What happened at your workbench today?

[GAP]

That's what I love about this Forum, the thought and effort that gets put into projects, across a multitude of styles and approaches. Although I taught rudimentary electronics, and even a bit of machine-code programming, this is way beyond my understanding/competency (colleagues did Picaxe and Raspberry Pi with older students) so I'm aware of it and find it's application fascinating, not least because it's a million miles away from my mechanical, rod and bell-crank method of point control. Thanks for posting!

None of this would have been possible if it wasn't for AI doing all the program writing. The making of the boards was easy because of my avionics technician background.
I had the concept in my head for a long time but with my lack of skill at writing code for the Picaxe and ESP01 (thanks to AI suggestion of using ESP01 when I first asked if it was possible).
The program for the display (written in a language called Python (after Monty Python) was so far out of my league it was not funny.
I have found AI to be a very handy tool to fill in knowledge gaps which is the way to view it. It is not perfect however so I would never trust it real far despite what the geeks claim.
The idea of using AI came from a comment made by a member of this forum.
Hopefully the next project will be as enjoyable.

 

[playmofire]

None of this would have been possible if it wasn't for AI doing all the program writing. The making of the boards was easy because of my avionics technician background.
I had the concept in my head for a long time but with my lack of skill at writing code for the Picaxe and ESP01 (thanks to AI suggestion of using ESP01 when I first asked if it was possible).
The program for the display (written in a language called Python (after Monty Python) was so far out of my league it was not funny.
I have found AI to be a very handy tool to fill in knowledge gaps which is the way to view it. It is not perfect however so I would never trust it real far despite what the geeks claim.
The idea of using AI came from a comment made by a member of this forum.
Hopefully the next project will be as enjoyable.

Yes, AI relies very much on what has gone before, and if that is wrong, AI may still quote it.

 

[Rhinochugger]

Yes, AI relies very much on what has gone before, and if that is wrong, AI may still quote it.

It also picks up on odd things and makes bits up. I may have recounted this before, but a pastor had done a sermon, and used AI to prepare some Bible Study notes for further use.

His sermon was on Joseph, and as the Post Office scandal was in the news, he brought Paula Venells' name into it.

He was rather non-plussed when AI referred to a Biblical person - Paul of Ennels