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A 25 year old microscope works again after the AI built its app

His 25 year old Intel Play QX3 microscope had no software that would run on a modern Mac, and he pulled it out for his grandkids. He worked with AI in stages in one morning to build a Mac app for it, and his grandkids were soon watching a seashell through it.

How it works

  1. Gives the AI the USB details shown by his Mac
  2. The AI writes a small program that turns the microscope lights on and off
  3. It pulls a snapshot through the microscope
  4. It builds a Mac app with live preview, lights, brightness, photo and movie capture
  5. His grandkids use it to look at a seashell

Why it’s worth knowing

Software for a toy microscope from 2000 was dead on every modern system, and one person got it working again in a morning with an app built just for his house.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on windley.com. See the original ↗

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