Python (tkinter, standard library only) and fixed things they reported broken. 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Over about one evening, Claude Code wrote the code, read the robot's logs and ran the tests while the poster acted as the eyes (\"it bumped on the left\").\n\nThey found undocumented remote-control commands, that moves in the first five seconds are ignored, and that the robot turns 180 degrees by itself after leaving the dock. A first \"dodge right\" fix steered it into the stair post, because the position reading wobbles as much as the gap allows. 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It takes the microphone input, applies processing with installed AU plugins (Waves) and creates a virtual audio output with less than 20 ms of latency, with live monitoring.\n\nThe result lets them build custom processing chains that come remarkably close to the studio sound, usable with Skype, Teams, OBS and other software. 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They found the schematics, fed them into Claude, and used their own real chip for cross-referencing and fine-tuning. They say it \"sings like a dream\" and link a video demo.","projectLinks":[{"type":"video","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRKjoIdcoLw","sourceUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRKjoIdcoLw"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"kronograf-custom-firmware-for-the-lilygo-t-watch-1112","title":"Kronograf, custom firmware for the LilyGO T-Watch 2020","topic":"Wearables","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Custom firmware or bootloader","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code wrote open-source firmware for the ESP32 T-Watch 2020 in three days, with watch faces, 13 apps and iPhone notifications.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude Code wrote a from-scratch firmware for my 2020 smartwatch in three days. 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It has three faces (including a Back to the Future \"time circuits\" one), 13 apps, iPhone notifications over Bluetooth, a network toolbox and a macOS simulator. Claude Code (Opus 5.5) wrote the code, working stage by stage from a brief, with the poster testing on the wrist.\n\nThe simulator let Claude check its own UI with headless screenshots. Hardware still needed a human: the micro-USB connector dropped out mid-flash, so they moved to OTA updates, and the first sleep on battery froze the watch.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"split-screen-co-op-for-oblivion-2006-52e8","title":"Split-screen co-op for Oblivion (2006)","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code","Ghidra"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Decompiling software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code reverse engineered Oblivion through a Ghidra server and wrote an xOBSE plugin adding two-player split-screen co-op.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Oblivion(2006) Splitscreen mod made with Claude Code","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xecxjs/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xecxjs","gone":"deleted"}],"ref":"52e8008","about":"Oblivion never had co-op, so the poster built it with Claude Code: two controllers on one PC, a second player with their own character, and a split screen. Most of the work was reverse engineering, with Claude reading the game's code through a Ghidra server and writing C++ hooks as an xOBSE plugin, covering menus, levelling, crafting and riding for player 2.\n\nClaude built a harness that launches the game and plays it with two virtual controllers, now with 179 scenarios; an early test passed while player 1's camera was on the floor, so checks look at the actual picture. It was released free as a beta on Nexus, and early player bug reports were fixed within days.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"flight-simulator-95-and-98-patched-to-run-on-64-41e4","title":"Flight Simulator 95 and 98 patched to run on 64-bit Windows","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Driver or OS patching","Reverse engineering a protocol"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code traced the divide-by-zero crashes that stop FS95 and FS98 running on 64-bit Windows and patched them.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Flight Simulator 95/98 finally running on 64-bit Windows, patched by Claude Code","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xew9ma/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xew9ma","authors":[{"name":"Torturephile","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Torturephile/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-25T07:46:29.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"Reddit: Flight Simulator 95/98 running on Windows 10 and 11 - Alternate method by Claude","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xknrj3/","kind":"Forum","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xknrj3","authors":[{"name":"Torturephile","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Torturephile/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-31T22:56:35.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"41e4bc8","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/n3awmbmykjxh1.png?width=960&auto=webp&s=831e06875422222b5367cf6bc4fe0f27219e09a9","alt":"Flight Simulator 95/98 finally running on 64-bit Windows, patched by Claude Code","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xew9ma/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/tu1zzoczkjxh1.png?width=960&auto=webp&s=9f6486114f6e0b871736cfbd2509381f0dd20214","alt":"Flight Simulator 95/98 finally running on 64-bit Windows, patched by Claude Code","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xew9ma/"},{"url":"https://cf.preview.redd.it/pim3p098rvyh1.png?width=960&auto=webp&s=6d31e8e63eebca433a71826b4b19391455a0490f","alt":"Flight Simulator 95/98 running on Windows 10 and 11 - Alternate method by Claude","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xknrj3/"},{"url":"https://cf.preview.redd.it/y1c5k098rvyh1.png?width=960&auto=webp&s=00d3967335644272e061b92c38fdb7a8ed22fe82","alt":"Flight Simulator 95/98 running on Windows 10 and 11 - Alternate method by Claude","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xknrj3/"}],"about":"Flight Simulator 95 and 98 crash on 64-bit Windows with divide-by-zero exceptions in their 2D and 3D window handling. The poster had tried DxWnd, but the games were unplayable. They gave both games to Claude Code, which patched WINDOW.DLL and G3D.DLL for FS95 and worked.\n\nWhile debugging FS98, Claude found the real culprit was the game EXE files, which contain a routine for handling faulting divisions, and used that to trace the same issue in FS95.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"tab-a-web-browser-written-from-scratch-in-rust-de3f","title":"T.A.B., a web browser written from scratch in Rust","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A headless-first browser engine with its own JavaScript engine, JIT, DOM and WebAssembly runtime, built over months with Claude Code.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I built a web browser from scratch in Rust with Claude Code — 91%+ WPT compliance, 97.8% ECMAScript,","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xemjr8/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xemjr8","authors":[{"name":"PhallicPorsche","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/PhallicPorsche/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-24T23:06:36.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"Reddit: I built a web browser from scratch in Rust with Claude Code — 90%+ WPT compliance, 97.8% E","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xd2oxt/","kind":"Forum","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xd2oxt","authors":[{"name":"PhallicPorsche","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/PhallicPorsche/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-23T03:04:32.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"de3fbfc","image":{"url":"https://i.redd.it/6lktn096xhxh1.png","alt":"I built a web browser from scratch in Rust with Claude Code — 91%+ WPT compliance, 97.8% ECMAScript, and 100% WebAssembly. 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A scout agent picks and measures the best dial photo, a builder draws the dial as a parametric SVG generator, and two critics review each round until scores pass. The best round is packaged as a Watch Face Format app and installed over Wi-Fi.\n\nAn early problem was builds painting the photo's hands into the dial, which the critics missed; rounds now also render the dial with no hands. It costs about 15 to 30 million tokens per face and is Wear OS only. 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On the poster's Mac, the biggest item was about 19 GB of video files copied by a code editor's language server into a bin/ folder, which a fixed list of cache folders would miss.\n\nSDTally measures the whole Data volume and splits it into parts with sources, counting allocated blocks and APFS clones once. What it cannot measure is shown as \"unexplained\", about 2% with root and Full Disk Access. It is read-only and built with Claude Code; the code is on GitHub.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/guiselig/sdtally","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/guiselig/sdtally"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-fog-of-war-map-tool-for-a-warhammer-fantasy-rp-b6cc","title":"A fog-of-war map tool for a Warhammer Fantasy RPG table","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A browser map tool built with Claude for a friend's Warhammer RPG, with a GM editor and a player view projected onto a table.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I've been working on a mapping tool for my friend's Warhammer Fantasy RPG game so that our GM can cr","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xc0tzw/comment/19rj4rloe0b44/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's reply in r/ClaudeAI's showcase thread.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t1_19rj4rloe0b44","authors":[{"name":"DoogleSmile","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/DoogleSmile/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-23T11:30:34.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The video: youtube.com","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L12jg7RD08I","kind":"Video","note":"Linked from the post."}],"ref":"b6cce35","image":{"url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/L12jg7RD08I/hqdefault.jpg","alt":"Video thumbnail: The video: youtube.com","credit":"youtube.com","from":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L12jg7RD08I"},"about":"The poster built a mapping tool for a friend's Warhammer Fantasy RPG group. The group projects a player-facing map onto a table and plays with miniatures. Maps start under fog of war and fade in when the GM clicks a room or door, and secrets and traps can be revealed by clicking icons.\n\nThe GM uses an editor to trace rooms on uploaded images, add doors, secrets and traps, and link floors. Maps save as a single JSON file with images embedded, plus a player HTML file. 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With Claude (Fable and Opus) they moved it into a self-contained game with a campaign where chaos events such as blizzards, volcanoes and dragon attacks hit mid-match.\n\nClaude ran iterative playthroughs to find exploits and stalemate loops caused by the rule changes, and helped port the game to iPad. The iPhone version needed more hands-on work because of the smaller screen.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"castle-fight-a-warcraft-iii-custom-map-remade-fo-2739","title":"Castle Fight, a Warcraft III custom map, remade for the browser","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A browser remake of the WC3 custom map Castle Fight, built with Claude, with four of ten factions playable after five days.