Show HN: Chiplab - Give your AI agent access to virtual hardware

Category: devtools

Tags: embedded-systems, mcp, virtualization, firmware, ai-agents

Score: 7.0/10 (Innovation: 8, Technical: 7, Documentation: 7, Utility: 6)

Chiplab is a hosted MCP service that lets AI coding agents build, upload, and run firmware on virtual instances of real microcontrollers (STM32, Nordic) to validate embedded code without physical hardware. It bridges AI agents and embedded development by exposing a simple UART-output contract, enabling rapid firmware iteration directly from the agent loop.

Target audience: embedded engineers, firmware developers, AI-assisted development teams

Repository: https://veecle.ai/chiplab · MIT · 18 stars

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