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How I AI · Monday, July 27, 2026

Maddie Reese uses AI for brainstorming hardware projects, citing 'interview me' approach

Maddie Reese describes her process for developing hardware projects, which involves using AI as a brainstorming partner. She feeds her ideas into Cursor and then engages in a question-and-answer session with the AI to refine the project details.

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How I how I kind of started with the um, with the entire project is, I just dumped everything out of my brain into curser.
Maddie Reese
So from there, I typically go on like a brainstorming session. Typically I have it asked me questions. And I just keep asking me questions until all of my questions are answered about what, how this works, what I can do this.
Maddie Reese
And then we kind of zero in on like what I should buy, if I'm starting from something where I don't already have the thing.
Maddie Reese
Heard on How I AI — “From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun, published Monday, July 27, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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