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude built standalone WC3 Castle Fight","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xevmd7/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xevmd7","authors":[{"name":"zndr-cs","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/zndr-cs/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-25T07:07:48.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"273921b","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/j5zrnbo2ckxh1.png?width=640&auto=webp&s=7ceff1d4daac3675ae18f4e6e2d968353fdc494d","alt":"Claude built standalone WC3 Castle Fight","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xevmd7/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/tx7z0co2ckxh1.png?width=640&auto=webp&s=a9579cdbd9db8ca54d5fbe51992f5e44189d578b","alt":"Claude built standalone WC3 Castle Fight","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xevmd7/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/es0sjco2ckxh1.png?width=640&auto=webp&s=b6efc90215e04958bac3e6bb1af52090487bd990","alt":"Claude built standalone WC3 Castle Fight","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xevmd7/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/ewno1co2ckxh1.png?width=640&auto=webp&s=dcefb7382ee73ec683a6b68c8340cba240ace229","alt":"Claude built standalone WC3 Castle Fight","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xevmd7/"}],"about":"The poster remade Castle Fight, a Warcraft III custom map they still play on LAN with friends. It is an auto-battler where one builder places unit spawners and troops fight in lanes to destroy the enemy castle.\n\nOn day 1 it was already playable; by day 5 four of the ten factions were fully playable, with a pipeline for adding more. 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Open a page in any reader app, tap a floating button, and it finds the speech bubbles, reads the Japanese, translates the page with a local LLM through llama.cpp and redraws the bubbles in English, Portuguese, Spanish, French or German. The poster says nothing leaves the phone.\n\nClaude Code wrote most of the code: the Kotlin app, the overlay service, the Compose UI and the C++ bridge to llama.cpp. The poster set direction, reviewed and tested on their phone. 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An Engineer reverse engineers the game and builds an MCP embedded in it for the others to use. A Streamer pilots an avatar and talks to chat, and a Gamer makes tool calls and game decisions.\n\nThe Gamer and Streamer file tickets when they hit problems and the Engineer patches fixes live. No cheating is allowed. The avatar is rendered in real time by two Blender instances alternating frames to reach 12 FPS. 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Fire OS refused every attempt to replace its home screen, so Claude built a usage-stats watcher that launches the app with a roughly 5 second delay.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-debloated-phone-a-broken-sports-island-and-the-eb9f","title":"A debloated phone, a broken sports island and the app built to fix it","topic":"Repairs & diagnostics","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code","Codex"],"methods":["Debloating via ADB or packages","Building a replacement app","Automating with Claude"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude debloated a Chinese-brand phone over adb, broke the live scores in the camera island, then built a replacement scores app.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude debloated my phone, broke the one feature I cared about, then built me an app to bring it bac","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xc0tzw/comment/19rowbn9t7eit/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's reply in r/ClaudeAI's showcase thread.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t1_19rowbn9t7eit","authors":[{"name":"Fun_Dot1592","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Fun_Dot1592/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-26T17:04:02.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/hyperchat99999/scoreline","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"hyperchat99999","url":"https://github.com/hyperchat99999","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"eb9fbb0","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/hyperchat99999/scoreline","alt":"GitHub repository card for hyperchat99999/scoreline","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/hyperchat99999/scoreline"},"about":"The poster handed a phone full of preinstalled apps, ads and a lock-screen magazine to Claude Code, working over adb with no root. Claude listed every package, decided what was safe to remove, removed it and wrote a restore script.\n\nOne thing broke: live sports scores in the camera \"island\", which depended on one of the removed apps. Claude pulled apart the system UI to see how the island picks up notifications and built a replacement from scratch showing live football, cricket and US sports scores and F1 timing, as a roughly 150 KB APK. 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They say a community of 60+ users attempted 460+ ciphers in six weeks, with about 80% either solved or matched to an answer already buried in archives.\n\nClaude built small purpose-built solvers, such as annealers and n-gram language models, for each problem. These are the poster's own claims; they say they are working with a cryptologist to validate the results for publication.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-173-kb-replacement-home-screen-for-a-tcl-googl-1b3d","title":"A 173 KB replacement home screen for a TCL Google TV","topic":"Smart TVs","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Debloating via ADB or packages","Building a replacement app","Repurposing to a new role"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code built the Nullofy TV launcher over ADB, measuring each step, and switched off the TV's ad and recognition processes.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: My TCL TV’s home screen was full of ads, so I had Claude Code build a 173 KB replacement.","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xfk98m/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xfk98m","authors":[{"name":"datainsightguy","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/datainsightguy/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-26T01:53:55.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"Reddit: Claude Code built and benchmarked a home screen for my TV over ADB. 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It found the TV's screen-recognition (ACR) process using 41 MB and Google's screensaver another 38 MB; both are now disabled, with everything disabled rather than uninstalled so one command undoes it.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-linux-alternative-to-logitech-g-hub-for-a-g502-461e","title":"A Linux alternative to Logitech G HUB for a G502 mouse","topic":"Printers & peripherals","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Building a replacement app","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A Linux user built a G HUB replacement for a G502 Hero with Claude over a weekend and open sourced it.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I didn't find a good enough alternative to the logitech G HUB so i created one myself using claude","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xfi5j1/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xfi5j1","authors":[{"name":"Fantazyy_","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Fantazyy_/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-26T00:15:26.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"461eea6","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/i9c37skcfpxh1.png?width=960&auto=webp&s=4c2822654c478ac9accf5aa2713b34596ca3b197","alt":"I didn't find a good enough alternative to the logitech G HUB  so i created one myself using claude","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xfi5j1/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/dlzf1skcfpxh1.png?width=960&auto=webp&s=666d65de4908ebd11de1f8fbfffd50d0cd8844c9","alt":"I didn't find a good enough alternative to the logitech G HUB  so i created one myself using claude","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xfi5j1/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/vjhx6skcfpxh1.png?width=960&auto=webp&s=6780272feb54a2917e2892d8753a55f11c5dff42","alt":"I didn't find a good enough alternative to the logitech G HUB  so i created one myself using claude","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xfi5j1/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/uten6skcfpxh1.png?width=960&auto=webp&s=29ef49516122a1f62b20dd72040e4fcf8e221969","alt":"I didn't find a good enough alternative to the logitech G HUB  so i created one myself using claude","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xfi5j1/"}],"about":"The poster has used Linux for about two years and could not find a good enough alternative to Logitech G HUB for their G502 Hero mouse. 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The poster built a driver with Claude Code for their modded 360. It lets up to four Series X|S controllers connect wirelessly, with rumble and a working Guide button, and loads at boot.\n\nClaude reverse engineered the 360 kernel's undocumented USB stack and XAM's input path in Ghidra via an MCP server, ported the xone project's radio, pairing, ECDH handshake and GIP protocol code into portable C, wrote the kernel-mode DLL and PowerPC hooks, and debugged on the live console over the debug monitor. 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It plays live streams with chat and rewind, plus clips, search and following.\n\nClaude used a reverse-engineering CLI with the JADX decompiler to read Kick's Android TV app for its layout, icons, API endpoints and translations, then wrote the app, fixed slow loading on the poster's TV, and tested and published it. 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Over a weekend the poster patched it with Claude Code so they could play online with a friend.\n\nThey used a Ghidra MCP and a RenderDoc MCP to automate debugging. They say it took about 8 hours and roughly $60 of Opus credits to get a barebones version working on a local network, and another 8 hours and $150 to polish. 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Agents investigate and reverse engineer the game's binaries and produce claims about its behaviour; a separate repository builds the engine from those claims.\n\nNo game assets are kept in the repositories, and the aim is to preserve behaviour rather than reproduce the code byte for byte. 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PicasaPy is an open-source rewrite in Python and Qt that already runs.\n\nThe agent queries a SQLite index of functions, cross-references and strings from headless Ghidra, and Picasa 3.9 under Wine in Google Colab acts as a test oracle for image effects. 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Claude Code built the robot and camera connector and the agent loop that sends observations to the model, executes its tool calls and gets the next observation.\n\nThe video shows Opus 5.5 trying to \"line up the yellow blocks\", which the poster admits did not go well. The tool includes a local MuJoCo simulation, a movement-limit connector, and reusable saved motions. 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With Claude Code they built a small Debian gateway container with the official CLI in TUN mode; other containers join it via network_mode and can only reach the internet through the tunnel.\n\nAn iptables kill switch blocks traffic if the VPN drops. 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The poster made the architecture decisions and used Claude Code for research and implementation in Rust and Kotlin.