"But most people are incapable of understanding how computers really work, and thus personally aren’t able to do much with them.
...
But it feels like the first time ever that computers have been tools for their own creation for a lot of rather dimwitted but confident corporate manager/executive types. This moment feels like the Big Bang to them."

A student yesterday: "I've got a problem with my prototype and I’m running out of tokens."
Me: "Let's take a look at the code."
Problem solved.

I experimented with Gemini and managed to reverse engineer the BLE protocols of an electric skateboard and an EEG headset no longer supported.

Ever since then, I've been thinking about how to deal with these discoveries. Are they my work because i had the idea and came up with the concepts? Are they worthless because they were accomplished with the help of a controversial technology? My students and I are using the results. Which means that the results are meaningful.

#reverseengineering #ai

"Dimensions.com is an ongoing reference database of dimensioned drawings documenting the standard measurements and sizes of the everyday objects and spaces that make up our world."
https://www.dimensions.com

I found an affordable Xsens Awinda kit on eBay. 17 Micro-USB cables. Powering off takes 7 seconds per sensor. ;-)

Yesterday's screen print with the RISO master hack.
#screenprint #riso

We have built a raised bed in our campus garden and are now starting gardening.

It's sad that Glitch will end web hosting in July. If you need to export your Glitch projects, too:
https://github.com/potch/glitch-project-export