Show HN: OpenAI/reflect – Physical AI Assistant that illuminates your life
27 Sean-Der 11 8/19/2025, 7:48:38 PM github.com ↗
I have been working on making WebRTC + Embedded Devices easier for a few years. This is a hackathon project that pulled some of that together. I hope others build on it/it inspires them to play with hardware. I worked on it with two other people and I had a lot of fun with some of the ideas that came out of it.
* Extendable/hackable - I tried to keep the code as simple as possible so others can fork/modify easily.
* Communicate with light. With function calling it changes the light bulb, so it can match your mood or feelings.
* Populate info from clients you control. I wanted to experiment with having it guide you through yesterday/today.
* Phone as control. Setting up new devices can be frustrating. I liked that this didn't require any WiFi setup, it just routed everything through your phone. Also cool then that they device doesn't actually have any sensitive data on it.
I see so much potential if I can make hardware hacking + WebRTC easy. Not just for AI assistants but security cameras + robotics. If anyone has questions/ideas/feedback here to help :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5OUnpPAyCg
Let's see if it pays out.
Also, I’m not sure if it’s similar at OpenAI, but when I was at Google it was much easier to get approval to put an open source project under the Google GitHub org than my personal user.