LLM renderings and machine code produced his one-off flat-pack furniture
Uses an LLM to generate furniture renderings and CNC gcode, cut and assembled IKEA-style one-off custom furniture.
A random mix from the whole library. Shuffle for a new set.
Hobbies
Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasThe AI could not set my fantasy hockey draft rankings
He set the AI 6 Astra up in his fantasy hockey league to do his draft this year and asked it to set his pre-draft ranking list. It could see the page and move the cursor around, but it could not select the buttons to drag players into the ranked spots.
This one went wrong. See what happened before you try it.
The AI’s CAD scripting produces his woodworking designs, cut lists and shop drawings
The AI with FreeCAD python scripts creates and modifies his CAD drawings, producing 3D designs, cut-lists and shop drawings for woodworking.
I built a Command and Conquer style game with AI that runs in the browser
He built a Command and Conquer style real time strategy game called Battle Drones, mainly using AI. The game runs in the browser and includes device to device multiplayer over an audio link.
The AI turned a bad program website into a filterable table on my phone
He needed schedule information for programs offered by a public institution, and its website was terrible and badly organized. The AI made a new website that organized all the information into a filterable table that runs on his phone.
An autoformalizer produced a complete Lean version of a 2019 paper
A researcher ran his LLM based autoformalizer on a 2019 mathematics paper and produced a complete Lean formalization of it. The finished formalization is linked from his university page. The note is short, but the artifact is public and complete.
Created a personal AI podcast
Leslie Samuel put the AI to work on 11 real tasks with screen recordings, showing what worked and what needs supervision. One was generating his own personal AI podcast.
Delivered unsolicited fantasy-football reports five days a week (Monday recaps, Wednesday waiver-wire),
2026, a host described playing fantasy football in two leagues while the AI sends weekly performance reports every Monday night and waiver-wire reports every Wednesday — unsolicited football advice about five days a week. Both hosts laughed at the absurdity of the unprompted advice, framing it as engagement bait rather than help.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
The AI built my tool for spotting ships that stay off AIS
Over two weeks the AI built his hobby tool that matches free Sentinel-1 radar images with live AIS ship data around Denmark, recording AIS either side of each satellite pass on its own and marking radar spots with no ship as leads. In one check 2 to 5 of about 555 pairings were wrong.
He tells the AI to set up an app on his server and it leaves him notes
Tell the AI to set up an app on his server and it does it all and leaves a documentation note in his Obsidian vault; setup effort near zero.
Every idea is a real post from someone who tried it, summarized in our words, with a link to the original. App names are swapped for plain words.