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PicoClaw on MaixCam and OpenClaw on Android: Making a Claw Machine
Explore porting embedded firmware to new hardware and building an Android client to control a physical claw machine, focusing on technical integration and system boundaries.
This is a technical teardown of how I got PicoClaw running on a MaixCam (K210-based) board and OpenClaw on Android client, turning a claw into a live phone hardware controller
No slides. Just code, firmware, serial logs, and hardware.
The demo will cover:
- Porting PicoClaw to MaixCam
PicoClaw was designed with a specific embedded environment in mind. I’ll walk through:
Adapting the firmware to run on MaixCam
Fixing build system assumptions
Debugging boot and runtime issues
We’ll look at:
What broke immediately
What silently failed
What needed to be stubbed or reworked
Timing quirks and hardware assumptions in the original firmware
This section is mostly about embedded friction and reality.
- Running OpenClaw on Android
On the Android side, we’ll walk through:
USB permission handling
Threading model
Command dispatch
UI → Command translation
We’ll examine:
How commands are built
How the app handles connection drops
What assumptions the Android client makes about the firmware
Where the abstraction leaks
This is not a UI demo — it’s a transport-layer autopsy.