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From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun

2026-07-27 · 28 min · 33 entities

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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://penname.co/
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://cursor.com/
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://lovable.dev/
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://chatprd.ai/
  • → references clairevo.com website
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://clairevo.com/
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://openclaw.ai/
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://supabase.com/
  • → references The Message book
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://maddiedreese.com/message
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://raspberrypi.com/
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://resend.com/
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://workers.cloudflare.com/
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://developer.x.com/
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://spoke.com/
  • → references maddiedreese.com website
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://maddiedreese.com/

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  • mentioned penname.co website
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://penname.co/
  • mentioned cursor.com website
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://cursor.com/
  • mentioned chatprd.ai website
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://chatprd.ai/
  • mentioned clairevo.com website
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://clairevo.com/
  • mentioned openclaw.ai website
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://openclaw.ai/
  • mentioned supabase.com website
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://supabase.com/
  • mentioned raspberrypi.com website
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://raspberrypi.com/
  • mentioned resend.com website
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://resend.com/
  • mentioned workers.cloudflare.com website
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://workers.cloudflare.com/
  • mentioned developer.x.com website
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://developer.x.com/
  • mentioned spoke.com website
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://spoke.com/
  • mentioned maddiedreese.com website
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://maddiedreese.com/
  • references penname.co website
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://penname.co/
  • references cursor.com website
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://cursor.com/
  • references chatprd.ai website
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://chatprd.ai/
  • references clairevo.com website
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://clairevo.com/
  • references openclaw.ai website
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://openclaw.ai/
  • references supabase.com website
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://supabase.com/
  • references raspberrypi.com website
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://raspberrypi.com/
  • references resend.com website
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://resend.com/
  • references workers.cloudflare.com website
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://workers.cloudflare.com/
  • references developer.x.com website
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://developer.x.com/
  • references spoke.com website
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://spoke.com/
  • references maddiedreese.com website
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://maddiedreese.com/

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  • mentioned Claire Vo person
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    Feed author/publisher: Claire Vo
  • hosted by Claire Vo person
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  • mentioned lovable.dev person
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://lovable.dev/
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://lovable.dev/

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  • mentioned Technology company
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  • mentioned The Message book
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://maddiedreese.com/message
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    Link in episode "From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun": https://maddiedreese.com/message

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Episode description as stored
Maddie Reese is a vibe coder, hardware tinkerer, and builder. She builds things at the intersection of software and hardware, including a thermal receipt printer that people around the world can message directly, a fully functional Twitter pager running on a Raspberry Pi, and a personal API that tells you her coffee order so you don’t have to ask. Maddie approaches hardware the same way she approaches software: dump the idea into Cursor, let it interview her, get a shopping list, triple-check the parts before buying, and build. She got her start after her dad introduced her to Lovable, and she locked herself in her room and didn’t come up for air. What you’ll learn: How Maddie built a thermal receipt printer that accepts messages from anywhere in the world using a Raspberry Pi and Bluetooth How to use Cursor’s agent view to brainstorm a hardware project What belongs in a personal API and why agents, not just humans, will be the ones using it How to read just enough code to do some damage, without needing to understand all of it Why building for fun, not practicality, is the fastest path to actually shipping physical projects — Brought to you by: Firecrawl —Power AI agents with clean web data Customer.io —Build customer engagement campaigns from a single prompt — In this episode, we cover: (00:00) Intro (02:00) Maddie’s AI pill moment (03:53) The thermal receipt printer: live demo and how it works (11:10) The pager project (17:23) Why she uses Cursor’s clean agent view instead of terminals and browsers (19:05) The personal API: coffee order, pets, favorite snacks, and more (22:57) Lightning round and final thoughts — Tools referenced: • Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/ • Lovable: https://lovable.dev/ • Raspberry Pi: https://www.raspberrypi.com/ • Resend: https://resend.com/ • Cloudflare Workers: https://workers.cloudflare.com/ • Supabase (Conduct database referenced): https://supabase.com/ • Twitter/X API: https://developer.x.com/ • Spoke pager network: https://www.spoke.com/ • OpenClaw: https://openclaw.ai/ — Where to find Maddie Reese: Website: https://maddiedreese.com Message her directly: https://maddiedreese.com/message X: https://x.com/maddiedreese — Where to find Claire Vo: ChatPRD: https://www.chatprd.ai/ Website: https://clairevo.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairevo/ X: https://x.com/clairevo — Production and marketing by https://penname.co/ . For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email jordan@penname.co.