TABY DEV KIT
The same desk robot — without the productivity app.
70+ animations, BT / Wi-Fi / USB-C, your apps.
Cheaper
No software, lower price
Skip the productivity app and you skip the cost of building it. Same robot, lower sticker.
Open
Send any command
Plain JSON over BT / Wi-Fi / USB-C. Play one of 70+ animations or push any text to the screen.
Yours
Your project, your rules
Wire it into your build pipeline, a smart home, a meeting bot, a Twitch overlay — whatever you ship.
Press a button.
Watch Taby react.
This is exactly what your app would do — fire a command, the robot reacts. Right now you're driving a real Taby video, live.
Trigger animation
Custom text
On a real Taby, your text shows on the screen instantly.
What your app sends
curl -X POST taby.local/play \
-d '{"anim":"idle"}'The same hardware. The same API call. Driven from your code.
Three ways to talk to it
Whatever you're building with, Taby probably already speaks it.
Bluetooth
Pair from any phone or laptop. Send commands wirelessly with low latency.
Wi-Fi
Hit Taby's local HTTP endpoint from any device on your network or a script in the cloud.
USB-C
One cable for power and a serial connection. Plug and play on macOS, Windows, and Linux.
70+ animations
A full library of faces and reactions lives on the device. Call them by name. No assets to ship, no firmware to flash for a new mood.
The whole API, basically
Play an animation
POST /play
{ "anim": "happy" }Show custom text
POST /text
{ "text": "ship it!" }Serial / BT
> play happy
> text "ship it!"Make it yours
A few starting points. Most projects take less than an evening.
Build alerts
Trigger an angry face when CI fails, a happy one when it passes.
Coding companion
Show a focus face when your editor is active, a sleepy face when idle.
Smart home sidekick
Wire it into Home Assistant. Doorbell rings, Taby looks surprised.
Show your own text
Push custom text to Taby's screen from your script, app, or shortcut.
Want first dibs?
Drop your email. You'll get the launch price and a unit before anyone else.
Common questions
Just the Taby hardware — assembled and flashed with the dev firmware. 70+ animations and the text/animation API are built in. No productivity app, no subscriptions, no companion software you have to run.
Send a simple command over Bluetooth, Wi-Fi (HTTP), or USB-C (serial). Anything that can make a network or serial call can drive Taby — Python, Node, Shortcuts, a webhook, a Raspberry Pi, whatever you use.
The full Taby ships with the productivity app — to-do, timers, reminders, all wired up out of the box. The Dev Kit is the same hardware, cheaper, with none of that. You build what you want it to do.
The DIY build is source + parts list — you source hardware and assemble it yourself. The Dev Kit ships fully assembled and ready to talk to.
Anything that can open a serial port, make an HTTP request, or speak Bluetooth. macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, any single-board computer, any cloud function.
Dropping soon at a lower price than the full Taby — exact number locked in at launch. Join the list and you'll get first dibs.