At the August 2026 lecture, Mal gave a short talk and live demo coding with Claude Code.
Claude, and specifically Claude Code, is an AI agent that can assist with coding. Claude Code is a command-line tool that can also integrate directly into IDEs like Visual Studio Code or JetBrains IDEs (e.g. Android Studio, PyCharm). You can give it your program requirements in plain English, and it will attempt to write the code for you. This is colloquially called “vibe coding”.
The demo was to code a transceiver control program to talk to a radio over a CAT cable. Amazingly, it worked quite well!
Get the source code. Extract the files into a folder and run the batch file. It will prompt you if Python is missing, and install the Python dependencies if needed.
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