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Picodev Lab

by PICODEV-SASversion 0.11.0i★ 0iRuns in the cloud
Registry nameio.github.PICODEV-SAS/picodev-lab

Install

Overview

Description from the maker (original English)

Arduino benches simulated in the browser: sessions, sketch push, simulation, tests, challenges.

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What you can do with it

We have not written a plain-language summary for this one yet. Below are the facts we read from the registry.

  • Connection: Runs in the cloud
  • Transport: Streamable HTTP
  • Category: Web & browsers

Install

Pick the AI app you use, then copy the settings.

Before you install

You need

Which app do you use?

Pick your app above. We remember it, so next time the button says “Install in …”.

Works in Claude on the web, desktop and mobile:

  1. Open Settings → Connectors
  2. Press Add custom connector
  3. Paste the address below and press Add
  4. If it asks you to sign in, sign in with the maker
SettingsConnectors1+ Add2https://…3Connect4
https://lab.picodev.fr/mcp

Run this in your terminal

claude mcp add --transport http picodev-lab https://lab.picodev.fr/mcp

Open in Cursor

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "picodev-lab": {
      "url": "https://lab.picodev.fr/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

Open in VS Code

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .vscode/mcp.json in your project

{
  "servers": {
    "picodev-lab": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://lab.picodev.fr/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

ChatGPT connects only to servers on the internet:

  1. Open ChatGPT on the web → Settings → Connectors (Apps)
  2. Press Create or Add (some plans need Developer mode under Advanced first)
  3. Paste the address below, give it a name and save
  4. If it asks you to sign in, sign in with the maker
SettingsConnectors1+ Create2https://…3Connect4
https://lab.picodev.fr/mcp

Menu names can differ slightly by plan and over time.

Your choice stays on this device in a cookie; no account needed.

These settings are generated from the maker’s registry entry. If the README says otherwise, follow the README.

Which apps can use it

Based on how this server connects and on each app’s own docs, checked Nov 10, 2026.

Connect over the internet in

ClaudeChatGPTGooseLM StudioMsty StudioCherry StudioCursorVS Code + GitHub CopilotVisual StudioWindsurf (Devin Desktop)ZedKiroClineContinueJetBrains AI AssistantClaude CodeCodex CLIGemini CLIOpenCodenodecodeWarpLibreChatOpen WebUIRaycast

All apps, with pros and cons →

What it can do

Tool names and descriptions exactly as the server reported them on Nov 7, 2026. The maker wrote them, not us; we show them as plain text.

  • decode_capture

    Decode a ready logic capture of the session (browser or bench). protocol "uart" with channels {rx} and options {baud (300-1000000, 9600), bits (5-9, 8), parity (none, even, odd), stop (1, 2), invert (false)}; "spi" with {sck, mosi?, miso?, cs?} (one data pin at least) and options

  • list_setups

    The setups: status available (open_session works) or soon (listed, cannot be opened yet), their modes (free, challenge) and their benches by kind (status open, or soon: not offered yet).

  • open_session

    Create a session (mode: free or challenge). Give open_url to the human: nothing simulates until they open it in their browser.

  • push_to_editor

    Replace the code in the human's browser and, if run, compile it in the lab's cloud and start it. The fallback of push_program: use it only when the toolchain to compile locally is missing (no arduino-cli, core or library).

  • push_program

    Send a program compiled on the visitor's machine (Intel HEX text, 48 KiB at most, e.g. arduino-cli's .ino.hex) to the human's browser, which loads it in the simulator without compiling and, if run, starts it. files: the sources, shown read-only in the editor, never compiled. Duri

  • read_simulation

    Last state (with circuit, the browser's components and wires), last compilation and the events after since_ms (2000 at most). `serial` is the full serial output of the current run (up to 16 KiB), reset at each compile and NOT starved by pin events: prefer it over reconstructing s

  • set_visibility

    Change the visibility (private, link, public). Returns the viewer link; current viewers are disconnected.

  • queue_join

    Take a place in the queue for benches of this kind (for example real or sim). The browser must be connected.

  • queue_status

    The session's place: state none, waiting (position, estimated wait eta_s) or turn (bench, end of the turn ends_at, Unix seconds).

  • queue_leave

    Give back the place in the queue, or the turn if it has started.

  • close_session

    End the session now, as when it expires: the place or turn ends, viewers and the browser are disconnected, everything is forgotten.