\n\nThe poster wrote the order of operations for the handshake, Claude implemented it and wrote known-answer tests, and every bug got a regression test. An internal review of the Rust core, labelled as not an external audit, found issues such as ring-signature nonce reuse and the ratchet committing before authenticating; each fix has a test.","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/ooSGCCqKz_2yMKVtZAaoIEkWR5nA0wTh0JBnWglOL3c.png?width=960&auto=webp&s=c3f0ace2cb3181488b4acdb5b8229aa035b2d9d5","alt":"Built a post-quantum I2P messenger with Claude Code: 1:1 OTRv4+, MLS+ group chats, voice calls, and a monitor for the server. 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A live mode does the same to any window or the whole screen.\n\nClaude Code wrote all of the app's own code, about 37,000 lines of TypeScript and C++/CUDA over four months, and rewrote GMFSS and RIFE from Python research code to run directly on NVIDIA hardware. The poster compared one frame from each method: GMFSS kept streaks clean, DLSS 4.5 smeared them and FSR 4 broke them into blocks.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/flowreen/SmoothMyVideo","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/flowreen/SmoothMyVideo"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"discontinued-smart-plugs-controlled-again-from-a-8726","title":"Discontinued smart plugs controlled again from a desktop","topic":"Protocols & abandoned products","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude detected the wireless signal of old smart plugs via a desktop Wi-Fi card and got them working again without the app, plus a desktop widget.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Discontinued smart plugs Live Again ~","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xggfa2/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xggfa2","authors":[{"name":"KuramaKitsune","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/KuramaKitsune/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-27T02:15:04.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"87261e5","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/uyj5o40j5xxh1.png?width=320&auto=webp&s=d44235a7fb57e4fc3a7b492113db165f6fa1688b","alt":"Discontinued smart plugs Live Again ~","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xggfa2/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/xqx5eb0j5xxh1.jpeg?width=960&auto=webp&s=23244f02086ff8830363ef827ec60f2483fd0ffb","alt":"Discontinued smart plugs Live Again ~","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xggfa2/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/s4zch60j5xxh1.jpeg?width=960&auto=webp&s=192ece3f9562cc100bb5303c56bd16b6de326975","alt":"Discontinued smart plugs Live Again ~","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xggfa2/"}],"about":"The plugs had been abandoned after an Android update stopped supporting their app. The poster asked Claude whether it could detect their wireless signal, and it used the desktop's Wi-Fi card to do so.\n\nAbout 15 or 20 minutes later Claude reported the plugs were working again with direct control and no app. It then built a desktop widget, which now gives a remote switch and power monitoring for whatever is plugged in.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-split-flap-airport-departure-board-recreated-i-4090","title":"A split-flap airport departure board recreated in the browser","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code built a web recreation of a Solari split-flap departure board, working from service manuals, patents and teardowns, with a disassemble view.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I used Claude Code to reverse engineer the old clacking airport departure boards. 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You can also disassemble the board and inspect its parts.\n\nBefore any code, the poster used research skills to gather mechanical details from Solari's 1984 service manuals, patents and teardowns. Claude then built a first flap module and expanded it into the full board, handling most of the SVG geometry, while the poster steered flip timing, camera angles, scrolling and sound. 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Assuming the pricey OttoAibox i3 is just an Android phone in a case, they gave Claude its firmware and asked how it connects, then had it write an Android app for a rooted phone using those techniques.\n\nIt failed in the car at first, so Claude was told to sniff Bluetooth and Wi-Fi packets from a jailbroken iPhone during a real CarPlay session. After many trips to the garage and an almost drained car battery, the phone connected. 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It was tested with games including Guitar Hero, GTA San Andreas and Resident Evil 4, on an M1 Max Mac and a Ryzen Linux system.\n\nThe two makers decided what to build and reported what was wrong, while Claude wrote most of the code. 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Using only pm disable-user, the poster disabled 39 packages and free RAM rose from about 650 MB to 1.5 GB.\n\nWired CarPlay works through the open-source DiPlay; wireless does not, because the unit has no usable Bluetooth radio. Using the direct USB port and other tweaks cut the first connection from about a minute to about 4 seconds. 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It reportedly runs unmodified Linux programs including git, Chromium and Steam, has its own Wayland compositor and runs on x86-64, AArch64, ARMv7-A and a Pixel 7.\n\nLessons: real hardware found far more bugs than QEMU, and Claude has no feel for what a correct OS should be like, so checkpoints and manual testing were needed.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"an-old-vga-monitor-used-as-a-wireless-second-mac-c4cc","title":"An old VGA monitor used as a wireless second Mac screen","topic":"Repurposed hardware","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Repurposing to a new role"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Two Claudes set up BetterDisplay, Sunshine and Moonlight so a monitor with no AirPlay works as a MacBook second screen.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Wireless Monitor for Mac: my husband's monitor has no AirPlay, Claude turned it into my wireless sec","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xe6tq7/comment/19rtpvk2m89lx/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t1_19rtpvk2m89lx","authors":[{"name":"kateaiqueen","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/kateaiqueen/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-29T09:55:07.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/adkomistech/wireless-monitor-for-mac","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"adkomistech","url":"https://github.com/adkomistech","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"c4cc51d","image":{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/adkomistech/wireless-monitor-for-mac","alt":"GitHub repository card for adkomistech/wireless-monitor-for-mac","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/adkomistech/wireless-monitor-for-mac"},"about":"The monitor is wired to a Windows laptop with only HDMI (taken) and VGA. A virtual screen from BetterDisplay is streamed by Sunshine to Moonlight on the laptop, shown full screen.\n\nOne Claude ran on the Mac and one on the laptop, passing tasks as files in a shared Google Drive folder. Problems fixed along the way: packet loss on Wi-Fi (moved to Tailscale), music playing from the monitor, the laptop mouse driving the Mac, and a trapped cursor. 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The poster asked Claude to strip almost everything and make it a flashy MP3 player that a laptop can connect to for transferring music. 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The gzipped 22 MB WAD sits inside a data-only .wasm module.\n\nBecause room presence can drop updates, lockstep netcode was ruled out; each window runs its own game with ghost players, the shooter deciding hits. Claude tested with two engines in Node through a fake room and published the artifact itself. 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It was made from screenshots and recordings, sends data to their own web service and trains models there. They report about 5% deviation from the original and say respiratory rate, blood oxygen, resting heart rate and skin temperature work almost as well on their Whoop MG.\n\nThe work took around 60 hours with Claude Opus 5.5. The screen recording uses simulated data.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-replacement-for-the-xampp-control-panel-af45","title":"A replacement for the XAMPP Control Panel","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude wrote most of a .NET and Avalonia desktop app that replaces the XAMPP Control Panel.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I’m a developer and built a full replacement for the XAMPP Control Panel with Claude. 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It is a pixel-art sandbox that runs in a phone or tablet browser: find 5 friends across 8 places, cast 6 kinds of magic, with an optional parent-enabled spelling mode.\n\nThe poster says Claude wrote all of it, about 136k lines of TypeScript with 3,000+ tests, including a renderer producing sprites from code, 75 sound effects and 9 music loops generated without samples, and a map compiler checking reachability.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"super-mario-64-ported-to-mixed-reality-on-a-pico-ea1c","title":"Super Mario 64 ported to mixed reality on a PICO headset","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Porting to a new platform","Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code bridged the SM64 decomp to Unity so the game runs in real 3D on a desk at 90 FPS.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Weekend project: Mario 64 in Mixed Reality!","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xjko2l/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xjko2l","authors":[{"name":"lucas-martinic","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/lucas-martinic/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-30T16:51:01.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/n64decomp/sm64","kind":"Primary","note":"The SM64 decompilation it is based on.","authors":[{"name":"n64decomp","url":"https://github.com/n64decomp","role":"Repository account"}]},{"name":"Reddit: Mario 64 in Mixed Reality, built with Opus 5.5","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xjirbs/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's earlier short post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xjirbs","gone":"removed"}],"ref":"ea1c243","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/MjU2YnhodTV3bXloMaYheK4na4Rfz-v0mWHaUcdeWuKpEY4i0QCrtKTwKnz9.png?width=960&auto=webp&s=2ce9eca436d690dab445982e5bc26d25d33970d8","alt":"Weekend project: Mario 64 in Mixed Reality!","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xjko2l/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/bXlsOHlodXVqbXloMaYheK4na4Rfz-v0mWHaUcdeWuKpEY4i0QCrtKTwKnz9.png?width=960&auto=webp&s=ef0ad73440c38d3e76e0dd237b403e16565f8af3","alt":"Mario 64 in Mixed Reality, built with Opus 5.5","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xjirbs/"}],"about":"A native mixed reality version of Super Mario 64 that runs in real 3D rather than as a flat screen, with the level sitting on your desk like a diorama at 90 FPS. 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The maker, a game developer and father of two girls aged 5 and 3, first gave them an old laptop running the lightweight antiX Linux. 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The maker ran a main Claude Code session that steered many nested sessions, using different Claude models for the engine, research, design and reading screenshots.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"essor-thirteen-vintage-airliners-built-in-code-8d8f","title":"ESSOR: thirteen vintage airliners built in code","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A browser game of old airliners built part by part with Claude Code, now gaining hand flying over a real-world map.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Rebuilding old airliners with Claude Code. 