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Meta wants you to build your own Muse gadget

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Meta has launched Muse Gadgets, an open-source project that allows developers to create their own hardware that connects to its personal AI agent, Muse.

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techcrunch.comOct 3, 2026By Kirsten Korosec

Meta wants you to build your own Muse gadget

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Meta's Muse, a personal AI agent that books travel, fills out forms, and shops on a user's behalf, has already proven popular with the masses, but a new side project could be particularly alluring to tinkerers and hackers. On Friday, the company introduced Muse Gadgets , an open-source project that lets developers build their own hardware that connects to Muse. Meta is providing open-source firmware (the low-level software that runs a device), and a Linux software development kit (SDK), along with a few project ideas to get users started. These include giving Muse a color e-ink display or loading it onto a stick that plugs into a TV's HDMI port. There don't appear to be many limits, either. Users can set up a low-cost hobbyist computer like a Raspberry Pi or an off-the-shelf ESP32 board, and then connect Muse "to your displays, buttons, sensors, actuators, and whatever else you've got lying on your workbench," Meta notes. The company has also set up a Discord channel to support users. Meta has already tried the code itself, naturally. Nat Friedman, head of product at Meta's Superintelligence Labs, said in a post on X that the company built a gadget called Muse Home Link. The USB-C-powered device lets Muse connect to a home network and talk to the smart devices on it, including speakers and smart TVs. Meta made 5,000 of these Home Links, in fact, and is giving them away for...

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