Embroid
Platform · Device Control

Control real devices from anywhere in your workflow.

Flash, reset, switch power, read serial, and toggle GPIO from a local UI, CLI, MCP, or REST API — on your bench or across a lab.

Device control is the primitive every hardware workflow depends on. Embroid exposes it as a small, typed surface so humans, scripts, CI jobs, and agents all use the same verbs.
Why it matters

Every hardware workflow depends on the same few verbs.

Flash, reset, power, serial, GPIO. Most teams re-implement them for each bench, each CI pipeline, each lab. Embroid collapses them into one typed surface so the same verb behaves the same way whether a person, a script, or an agent runs it.

Capabilities

What you get

  • Flash firmware
  • Reset targets
  • Switch power
  • Cut USB power
  • Read serial
  • Toggle GPIO
  • Run vendor tools
  • Trigger accessories
  • Recover wedged devices
Example workflow

Recover a wedged board.

A stuck target is the worst place for ad-hoc scripts. With Embroid, recovery is a sequence you can run, automate, and share.

  1. 01Reserve the device with a short lease so nothing else touches it.
  2. 02Cut USB power to the target.
  3. 03Switch the external DC rail off.
  4. 04Wait five seconds for rails to fully drain.
  5. 05Restore USB and DC power.
  6. 06Flash a known-good recovery firmware.
  7. 07Stream serial logs and assert that the boot marker appears.
  8. 08Mark the session as recovered or failed, and export the evidence record.
$ embroid devices list
$ embroid lease create device-04 --duration 20m
$ embroid power cycle device-04
$ embroid flash device-04 ./firmware.bin
$ embroid serial tail device-04 --assert "boot_ok=1"
Product support

Which product do you need?

Device control runs on all three products — choose based on how the bench lives.

Embroid Client

Drives the hardware your workstation is already attached to. Great for personal benches and evaluation.

Embroid Basic

Adds a dedicated always-on node with switched USB, switched DC, and GPIO triggers for one bench.

Embroid Pro

Scales to multiple targets, 4 UART/debug channels, 8 GPIO lines, and accessory expansion for labs.

Security & audit

Safe by default — for humans, agents, and CI.

Every control verb runs under a scoped permission set and an explicit lease. Audit logs capture who ran what against which device, when, and with which firmware hash. Local-first operation means nothing leaves the host unless you opt in.

  • Scoped permissions — agents and CI jobs only see the verbs they're granted.
  • Exclusive leases — no two actors can drive the same device at the same time.
  • Binary validation — firmware hashes are recorded before every flash.
  • Audit log — who, what, when, and which device, preserved locally.
Related

Where device control shows up

Remote hardware access

Drive real devices from anywhere.

Agent-assisted firmware

Give agents safe device verbs.

Factory and field triage

Recover wedged devices in the field.

Platform

Add real-device control to your bench, lab, CI, or agent workflow.

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