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New comment by busseio in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"

busseio — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:55:01 +0000

I work for a firm that develops custom software in regulated industries, and we have brilliant software & data engineers in their 20's working on compliance auditing, and more specifically "Compliance Management System health monitoring."

We've be able to use a lot of AI-assisted engineering and AI in the software to solve longstanding business challenges in this space.

I won't make assumptions about where you're located, but on the East Coast US it is big business among banks, utilities, healthcare, etc.

New comment by busseio in "Going for Gold: The Story of the Golden Lego RCX and NXT"

busseio — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:23:11 +0000

Great read. I have fond memories of eagerly awaiting the launch of Mindstorms, having gotten to play with LEGO LOGO kits that my dad was able to bring home from the school he worked at.

I appreciate that LEGO has always leaned into programmable tech for consumers.

Also, shoutout to any OG rec.toys.lego group members if any of y'all are reading.

Show HN: Flipper Zero MCP – Control Your Flipper Using AI via USB or WiFi

busseio — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 15:59:33 +0000

I built an modular MCP server that lets AI control a Flipper Zero.

The basic idea: you tell Claude "write a BadUSB script that opens a rickroll" and it generates the DuckyScript, validates it, saves it to your Flipper, and can execute it.

I've launched the project with 14 MCP tools across 4 modules:

1. BadUSB: generate/validate/save/diff/execute DuckyScript from natural language

2. Music: create and load FMF files to be played over the Flipper's piezo speaker ("make me the theme song to Castlevania")

3. System: device info, SD card status, connection health

4. Connection: health checks, reconnect

...the code is modular so you can create your own modules.

To me, the interesting technical bit is the WiFi support. Flipper's protobuf RPC is designed to work over USB serial. The stock WiFi dev board firmware is for debugging, not RPC.

I wrote custom ESP32-S2 firmware, a TCP <-> UART bridge that exposes the full RPC interface over your network. It includes a captive portal for WiFi config and handles Flipper's Expansion Protocol negotiation. Firmware is in the repo: /firmware/tcp_uart_bridge

Architecture:

- MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, etc.) <-> MCP server (Python, stdio) <-> Flipper Zero (protobuf RPC over USB or TCP)

- Transport-agnostic: same protobuf either way

- Modular: easy to add new Flipper capabilities

This is (I believe) the first MCP server for Flipper Zero. There are MCP servers for ESP32s and Arduinos, but those control the microcontroller itself. This controls the Flipper as a tool.

I look forward to feedback, especially from any other Flipper users who get it running over Wifi!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46434612

Points: 3

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New comment by busseio in "Alexander the Great's tunic identified in royal tomb at Vergina?"

busseio — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 13:57:58 +0000

This is the plot-line behind the Serpentor story arc in GI Joe, but they mix all the best-worst parts together into one bad guy.

New comment by busseio in "Independent directors of 23andMe resign from board"

busseio — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:56:51 +0000

"Give the kits as gifts!" and you can learn about your closer relatives /s-ish

New comment by busseio in "The Scale of Life"

busseio — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 19:26:01 +0000

Very anecdotal, but I feel like Uber in Costa Rica is criminally cheap. Many $4 rides.

New comment by busseio in "Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?"

busseio — Tue, 07 May 2024 17:35:35 +0000

TinyMUSH (which is somewhere between TinyMUD and TinyMUSE if my historic memory is correct): https://github.com/TinyMUSH/TinyMUSH

New comment by busseio in "The LaserDisc"

busseio — Wed, 01 May 2024 14:25:54 +0000

The scene in SLC Punk where Mark (Til Schweiger) is giving a tour of his home, the LaserDisc part is one of my favorites.

New comment by busseio in "Nobody Wants to Buy the Future: Why Science Fiction Literature Is Vanishing"

busseio — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 16:33:22 +0000

Many YA readers also just lived through a global pandemic. Changes the expectations around "fiction", perhaps.

New comment by busseio in "Function calling and other API updates"

busseio — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 00:48:53 +0000

Thank you for sharing this. I’ve been working on something for editing exiting code by using GitHub Issues and Actions for prompting, with the response from GPT as a Pull Request/Comment on the Issue[1]. I will definitely try out your project!

[1] https://github.com/busse/kodumisto

New comment by busseio in "Obsidian-Copilot: A Prototype Assistant for Writing and Thinking"

busseio — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 21:50:44 +0000

I’ve been experimenting with sliding window chunking using SRT files. They’re the subtitle format for television and have 1 to _n_ sequence numbers for each chunk, along with time stamps for when the chunk should appear on the screen. Traditionally it’s two lines of text per chunk but you can make chunks of other line counts and sizes. Much of my work with this has been with SRT files that are transcriptions exported from Otter.ai; GPT-3.5 & 4 natively understand the SRT format and the concepts of the sequence numbers and time stamps, so you can refer to them or ask for confirmation of them in a prompt.

New comment by busseio in "What if we set GPT-4 free in Minecraft?"

busseio — Sat, 27 May 2023 00:11:39 +0000

I’d like to build something like this, but for Robot Odyssey.

New comment by busseio in "Venture Predation"

busseio — Fri, 19 May 2023 19:31:17 +0000

Still?

New comment by busseio in "AWS Lambda function for converting of Telegram channel to RSS feed"

busseio — Fri, 12 May 2023 20:35:05 +0000

Thank you for triggering the long-dormant neuron in my brain that remembers working with Yahoo Pipes.

New comment by busseio in "Bard coding update with Colab exporting"

busseio — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 16:54:40 +0000

"But did you try with GPT4?" is becoming a bit of a refrain for me when talking about this with people. I can get GPT-4 to produce working code from agile user stories surrounded by a well-crafted prompt.

New comment by busseio in "Tell HN: ChatGPT is fantastic for finding and solving issues in logs"

busseio — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 17:46:30 +0000

Great use case. I have successfully used it in a similar way with SRT files (recording transcripts in SubRip Subtitle format) as well as CSV data from surveys that often has many columns with long text labels (the survey questions) and free text answers.

Ex. a prompt I had used for a developer skills survey .csv was:

> The CSV data below is the results of a skills survey sent to a group of software engineers. The first row is a header row. Please summarize this data in the areas that the People are Strong, Weak, Most Similar, and Unique:

Then, because of things I saw in the response, I asked a few follow-up questions:

> How much Azure experience is there in the group?

> Can you provide more explanation around your assessment that "Engineers generally have little to no experience with Dockers and Kubernetes."

> What other skills and experience do you see in the results that you haven't already mentioned?

To address my risk tolerance vis-a-vis the ChatGPT warnings (and previous UI leak of responses), I replaced the email addresses in the .csv file with "PersonA", "PersonB", ...