Mantel

A 7.5-inch e-ink screen that your AI draws on. Ask Claude or ChatGPT for your day, the weather or a note for the kitchen. It shows up in about thirty seconds and stays there with no power.

Connect your AI

Mantel is one MCP server. Add this URL as a connector, sign in, and allow access:

https://mcp-dev.mantel.ink/mcp

Claude. Settings, Connectors, Add custom connector. Paste the URL.

ChatGPT. Settings, Apps & Connectors, Advanced: turn on Developer mode. Then Create, paste the URL, choose OAuth.

Anything else. Streamable HTTP, the URL above, no headers or keys. It signs you in with OAuth.

Then ask: “Put tomorrow's weather and my first meeting on my Mantel frame, big enough to read from the couch.”

Set up a frame

  1. Plug the frame into a computer with a USB-C data cable.
  2. Pick your board and click Install. Use Chrome or Edge on a computer; it takes about a minute.
  3. On your phone, join the Mantel-XXXX Wi-Fi the frame creates and choose your home network.
  4. Scan the code on the frame's screen, or type it at mcp-dev.mantel.ink/c, to add it to your account.
This browser can't talk to USB devices. Open this page in Chrome or Edge on a computer. USB access needs a secure (https) page.

Prefer the command line? Download the image from the repo and run esptool write-flash 0x0 <file>.bin.

How it works

Your AI designs the screen and sends it through Mantel's MCP tools; the thinking happens on your own AI subscription. Mantel turns it into a crisp 800 × 480 black-and-white image, private to your account. Your frame checks in every half minute, verifies the image and redraws. You can see and disconnect every AI that has access on your frames page.