zclaw: personal AI assistant runs on ESP32 in under 888KB of firmware

An open-source project called zclaw packs a full AI personal assistant into under 888KB of firmware on an ESP32 microcontroller. Written in C, it supports scheduled tasks, GPIO control, persistent memory, and natural language tool composition. The app logic itself is just 26KB; the rest is Wi-Fi networking, TLS/crypto, and ESP-IDF runtime. It connects to cloud LLM backends and can be controlled via Telegram.

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