Pico Bay MCP Server

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Pico Bay runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 264 installs a week from npm. Last commit 6 Nov 2026.

App and MCP server for Raspberry Pi Pico and ESP32 boards over USB: files, console, firmware.

Installs per day peak 188 · avg 34 · -35% w/w

a month agotoday

264

Installs / week

npm · @ctrlpi/pico-bay

Stars

0 open issues

6 Nov 2026

Last commit

9 releases in 90 days

MIT

License

JavaScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Pico Bay every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add pico-bay -- npx -y @ctrlpi/pico-bay

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pico-bay": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@ctrlpi/pico-bay"
      ]
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.pico-bay]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@ctrlpi/pico-bay"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pico-bay": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@ctrlpi/pico-bay"
      ]
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "pico-bay": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@ctrlpi/pico-bay"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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Pico Bay — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Pico Bay?

Pico Bay runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package @ctrlpi/pico-bay was installed 264 times last week.

How do I connect Pico Bay?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls @ctrlpi/pico-bay straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use Pico Bay?

The npm package @ctrlpi/pico-bay was installed 264 times in the last week. Week over week that is -35%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is Pico Bay open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in JavaScript and 7 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.