  • session_status

    The session's state without its events, cheap enough to poll: browser connected (owner), visibility, current viewer link (not renewed), viewers, created_at and expires_at (Unix seconds), run (compilations so far: event times restart at each), level and levels (null in free mode),

  • submit_answer

    Challenge mode: propose `value` as the answer of the current level's test `test` (an answer test of the level's brief). One answer per second at most. The hub checks it and returns {test, ok}; the verdict is also shown in the bench. For a hint, ask the visitor to reveal one in th

  • next_level

    Challenge mode: move to the next level, as the bench's "Next level" button, and only when it would be offered: every test of the current level passed and a next level exists. Returns {level, levels}, the new level (index); session_status's level changes with the bench's next stat

  • capture_logic

    Record every edge of the requested pins (probes of the setup sheet; by default the logic ones) for duration_ms (1 to 10 000 ms). In the browser's simulation, in simulated time; during the session's turn on a real bench, at the bench's logic analyser, in real time (no browser or r

  • capture_analog

    Sample the voltage of 1 to 4 board pins (the board's own numbers: Nano A0-A7 = 14-21, Uno A0-A5 = 14-19, Mega A0-A15 = 54-69; by default the setup's scope probes) at rate_hz (100 to 10 000) for duration_ms (1 to 10 000 simulated ms), 200 000 samples at most in all. An ADC input r

  • read_capture

    State of a capture (recording, ready, failed) and its kind (logic, analog). Once ready, the measures per pin and, for a logic capture, the edges [t_us, pin, v], 2000 from offset; for an analog one, rate_hz and the samples, rows [mv_1, ...] in the order of pins (row k at k / rate_

  • read_setup

    A served setup sheet (setup.json, files included; never a solution): board, components and wires (circuit), probes, levels (without their hints: hints come through read_simulation as the visitor reveals them). Plus, when it exists, schema.png, the starting circuit as the editor d

  • push_circuit

    Free mode only: replace the circuit in the human's browser (the simulation stops). components: [{type, id, properties, x?, y?}] (the board is not a component), wires: [{id, start: {componentId, pinName}, end: {...}, color?, waypoints?: [{x, y}] (the wire's route, 16 points at mos

  • bench_snapshot

    During the session's turn on a real bench: a photo of the bench, as an image, and t_ms, the instant of the photo in ms since the start of the turn (null when unknown). One every 2 seconds.

  • spec_draft

    Draft the specification of the visitor's own project with Picodev's interview: you ask the visitor, this tool says what to ask next and makes the PDF. Nothing is sent and nothing is kept. Call it with the sections written so far (none at first). sections: {id: text in simple Mark

  • brief_submit

    Send Picodev the specification of the visitor's project, as a PDF, or only return its preview (send=false). sections: {id: text in simple Markdown}, ids envelope, fonctionPrincipale, fonctions, alimentation, format, environnement, production, preferences (the 8 sections of a prod

  • request_meeting

    Send Picodev a meeting request. contact: {name, email, company?, phone?}. context: the project in a few sentences (2000 characters at most): what the visitor wants to do, where they stand, what they did in the lab. availabilities: 1 to 10 slots {from, to}, ISO 8601 dates with a t

Basic checksi

We check information anyone can see; we have not read the code. Checks that do not apply are left out of the count. · Checked Nov 10, 2026

  • ✓ Pass

    Maker matches the repo

    The registry name was verified with the GitHub account PICODEV-SAS, which owns the repo

  • ✓ Pass

    Still maintained

    Code last changed 18 days ago

  • … Not checked yet

    Has a licence

    We have not read this repo from GitHub yet

  • ✓ Pass

    Endpoint responds

    Responded in 105 ms (HTTP 200)

  • – Not applicable

    Sign-in with OAuth

    No sign-in needed

  • ✓ Pass

    No hidden instructions in tool descriptions

    Read 23 tool descriptions and found no hidden instructions to the AI

Compared with others in Web & browsersi

  • More stars than 0% of the other 1444 servers in this category
  • Published to the registry more recently than 64% of the other 1444 servers in this category
  • Basic checks equal to or better than 100% of the other 1444 servers in this category

Compared with every active server in this category in the registry. Stars count only when the publisher owns the repo.

Common questions

Is Picodev Lab safe?

It passed 4 of 4 applicable basic checks. We have not read the code. Before adding a key or token, see what access the server asks for and use a key with only the permissions you need.

What keys or codes does it need?

The registry does not list a required key, though some servers ask you to sign in on first use.

Does it run on my computer or in the cloud?

It runs in the maker’s cloud. Connect over the internet with nothing to install, but what you send passes through the maker’s servers.

Is it still maintained?

The GitHub repo last changed 18 days ago, and the latest version (0.11.0) reached the registry 18 days ago.

Which apps can use it?

Apps that support MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. It connects by URL, so apps that accept remote MCP servers work too, such as ChatGPT in developer mode.

What can I use instead?

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