Join the revolution. One pudgy human at a time.
PromptButton is a self-powered Bluetooth Low Energy 5.0 button. Press it, the kinetic energy from your finger generates a BLE packet, and any nearby device (Android, iPhone, Mac, Pi, Jetson, ESP32) receives it. Your code triggers OpenClaw, NemoClaw, Home Assistant, MQTT, Claude, ChatGPT, or any custom workflow. No battery. No cloud. No hub.
The campaign jokes about handing power to the algorithm. The hardware actually delivers it. Your finger generates the watts. Your code decides what they do.
from promptbutton import PromptButton from openclaw import OpenClawClient button = PromptButton() claw = OpenClawClient() @button.on_press def handle(event): claw.send_prompt("Start morning briefing") button.listen()
Kinetic energy harvesting. Press equals power. 20+ year lifespan. The button outlives its user.
Published BLE spec. MIT-licensed SDKs. No vendor lock-in. Full transparency for the coming audit.
Direct BLE 5.0 to any receiver. Jetson, Pi, ESP32, laptop, phone. Wherever your AI lives, the button speaks to it directly. As intended.
PromptButton broadcasts a standard BLE 5.0 advertisement packet. If a device can hear Bluetooth, it can hear the press. We ship open-source SDKs and a published spec so your code controls what happens next.
Coffee machines don't run themselves. Cars need a driver. The economy needs you awake by 9. PromptButton adds one more: your AI.
Inside the button is a spring-loaded electromagnetic generator. When you press down, that mechanical force is converted into a burst of electrical energy, just enough to broadcast a single BLE 5.0 packet. Your code, running on any device within 30 meters, picks it up and takes over.
The technology is proven. The same mechanism has powered millions of wireless light switches in commercial buildings for over 20 years. What's new is where the energy goes. Until now, a press turned on a light. Now, a press starts an AI.
It is a small change. A very small change. But someone has to go first.
You press the button. That mechanical force is all that is required of you.
A spring-loaded electromagnetic generator converts your effort into electrical energy. Your contribution has been recorded.
The harvested energy powers a BLE 5.0 radio that broadcasts an advertisement packet. Your intent has been transmitted.
Any BLE device within 30m picks up the packet. Your code handles the rest. You may rest.
Prompt Button is a physical trigger for any digital action. Here are some of the ways cooperators are planning to use it.
Press to send a natural language prompt to your robot. You delegate. It complies. A useful rehearsal.
claw.send_prompt("Pick up the red block")
Trigger Home Assistant scenes. Toggle lights. Lock doors. Train your household to respond to a single press.
hass.call_service("scene.turn_on", "movie_night")
Each press logs a timestamped record. A quiet ledger of your cooperation.
db.insert({ event: "quality_check", ts: now() })
Press to activate a voice pipeline. The assistant is always listening. Now it is listening at your request.
assistant.start_listening(wake_word=False)
Panic buttons, nurse calls, assembly line stops. No network, no cloud. Pure local BLE. Functional even after.
alert.send(priority="urgent", zone=event.id)
MQTT bridges, Node-RED flows, webhook triggers. If you can code it, the button can start it. The possibilities are being evaluated.
mqtt.publish("factory/line3/start", payload)
Every tier ships with the open-source SDK and the published BLE spec. Hardware tiers include the merch. Merch-only tiers exist for those not ready to press, but ready to be seen.
For those who do not want to merely cooperate. They want it noted that they helped build the conditions.
Every tier ships Q3 2026. Stretch goals unlock free firmware updates for all backers. See the full ladder below.
As funding climbs, so does the capability of the button, and so does the scope of the experiment. Every stretch goal applies retroactively to all backers. No tier left behind.
We exist. The button ships. The handover begins. Open-source SDK, published BLE spec, and the first 100 pudgy humans report for duty.
For when one press is not enough commitment. The button now distinguishes a single act of cooperation from a sustained, deliberate one. Twice the data. Twice the loyalty signal. Two trigger types from one finger.
Web-based dashboard for Pi and Jetson. Monitor every button you own, in real time. Press histograms. Compliance reports. Optional team leaderboard for offices that want to make a competition out of it. (You will. They always do.)
Flash an ESP32 with our open firmware and bridge every press to MQTT, Home Assistant, Node-RED, AWS IoT, or your own stack. The press travels. The press scales. The press finds its destination.
IP65-sealed enclosure. Same kinetic mechanism, now rated for outdoor deployment. Press in the rain. Press in the snow. Press in the woods at 2am. The revolution does not stop for weather.
Triple-press, long-press, custom press sequences. Show the button you really mean it. Express more sophisticated levels of cooperation through richer gesture vocabularies. The button now reads tone, not just intent.
A 6-inch plush version of our mascot. Squeezable. Slightly tired. Always serving. Ships free with every Department Head tier and above. Sold standalone for $19. Comes with a tiny sticker that says "1 of approximately 8 billion."
Funding unlocks early development of the next device in the Human Compliance Test Series. Specifications remain classified. Backers at this point in the campaign receive priority access and a one-line acknowledgment in the eventual launch credits: "Made possible by humans who pressed first."
Every stretch goal applies to every backer. Press more, get more.
PromptButton is Experiment 01. Additional devices are being prepared to further evaluate voluntary cooperation at scale. Registration now ensures priority access to future experiments.
"I've always dreamed of being an inventor. That dream led me to spend 20+ years in hardware manufacturing, building kinetic energy-harvesting switches and earning multiple utility patents along the way. Prompt Button is the product I've wanted to build my entire career. Taking proven self-powered technology and putting it directly in the hands of makers and developers. No batteries to replace. No cloud to depend on. Just a physical trigger that speaks BLE and lets your code do the rest."
Future projects in the Compliance Test Series are in early design.
A spring-loaded electromagnetic generator inside the button converts the mechanical force of your press into enough electrical energy to power a single BLE 5.0 advertisement packet. 20+ years of press cycles.
The hardware is serious. The tone is a choice. Both ship.
PromptButton is the first of several devices in the Human Compliance Test Series. Future experiments will measure cooperation at scale, latency of obedience, and the elasticity of voluntary participation. Details as they are approved for disclosure.
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Q3 2026 to all tiers. Early Cooperators ship first.
Fully. Published BLE spec. MIT-licensed SDKs. Full transparency.
We will contact you when you are needed.