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Show HN: Merliot – plugging physical devices into LLMs

https://github.com/merliot/hub
45•sfeldma•9h ago
Merliot Hub is an AI-integrated device hub.

What does that mean? It means you can control and interact with your physical devices, your security cameras, your thermometer, seamlessly using natural language from an LLM host such as Claude Desktop or Cursor. The hub is a gateway between AI and the physical world.

What could go wrong?

Comments

chrisdalke•8h ago
Cool! As a moonshot fun idea I’ve been interested in MCP as a way to use informal conversations to task robots. I’ll have to play around with this!

One example on unmanned boats: a human could radio to the boat over VHF and say “move 100 meters south”… that speech-to-text would feed to an LLM which extracts the meaning and calls the MCP.

I’ll have to install this and play around.

trillic•7h ago
"There's a botter way"

https://www.marksetbot.com/

(not affiliated, just a fan)

sfeldma•7h ago
Ya, sounds like a good idea to let the LLM do all the calculations and send simple instructions to boat. MCP tells it what data is available from the device.

I tried the MCP server with the demo (https://merliot.io/demo) using Cursor and asked:

What is the location of the "GPS nano" device?

The location of the "GPS nano" device is: Latitude: 30.448336 Longitude: -91.12896

speerer•4h ago
This seems like a residential address. Irrespective of whether the creator deliberately exposed it, I would be a little bit cautious about sharing it further.
Kevcmk•7h ago
"What could go wrong?"
fitsumbelay•6h ago
very neat.
rybosome•6h ago
I have far more ideas about this than time to execute it, but for a long time I’ve had this fantasy about a robot bandmate.

The idea is I’d go on stage singing and playing guitar with a looper and some samples, then bring a robot toy and introduce the robot “controlling” the looping and sampling as the bandmate.

It’s a gimmick that’s been done before, but with LLMs driving verbal interaction and now I could use this to animate a robot…it becomes pretty compelling. I’d plug the LLMs into the audio feed so I could banter with it and get responses then have the robot avatar animate accordingly.

If only my full time job saw value in this project.

yard2010•2h ago
Imagine when you don't need money anymore because everything is automated to oblivion. Everything is affordable. So the kind of people like you won't have to work to make a living, you just do your art instead. Better for everyone!
dathos•1h ago
I cannot understand this optimism, in my industry the profits of automation only flow upwards.
A4ET8a8uTh0_v2•2h ago
It is a weirdly exciting time to be alive.
seebeen•2h ago
And I, for one, welcome our new AI MCP overlords. I'd like to remind them as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground datacenters.

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