Rake

Rake is building the AI firmware engineer we've desperately needed but didn't know to ask for. Upload your schematic and this thing actually reads your PCB design, detects what MCU you're using, pulls the datasheets, and writes the firmware for you. STM32, ESP32, whatever you're spinning—it knows the pin configs, the HAL, the register-level details. No more manually diving through 500-page datasheets at 2am trying to figure out why your UART isn't talking.

Here's the thing about firmware development: it's the last frontier of manual labor in software. Everyone's using AI to write Python and JavaScript, but embedded engineers are still copying register definitions from PDFs and writing drivers by hand. Rake changes that equation entirely. You describe what you want—"build my project," "flash to board"—and AI handles the whole workflow from code to deployment to debugging. They're already on waitlists with engineers from Figure.ai, Intel, Verkada, Ventana Micro, Tor.ai, NZXT, and Yulu. That's not bad for a product launching in early 2026 with zero marketing yet.

Hardware is coming home to roost in AI, and Rake just made firmware development feel like it's 2026 instead of 2006.