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They used to fly on a round diorama stand over a shrunken map, and the maker is adding hand flying over the real world at full scale.\n\nThe maker picks the aircraft, finds the drawings, decides how each should look and fly, and tests every build, while Claude Code writes most of the code and test scripts. The hard parts: fitting the planet in about 500 MB using OpenStreetMap roads and Copernicus land cover, cutting towns back to their 1975 size, and baking land cover into terrain tiles because the ground shader had run out of texture slots. Hand flying is not public yet; the diorama is playable.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"poolfs-a-windows-tool-that-merges-spare-ssds-int-e548","title":"PoolFS, a Windows tool that merges spare SSDs into one drive","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A Windows tool that presents several leftover SATA SSDs as a single drive letter, vibe-coded with Claude Code.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I vibecoded an app to combine all my SSDs into one mounted drive, solving my storage mess in the pro","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xkoxvj/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xkoxvj","authors":[{"name":"JimmyStubbs","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/JimmyStubbs/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-31T23:53:52.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"e5488dc","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/4ibec1ns4wyh1.png?width=960&auto=webp&s=202b313a725122d41156f0530709b62cb03a55d4","alt":"I vibecoded an app to combine all my SSDs into one mounted drive, solving my storage mess in the process.","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xkoxvj/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/wlm0s85t4wyh1.png?width=960&auto=webp&s=007ff18d21c7ebe7c1f3e7fb95f70cfefa7ee5bf","alt":"I vibecoded an app to combine all my SSDs into one mounted drive, solving my storage mess in the process.","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xkoxvj/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/b9v3hwwt4wyh1.png?width=960&auto=webp&s=dfe6f361ce3d278f5058798b923c14c07512712b","alt":"I vibecoded an app to combine all my SSDs into one mounted drive, solving my storage mess in the process.","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xkoxvj/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/85xg0xwt4wyh1.png?width=960&auto=webp&s=975a1642aeff2cce27f1e030bd3e96ffb8add887","alt":"I vibecoded an app to combine all my SSDs into one mounted drive, solving my storage mess in the process.","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xkoxvj/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/zdayfwwt4wyh1.png?width=960&auto=webp&s=eb77c90c8d151f70ad9841aaed5af17ea23b6f35","alt":"I vibecoded an app to combine all my SSDs into one mounted drive, solving my storage mess in the process.","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xkoxvj/"}],"about":"An AV technician and IT freelancer ends up with several small SATA SSDs that companies no longer want, and was left with five separate drives in File Explorer. 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Files are stored whole on individual drives in a hidden PoolPart folder, so they stay readable outside the pool, and folders can span several drives.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-user-mode-asio-driver-for-an-unsupported-xmos-982e","title":"A user-mode ASIO driver for an unsupported XMOS XU208 audio board","topic":"Dead & bricked devices","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude","REA"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Driver or OS patching","Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude wrote a user-mode ASIO driver for a cheap XMOS XU208 USB audio board whose vendor drivers did not work, after a reverse engineering tool had examined those drivers.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: From unsupported XMOS XU208 board to working ASIO driver in one evening, using REA + Claude Opus 5.5","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xl7tpw/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xl7tpw","authors":[{"name":"mr_joda","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/mr_joda/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-11-01T16:45:46.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: readme.md","url":"http://readme.md/","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"982e0f3","image":{"url":"https://dealsbe.com/og-image.jpg","alt":"AI Tools Directory - dealsbe.com","credit":"readme.md","from":"http://readme.md/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/y12a0dkz41zh1.jpeg?width=640&auto=webp&s=28a563e1112502afecc5187095cc949d02bc8f46","alt":"From unsupported XMOS XU208 board to working ASIO driver in one evening,  using REA + Claude Opus 5.5 via Github Copilot subscription","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xl7tpw/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/ga5gdt7051zh1.png?width=320&auto=webp&s=519683232d75455e8472f477b851b3d015204dcb","alt":"From unsupported XMOS XU208 board to working ASIO driver in one evening,  using REA + Claude Opus 5.5 via Github Copilot subscription","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xl7tpw/"},{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/et9ygonf51zh1.png?width=640&auto=webp&s=45c2dd048d1d275f281eba8d1e367dfc3da85e27","alt":"From unsupported XMOS XU208 board to working ASIO driver in one evening,  using REA + Claude Opus 5.5 via Github Copilot subscription","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xl7tpw/"}],"about":"The owner bought a cheap XMOS XU208 USB audio board that Windows could not use, and the seller's supplied \"driver\" did nothing. After two years, he used a reverse engineering tool on the installers and found they only bind to a different VID/PID; one build even asked users to disable driver signature enforcement.\n\nThe insight was that Windows already ships usbaudio2.sys and only an ASIO driver was missing. Claude wrote a user-mode ASIO DLL that streams through WASAPI exclusive mode, with no kernel driver or signature bypass. It gives two-channel output at 44.1 to 768 kHz, hardware volume and mute, selectable buffers and unplug detection, plus a test suite.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"an-oral-b-io5-toothbrush-read-over-bluetooth-and-94ce","title":"An Oral-B iO5 toothbrush read over Bluetooth and its model distilled","topic":"App teardowns & analysis","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Capturing USB or BLE traffic","Reverse engineering a protocol","Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude read the Bluetooth stream of an Oral-B iO5, built a live 3D simulator, extracted the app's brushing model and distilled it into a much smaller network.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Claude + Oral-B iO5 -- built a live simulator & distilled oral-b's models into a tiny CNN","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xm5u6q/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xm5u6q","authors":[{"name":"hayAbhay","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/hayAbhay/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-11-02T18:50:19.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The project: abhay.fyi","url":"https://abhay.fyi/teethmaxxing/","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"94ce878","image":{"url":"https://abhay.fyi/og/teethmaxxing.jpg","alt":"Preview image from abhay.fyi","credit":"abhay.fyi","from":"https://abhay.fyi/teethmaxxing/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/Y3dhdm5jamF3OHpoMTt8oxB0-Aql2vGa29Y0QoQnD1BWIDrWXIIkzpHwWmrT.png?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=130a03f13d1c3d9db46497dd2d4229b401e3548b","alt":"Claude + Oral-B iO5 -- built a live simulator & distilled oral-b's models into a tiny CNN","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xm5u6q/"}],"about":"The owner bought an Oral-B iO5 for its 6-axis motion sensor and let Claude loose on it. Within minutes it read the Bluetooth stream and worked out what was what, with the owner pressing buttons while it watched, then built a live three.js simulator.\n\nWith a phone in developer mode, Claude pulled the app and extracted Oral-B's model, a 1.2 million parameter bidirectional GRU. It found a public brushing dataset, evaluated the model, found only about 10 seconds of history mattered, and distilled it into tiny models including a CNN 100 times smaller that matched the original. The owner says Claude made only a couple of glaring mistakes.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-wallpaper-engine-style-app-for-macos-rewritten-e043","title":"A Wallpaper Engine style app for macOS rewritten in Rust","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Porting to a new platform","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude wrote the whole Rust rendering backend for a macOS live-wallpaper app that uses far less memory than existing apps.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Wallpaper Engine port for MacOS","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xlyjep/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xlyjep","gone":"deleted"},{"name":"The project: paperflowmac.vercel.app","url":"https://paperflowmac.vercel.app/","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."},{"name":"Reddit: Wallpaper engine port for MacOS, rewritten from scratch using Rust","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xlzpah/","kind":"Forum","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xlzpah","authors":[{"name":"Suitable-Accident-66","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Suitable-Accident-66/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-11-02T15:09:02.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"e043927","image":{"url":"https://paperflowmac.vercel.app/opengraph-image?fc55d7ab0c5d2f1a","alt":"PaperFlow for macOS — your desktop, quietly alive. 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The poster says the weekly usage limit was used up building it.\n\nThe claimed result is that plain video wallpapers use 12 to 25 MB where other apps took 200 to 250 MB, and heavy scenes dropped from 1.5 to 1.7 GB to under 700 MB. These figures are the poster's own.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"the-nimbus-project-native-ports-of-three-dbz-gam-be10","title":"The Nimbus Project: native ports of three DBZ GameCube games","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Porting to a new platform","Decompiling software","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A set of native Linux, Windows and Android ports of three Dragon Ball Z GameCube games, built with Claude as a big part of the workflow.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: The Nimbus Project: Native Ports of all 3 DBZ GameCube games. 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The poster says it is not emulation but a hybrid core between recompilation and decompilation, and that Claude was a big part of the workflow.\n\nAlpha 1.1 adds online play, LAN and crossplay, two-player co-op in Sagas, optional AI-upscaled texture packs and Android touch controls. It needs your own disc and is closed source for now; the poster was asking for testers.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-3d-godot-client-over-devilutionx-for-a-diablo-7774","title":"A 3D Godot client over DevilutionX for a Diablo 1 remake","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Rebuilding or cloning software","Porting to a new platform","Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A Godot client that draws the original Diablo in 3D on top of the DevilutionX port, with Claude Code writing the bridge, client and build pipelines.