{"id":212270,"date":"2026-02-11T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/turn-on-lights-and-take-photos\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T08:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T13:55:09","slug":"turn-on-lights-and-take-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/turn-on-lights-and-take-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn on Lights and Take Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Turn on Lights and Take Photos<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/eu.36kr.com\/en\/p\/3678722334679937<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-02-11 08:12:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: eu.36kr.com<\/a><\/p>\n

What would you do with $25 (approximately 173 Chinese Yuan)?<\/p>\n

Buy a takeaway meal, top up your phone credit, or casually order a Bluetooth headset? But in the eyes of an AI enthusiast developer in the United States (referred to as Ethan in this article), this $25 is enough to build a “physical world operable intelligent agent”.<\/p>\n

He did something that sounds a bit outrageous: He ran the recently popular OpenClaw on a prepaid Android phone that costs $25 – $30 at Walmart. He made it receive instructions via Discord and then directly control the phone’s hardware – turn on the flashlight, take photos for recognition, read sensors, and even attempt to make a call.<\/p>\n

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What’s even more interesting is that he’s not satisfied with just one phone. Instead, he plans to set up a whole row of phones to create an Agent “phone cluster”.<\/p>\n

From Chatbots to “Actionable” Agents<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Ethan’s solution is actually not complicated. The core structure is as follows:<\/p>\n

\u25cf Install Termux (a Linux-like terminal environment for Android) on the Android phone.<\/p>\n

\u25cf Run the OpenClaw Agent in Termux.<\/p>\n

\u25cf Call the Android system capabilities through the Termux API.<\/p>\n

\u25cf Communicate with the Agent via Discord.<\/p>\n

In other words, this $25 phone has become an always – online “hardware execution node”. For example, he can send an instruction on Discord: “Hey Claw, turn on the flashlight and then turn it off.” A few seconds later, the phone’s flashlight turns on and then off.<\/p>\n

The process behind this is not mysterious: OpenClaw receives the Discord message, calls the Termux API, and then the API calls the Android system interface to complete the hardware operation – things that were originally only possible for apps or system processes are now done by an agent driven by a language model.<\/p>\n

In Ethan’s view, what’s really interesting is not “being able to turn on the flashlight”, but “the model starting to have physical execution capabilities”.<\/p>\n

Photo + GPT 5.2: The Visual Ability of an Entry – Level Phone<\/strong><\/h2>\n

To prove that…<\/p>\n

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