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. 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. 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...
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