PawBot - An AI Desktop Puppy That Eats Your Files 🐾

This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Dog Days Edition What I Built Remember Neko the cat and those Tamagotchi desktop pets from the 90s? I rebuilt that magic for 2026 — except your pet is a golden retriever puppy powered by an LLM. PawBot is a Chrome extension + browser demo where a cute pixel puppy : 🐕 Roams your screen like a classic desktop pet 🏃 Chases your cursor when you get close 🍖 Eats anything you drop — PDFs, code files, emoji, pasted text 💬 Barks back with short, mood-aware responses via Google Gemini 😴 Falls asleep if you ignore it too long (with Zzz particles!) ❤️ Reacts to pets — click to pet, double-click to wave Feed it a .pdf and it might say "Mmm, crunchy homework!" Ignore it for 40 seconds and it curls up with sad puppy eyes. Demo Full walkthrough on YouTube: Quick try locally: git clone https://github.com/Varshithvhegde/pawbot.git cd pawbot/web python3 -m http.server 8080 # → http://localhost:8080 Or load the Chrome extension: clone the repo → ./scripts/sync-extension.sh → Load unpacked → select the extension/ folder. Code Varshithvhegde / pawbot AI desktop puppy Chrome extension — pixel pet that eats your files and barks with Google Gemini PawBot 🐾 An AI desktop puppy that lives in your browser. A Tamagotchi/Neko-style pixel pet that roams your screen, chases your cursor, eats files & emoji you drop, and barks mood-aware responses powered by Google Gemini . Built for the DEV Weekend Challenge: Dog Days Edition . Demo 🎬 Watch on YouTube · 📝 DEV submission · 🔗 GitHub Features Feature Description 🐕 Pixel puppy Full sprite animations — idle, walk, run, eat, sleep, bark, wave 🍖 Feed anything Drop files, emoji, or paste text — pup chases food then eats it 🏃 Chase mechanics Food falls from above → pup runs to it → 4-frame eat animation 💬 AI barks Google Gemini generates short mood-based responses 😴 Sleep mode Ignore pup 40s → falls asleep with Zzz particles ❤️ Pet & wave Click to pet, double-click to wave paw ⌨️ Hotkeys F throw treat · B bark ·