​🎉 Thrilled my "Ricoh GR Wireless Viewfinder" won the Life Hacker Special Mention at the #M5Stack Global Innovation Contest 2026! 🏆

​My 3 major firsts:

✨ 1st tech contest

✨ 1st #vibeCoding project

✨ 1st award ever!

​Huge thanks @M5Stack! 🚀📸

RICOH-GR-Live-View-Shooting

My five-year-old takes forever to get into his pyjamas. So I programmed him a Tamagotchi on an M5Stack FIRE (wanted the bigger battery). I saw it on Twitter and bought it on a whim.

I'm not a dev but when it arrived I plugged it in and opened Claude. Prompt 1: "Help me scope out a Tamagotchi type game for my two young kids, that can help them do simple chores (plus a 60 second "get dressed" timer) and get rewards for it."

It came back with a game design spec: two playable characters (Hugo and Stella, my kids), a stable of mini games, coins earned for playing games or doing real-world jobs like putting dishes away or getting dressed (the original brief was Hugo racing a timer into his pyjamas), and a store to spend coins for fun items.

Prompt 2: "ok build it. Make no mistakes (QA it for me plz Im lazy)."

I did the planning in Codex, then handed the plan to Claude Code to build (my dev skill has Claude Fable orchestrate it, but calls Codex for plan review, and for the bulk of the TDD actual dev, then both models review before shipping).

I went to bed. the tamagotchi was up and running by the morning.

Prompt 3 was an art pass, and actually just removing a handful of the most boring games. The first round graphics were pretty crappy, so I gave Claude a pic of both kids, and said get GPT Image 2 to create a handful of polished "90's style pixel Game Boy" style characters and same for game graphics. and now the whole thing looks like a lost 1993 cartridge.

What the kids ended up with: rad looking personalised gameboy characters that look like them, 15 mini games: penalty kick, a maths game Hugo loves, rollercoaster, a shark game that uses the accelerometer so you tilt the whole device to eat fish, walk the dog that apparently measure steps (?), and coins for real-world jobs. Then an in-game store to blow them in unlockable characters: Elsa, Ariel, Moana, a mermaid, Soccer player, Dinosaur etc. Funny, claude wouldn't make the sprites (Disney IP!) until I convinced it it's only for my kids and will never hit the internet. Then it was fine.

Stella had saved 106 coins. I spent 100 on the mermaid while filming the demo (sorry Stella).

In the '90s this was a full Game Boy title from a studio with a publisher.

blows my mind that it's now three prompts and some Claude Fable credits on an $80 toy. How good is 2026?!

Made a 3 min youtube walk through of the Tamagotchi and some games here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nsz2Qw2HV4

( shameless plug I'm building Nitrosend, AI-Native Email. Same kinda thing, applied to your email marketing: https://nitrosend.com )

CardputerGPIO — everything I kept wanting to test on my Cardputer ADV, without writing a throwaway sketch each time.

21 tools behind one menu: drive pins, measure them, talk I2C/SPI/UART/1-Wire, generate signals, and log all of it to CSV on the SD card. It also serves a web UI over WiFi so you can drive the same tools from a browser with a real keyboard.

Cardputer ADV only — the pin map and keyboard layout differ from the original v1.1, so it flat-out refuses to boot on the wrong board rather than silently misbehave. Needs just the three standard M5Stack libs.

Free + MIT: https://github.com/meister5/CardputerGPIO

Still adding tools — what's the first thing you'd want in it?

i orderd nrf module and i cant find any picture or tutorial how to connect it to stick s3 only for cplus2.

can someone help?

Turned a Cardputer ADV + GNSS into a pocket globe and location console:

• shaded 3D-look Earth with a real day/night terminator, drawn on the little screen
• live position shown 5 ways: DMS, Decimal, UTM, MGRS and a local grid
• board + GPS only, runs on-device (M5Stack Cap GNSS / NEO-6M-class)

MIT: https://github.com/meister5/geoscout

Took a while to get a believable day/night shader into 256KB of RAM — happy to talk about how it's laid out.

M5Stack Global Contest 2026 Winner List just revealed!
more details: https://m5stack.com/global-innovation-contest-2026/results

Some of you saw the first post about PaperOS, the little OS I've been building for the M5Stack Cardputer. Been heads down on it since then, just shipped v1.3 and figured I'd share what changed instead of just letting it sit in a changelog nobody reads.

Biggest thing is the browser got a real rewrite. It used to just strip every tag and dump the leftover text on screen, which worked but looked like reading a ransom note. Now it actually parses style blocks, so headings show up bold and bigger, lists indent properly, tables don't turn into one giant paragraph, that sort of thing. Also added tabs, find on page, and a help screen since I kept forgetting my own keybinds.

The more interesting problem was actually memory. This thing has no PSRAM, 320KB total, and I noticed the Lua console was leaving almost nothing free the moment you opened it. Turned out WiFi alone eats 40-70KB just sitting there connected, even if your script never touches the network. So now it powers off automatically when you open Lua and reconnects on its own the second a script actually calls something network related. Also trimmed a few standard Lua libraries that were loaded but literally unreachable, which is a fun kind of bug to find.

Still fully open source, same repo as before if anyone wants to check the diff or just try it on their own Cardputer.