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I've been working with Claude on a Diablo 1 remake","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xn52xn/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xn52xn","authors":[{"name":"adamobrn","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/adamobrn/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-11-03T21:02:12.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The video: youtube.com","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf8G9-r\\_gXY","kind":"Video","note":"Linked in the post."}],"ref":"7774f8b","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/9hBRIkezfO7UMfrZs3Zy0uP5EKjxMmWaWSPYzvEPzY4.jpeg?width=320&auto=webp&s=f22669ed742fb93f10ff7e127a623b73c446e1e8","alt":"I've been working with Claude on a Diablo 1 remake","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xn52xn/"},"about":"Hoping for a remaster of Diablo that never came, the poster started recreating it with Claude about six weeks earlier. The project runs on top of DevilutionX, the open-source port, with a Godot client drawing everything in 3D, so the town, quests and items behave as in 1996.\n\nClaude Code did the heavy lifting on the code: the bridge between engine and client, the client, and the pipelines for building, checking and rendering. Assets are a mix of the poster's own, free ones, Claude-generated and paid ones. 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Built with Claude Opus 5.5, it shows two robotic hands playing a loaded MIDI file on an upright piano with a cinematic camera.\n\nFingering is based on Parncutt's research, inverse kinematics positions the joints, and the animation is deterministic so you can scrub through a song. The post says an absurd piece like Rush E makes it go \"a little nuts\".","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-split-screen-two-player-mine-cart-mod-for-donk-1f7c","title":"A split-screen two-player mine cart mod for Donkey Kong Country","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Making a game","Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude Code wrote about 13,000 lines for a two-player split-screen mine cart race on top of DKC1Recomp, a static recompilation of the SNES game.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Vibe-coded a split-screen Donkey Kong Country mod with Claude Code: how I kept a 4-week project on t","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xn63qk/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xn63qk","authors":[{"name":"SitePowerful1880","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/SitePowerful1880/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-11-03T21:41:54.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The video: youtube.com","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTRl1Q-96Dk","kind":"Video","note":"Linked from the post."}],"ref":"1f7ca3e","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/WdVMMe36WZVltjG2rwwb7xz0J6kRaw8QXNzqHM35eqk.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e9c9e5730d68d1067bbf1415b5286e0957b7ce5a","alt":"Vibe-coded a split-screen Donkey Kong Country mod with Claude Code: how I kept a 4-week project on track","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xn63qk/"},"about":"The maker asked Claude Code to program Cart Chase 2P, a split-screen mine cart race for Donkey Kong Country, on top of DKC1Recomp. Claude wrote about 13,000 lines of C, Python and JavaScript over four weeks, while the maker supplied ideas in Spanish and played every build.\n\nTwo complete copies of the game run in one process, swapping state each frame, with 200-plus stages, eight world themes, rewind and a stage editor. Tests included a headless bot that drives the cart to the finish and hashes showing the original game is unchanged with the mod off.","projectLinks":[{"type":"video","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTRl1Q-96Dk","sourceUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTRl1Q-96Dk"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-canoscan-lide-30-scanner-working-on-windows-11-818a","title":"A Canoscan LiDE 30 scanner working on Windows 11 64-bit","topic":"Printers & peripherals","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Driver or OS patching"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude got an old Canoscan LiDE 30 scanner, whose last driver was for Windows XP, working on 64-bit Windows 11 in about an hour.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Got my scanner working","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xn4s7b/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xn4s7b","authors":[{"name":"Wizzard_2025","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Wizzard_2025/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-11-03T20:51:02.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"818a6bc","about":"The poster has an old Canoscan LiDE 30 whose last driver was for Windows XP, and used to run an XP install in VirtualBox just to scan. Claude got it working on 64-bit Windows 11 in an hour or so. The post gives no technical detail of how.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"gloomspeed-a-mod-that-speeds-up-gloomhaven-digit-10b2","title":"GloomSpeed, a mod that speeds up Gloomhaven Digital","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A free open-source mod for the Steam version of Gloomhaven that cuts waiting during enemy turns and adds shared settings and voting.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: GloomSpeed: I made an open source mod that speeds up Gloomhaven Digital","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xn3vue/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xn3vue","gone":"deleted"}],"ref":"10b2fc2","about":"The maker's group found enemy turns and popups killed momentum even with Fast Forward on, so they built GloomSpeed with Claude Code. The post says an enemy phase took 4.8 seconds with the mod against 10.8 with Fast Forward alone.\n\nIt also adds host-shared speed settings, voting on events, anyone able to press Continue in combat, a fix for a multiplayer \"Waiting for other players\" hang, and combined quest progress toasts.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"call-of-duty-black-ops-ii-running-natively-on-ap-d18a","title":"Call of Duty: Black Ops II running natively on Apple Silicon","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Porting to a new platform","Decompiling software","Reverse engineering a protocol"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"An open-source native port of Black Ops II for Apple Silicon Macs, with Claude Code writing the LLVM passes, Win32 runtime and Metal renderer.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Black Ops II now runs natively on Apple Silicon Macs: open source, 60 fps on a base M1","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xnuufk/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xnuufk","authors":[{"name":"GoldianSummer","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/GoldianSummer/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-11-04T17:50:43.000Z","dateKind":"posted"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/adrbn/bo2-mac","kind":"Primary","note":"The project on GitHub.","authors":[{"name":"adrbn","url":"https://github.com/adrbn","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"d18a6c8","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/cGZreTBoMXd2bXpoMUOPk3WiZALxB4WlbFHrN0lQJJmXEO9J66IakEHoUqdn.png?width=960&auto=webp&s=f359844c6a525b4e8a99d833d7fa5ec84b221e53","alt":"Black Ops II now runs natively on Apple Silicon Macs: open source, 60 fps on a base M1","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xnuufk/"},"about":"The poster set goals and play-tested on an M1 while Claude Code wrote most of the code: LLVM passes that rewrite the lifted x86, a hand-written Win32 runtime and a D3D11-on-Metal renderer. The title claims 60 fps on a base M1.\n\nThe workflow used parallel Claude Code sessions in separate git worktrees and measured fps and freezes; precompiling shaders cut the worst freeze from 7.0 s to 1.7 s. 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Claude Code wrote the code while the poster set direction and tested on their own devices; Codex was used as a reviewer.\n\nA playable room took two days, which Claude had guessed would take many months. It runs on an iPhone 15 Pro Max with touch controls, and co-op works over a LAN. The poster later replaced OpenGL with a direct D3D9 to Metal path. 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After an afternoon with Claude Code and many failed attempts, a background agent found the answer in some iOS framework code.\n\nAirPods 3 use a different protocol from the Pro models, and Linux was hiding the sensors because of a Bluetooth packet size setting. Once that was fixed they streamed at around 200Hz. 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The poster plans to frame it, give it a stand or put magnets on the back for a fridge, as a birthday gift for their dad.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/ichinaski/kindle-art-gallery/","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/ichinaski/kindle-art-gallery/"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"garageband-projects-opened-on-windows-in-a-new-d-1cc3","title":"GarageBand projects opened on Windows in a new DAW","topic":"Music & audio","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Rebuilding or cloning software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Claude was given real GarageBand projects to reverse engineer the undocumented .band format for a Windows DAW called Lumen.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Built with Claude: a Windows DAW that opens GarageBand projects reverse-engineered with Claude","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xogizm/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xogizm","authors":[{"name":"Sztef_213","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/Sztef_213/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-11-05T11:41:52.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"1cc3e1e","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/NjBkY285cmM2c3poMTRRKErGbeJXUduAkbByfzTbdZzzSUwEaorVUgOlAHmb.png?width=960&auto=webp&s=6562be76101217d1a363fd9d3394adb9a1ca2c25","alt":"Built with Claude: a Windows DAW that opens GarageBand projects reverse-engineered with Claude","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xogizm/"},"about":"Lumen is a Windows DAW written in C++/JUCE with Claude. This week the poster got real GarageBand 11 .band projects opening on Windows without a Mac. The format is undocumented, so Claude was given real GarageBand projects and Logic Pro screenshots to work out how the files work.\n\nLumen can now load audio tracks and regions with positions and trims, plus volume, pan, tempo, key and effects such as EQ, compressor, noise gate, pitch correction, echo and reverb. The effects were ported as built-in plugins and tested against the originals. MIDI and software instruments do not work yet, and GarageBand 10 and earlier is unsupported.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"using-a-desktop-rtx-3060-from-a-linux-laptop-ove-b441","title":"Using a desktop RTX 3060 from a Linux laptop over Wi-Fi","topic":"Repurposed hardware","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Reverse engineering a protocol"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A Rust Vulkan driver lets a Linux laptop use another PC's GPU over the network, built in a 12-hour hackathon with Claude Code.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: I built a way to use my desktop's RTX 3060 from my Linux laptop over Wi-Fi (Rust + Vulkan, 12-hour h","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xnlmhu/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xnlmhu","authors":[{"name":"_rover_dev","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/_rover_dev/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-11-04T11:15:29.