Turn a WhatsApp message into a blinking light, a moving motor or a gadget with opinions.

You'll join a team of four, assigned at the door, and get a hardware kit and a blank board. Over the first hour you'll bring that board to life yourselves: flash it, set up your own Lua AI agent, link your WhatsApp, and send the first command. From there you teach the gadget new tricks in software, and the AI works out how to use them from plain messages.

Then it's an open build. A physical weather display. A temperature gauge with a personality. A reaction game that trash-talks you. Something nobody else in the room expected.

No hardware experience needed. Every step is on the event page, there's starter code, and there's support throughout the build. If you use Claude Code or Codex, bring it. It'll do the typing while you do the wiring.

The evening ends with a two-minute demo from every team.

What to bring

  • A laptop you can install software on (with Claude Code or Codex if you use them, and a USB-A-to-C adapter if it has no USB-C port)

  • A USB-C data cable, not a charge-only one

  • A phone with WhatsApp that can receive an email code (you'll create a free Lua account on the night)

  • An idea you want to make physical

Event details

  • Date: Monday 5 October 2026

  • Time: 6:00–9:00 PM. Arrive on time; the first hour is the build-up

  • Venue: to be confirmed

  • Format: teams of four, 50 places

About Lua AI

Lua AI connects AI agents to physical devices: a device tells the agent what it can do, and the agent uses those commands from natural-language messages, including WhatsApp.

About Give(a)Go

Give(a)Go is one of Ireland's largest communities for people building with emerging technology, bringing together 2,500+ engineers, founders and product people through hands-on events where participants turn new tools and ideas into working prototypes.