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@ben_everard

Editor of HackSpace magazine. Tweets my own.

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. @racheleats the chip omelette is basically the national dish of Tanzania, known as chipsi mayai (chips and egg in Swahili). It's cold chips reheated in a frying pan, then an egg is poured over the top. It's served raw in the middle with lashings of chilli sauce.
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I wanted to add Bluetooth to a pair of wired headphones. They work, but I'm not sure I've absolutely nailed the aesthetic design part of it.
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To answer the point everyone's making -- yes they would be better with a different colour tape, but I only had clear tape to hand and wanted to test them out.
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So this is popular. I don't know if that means I should keep the headphones as they are or not wear them again until they're tidied up.
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I wanted to add Bluetooth to a pair of wired headphones. They work, but I'm not sure I've absolutely nailed the aesthetic design part of it.
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I've got a package sent with a company called 'Expediators'. It's currently in Bristol & it's being sent to Bristol. Estimated delivery is 4 days. It needs to travel 16 miles, so it's estimated speed is 0.16mph. That is slower than a tortoise. They need to change their name
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Controversial summertime opinion: I'm a meat eater, but when I BBQ, I only do vegetarian food. It's just better on the grill.
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🚨 HEY EVERYONE 🚨 The Secret Life of Machines is BACK with a new series! First episode came out today on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=4N0OYChW… Let's get #TimHunkin trending. He would find that HILARIOUS.
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A visit to Tim Hunkin's workshop yesterday. Who remembers The Secret Life of Machines? timhunkin.com/a243_Secret-Li…
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My wife is out of the country for 9 days. Trying to take full advantage of her absence, all I can think of is whether I can buy a couple of extra bird feeders before she gets back and tells me we don't need any more bird feeders.
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Lots of people asking what people learning to program should do in light of chatgpt. Having played with it for a bit, I think the answer is 'learn to test thoroughly'. We're about to be inundated with very dubious code and good testers might be worth their weight in gold.
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Also don't take career advice from Twitter, especially not my Twitter.
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I'm trying to get ChatGPT to design a 3D printable "car". This is closer than I thought it'd get
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After quite a bit of trying, I can't get it any close than this. I think the concept of 3D modelling is too complex for it. Not surprising really.
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Ok, maybe a boat was too complex. Here's ChatGPT's attempt at a wheel design it's not too far off:
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Hey ChatGPT, can you design a small boat in OpenSCAD? ChatGPT:
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That's doesn't look like a boat! ChatGPT: I apologize. here's a more realistic boat:
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To be fair, I'm still quite impressed that it's syntactically correct.
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Thought I'd try putting ChatGPT to work on the 3D printer, but I'm not quite sure this is a valid GCode command:
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To be fair, this is moot as it's already tried to ram the extruder through the print bed
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I tried to get ChatGPT to write an article on creating a Midi Keyboard using a Raspberry Pi Pico and Circuit Python. It produced code that didn't work, a circuit diagram without and components and 'interesting facts' that were neither interesting nor facts.
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It might have been mildly faster to fix it's broken code than it would have been to write the code from scratch. Maybe.
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I don't think it saved me any 'knowledge' in that you have to be just as skilled in coding to work with chatGPT because you've got to know what's going on it get it to do what you want -- at least, I did in this case.
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