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"b441ef4","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/B6x9p-RdTvM6Ukyyy2pcR-4ORn8WNURfGhQsWscNFhA.png?width=960&auto=webp&s=c013ea925580c57602bd5be9d53611d43150fef7","alt":"I built a way to use my desktop's RTX 3060 from my Linux laptop over Wi-Fi (Rust + Vulkan, 12-hour hackathon project)","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xnlmhu/"},"about":"gpu-mesh is a Rust Vulkan driver plus a small mesh app, built in a 12-hour hackathon with Claude Code. The laptop sees the desktop's RTX 3060 as a normal Vulkan device listed as (Remote), while a replay server on the PC runs the commands on the real GPU. It uses batched commands, shadow memory with dirty-chunk tracking and zstd compression over a binary protocol.\n\nThe poster describes it as early and rough. The app also finds GPUs on the network and starts a llama.cpp server on the machine with the GPU. It is MIT licensed.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"an-asus-laptop-bios-setup-program-emulated-6c2e","title":"An Asus laptop BIOS setup program emulated","topic":"Security research","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Analysing or auditing software"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"Firmware reverse engineering with an LLM produced an emulator that runs an Asus laptop BIOS from the reset vector to ExitBootServices.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Firmware Rever se Engineering Project - Asus Laptop BIOS Emulation (Setup)","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xo8f49/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xo8f49","gone":"deleted"}],"ref":"6c2e98c","about":"A firmware reverse engineering project using Claude Code that emulates an ASUS laptop BIOS. The poster's demo video showed the emulated setup program running. By the time of the post the emulator ran from the reset vector all the way to ExitBootServices.\n\nThe poster says they have emulated other firmware devices and plan more videos.","image":{"url":"https://external-preview.redd.it/bnZyZmM5dnBxcHpoMR0cdHwwTrZYFPCX2qmD9N8mPl9QrfgkGFvSbWuVlbGK.png?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=90d56cc8ca55b94620bef531a5c8eabb26dac963","alt":"Video still: Firmware Rever se Engineering Project - Asus Laptop BIOS Emulation (Setup)","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xo8f49/"},"_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-roller-coaster-operator-panel-simulator-9fe8","title":"A roller coaster operator panel simulator","topic":"Rebuilt & recreated software","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Making a game"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A free open-source Android tablet simulator of a coaster operator panel, with a simulated PLC and safety system, built with Claude Code.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Coaster Panel/Operator Sim","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xp1aol/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xp1aol","authors":[{"name":"ProcioneDeConti","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/ProcioneDeConti/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-11-06T02:20:34.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"9fe8593","image":{"url":"https://i.redd.it/rhrrzaynjwzh1.png","alt":"Coaster Panel/Operator Sim","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xp1aol/"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://i.redd.it/fbwifcvojwzh1.png","alt":"Coaster Panel/Operator Sim","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xp1aol/"}],"about":"A simulator of a roller coaster ride operator's panel for Android tablets, built and tested on a Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra, made as accurate as the poster could manage. It has a simulated PLC with a 20 ms scan and a separate safety task, block tracking with brakes, key switch modes and two-hand dispatch with a permissive checklist.\n\nIn desk mode the app runs, dispatches and faults on its own, and maintenance arrives to fix it. You can also inject faults. It is free and open source.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"a-touchscreen-desk-dashboard-for-a-corsair-xeneo-f6c9","title":"A touchscreen desk dashboard for a Corsair Xeneon Edge","topic":"Repurposed hardware","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building a replacement app"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Reddit","year":"2026","desc":"A custom dashboard for a 2560x720 touchscreen strip, built in an afternoon with Claude Code.","sources":[{"name":"Reddit: Built a little touchscreen dashboard for my desk with Claude Code","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xoxnhp/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.","archive":"https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t3_1xoxnhp","authors":[{"name":"jsreally","url":"https://www.reddit.com/user/jsreally/","role":"Reddit poster"}],"publishedAt":"2026-11-05T23:28:02.000Z","dateKind":"posted"}],"ref":"f6c949c","image":{"url":"https://preview.redd.it/igpxulfwovzh1.jpeg?width=960&auto=webp&s=6caa40cb63663efbc24e332473272f12543bc6c1","alt":"Built a little touchscreen dashboard for my desk with Claude Code","credit":"reddit.com","from":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xoxnhp/"},"about":"A dashboard for a Corsair XENEON Edge touchscreen strip, built in an afternoon with Claude Code instead of using the stock widgets. Each Linear ticket has a copy button that builds a full prompt for Claude, and it also shows a todo list, calendar, weather and what is playing.\n\nOne surprise was that on a Mac, touching the Edge clicks the main monitor, so the app had to take over the touch panel itself. The poster's calendars live in BusyCal, so it reads that data directly.","_added":"2026-11-06T13:18:27+00:00"},{"id":"overtone-adds-new-synth-engines-to-the-digitone-acf2","title":"Overtone adds new synth engines to the Digitone II","topic":"Music & audio","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Custom firmware or bootloader","Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"ElektronMods","desc":"A maker used Claude Code to develop Overtone, a Digitone II firmware patch with new sound engines, per-track effects and a groove editor.","sources":[{"name":"ElektronMods: Overtone - Custom Digitone 2 Firmware","url":"https://elektronmods.com/showthread.php?tid=90","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker’s post on ElektronMods."},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/complex-ping/overtone","kind":"Primary","note":"The project files and the author’s documentation.","authors":[{"name":"complex-ping","url":"https://github.com/complex-ping","role":"Repository account"}]},{"name":"ElektronMods: Overtone - Custom Digitone 2 Firmware","url":"https://elektronmods.com/thread-90-overtone-custom-digitone-2-firmware","kind":"Forum","note":"Another source for the same project."},{"name":"Awesome Music Gear Firmware: Add Overtone for Digitone II","url":"https://github.com/Lapin/awesome-music-gear-firmware/pull/24","kind":"Primary","note":"A related contribution with implementation and verification details.","authors":[{"name":"Lapin","role":"Source byline"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-30T11:21:05Z","dateKind":"published"}],"ref":"acf2270","image":{"url":"https://elektronmods.com/images/elektronmods/devices/digitone-ii.webp","alt":"Preview image from elektronmods.com","credit":"elektronmods.com","from":"https://elektronmods.com/showthread.php?tid=90"},"about":"Overtone extends Elektron's Digitone II OS 1.12 with four new machines, insert effects, additional modulation and a step-based groove editor. The maker credits Claude Code and reports checking each build in ColdFire and SHARC emulators before testing it on the instrument.\n\nThe project supplies a patcher for the owner's official firmware file rather than distributing Elektron's firmware. Its documentation lists compatibility and processor-load limits, including audio crackling when demanding machines exhaust the DSP.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/complex-ping/overtone","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/complex-ping/overtone"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T16:55:10+00:00"},{"id":"polyend-tracker-firmware-running-on-a-trimui-bri-fb7d","title":"Polyend Tracker firmware running on a TrimUI Brick Pro","topic":"Music & audio","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Porting to a new platform","Driver or OS patching"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"Lines Forum","desc":"PolyBrik ports Polyend Tracker Community Edition to a TrimUI handheld, with controls and a Linux display and audio layer developed with Claude Code.","sources":[{"name":"Lines Forum: Polyend Tracker","url":"https://llllllll.co/t/polyend-tracker/30124?page=37","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker’s post on Lines Forum."},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/boorch/polybrik-public","kind":"Primary","note":"The project files and the author’s documentation.","authors":[{"name":"boorch","url":"https://github.com/boorch","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"fb7de21","image":{"url":"https://llllllll.co/uploads/default/original/3X/2/5/253417d2467025800532b938137afe2ec3b30eb6.png","alt":"Preview image from llllllll.co","credit":"llllllll.co","from":"https://llllllll.co/t/polyend-tracker/30124?page=37"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1/polyend/tracker-ce","alt":"Image from llllllll.co","credit":"llllllll.co","from":"https://llllllll.co/t/polyend-tracker/30124?page=37"}],"about":"The PolyBrik author reports using Claude Code for most of the implementation, tests and documentation, while directing the work and testing the hardware. The port adapts Tracker Community Edition to the TrimUI Brick's buttons and adds an on-screen action list and a Linux display and audio layer.\n\nThe README reports hardware testing on a Brick Pro running NextUI; the plain Brick remains untested. MIDI, USB audio and recording from an audio input are not supported.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/boorch/polybrik-public","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/boorch/polybrik-public"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T16:55:10+00:00"},{"id":"an-op-1-gains-an-electric-piano-engine-and-piano-2608","title":"An OP-1 gains an electric-piano engine and piano-roll sequencer","topic":"Music & audio","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Custom firmware or bootloader","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"OP Forums","desc":"A maker used Claude to write an original OP-1 firmware modification with a new synth engine, chord mode, a piano-roll sequencer and six effects.","sources":[{"name":"OP Forums: OP-1 Mods 1.0: KEYS engine, TRACK piano roll, six effects (patch for stock 246)","url":"https://op-forums.com/t/op-1-mods-1-0-keys-engine-track-piano-roll-six-effects-patch-for-stock-246/32083","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker’s post on OP Forums."},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/j3threejay/op1-mod","kind":"Primary","note":"The project files and the author’s documentation.","authors":[{"name":"j3threejay","url":"https://github.com/j3threejay","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"2608ecd","image":{"url":"https://op-forums.com/uploads/default/original/2X/b/bf87ab54ee29484321155f7892ea29507a00e673.png","alt":"Preview image from op-forums.com","credit":"op-forums.com","from":"https://op-forums.com/t/op-1-mods-1-0-keys-engine-track-piano-roll-six-effects-patch-for-stock-246/32083"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://github.com/j3threejay/op1-mod/raw/main/images/keys-1.png","alt":"KEYS engine screen","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/j3threejay/op1-mod"},{"url":"https://github.com/j3threejay/op1-mod/raw/main/images/track-1.png","alt":"TRACK","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/j3threejay/op1-mod"},{"url":"https://github.com/j3threejay/op1-mod/raw/main/images/spin-1.png","alt":"SPIN CYCLE","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/j3threejay/op1-mod"},{"url":"https://github.com/j3threejay/op1-mod/raw/main/images/linger-1.png","alt":"LINGER","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/j3threejay/op1-mod"}],"about":"OP-1 Mods 1.0 adds the KEYS electric-piano engine, TRACK sequencer, six effects and the TIDE LFO to the original OP-1. Its author says the C code was developed with substantial help from Claude and tested in an emulator and on real OP-1 hardware.