The detail that surprised me most: a working 3D living room with functioning switches came together in under 5 minutes. Don Borgia built a fully working 3D model of their house that runs inside Home Assistant as an interactive isometric floor plan, covering kitchen, dining, living room, office, bathroom and bedroom. Tapping parts of the model toggles real hardware instantly, so it acts like a remote for everything smart in the home.
The way it was put together is just as interesting. The maker first tried Gemini to turn room photos into a dollhouse setup, but that failed badly, with at least 5 mistakes per room and only one correct viewing angle. Claude then took over: it built a basic labeled mockup, advanced it into furniture shapes, and even located lights from the uploaded photos, asking for clarification when one was not visible. Around 10 corrective prompts over roughly 3 hours of vibecoding finished the whole house, and each fix turned the old version into a better one instantly. One early slip had the couch sunk too far into the room and bookcase lights on the wrong shelf, both sorted out.
What stands out is the depth of control: ceiling lights, wall lamps, balcony lighting, LED strips, a dartboard surround light and the television, plus media selectors for Apple TV and a soundbar, climate controls, door sensors, calendar events, a front door camera feed and monitoring for Zigbee2MQTT and Tado. Holding a light model opens a popup for brightness and per-light toggles. There are room filters, scene buttons, rotation controls and day or evening presets.
One open point: the images leave unclear what hardware runs the setup, and the maker wanted at least four viewing angles for that 360-like feel. Since the house runs on motion sensors anyway, the dashboard is more showpiece than necessity, which the maker freely admits.
Project by Don Borgia. Watch it on their YouTube channel: