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Meta open-sources Muse Gadgets, so you can build hardware for its AI agent

A spare Raspberry Pi or a cheap ESP32 board can now be a screen, speaker or button for Meta's agent, if you'll risk bricking it.

By Think Facility · October 3, 2026 · Meta AI agents Save

Meta has published free code for building your own hardware around Muse, its personal AI agent. Nat Friedman announced Muse Gadgets on X on October 2, 2026, calling it a side project, and the SDKs went up on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license the same day.

There are two of them. One runs on cheap ESP32 boards, the other turns a Raspberry Pi or a spare Linux box into a gadget. Muse, which reached the Mac in September, can then use whatever you've wired up: a screen, a speaker, a button, a sensor.

What

open source ESP32 firmware and Linux SDK

License

Apache 2.0

Boards

ESP32, Raspberry Pi or Linux box

Needs

an SDK token and the Muse app

Meta's own device

Muse Home Link, free for Muse subscribers

What you can build

The project site lists eight starting points, most of them boards you can buy today. A Seeed color e-ink screen shows a morning briefing or a shopping list. A round AMOLED touch screen and a tiny desk buddy both do push-to-talk, with Muse answering out loud. A Raspberry Pi 5 lets Muse work with Home Assistant.

Each folder in the repo has an AGENTS.md file, written for coding agents, and Friedman's pitch is that you point one at the repo and let it do the wiring. The site is blunt about the odds.

David Singleton, who posted about it the same afternoon, listed what he had in mind.

Meta's own gadget

Meta also made one itself. Muse Home Link is a small USB-C stick built on an ESP32-C5 chip that sits near your router, so Muse can reach the TVs, speakers and lights on your home network through skills the community writes.

The fine print narrows that. Home Link is free with an active Muse subscription in the United States only, one per subscriber, and it can't be reflashed with your own firmware (even though its code is open). Meta says it ships in October.

What the token allows

Every gadget needs an SDK token to pair, and the token terms are where the limits sit. They're for personal, non-commercial use. You can put one token in up to 50 devices you give to other people, but you can't sell them or list them in a store, and you have to tell anyone you hand one to what it does with their data.

The terms also say the SDK is provided as is and isn't a supported product. Community skills for Home Link can break, and Meta warns against using them for home security or anything medical.

Some of the reaction skipped the project list entirely.

The repo had 798 stars and 120 forks when we read it on October 3. A TV stick that puts Muse on your big screen is listed on the project page as coming soon.