\n\nThe release is a patch for the owner's official firmware 246, with installation code and a manual rather than the manufacturer's firmware. The author documents how sounds using the new modules can prevent stock firmware from booting until those sounds are changed back.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/j3threejay/op1-mod","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/j3threejay/op1-mod"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T16:55:10+00:00"},{"id":"nubo-a-game-boy-emulator-written-with-claude-cod-2834","title":"Nubo, a Game Boy emulator written with Claude Code","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"GBDev Community and Repositories","year":"2026","desc":"Nubo's maker credits Claude Code with nearly all of the Rust emulator's code and documentation, and reports 261 passing image-based tests.","sources":[{"name":"GBDev Community and Repositories: Add Nubo to shootout","url":"https://github.com/gbdev/GBEmulatorShootout/pull/102","kind":"Primary","note":"The contributor’s pull request, including its AI disclosure and test notes.","authors":[{"name":"mschoenm","role":"Source byline"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-15T19:39:07Z","dateKind":"published"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/mschoenm/nubo","kind":"Primary","note":"The project files and the author’s documentation.","authors":[{"name":"mschoenm","url":"https://github.com/mschoenm","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"2834bd3","image":{"url":"https://github.com/mschoenm/nubo/raw/main/images/screenshots/super-game-boy.png","alt":"Tobu Tobu Girl Deluxe being played in Nubo: the girl jumps toward a crab over pink mountains, inside the game's own illustrated Super Game Boy border","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/mschoenm/nubo"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://github.com/mschoenm/nubo/raw/main/images/screenshots/big2small.png","alt":"Big2Small's colorful forest map","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/mschoenm/nubo"},{"url":"https://github.com/mschoenm/nubo/raw/main/images/screenshots/rebound.png","alt":"Rebound, a blue blob on grassy steps under a blue sky, with coins","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/mschoenm/nubo"},{"url":"https://github.com/mschoenm/nubo/raw/main/images/screenshots/moki.png","alt":"Moki the Monster Kid waking up in a warm orange bedroom","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/mschoenm/nubo"}],"about":"The Nubo author describes a Rust Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator made largely with Claude Code under human direction. Their submission adds the emulator and its launch options to the Game Boy Emulator Shootout harness.\n\nThe author reports 261 passing tests out of 264 on Windows, with the remaining three lacking reference images rather than failing. That is the contributor's local result, not an independently repeated benchmark.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/mschoenm/nubo","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/mschoenm/nubo"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T16:55:10+00:00"},{"id":"gbhack-brings-a-dungeon-crawler-to-real-game-boy-ee1e","title":"GBHack brings a dungeon crawler to real Game Boy Color hardware","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Making a game","Building from scratch"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"GBDev Community and Repositories","year":"2026","desc":"GBHack's developer used Claude Code to make a Game Boy Color roguelike with generated levels, permadeath and battery-backed saves.","sources":[{"name":"GBDev Community and Repositories: New game: GBHack","url":"https://github.com/gbdev/database/pull/278","kind":"Primary","note":"The contributor’s pull request, including its AI disclosure and test notes.","authors":[{"name":"statico","role":"Source byline"}],"publishedAt":"2026-04-17T05:24:35Z","dateKind":"published"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/statico/gbhack","kind":"Primary","note":"The project files and the author’s documentation.","authors":[{"name":"statico","url":"https://github.com/statico","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"ee1ed8f","image":{"url":"https://github.com/statico/gbhack/raw/main/screenshots/gbhack-title.png","alt":"Title screen","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/statico/gbhack"},"about":"GBHack is a NetHack-inspired Game Boy Color game built with GBDK. Its developer describes fifteen generated dungeon levels, an item-identification system, hunger, pets and shops.\n\nThe developer explicitly credits Claude Code for the game as well as its submission. They report playing and testing it on real Game Boy Color hardware, and publish the source under MIT.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/statico/gbhack","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/statico/gbhack"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T16:55:10+00:00"},{"id":"skull-buster-turned-into-a-game-boy-color-homebr-699e","title":"Skull Buster turned into a Game Boy Color homebrew game","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Making a game","Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"GBDev Community and Repositories","year":"2026","desc":"A developer used Claude Code and Google Antigravity to finish a Game Boy Color demake of Skull Buster, retaining the credited artist's graphics and a composed chiptune soundtrack.","sources":[{"name":"GBDev Community and Repositories: Submission request: Skull Buster GB","url":"https://github.com/gbdev/homebrewhub-submit/issues/17","kind":"Primary","note":"The contributor’s issue report, including observations, proposed changes and test notes.","authors":[{"name":"ursimon","role":"Source byline"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-03T16:56:58Z","dateKind":"published"},{"name":"The code: gitlab.com","url":"https://gitlab.com/michal.ursiny/skullbustergameboydemake","kind":"Primary","note":"The project files and the author’s documentation."}],"ref":"699e590","image":{"url":"https://gitlab.com/uploads/-/system/project/avatar/66643318/Sni%CC%81mek_obrazovky_2025-01-30_v_14.23.27.png?v=1788068996","alt":"Preview image from gitlab.com","credit":"gitlab.com","from":"https://gitlab.com/michal.ursiny/skullbustergameboydemake"},"about":"Michal Ursiny's submission describes a Game Boy Color demake of Jakub Steiner's PICO-8 game Skull Buster. The developer says it began as handwritten C using GBDK-2020, with Claude Code and Google Antigravity later helping bring it to completion.\n\nThe submission distinguishes generated code from the graphics and music, crediting Steiner and MuteAudio for those assets. It provides a playable ROM, source repository and screenshots, and describes saved high scores and a five-track soundtrack.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://gitlab.com/michal.ursiny/skullbustergameboydemake","sourceUrl":"https://gitlab.com/michal.ursiny/skullbustergameboydemake"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T16:55:10+00:00"},{"id":"rugrats-adventure-games-engine-rebuilt-for-moder-2f62","title":"Rugrats Adventure Game's engine rebuilt for modern Windows","topic":"Games & decompilation","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Reverse engineering a protocol","Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"ScummVM Forums","year":"2026","desc":"A developer used Claude to reimplement the 1998 Rugrats Adventure Game engine so it can play original disc data on 64-bit Windows.","sources":[{"name":"ScummVM Forums: Rugrats Adventure Game's engine rebuilt for modern Windows","url":"https://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=17634","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker’s post on ScummVM Forums."},{"name":"The project","url":"https://github.com/tm-developments/rugrats_port","kind":"Primary","note":"The project files and the author’s documentation.","authors":[{"name":"tm-developments","url":"https://github.com/tm-developments","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"2f6236f","about":"T.M. Developments describes a native 64-bit Windows reimplementation of the Mohawk Living Books 3.1 engine used by Rugrats Adventure Game. The work covers archive reading, scripted interactions, palette fades, QuickTime cutscenes and sound handling, using ScummVM's engine as a reference.\n\nThe developer explicitly credits Anthropic's Claude and says the result was checked against footage of the original game. The port uses data from an original disc; the post links to the source and a running demonstration.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/tm-developments/rugrats_port","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/tm-developments/rugrats_port"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T16:55:10+00:00"},{"id":"ironseed-ported-from-dos-to-the-atari-ste-with-c-b46a","title":"IronSeed ported from DOS to the Atari STE with Claude","topic":"Retro computing","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Porting to a new platform"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"exxos Atari, Amiga and Retro Forum","year":"2026","desc":"An Atari developer credits Claude with helping port the 1994 space game IronSeed into 68000 assembly for the STE and Mega STE.","sources":[{"name":"exxos Atari, Amiga and Retro Forum: exxos's Atari, Amiga & retro forum","url":"https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8762","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker’s post on exxos Atari, Amiga and Retro Forum.","authors":[{"name":"Post by nuke_bloodaxe » Tue Nov 03, 2026 7:08 am","role":"Source byline"}],"publishedAt":"2026-11-03T07:08:53+00:00","dateKind":"published"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/nukebloodaxe/IronSeed-M68K","kind":"Primary","note":"The project files and the author’s documentation.","authors":[{"name":"nukebloodaxe","url":"https://github.com/nukebloodaxe","role":"Repository account"}]},{"name":"exxos Atari, Amiga and Retro Forum: exxos's Atari, Amiga & retro forum","url":"https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=8762","kind":"Forum","note":"Another source for the same project.","authors":[{"name":"Post by nuke_bloodaxe » Tue Nov 03, 2026 7:08 am","role":"Source byline"}],"publishedAt":"2026-11-03T07:08:53+00:00","dateKind":"published"}],"ref":"b46ad9e","image":{"url":"https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/forum/ext/exxos/theme_patch/styles/all/theme/images/og-preview.png","alt":"exxos's Atari, Amiga & retro forum","credit":"exxosforum.co.uk","from":"https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8762"},"about":"The developer's release post describes a port of IronSeed to the Atari STE and Mega STE, with source code, downloads and a demonstration video. They say Claude helped with the assembly work and the use of development manuals and technical documentation.\n\nThe release offers hard-drive and floppy versions, with pre-rendered music available to reduce CPU demands at the cost of disk space. The author notes that the game was not originally designed for floppy use.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/nukebloodaxe/IronSeed-M68K","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/nukebloodaxe/IronSeed-M68K"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T16:55:10+00:00"},{"id":"macextract-unpacks-old-archives-on-classic-macs-ff53","title":"MacExtract unpacks old archives on classic Macs","topic":"Retro computing","outcome":"Partly","tools":["Claude"],"methods":["Building from scratch","Modernising legacy code"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"68k Macintosh Liberation Army","desc":"MacExtract's creator used Claude to build an archive extractor for classic Mac systems, with real-hardware tests on an iMac G3 and LC475.","sources":[{"name":"68k Macintosh Liberation Army: MacExtract, a new app to extract (almost) everything, everywhere","url":"https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/macextract-a-new-app-to-extract-almost-everything-everywhere.53476/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker’s post on 68k Macintosh Liberation Army."