Plynx.
An IoT connectivity platform for hardware makers. Build custom dashboards, flash firmware, and control devices from iOS and Android over a binary TCP/SSL protocol. Eight board families, MQTT broker, and Home Assistant integration out of the box.
What's been built.
Canvas Studio — drag-and-drop dashboard editor (buttons, toggles, sliders, gauges, charts, RGB, terminals, tables). Code Studio — Arduino editor + compiler with in-editor AI completion. Wiring editor ↔ PCB editor — interconnected, sharing one project context. 3D editor — generates project enclosures. Marketplace with reviews, payments, customizable rules. Android app on the current protocol. Eventoring rule engine — conditions, actions, notifications, schedules, scenes. MQTT broker + Home Assistant integration for interop. Web platform — forum, documentation, public dashboard, "Scratch-for-Arduino" learning tool.
Binary wire protocol.
Binary on the wire, TCP/SSL transport, OTA firmware updates — implemented across the server, the iOS and Android apps, and a C++ firmware library. Supports eight board families simultaneously with mixed-board projects as first-class citizens.
Where we're going.
An AI workbench that generates entire hardware projects from a single prompt.
The long-term vision: an open-weights LLM fine-tuned on agentic hardware-design tasks that generates dashboard, firmware, wiring, PCB, and 3D enclosure end-to-end. Groundwork has started — a derivative-data pipeline over open-source hardware projects — but this is roadmap, not product.
Also planned: exposing Plynx devices over Anthropic's Model Context Protocol, so any MCP-compatible AI agent can speak to real hardware through Plynx.
Demo Day.
Of the 100 teams selected for TEF Ignition, 12 made it to Demo Day at Palazzo dei Giureconsulti in Milan — Plynx among them.
Backing.
Tech Europe Foundation Ignition cohort (Bocconi, Politecnico di Milano, ION).
TEF finalist. €2 000 grant secured.
Contact: [email protected] · www.plynx.cc
Co-founded with Niccolò Pagano. My focus inside the company: the Android app (Kotlin) and, jointly, the server backend. Niccolò leads the iOS app.