#AI
27 postsMixxtape - the first boards, and what went wrong
The first 20 Mixxtape boards arrived from JLCPCB. One boots, the voltage regulator overheats, and there is a list of changes for version two.
Read postMigrating from Jekyll to Astro
On June 21, 2026 the site moved from Jekyll to Astro with a theme rebuilt from scratch. Here's why.
Read postA variation of the useless machine idea
ChatGPT pretends to be a useless machine and tries to stop you from flipping the switch.
Read postIdea 089 - Wheres Wren?
A Where's Waldo style search book for each region where a wren in a striped bobble hat hides among local birds.
Read postIdea 087 - Crowd sourced life planner
A website of crowd-sourced flowcharts for life choices, in choose-your-own-adventure style.
Read postIdea 068 - Talking Toy story teller
A Furby-style robotic toy that uses ChatGPT and text to speech to tell interactive stories that children steer with three buttons.
Read postIdea 066 - Tilt Pacman
A one-pixel Pac-Man on an RGB LED matrix, steered by tilting an accelerometer.
Read postIdea 063 - RootedIn
A spoof social network for Vancouver's 100,000 public trees, each with a generated name, hobbies and a wall of ChatGPT conversations.
Read postIdea 061 - The Dark Side Of The Moon in a million parts
Generative line drawings in sand, one per song on Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, drawn by a CNC zen garden.
Read postIdea 058 - In a million parts
A series of small artworks, one per quotable line from a book, movie, or album, made and shared on a steady schedule.
Read postIdea 047 - Weekly Scavenger Hunt
A fully automated global scavenger hunt that posts 15 random objects every Saturday at noon and ranks players by how fast they upload a photo.
Read postIdea 037 - Chatbot Task Organizer
Idea: a chatbot that organizes simple tasks by date, location or person.
Read postIdea 034 - 20 questions for people
Idea: a website that asks 20 questions and tries to uniquely identify you, which raises the question of which questions work best.
Read postIdea 033 - AI Grant Writing
Idea: use AI to take on the labor-intensive work of writing grant applications.
Read postIdea 030 - Chatbot Journaling
Idea: a chatbot that gives daily journaling prompts, asks follow-up questions, and builds up knowledge about you to give feedback.
Read postIdea 021 - AI auto summarization / Auto cliffsnotes
Idea: an AI tool that boils large amounts of information down to brief notes and main points, like automatic CliffsNotes.
Read postIdea 015 - AI Create your own story book
Idea: an AI-written personalized children's story book that works in details you provide and follows common plots like the hero's journey.
Read postIdea 014 - AI Pictionary
Idea: a Pictionary-style game where an AI draws the picture and players guess the prompt that generated it.
Read postIdea 013 - Speech to Text, always listening, ear badge
Idea: an ear-shaped electronic badge that records speech to text 24 hours a day using OpenAI Whisper, feeding a personal AI assistant.
Read postIdea 008 - Reconnect a postcard project
Idea: a series of postcards mailed in packs to friends and family, who send them onward to reconnect people.
Read postIdea 006 - Procedurally generated Glowing Mushroom PCB
Idea: procedurally generated mushroom art PCBs for the GameOfShrooms art project, with backlit LEDs for a glow.
Read postYear in review 2022
Year in review 2022: Lori moving in, painting the townhouse, cherry blossoms, a CBC interview about the bird cards, travel, and fostering a puppy.
Read postFlockingAI - Eastside Culture Crawl 2022 post mortem
Post mortem from showing the Flocking AI bird gallery at Maker Labs during Eastside Culture Crawl 2022: the wall layout, what people said, and what to fix.
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Samsung The Frame TV art
A gallery of MidJourney-generated 4K UHD artwork sized exactly for Samsung The Frame TV to avoid the mat border, free to download.
Read postFebruary 2021 brain dump
February 2021 brain dump on getting into birding with a Sigma 150-600mm, plotter twitter projects, and a 52-card bird playing deck plan.
Read postNovember 2016 interesting link dump
November 2016 link dump: open source car control, ESP8266 MQTT LED controllers, the Maslow CNC, Boldport, and the poop emoji oral history.
Read postThe Eden project - Artificial ecosystem
Design notes for an artificial ecosystem sim with creatures that age, mate, eat, and inherit traits from their parents.
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