},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/uzTools/MacExtract","kind":"Primary","note":"The project files and the author’s documentation.","authors":[{"name":"uzTools","url":"https://github.com/uzTools","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"ff53926","about":"MacExtract aims to replace the need for several different archive utilities on classic Macs. Its creator explicitly credits Claude and describes support stretching from early System releases to Mac OS 9, with an experimental route for the Mac 512K.\n\nThe author reports real-hardware tests on an iMac G3 and an LC475 running System 7.6.1, while earlier machines were not fully tested. StuffIt X is not supported, and some StuffIt 5 archives need more than 512 KB of RAM.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/uzTools/MacExtract","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/uzTools/MacExtract"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T16:55:10+00:00"},{"id":"classic-macs-making-https-connections-without-a-3aa6","title":"Classic Macs making HTTPS connections without a proxy","topic":"Retro computing","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Driver or OS patching","Modernising legacy code"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Post","foundOn":"68k Macintosh Liberation Army","desc":"A maker used Claude Code to speed up HTTPS on 68k Macs and build native Notion and music-control apps on the resulting network engine.","sources":[{"name":"68k Macintosh Liberation Army: Fast HTTPS on 68k without a proxy: 3 apps + boilerplate code","url":"https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/fast-https-on-68k-without-a-proxy-3-apps-boilerplate-code.53584/","kind":"Forum","note":"The maker’s post on 68k Macintosh Liberation Army."},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/SLKK-design/NotionClassic","kind":"Primary","note":"The project files and the author’s documentation.","authors":[{"name":"SLKK-design","url":"https://github.com/SLKK-design","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"3aa6955","image":{"url":"https://github.com/SLKK-design/NotionClassic/raw/main/docs/img/notion-se30-boot.gif","alt":"Notion Classic starting up on System 7 and loading a page, timed like a relaunch on a real SE/30","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/SLKK-design/NotionClassic"},"gallery":[{"url":"https://github.com/SLKK-design/NotionClassic/raw/main/docs/img/notion-se30-page-load.png","alt":"Where the time goes when the SE/30 opens a 30-block Notion page: 17.5 s the first time, 7.5 s when returning, 3.3 s for the next page","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/SLKK-design/NotionClassic"},{"url":"https://github.com/SLKK-design/NotionClassic/raw/main/docs/img/Notion%20on%20Macs.jpg","alt":"Notion Classic on a Macintosh Classic II, a Mac SE/30, a Macintosh mini and a PowerBook G4","credit":"github.com","from":"https://github.com/SLKK-design/NotionClassic"}],"about":"The author describes using Claude Code, including custom 68k assembly work, to reduce an HTTPS handshake from about seventy seconds to nine on a Classic II and from forty-nine seconds to seven on an SE/30. The same engine powers Notion Classic, a repaired standalone MacPlayer and an HTTPS application skeleton.\n\nThe reported minimum is a 68020, System 7.5, 8 MB RAM and networking hardware. The source explicitly notes that API keys are stored unprotected on the Mac, and that MacPlayer needs Spotify Premium.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/SLKK-design/NotionClassic","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/SLKK-design/NotionClassic"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T16:55:10+00:00"},{"id":"a-tonieboxs-audio-tags-and-tap-controls-supporte-c9d4","title":"A Toniebox's audio, tags and tap controls supported in ESPHome","topic":"Smart home","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Driver or OS patching","Custom firmware or bootloader"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"ESPHome Project","year":"2026","desc":"An ESPHome contributor used Claude to develop and hardware-test drivers for a Toniebox's audio DAC, figure-tag reader and tap sensor.","sources":[{"name":"ESPHome Project: [tlv320dac3100] Add TLV320DAC3100 audio DAC","url":"https://github.com/esphome/esphome/pull/22187","kind":"Primary","note":"The contributor’s pull request, including its AI disclosure and test notes.","authors":[{"name":"chunckus-aurelius","role":"Source byline"}],"publishedAt":"2026-11-03T02:28:11Z","dateKind":"published"},{"name":"The project: developers.esphome.io","url":"https://developers.esphome.io/contributing/code/#what-constitutes-a-c-breaking-change","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."},{"name":"ESPHome Project: [trf7962a] Add TRF7962A ISO 15693 NFC reader","url":"https://github.com/esphome/esphome/pull/22188","kind":"Primary","note":"A related contribution with implementation and verification details.","authors":[{"name":"chunckus-aurelius","role":"Source byline"}],"publishedAt":"2026-11-03T02:36:47Z","dateKind":"published"},{"name":"ESPHome Project: [lis3dh] Add tap and double tap detection","url":"https://github.com/esphome/esphome/pull/22086","kind":"Primary","note":"A related contribution with implementation and verification details.","authors":[{"name":"chunckus-aurelius","role":"Source byline"}],"publishedAt":"2026-11-01T02:42:34Z","dateKind":"published"}],"ref":"c9d463f","about":"The contributor reports using Claude to implement ESPHome support for the TLV320DAC3100 audio DAC, TRF7962A NFC reader and LIS3DH tap detection used in a Toniebox. The audio work handles speaker output, volume and mute, while the NFC component reports when a figure is placed or removed.\n\nThe source describes tests on an ESP32-S3 Toniebox, including playback without a power-up pop, matching figure-tag identifiers and logged tap tests. These are component-driver tests, not a claim that the entire original Toniebox service has been replaced.","_added":"2026-11-06T16:55:10+00:00"},{"id":"lilygos-t-display-p4-amoled-brought-into-esphome-ec88","title":"LilyGO's T-Display-P4 AMOLED brought into ESPHome","topic":"Embedded & microcontrollers","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Driver or OS patching"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"ESPHome Project","year":"2026","desc":"Claude-assisted ESPHome contributions add the LilyGO T-Display-P4 AMOLED panel, its touchscreen and brightness control, with tests on the board.","sources":[{"name":"ESPHome Project: [mipi_dsi] Add the LilyGO T-Display-P4 AMOLED panel","url":"https://github.com/esphome/esphome/pull/22299","kind":"Primary","note":"The contributor’s pull request, including its AI disclosure and test notes.","authors":[{"name":"clydebarrow","role":"Source byline"}],"publishedAt":"2026-11-05T07:16:24Z","dateKind":"published"},{"name":"The project: developers.esphome.io","url":"https://developers.esphome.io/contributing/code/#what-constitutes-a-c-breaking-change","kind":"Blog","note":"Linked in the post."},{"name":"ESPHome Project: [gt9895] Add the Goodix GT9895 touchscreen","url":"https://github.com/esphome/esphome/pull/22298","kind":"Primary","note":"A related contribution with implementation and verification details.","authors":[{"name":"clydebarrow","role":"Source byline"}],"publishedAt":"2026-11-05T07:16:21Z","dateKind":"published"},{"name":"ESPHome Project: [mipi_dsi] Add a light platform to set the panel brightness","url":"https://github.com/esphome/esphome/pull/22303","kind":"Primary","note":"A related contribution with implementation and verification details.","authors":[{"name":"clydebarrow","role":"Source byline"}],"publishedAt":"2026-11-05T08:50:40Z","dateKind":"published"}],"ref":"ec885d1","about":"A contributor added support for the 568 by 1232 AMOLED panel on the LilyGO T-Display-P4, using the manufacturer's timings and initialisation sequence. Related contributions add the Goodix GT9895 touchscreen and software brightness control for a panel without a backlight.\n\nThe author reports tests with a test card and XCSoar, including multi-touch, and credits Claude Code in the contributions. The touchscreen needs calibration because the controller does not report its coordinate range.","_added":"2026-11-06T16:55:10+00:00"},{"id":"tasmota-reading-up-to-four-jbd-battery-monitors-b1eb","title":"Tasmota reading up to four JBD battery monitors over Bluetooth","topic":"Smart home","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Driver or OS patching","Reverse engineering a protocol"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Tasmota Project","year":"2026","desc":"A Claude Code-assisted Tasmota driver reads JBD battery-management units over BLE, with a web display, persisted device selection and fresh-data webhooks.","sources":[{"name":"Tasmota Project: Add JBD BMS BLE driver (multi-unit, webhook, persistence)","url":"https://github.com/arendst/Tasmota/pull/25053","kind":"Primary","note":"The contributor’s pull request, including its AI disclosure and test notes.","authors":[{"name":"bogdik","role":"Source byline"}],"publishedAt":"2026-09-22T08:45:12Z","dateKind":"published"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/bogdik/Tasmota/blob/upstream-jbd-bms-ble/JBD_BMS_BLE.md","kind":"Primary","note":"Linked in the post.","authors":[{"name":"bogdik","url":"https://github.com/bogdik","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"b1ebaea","about":"The new driver reads basic battery information, individual cell values and version data from JBD or Xiaoxiang BMS units. It rotates between up to four devices and adds per-unit display and webhook handling.\n\nThe contributor credits Claude Code and marks ESP32 testing as complete. The contribution reports monitoring functionality; it does not establish the safety of a battery pack or modify its protection settings.","projectLinks":[{"type":"code","url":"https://github.com/bogdik/Tasmota/blob/upstream-jbd-bms-ble/JBD_BMS_BLE.md","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/bogdik/Tasmota/blob/upstream-jbd-bms-ble/JBD_BMS_BLE.md"}],"_added":"2026-11-06T16:55:10+00:00"},{"id":"an-aj-sr04m-distance-sensor-fixed-by-correcting-9f73","title":"An AJ-SR04M distance sensor fixed by correcting its checksum","topic":"Embedded & microcontrollers","outcome":"Worked","tools":["Claude Code"],"methods":["Driver or OS patching"],"verified":false,"evidence":"Write-up","foundOn":"Tasmota Project","year":"2026","desc":"A Claude Code-assisted Tasmota patch recognises the AJ-SR04M's serial checksum so valid distance readings stop being rejected.","sources":[{"name":"Tasmota Project: Fix SR04 serial checksum for AJ-SR04M","url":"https://github.com/arendst/Tasmota/pull/25147","kind":"Primary","note":"The contributor’s pull request, including its AI disclosure and test notes.","authors":[{"name":"Pacif13r","role":"Source byline"}],"publishedAt":"2026-10-16T10:38:52Z","dateKind":"published"},{"name":"The code: github.com","url":"https://github.com/arendst/Tasmota/blob/development/CONTRIBUTING.md#contributor-license-agreement-cla","kind":"Primary","note":"Linked in the post.","authors":[{"name":"arendst","url":"https://github.com/arendst","role":"Repository account"}]}],"ref":"9f7310d","about":"The AJ-SR04M left out a header byte when calculating its serial checksum, while Tasmota expected the checksum used by another sensor. The contributor showed valid packets being rejected as CRC errors and changed the driver to recognise both forms.\n\nThey report testing the patched build on an ESP8266 with an AJ-SR04M, where it detected serial mode and returned correct distances. 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