As soon as I started playing with MCP, I was looking at all the hardware in my room thinking that I wanted to have an LLM control a motor and do something with it, there you have it, I can control my curtains with an LLM. As one minute paper would say: what a time to be alive! lol
Some technicalities:
- the chip is an ESP32, absolutely goated chip, has a wifi module, 4MB of ram and very flexible set of pins. That's where I run the MCP.
- I drive a stepper motor NEMA 17 with a DRV8825
- The curtain is an ikea one, I fixed the motor shaft to the curtains shaft
- I connect everything to the current via a step down buck converter and a cheap transformer
Writing the MCP server on arduino was not so fun since there is no SDK to make it easy easy, but following the documentation/specification from anthropic made it pretty okay. (be careful about the protocol version)
I used mcp-use to connect to it which made it very easy to debug.
I think this is the future of home automation, I have some apple home stuff and the experience is just excruciating, hope it will evolve in this direction.
The list of MCPs (https://mcp.so/, etc) is so big and so fastly growing that the opportunities are unbounded, I hope people will be creative with tools like this and be able to control. In general, I'd love to see MCPs for robots :)
Some technicalities: - the chip is an ESP32, absolutely goated chip, has a wifi module, 4MB of ram and very flexible set of pins. That's where I run the MCP. - I drive a stepper motor NEMA 17 with a DRV8825 - The curtain is an ikea one, I fixed the motor shaft to the curtains shaft - I connect everything to the current via a step down buck converter and a cheap transformer
Writing the MCP server on arduino was not so fun since there is no SDK to make it easy easy, but following the documentation/specification from anthropic made it pretty okay. (be careful about the protocol version) I used mcp-use to connect to it which made it very easy to debug.
I think this is the future of home automation, I have some apple home stuff and the experience is just excruciating, hope it will evolve in this direction.
What should I control next ?
Thanks!!