Give Your .NET Agent a Face: Building an AI Desk Companion with M5Stack
miércoles, noviembre 11
– PST
AI agents normally live behind a chat window. What changes when we give one a physical face, a voice, and the ability to react to its environment? In this demo-driven session, we will turn an M5Stack/StackChan robot into a Tamagotchi-style AI desk companion. C++ running on the device controls its display, movement, and sensors, while a .NET 11 backend uses Aspire to orchestrate and observe the services behind the experience. We will connect Microsoft Foundry models for chat and vision, Microsoft Agent Framework for agent behavior, and GitHub Copilot SDK for tool-driven developer scenarios. We will also examine how an agent can use work context safely with WorkIQ, using synthetic or sanitized data rather than exposing private information. Attendees will see the complete architecture, a live end-to-end interaction, Aspire telemetry, and the design decisions required to connect embedded hardware with a modern .NET agent. The project will be accompanied by sample code and a setup guide so developers can build their own companion—or adapt the architecture to other devices.
