Hardware Buddy Desktop Companion
The Hardware Buddy series explores "AI assistant + physical hardware" interaction: small desktop devices become a physical extension of your AI. This page covers the two companion projects.
Buddy Bridge App
Repository: RockBase-iot/buddy-bridge-app (created 2026-06-18)
Buddy Bridge App is a local desktop companion for Hardware Buddy devices — targeting models that do not use BLE and communicate over USB serial only, bridging data between your computer and the device.
Claude Desktop Buddy
Repository: RockBase-iot/claude-desktop-buddy (created 2026-06-22)
Claude Desktop Buddy is a reference and example project for the Claude Cowork / Bluetooth API aimed at makers, demonstrating how a hardware device can work with the Claude desktop app over the Bluetooth API — for example, mirroring AI conversation states, notifications, or expressions onto a small desktop device in real time.
Related Projects
- DeskBuddy-TV — desktop weather/expression companion firmware for the NM-TV-154, sharing the same "desktop AI companion" product thinking
- pizero-openclaw — OpenClaw-related experiments on Pi Zero (created 2026-07-10)
Hardware Buddy is RockBase IoT's emerging desktop-interaction product line: device-side firmware (e.g. DeskBuddy-TV) + bridge software (Buddy Bridge App) + AI integration examples (Claude Desktop Buddy). Together they form an approachable path into "AI + IoT desktop terminal" scenarios.