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Reviving a sleep monitor from a company that closed
The author used Claude to revive a sleep monitor from a company that closed about ten years ago. The device still stored its Wi-Fi credentials, so the AI could see it broadcasting but initially could not connect.
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Hello Sense was a bedside sleep tracker: a glowing orb measuring temperature, humidity, light, air quality and noise, plus a "sleep pill" clipped to the pillow to track movement. The company raised more than $40 million, then shut down about ten years ago, and the devices stopped working.
Joseph Spurrier used Claude to bring his back. He reflashed the devices with widely available tools, found the company's code that had been published on GitHub, and rebuilt most of the software to run on his own Mac: the firmware, the back-end servers and the iOS app, with all the original features. An early hurdle was that the orb still held its old Wi-Fi settings, so it could be seen broadcasting but couldn't be connected to at first.
Partial success reported.
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From the maker's own write-up or code. We summarise what they report; we haven't tested it ourselves.
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