Meta had already been working to push Muse beyond its role as a consumer AI assistant. Earlier in the week, it launched Muse for Small Business, linking the agent to services including Shopify, Dropbox and Slack, while a new Meta Enterprise Platform unit signalled a broader corporate sales drive.¹

On Friday, that expansion reached the workbench. Meta unveiled Muse Gadgets, an open-source project that supplies firmware and a Linux SDK for developers who want to connect the agent to home-built hardware. The suggested starting points are deliberately accessible: a color e-ink display for reminders, an HDMI stick for a television, or a small touchscreen device resembling a DIY Muse Charm.²

The company’s pitch is expansive. “Muse gadgets are open source devices you build yourself,” Meta says, inviting users to program an ESP32 board or Raspberry Pi and connect Muse to “displays, buttons, sensors, actuators, and whatever else” is on the workbench.² That opens the door to hobbyist experiments that could make Muse more visible—and more useful—inside the home.

But Meta’s enthusiasm comes with an unusually blunt boundary: “Proceed at your own risk!”² The warning captures the trade-off at the heart of the release. Makers get low-cost components, code and a Discord support channel; they also take responsibility for whatever an AI-linked sensor, display or actuator does in the real world.¹

Meta has also built a more finished example. Its USB-C-powered Muse Home Link can connect the agent to a home network and, through community-built skills, handle tasks such as switching on lights, controlling a TV or sending a document to a printer.² Meta made 5,000 units available free to Muse subscribers while supplies last, turning a limited giveaway into a test of whether DIY enthusiasm can become a wider hardware ecosystem.¹