# jamro/tiny-engineer

> A desktop ESP32-C3 robot that physically mirrors an AI coding agent's activity: it moves, changes its face, and rings a bell when the agent reads files, writes code, waits, or finishes. Built from a 3D-printed body, servos, OLED, and speaker.

- Magnitude: 2.1 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 817 total · +6 stars measured 2026-10-23, 11:07–13:24 UTC, ≈ 14 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Hardware, IoT & robotics · Language: C++ · Created: 2026-08-21 · Last push: 2026-10-23
- GitHub: https://github.com/jamro/tiny-engineer · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/jamro/tiny-engineer

## Useful for

- Build a desk robot that reacts to Claude Code or Cursor events via npx tiny-engineer setup
- Send poses to the robot over the Wi-Fi HTTP API from a custom script or agent
- Play speech and animations via POST /play when an agent finishes a task

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-23 (UTC), 11:07–13:24: 811 → 817 stars (+6). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +14 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- GitHub Trending C++ today: #14, +24 stars.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 106
- Issues and pull requests: 74
- Watchers: 11
- Average over the last week: 18 per day
- Usual pace: 14 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 1
- Latest release: v0.2.0 (2026-10-05)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-24 … 2026-10-23: 13, 10, 9, 16, 15, 17, 20, 17, 12, 11, 6, 20, 17, 17, 15, 12, 20, 27, 20, 12, 7, 13, 6, 15, 7, 12, 30, 24, 26, 6

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending C++ today: #14, +24 stars

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Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
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Data as of 2026-10-23 13:33 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.