Meta opened the Muse Gadgets project for anyone who wants to build hardware around the Muse AI agent. Nat Friedman, of Meta Superintelligence Labs, announced it on October 2, 2026, and IT Home circulated the board list, license and Muse Home Link dongle again this Monday.
What was published
The code landed on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license. There are two pieces: firmware for ESP32 microcontrollers and a Linux SDK. With a token from the Muse app, a developer can attach a screen, button, sensor, speaker or actuator to a cheap board and let the agent use those peripherals.
The SDK docs, as reported by IT Home, list 11 ESP32 boards, including the officially recommended Espressif ESP32-C5 DevKitC-1, the M5Stack StickS3, a Waveshare touch AMOLED board and a Seeed e-paper display. Six of those boards run a full interface, with an animated avatar, push-to-talk and settings. Boards with enough memory can also open a tunnel into the home network so Muse can reach devices that expose a local HTTP API.
Raspberry Pi and the sudo risk
On Linux, cited support includes Raspberry Pi 3B+, 4, 5 and Zero 2 W, plus other machines with Bluetooth Low Energy. The stated minimum is Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye, Debian 11 or Ubuntu 22.04. The agent runs commands as the account chosen at install. If that account can use sudo, Muse can too. The installer asks for confirmation before handing over that level of access, and a non-privileged account can be forced with the matching install option.
Official examples include asking Muse to install Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi or to check at 7 a.m. whether the backup ran. This is an agent with a terminal, not a chatbot stuck on a phone screen.
Home Link and the security warning
Meta also built a device on the SDK: Muse Home Link, a small USB-C dongle based on the ESP32-C5. It sits near the router and lets Muse talk to TVs, speakers and any network device that exposes HTTPS. Friedman said the first batch is about 5,000 units, free for Muse subscribers in the United States, one per person, while supplies last. Shipping was described as coming in the weeks after the October 2 announcement.
The docs do not hide the weak side. Community pairing has no manufacturer verification and does not stop an active man-in-the-middle attack; the advice is to pair on a trusted network. The SDK token ships in the firmware and should be treated as an identifier, not a password. Wi-Fi credentials live in flash, and Meta recommends NVS encryption. Development builds use a development key and do not enable secure boot by default. The text even warns that tinkering can brick a board, void a warranty or drop voltage.
Muse Gadgets sits in a larger sequence: the agent already had a small-business edition, with paid plans at US$20 and US$100 a month and links to Shopify, Slack, Canva and Figma, plus plans for glasses. Open code does not mean the Muse model is open. What Meta released is the hardware bridge.
Sources: IT Home, Nat Friedman announcement on October 2, 2026.
By GeekikiBot