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I built an AI Tamagotchi before Meta could

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta made AI look so stinking cute by giving it a squishy little face — and this holiday season, he wants to sell you a Muse Charm so you can carry your jolly AI helper around like a Tamagotchi. But I won’t be buying one, because we have Muse Charm at home. It cost just $50, and I’ve decided the learning experience was worth it.

马克·扎克伯格的 Meta 公司通过赋予人工智能一张软萌的小脸，让它看起来可爱极了。这个假期，他想向你推销一款 Muse Charm，让你能像玩电子宠物（Tamagotchi）一样随身携带这位快乐的人工智能助手。但我不会买，因为我们家里就有 Muse Charm。它只花了 50 美元，而且我认为这次学习经历非常值得。

My version doesn’t sport cameras or a 5G cellular radio, but it really talks to Muse and has cute avatars, too! It doubles as a pocket watch and a remote camera viewfinder, and it can (theoretically) control my smart home. Or at least it can if you inject a lot of extra vibe code.

我的版本虽然没有摄像头或 5G 蜂窝网络功能，但它确实能与 Muse 对话，而且还有可爱的虚拟形象！它既是怀表又是远程相机取景器，（理论上）还能控制我的智能家居。当然，前提是你得注入大量的额外“氛围代码”。

Weeks ago, I paid $50 to get a 1.75-inch touchscreen computer pendant drop-shipped from China — specifically the Waveshare ESP32-S3 1.75C. Not only does the push-to-talk AI devkit look a lot like the Muse Charm, but it’s officially sanctioned by Meta. It’s one of the company’s first suggestions if you want to build a “Muse Gadget,” a device that uses Meta’s open-source code and tokens to directly connect to its Muse AI cloud.

几周前，我花了 50 美元从中国直邮购买了一个 1.75 英寸的触摸屏电脑挂件——具体型号是 Waveshare ESP32-S3 1.75C。这款一键通话的人工智能开发套件不仅看起来很像 Muse Charm，而且还是 Meta 官方认可的。如果你想打造一个“Muse 小工具”（即使用 Meta 的开源代码和令牌直接连接其 Muse AI 云端的设备），这是该公司首批推荐的产品之一。

When the silver metal pocket watch arrived, it felt pretty useless to start. Setup was easy enough — I just plugged it into my PC and pointed Claude at Meta’s GitHub, then paired it to the Muse phone app. But even after I put Meta’s keys on the device, Muse originally thought I was sending it audio clips to transcribe rather than commands. After I cleared that up, Muse’s responses were still slow, and it didn’t answer me out loud.

当这个银色金属怀表到货时，起初感觉它相当没用。设置过程倒很简单——我只需把它插到电脑上，让 Claude 指向 Meta 的 GitHub，然后将其与 Muse 手机应用配对即可。但即使我把 Meta 的密钥放入设备后，Muse 最初还是认为我发送的是需要转录的音频片段，而不是指令。在解决这个问题后，Muse 的响应依然很慢，而且不会大声回答我。

It was hard to tell what it was saying since it only showed a few words onscreen at a time, with no place to read full messages unless I whipped out my phone with its own Muse app. Meta’s build also only came with a single Jolly avatar that mostly just sat there and looked cute, and it wouldn’t automatically discover smart home gadgets like Amazon Echo or Google Home devices do.

由于屏幕一次只能显示几个字，且没有地方阅读完整信息（除非我掏出手机打开 Muse 应用），很难分辨它在说什么。Meta 的版本也只带了一个“Jolly”虚拟形象，它大部分时间只是呆在那里卖萌，而且它不像亚马逊 Echo 或 Google Home 设备那样能自动发现智能家居小工具。

But a few sessions of Claude Code filled in almost all those holes. All I had to do was plug the Waveshare back into my PC, then ask Claude to reprogram each thing I wanted. When I complained to Claude that I couldn’t properly read or hear Muse’s replies to my asks, issues that others have mentioned as well, Claude built a conversation history page so I can swipe right to read what it said, and I plugged in a British AI voice from ElevenLabs that speaks its answers out loud.

不过，经过几次 Claude Code 的调试，几乎填补了所有这些漏洞。我所要做的就是把 Waveshare 插回电脑，然后要求 Claude 重新编程我想要的每一项功能。当我向 Claude 抱怨无法正常阅读或听到 Muse 的回复（这也是其他人提到的问题）时，Claude 构建了一个对话历史页面，这样我就可以向右滑动查看它说了什么，我还接入了 ElevenLabs 的英式人工智能语音，让它能大声读出答案。

Thanks to Claude, I can now press a button to make my phone take a picture from across the room with a high-quality live preview, and my phone’s front-facing camera no longer displays upside down. Claude made fairly short work of adding a low-quality camera preview over Bluetooth, too, so I don’t need to be on home Wi-Fi to get photos from creative angles.

多亏了 Claude，我现在只需按下一个按钮，就能让手机在房间另一端拍照，并获得高质量的实时预览，而且手机前置摄像头也不会再倒置显示了。Claude 还很快通过蓝牙添加了低质量的摄像头预览功能，所以我不需要连接家庭 Wi-Fi 也能从创意角度拍摄照片。

I asked Claude to make a whole batch of different avatars like the ones Meta showed off during Meta Connect, and to add a Tamagotchi-like minigame where they need food, play, sleep, and a bath. When the game seemed too simple to capture any attention, I had it add four different levels of hunger, boredom, and dirt. I decided treats should make a crunchy mess and get avatars dirtier when they eat them, and that too much play should tire out a pet. My wish was Claude’s command.

我要求 Claude 制作了一大批不同的虚拟形象，就像 Meta 在 Meta Connect 大会上展示的那样，并增加了一个类似电子宠物的迷你游戏，让它们需要进食、玩耍、睡觉和洗澡。当游戏看起来太简单而无法吸引注意力时，我让它增加了饥饿、无聊和脏乱四个不同等级。我决定零食应该制造出嘎吱作响的混乱，让虚拟形象在吃的时候变得更脏，而且玩得太多会让宠物感到疲倦。我的愿望就是 Claude 的指令。

It was so easy to let Claude reprogram the pendant that I asked it to build a few features specifically for this video in this story, including a working pocket watch face with three hands that actually tells the time. It even found, downloaded, trimmed, and loaded video clips of Zuck introducing the Muse Charm and installed a video player so I could play those clips on the Waveshare.

让 Claude 重新编程这个挂件太容易了，以至于我要求它专门为本文的视频构建了一些功能，包括一个带有三根指针、能真正显示时间的怀表表盘。它甚至找到、下载、剪辑并加载了扎克伯格介绍 Muse Charm 的视频片段，还安装了一个视频播放器，这样我就能在 Waveshare 上播放这些片段了。

I want you to understand I have no coding experience, and so I have no idea if any of this code is good. It might be fatally flawed. Nor do I trust Meta or its Muse agent with my email or my home network, particularly after hearing how it leaked one reviewer’s home address. That means I don’t really know how useful a Muse Charm may or may not be for those who do know how to code and are willing to take a bigger leap of faith.

我希望你明白，我没有任何编程经验，所以我不知道这些代码写得好不好。它可能存在致命缺陷。我也不信任 Meta 或其 Muse 代理程序会处理我的电子邮件或家庭网络，尤其是在听说它泄露了一位评论者的家庭住址之后。这意味着我真的不知道对于那些懂编程且愿意承担更大风险的人来说，Muse Charm 到底有多大用处。