CircuitMess, inc.

Karla Trstenjak

Emil Gajšak

Filip Romić

Setting up your Butter Bot, voice commands, expansion modules, the app, and coding it yourself.

Butter Bot

Pair over Bluetooth — the CircuitMess Connect app on Android, no app needed on iPhone — and Butter Bot can read your notifications, run your music and finally tell the…

How do I connect Butter Bot to my phone?

Press and hold the power button for about three seconds to bring it to life — hold it again, or simply tell it to shut down.

How do I turn Butter Bot on and off?

They pair themselves — switch both on near each other and they find each other, with no codes, menus or setup.

How do I connect Butter Bot to its controller?

A slow blink means it's awake and idle, a fast blink means it's listening, and a steady glow means it's talking.

What does the light on Butter Bot mean?

Waking Butter Bot up, pairing it with the controller and your phone, and what its light is telling you.

Getting started

How to update Butter Bot's software

How do I update Butter Bot controller's software?

Butter Bot's bottom sensor is being a little too cautious. A quick firmware update from code.circuitmess.com fixes it.

My Butter Bot thinks it's picked up and won't move - what should I do?

Nothing's wrong. The MQ-135 sensor needs 5–10 minutes to warm up the first time you use it, and Butter Bot will tell you while it's calibrating.

My Butter Bot's gas sensor doesn't seem to react at first — is something wrong?

Hold the power button for about 10 seconds to force a full shutdown, then switch it back on.

Butter Bot froze or is acting strange — how do I reset it?

A track on my Butter Bot slipped or fell off — what should I do?

When Butter Bot freezes — and when it only looks like something is wrong.

Fixing problems

Jokes, facts, dice, "what's this?", driving, face recognition, snap-on modules and your phone's notifications — a tour of the good stuff.

What can Butter Bot do?

There is no wake word — give the button a short press, wait for the fast blink, then say one of the phrases it knows.

How do I talk to Butter Bot?

Every activation phrase, grouped by what it does — small talk, play, movement, face recognition, each module, phone control and system commands.

Butter Bot voice commands

Press and hold the manual override button on the controller and Butter Bot drops into RC mode, with a live view from its camera.

How do I drive Butter Bot around myself?

Yes — press the "Shut up" button on the controller to silence it, and the same button again to bring its voice back.

Can I mute Butter Bot?

Yes — switch between several colour themes and turn the screen brightness up or down.

Can I personalize the controller?

Voice commands, driving it around, and everything it can do.

Using Butter Bot

It tells you out loud — and the controller screen shows both battery levels in the top corners.

How do I know when my Butter Bot's battery is running low?

Any standard USB-C charger tops up Butter Bot. The controller's batteries aren't rechargeable, but it runs from the same USB-C cable.

How do I charge Butter Bot and the controller?

No. Butter Bot stays put while it's charging — it won't move or wander off the table with a cable attached.

Can I leave Butter Bot charging on my desk — will it drive off the edge?

Charging Butter Bot, powering the controller, and how to tell when the battery is low.

Battery and charging

Three of the six modules need soldering — which ones, and what you'll need.

Do I need to solder anything on Butter Bot?

Six snap-on modules: lights, a motion sensor, air quality, temperature and humidity, an infrared blaster for your TV, and a blank perf board.

What does each Butter Bot module do?

One thing only — hold Butter Bot by its head, never by its leg, while you plug a module in or pull one out.

Do I need to be careful when swapping the modules?

How do I create my own expansion modules?

What each of the six modules adds, and how to swap them without hurting the robot.

Expansion modules

The easy way in: drag blocks instead of writing C++, and change what Butter Bot says and does. Start here if you have never coded before.

Coding Guide 1 — Code your Butter Bot in CircuitBlocks

Install VS Code and the ESP-IDF extension, clone the firmware, compile it and flash it to the robot. The first step if you want to change the firmware itself.

Coding Guide 2 — Build and flash the Butter Bot firmware with Visual Studio Code

Describe the change you want in plain English and let Anthropic's Claude Code write the C++, build it and flash it for you.

Coding Guide 3 — Code your Butter Bot with Claude Code

The same describe-it-and-the-AI-programs-it workflow as Guide 3, using ChatGPT's Codex CLI instead.

Coding Guide 4 — Code your Butter Bot with OpenAI Codex

New phrases, new routines and voice commands, object detection, and responding to the controller — with the code for each.

Coding Guide 5 — Program your Butter Bot: four worked examples

Reshape the stock voice's pitch and speed, or install and tune a completely new flite voice.

Coding Guide 6 — Give your Butter Bot a new voice

Albert Gajsak

Build the firmware yourself, change it with AI, or give your robot a new voice.

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