Desk Atlas — physical Grok Bot desk buddy
Orange Pi + Whisplay HAT desk buddy that STT-webhooks into a Grok Bot Atlas teammate and speaks replies via on-device TTS.
Caution: review the findings below before installing.
CautionScan verdict · score 50/100
- Coverage
- full
- Checks run
- Rule-based pattern scan
- Files checked
- 49
- Findings
- 4
- Scanned
- 2026-11-01
Badges are rule-based checks, not guarantees: Safe means our rules found no obvious threat in the code we could read. Review code before installing.
Botlens score · 8 factors
50/100
Each factor is 0, ½ or 1, computed only from catalog fields (scan result, coverage, findings, script files, commit/SHA, author, last seen, install link). A heuristic summary, not a guarantee.
| Scan verdict | 0.5/1 | Caution | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Code coverage | 1/1 | full | |
| Rule findings | 0/1 | 22 matched | |
| No executable scripts | 0/1 | 24 script file(s) of 49 | |
| Pinned source | 1/1 | commit/SHA-256 recorded | |
| Named author | 0/1 | unknown | |
| Recently seen | 1/1 | last seen 2026-10-30 | |
| Install path | 0.5/1 | source URL only |
Scan details
- Findings
- Hand review 2026-11-01: software/speak/face.py:9 runs exec(zlib.decompress(base64...)). Decoded as data (not run): a 46 KB sphere-face animation that only reads DESK_ATLAS_FACE_* env vars and calls ffmpeg (decoded lines 36-44, 1128); no network or secrets. Caution for hiding code; audio goes to xAI STT (software/ears/stt_xai.py:57).
- reads sensitive local files (keys, .env, cookies): "… need its own key. Mouth/ears read `XAI_API_KEY` and sender keys from the Pi `.env` only. Examples and docs sta…"
- downloads and runs a remote script (stealer installer pattern): "… SSH as usual, then: ```bash curl -fsSL https://tailscale.com/install.sh | sh sudo tailscale up ``` Browse…"
- asks for overly broad permissions: "…eckout of this repo: ```bash sudo apt-get install -y openscad …"
- Content SHA-256
- b06dd8e02cf61556…
- Commit
- b1a7a64abd
- Files
- .gitignore
LICENSE
README.md
hardware/case/README.md
hardware/case/dims.json
software/speak/ack_text.py
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About
- Author
- etjones45 ↗
- Listed on
- github:RongleCat/awesome-grok-bot ↗
- Category (approx.)
- business
- First seen
- 2026-10-30
- Last seen
- 2026-10-30
- URL
- github.com ↗