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.

Comments (11)

Telemakhos · 1h ago
Somewhere in here there's a joke about how many tokens it takes to turn on a lightbulb.
throwup238 · 51m ago
It deserves a minor rewrite of the Black Mirror episode Fifteen Million Merits where people do menial labor like folding laundry and washing dishes to earn tokens so that their LLM will dispense their toothpaste and send Studio Ghibli stylized birthday cards to their friends.
mrbungie · 39m ago
inb4: When sama and co talk about UBI, they mean a variation of it based around a memecoin tethered/indexed on (tik)tokens.
Sean-Der · 2h ago
I also have been working with Daily on https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pipecat-esp32

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 :)

joshu · 1h ago
what is Daily?
lagrange77 · 30m ago
Is it my browser, or does the video in the readme not have sound?
baxtr · 1h ago
If you want to know what this is about, here’s the video they provided:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5OUnpPAyCg

voxelizer · 46m ago
I love seeing that hackathons are encouraged inside OpenAI and most importantly, that their outcome is also shared :)
TZubiri · 1h ago
I get that this is as-is, but I wonder if so many ultra-alpha products don't dilute the OpenAI brand and create redundancy in the product line. It feels like the opposite of Apple's well thought out planned product design and product line.

Let's see if it pays out.

tuckerman · 59s ago
For a developer platform having examples is useful as a starting point for new projects.

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.

jgalt212 · 30m ago
They're selling shares at a $500B valuation. The market is telling them everything they are doing is amazing.