Video Summarizers are cool

There are tools now that summarize videos pretty well and are available to try out. I decided to try out two. Summarize.tech Summarize.tech provides time stamped text summaries in a simple interface. It seems to do better with videos shorter than 30 minutes. I’ve tried 60 min videos and the summary never completes. You’re allowed

Exciting milestone in BusKill USB-A Magnetic Release Open Hardware project

Background On July 3, 2023, I successfully created a prototype of the magnetic release. For those just tuning in, this is a project that aims to create a 3D-printable magnetic decoupler that allows for easy ejection of a USB-A extension cord from the USB-A port. This decoupler is used with a PC that has BusKill

My new Fx(tec) Pro1x Phone

A few weeks ago, I finally received a perk that I sponsored about 3 years ago, the FX Technology Pro1 X Phone: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/pro1-x-smartphone-functionality-choice-control#/. During this time, I had a lot of bad luck and went from having cool phones like Google Pixels and Samsung Notes, to the cheapest Samsung you can get, and it’s cracked

Status of BusKill Open Hardware Project

I’ve been working on an open source hardware project for a couple of years called BusKill. It’s a security cord that shuts down a computer if it’s physically separated from you. Quick overview My colleague Michael Altfield and some volunteer developers wrote BusKill software. This software is free and open source and works on Windows,

Volunteering as an OSE developer

For the last few weeks I’ve been applying for, onboarding, and then starting volunteer developer work for the Open Source Ecology project. My first assignment was to create this wiki: https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Generating_G_Code_for_the_D3D_Universal_Plotter_with_Open_Source_Software I’m making good progress on it and hope to wrap it up over the weekend. I was reading through and I noticed that in

Botnik – Live Procedurally Generated Comedy

Connectionism

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/connectionism/

What is a Neural Network

Shenzhen

Athos – Me vs. Athlean-x

I wasn’t even able to get through a quarter of the glute workout I posted. I am not surprised in the least. At least I had my handy Athos app telling me I did a great job, so that I wasn’t surprised that I’ve been sore from what I accomplished. My goal is now to