I cracked a robot vacuum's API in a week and gave Claude the keys

In one week of nights I: Reverse engineered the cloud signing algorithm for a 3i G10+ robot vacuum (matched 18/18 wire captures from mitmproxy) Frida-hooked the patched APK to capture the live SLAM map blob and AES-decrypted Agora WebRTC credentials Built a 5,000-line Python + aiohttp dashboard with cost tracking, behavior rules, MJPEG streaming, an autonomy decision loop Routed Claude vision (Haiku 4.5, $0.003/call) into the live drive loop so the robot stops crashing Handed motor control to Cl