OpenAI/reflect – Physical AI Assistant that illuminates your life
I have been working on making WebRTC + Embedded Devices easier for a few years. This is a hackathon project that pulled some of that together. I hope others build on it/it inspires them to play with hardware. I worked on it with two other people and I had a lot of fun with some of the ideas that came out of it. * Extendable/hackable - I tried to keep the code as simple as possible so others can fork/modify easily. * Communicate with light. With function calling it changes the light bulb, so it can match your mood or feelings. * Populate info from clients you control. I wanted…
OpenAI/reflect – Physical AI Assistant that illuminates your life launched on August 19, 2025 with 92 votes, #400 of 8,530 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
OpenAI/reflect is a physical AI assistant that uses WebRTC and embedded devices to communicate through light. The system changes a light bulb's color to match moods or feelings using function calling, and can populate information from user-controlled clients to guide users through their days. Designed for developers and hardware enthusiasts, it prioritizes simplicity and hackability, allowing users to easily fork and modify the code. The assistant connects through a phone without requiring WiFi setup, keeping sensitive data off the physical device itself.
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From the sources
Physical AI Assistant that illuminates your life. Contribute to openai/openai-reflect development by creating an account on GitHub.
This is a demo/hackathon project. This code is provided as-is without any warranty or guarantees. It has not been extensively reviewed for security, reliability, or fitness for any purpose. Use at your own risk. Reflect is a hardware AI Assistant that was built during a OpenAI hackathon. Currently it is built to target espressif devices, but we hope to expand its capabilites if users find it useful. The following were some of the ideas/inspirations during the project. We hope to expand this list. Reflect was written for a specific device to start, but if it is useful we want to add more. git clone -b v5.5 --recursive https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf.git cd esp-idf ./install.sh esp32s3 .…from github.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
I have been working on making WebRTC + Embedded Devices easier for a few years. This is a hackathon project that pulled some of that together. I hope others build on it/it inspires them to play with hardware. I worked on it with two other people and I had a lot of fun with some of the ideas that came out of it.…
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