I built an AI Tamagotchi before Meta could

What happened

Sean Hollister used Claude Code to customize a $50 Waveshare ESP32-S3 1.75C pendant connected to Meta’s Muse, adding spoken replies, conversation history, remote camera controls, virtual pet features, and a working watch face. He reports having no coding experience and cannot assess the code’s quality, while Muse’s server responsiveness remains inconsistent. His experiment raises the question of whether the forthcoming Muse Charm will offer comparable programmability.

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The story so far

The Verge’s Sean Hollister used Claude Code to add spoken replies, conversation history, remote camera controls, virtual pet features and a working watch face to a $50 Waveshare ESP32-S3 1.75C pendant connected to Meta’s Muse, though he reported that Muse’s server responsiveness remained inconsistent. Hollister said he had no coding experience and could not assess the quality of the code Claude Code produced. His experiment raised the question of whether the forthcoming Muse Charm would offer comparable programmability.