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The 1988 Pense Bem toy rebuilt on an ESP32 by Claude Code
Claude Code rebuilt the Brazilian Pense Bem quiz toy on an ESP32 in 37 prompts, writing the firmware and tests and checking the screen through a webcam.
Credits
- Reddit poster Feisty-Sky-6018 Source ↗
- Repository account lpereira Source ↗
Earliest dated source:
The full story
Pense Bem was a 1988 Brazilian toy by Tectoy: children entered a book and question code and answered multiple-choice questions. It did not store answers but worked them out from a short formula, which was reverse engineered by Eduardo Habkost with Leandro Pereira and Felipe Sanches.
The poster says they did not build the ESP32 version themselves: they gave Claude Code a goal and a spec, and it wrote the firmware, both test suites and the docs, flashed the board, and debugged the screen by looking through a webcam. It took 37 prompts.
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Sources
From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: I let Claude Code rebuild the Pense Bem (1988) on an ESP32 — 37 prompts, and it debugged the screen Reddit poster: Feisty-Sky-6018Posted
The maker's post on r/esp32.
If it disappears: archived copy of Reddit: I let Claude Code rebuild the Pense Bem (1988) on an ESP32 — 37 prompts, and it debugged the screen (opens in a new tab)
- The code: github.comRepository account: lpereira
Linked in the post.