CI
Deploy buddy
Watches your pipeline and shows the result as a face on your desk.
"Celebrates when the build passes. Judges you when it fails."
The programmable desk pet
Your code finally has a body.
cgotchi is a tiny ESP32-S3 device with a colour touchscreen, speaker, mics and motion sensing. It blinks, it naps, it reacts. And everything it does is yours to rewrite.
In stock · ships across India
GST includedFree shippingMIT-licensed SDK
See it in action
Three ways to meet cgotchi.
Short films on what it is, how developers use it, and how to build your own AI device with it. Tap one to watch with sound.
One device, any face
A pet that's whatever you flash it to be.
Out of the box it blinks, nods off and looks up when you talk. Swap the face for a cat, a robot, a status light or a game.
What people build
May cause weekend projects.
Screen, buttons, speaker, mics, motion, Wi-Fi and BLE in one 40 mm cube. A few ideas to start from, most with examples in the SDK.
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Focus timer
Tap to start a Pomodoro, shake to cancel. Gets visibly annoyed when you skip a break.
"Skip your break. Watch it get annoyed."
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Voice companion
Two mics and a 3 W speaker. Connect any cloud backend and talk to it over Wi-Fi.
"Talk to it. It talks back."
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BLE shortcut key
Pairs as a Bluetooth keyboard. One press starts dictation, mutes a call or flips a slide.
"One button. Your laptop does the rest."
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Pill reminder
A gentle chime and a tap-to-confirm screen. Ping family if a dose is missed.
"Never miss a dose."
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Ticker & weather
Glanceable markets, forecasts or smart-home state, with a face that reacts to the numbers.
"It frowns before it rains."
Hardware at a glance
Small cube. Serious dev board.
Everything you need for tiny interactive builds, wired up and ready to program.
Display
2.01″ HD touchscreen
240 × 296 colour panel with capacitive touch. Room for animated faces, tiny controls and debug panels.
↳ This one's live. Move your cursor, then tap it.
240× 296
Compute
ESP32-S3 N16R8
Dual-core with 8 MB PSRAM, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth LE 5. The maker chip you already know.
S3
Audio
Hears and speaks
Two MEMS mics with echo cancellation and a 4 Ω 3 W speaker.
3W
Motion
Shake, tilt, tap
A 3-axis accelerometer turns picking it up into an input.
3axis
Power
Cordless when you want
600 mAh battery, about 3–4 hours active, USB-C charging.
600mAh
Open-source by design
Take the SDK. Make it yours.
Your whole app is one C++ class. Flash your own behaviour, swap the backend, publish examples.
Not a locked gadget
AI can be cloud, local, hybrid or skipped entirely. You own the loop.
- Callbacks for touch, buttons, shake, mic
- OTA updates and 10 examples
- Hardware self-test included
- MIT licensed
Reference hardware
Spec sheet.
Physical
40 × 40 × 20 mm · ABS shell · approx. 35–50 g
Display
2.01″ HD capacitive touchscreen · 240 × 296 · custom boot screen and animation support
Compute
ESP32-S3 · N16R8 · 8 MB octal PSRAM
Connectivity
Wi-Fi · Bluetooth LE 5 · native USB-C (serial/JTAG)
Audio
2 × MEMS microphones with echo-cancel loopback · 4 Ω 3 W speaker
Sensors
3-axis accelerometer
Controls
3 top buttons (Vol −, middle, Vol +)
Power
600 mAh battery · approx. 3–4 hours active use · USB-C charging
Colours
Pure White · Classic Black · Cute Green · Magenta Red · Lucky Orange
Get your cgotchi
₹3,999
Incl. GST · free shipping across India · in stock
- Five shell colours
- Open-source SDK
- USB-C rechargeable
- Ready out of the box
Questions
Good to know.
Do I need to code to use it?
No. It comes running a pet face that blinks, naps and reacts. Coding is how you make it do new things, and the SDK ships with examples to start from.
Does the voice AI run on the device?
No. Voice features stream over Wi-Fi to a cloud backend of your choice. Everything else (display, touch, buttons, motion, sound) runs locally.
How long does the battery last?
About 3–4 hours of active use on the 600 mAh battery, and it charges over USB-C. Most people keep it plugged in on the desk.
Where do you ship?
Across India, free. The price is ₹3,999 including GST, on cgotchi.com and Amazon.