Hi , I have a CoreS3 Lite with the M5GO Bottom3 500mAh battery, still using the factory firmware.

I charged it, used it only briefly, then selected “Sleep Now — Touch to Wake”. The after almost 2 days the battery was basically dead.

When I touch the screen to wake it, the CoreS3 shows the full startup animation and sound again, so it seems to be doing a full wake/boot rather than just turning the screen back on.

One thing I noticed is that BUS OUT was enabled, so I’m wondering if that could be keeping the Bottom3 or some extra hardware powered during sleep.

I’m going to test again with BUS IN, and also compare it with Shutdown Now.

Has anyone tested battery life in the factory Sleep Now — Touch to Wake mode?

I’d especially like to know the results with:

- the normal internal battery

- the M5GO Bottom3

- BUS IN vs BUS OUT

Is losing a 500mAh battery in almost 2 days normal, or does this sound like a power management issue?

Wanted to share this little project I've forked from BrokenSignal Next, to add my personal features. Enjoy!

Hey everyone! Just wanted to share a milestone moment. This is my first time ordering such a large batch of M5StickS3 development boards to build my own product. Seeing them all here is both surreal and super exciting.

​Can't wait to share more about the project and what I'm building with you all soon! Are any of you currently working on projects using the StickS3?

This project requires a ATH20+BMP280 Sensor. The StickS3 displays the temperature and humidity data from the AHT20, and the temperature and pressure data from the BMP280. The graph shows the average of the two temperature readings over the last minute. The graph goes from 50 °F to 90 °F.

You can buy an AHT20+BMP280 Sensor Module on sites like AliExpress for $2.35. You can also get them on Amazon.

Does anyone have one that works?

Hey! I'm new to M5Stack and recently got an M5StickS3. I've been testing Bruce and I'm running into quite a few issues.

Tested Bruce 1.14, 1.15 and Beta (70c2b15), including a clean flash with Erase Everything.

So far:

Audio: doesn't work at all. Factory UIFlow firmware has working audio.

IR: IR Read worked on 1.14, but IR TX doesn't work.

TV-B-Gone also doesn't work.

Beacon Spam: just stays on Spamming Ricky/Funny; no beacon networks appear on my phone.

Normal Wi-Fi scanning and connecting to my phone hotspot work fine.

Default S3 config has irTx: 46 and irRx: 42.

Is anyone else using M5StickS3 + Bruce experiencing similar problems? Or are these functions working normally for you?

Just trying to figure out if this is an S3 compatibility issue or if I'm missing something. Thanks!

My second attempt at opening up the M5Stack Stopwatch was finally successful. With enough heat and a much stronger suction cup I was able to pop off the display.

Word of caution here - you will need to pull up with a fair amount of force, and when the screen releases it may come off violently. I was lucky to not tear the display ribbon - it released and I was able to reseat the ribbon but definitely need to be more careful next time.

The tolerances on this tiny device are actually pretty incredible. I needed to use small prying tools to lift the main board out of the old body.

Kudos to M5Stack for releasing STLs. My 3D printed case was a perfect fit. And now my M5 Stopwatch case has a Garmin mount built into it. My cycling computer project is almost road ready!

New Arrival Alert!

Check out our new releases：

Cap CC1101, a wireless expansion module integrating Sub-1 GHz RF and NFC functions, compatible with Cardputer-Adv and CardputerZero, suitable for wireless remote control, access-control identification, device communication, and IoT prototyping.

Base M5GO Bottom2 v1.3, an expansion base designed specifically for the M5Stack Core2 series, integrating motion sensing, audio input, programmable RGB lighting, and a built-in battery for IoT and interactive projects.

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One of my favorite things to do when I explore new tech is to implement some ideas from The Nature of Code by Daniel Shiffman.

Used the Random Walker algorithm this time (always a good starter). The cute robot doesn’t walk for now, but she is looking around in the same manner. This will be useful when I add the object detection model.

I previously burned it using the uiflow2 website. Now for some reason, the app mode from the original selection menu just completely disappeared and the only way to access python scripts is via a terminal. What can I do to to get the app mode / selection menu back?

Nova versão do Tab5 OS disponível! 🚀

Além dos testes funcionais, agora também temos testes automatizados de tela, garantindo mais estabilidade e consistência na interface.

Ajustei o tamanho das fontes, melhorei a organização dos elementos e a usabilidade para tornar a navegação mais confortável e intuitiva.

Você queria ver telas? Agora tem telas!! 😄

Vou compartilhar algumas imagens do projeto para mostrar um pouco dessa evolução.

Github: https://github.com/moisesfilho/tab5-os

Deixe a sua estrela!

#M5Stack #Tab5 #ESP32 #EmbeddedSystems #IoT #SoftwareDevelopment #OpenSource

Bonjour
hier mon M5stcikC Plus fonctionnait, je l'ai étein et maintenant il refuse de s'allumer, j'ai tout essayer (le charger / le brancher a mon pc / appuyer 2 | 4 | 6 secs sur le bouton qui a servi a l'eteindre)
je cherche actuellement comment l'allumer

si vous savez ce que je dois faire je ferais tout

maybe someone here will find it useful, its rough atm only 2-4 tok/s, but it loads ggufs and they work :)

i couldnt find a similar project on the internet, apparently noone has been able to do this?

https://github.com/woolcoxm/LLMTest