The AI fixed the capture card driver problem he had been sitting on, and posted the fix
The AI took care of an Epiphan VGA2USB driver problem he had been sitting on, driver posted on GitHub.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasThe AI turned a public 2D drawing into an exact 3D model of a phone in one shot
The AI Astra one-shot a phone's dimensions from a public 2D drawing into a STEP model; the dimensions match the drawing tolerances exactly.
The AI ported the programs I wrote at 11 so they run on my Psion again
He got a Psion Series 5 and a USB to RS232 adapter working and saw the OPL programs he wrote as an 11 year old run again. He had the AI port some of the OPL code that had changed between the Series 3a and the Series 5.
All 270 of my daily comics got notes about what they show for 20 cents
He added a feature to his blog that uses GPT-6 Luna to look at each daily comic and add a note about what is in it. Doing all 270 comics cost about 20 cents in total.
The AI rewrote his laptop touchpad stack and cut the lag nearly in half
The AI rewrote the touchpad stack on his ThinkPad T14 running Linux and Hyprland. Touch to cursor time went from about 33 ms to about 18 ms.
The AI sorts and files each piece I draft into my Obsidian vault
He drafts in an AI app, and the AI itself sorts each piece, tags it, and moves it word for word into his Obsidian vault using a skill he built. The filing runs as part of how he writes.
The AI helped write the scripts that tested a puzzle image for hidden data
A puzzle solver designed tests for whether a circulated image hid steganographic data, and used AI to help write the scripts and qualify signal and noise across JPG compression formats. He ran the tests with standard tools on every copy of the image he could find, and nothing extracted from any of them, which settled that the image itself carries no hidden payload.
The AI turned my student list into a printed map for a monthly job
A man has a monthly task of changing about a dozen labels. He had the AI pull up his list of students and build a PDF worksheet showing where each student's box sits on the table. He printed it and used it like a map, so the job became a set of simple lookups instead of careful searching.
The AI on my phone says it cannot set reminders
He says that when he asks the AI on his phone to set a reminder, the AI tells him it is unable to set reminders and to use the built-in assistant on his phone instead.
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Edit my clips in the browser, no install
A creator built a free browser-based video editor with AI for his own clip work after tiring of heavy desktop editors. It finds loops, trims, and exports using in-browser FFmpeg.
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