What happened at your workbench today?

Northsider said:
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!
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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.
 
GAP said:
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.
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Yes, AI relies very much on what has gone before, and if that is wrong, AI may still quote it.
 
playmofire said:
Yes, AI relies very much on what has gone before, and if that is wrong, AI may still quote it.
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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 :D:D
 
Rhinochugger said:
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 :D:D
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Yup we get what we deserve with AI, personally I think it is all a lot of hype by rich gits trying to get richer (think Musk, Bezos, Gates, and that FB guy), hopefully they will be the first in line when the Robots take over. After all they will need grunts like us to do the menial things that they cant manage for a while.
 
dunnyrail said:
Yup we get what we deserve with AI, personally I think it is all a lot of hype by rich gits trying to get richer (think Musk, Bezos, Gates, and that FB guy), hopefully they will be the first in line when the Robots take over. After all they will need grunts like us to do the menial things that they cant manage for a while.
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Bit like the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation the people who gave us "Marvin"
"The Marketing Division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation were a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came."
Apologies to Douglas Adams
Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
:):):)
 
GAP said:
Bit like the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation the people who gave us "Marvin"
"The Marketing Division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation were a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came."
Apologies to Douglas Adams
Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
:):):)
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Yup Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos are the new replacements for those Sirius Cybernetics Corporation mindless jerks
 
Yes, the HGttG book was prophetic. A bit like Sting's song with the (literally) prophetic line " . . . politicians seem like game-show hosts to me".
 
dunnyrail said:
Yup we get what we deserve with AI, personally I think it is all a lot of hype by rich gits trying to get richer (think Musk, Bezos, Gates, and that FB guy), hopefully they will be the first in line when the Robots take over. After all they will need grunts like us to do the menial things that they cant manage for a while.
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Bearing in mind that so many products offer AI out of the blue, I think you're right or AI is a very flexible term which includes just matching words with references to the same words on other sites, i.e. copying.

As they used to say, coyping from one source is plagiarism, copying from more than one source is research.
 
AI is just a glorified search engine when it all boil down to it. It just has a few bits tacked on to try and make it look smart.
I had a boss who was a bit like that tell him something he didn't know and a week later he was spruiking it like he knew all about it.
 
GAP said:
AI is just a glorified search engine when it all boil down to it. It just has a few bits tacked on to try and make it look smart.
I had a boss who was a bit like that tell him something he didn't know and a week later he was spruiking it like he knew all about it.
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Yes, I had a boss like that who could recite word for word something I had said.
 
Nearly finished the diner. Added a length of LED light strip to the roof. The strip is rated at 3 volts (not easy to find) and therefore simply uses a pair of AA batteries -
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The battery box luckily fits nicely in the gap at the rear of the building. I added a trimmer to reduce the brightness of the LED's but not sure that the LED's should be dimmed. It makes the diner look a little dodgy with poor service, lots of diners waiting to be served and no menus on the tables :D
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The on/off switch is inside the air conditioner unit with an open underside-
IMG_20251109_160657664.jpg The outside silver paint has had a little weathering -IMG_20251116_122443975.jpg

Just need to finish the sign, this one was my first attempt to see how it looks. It is straight off the printer without any smoothing and a quick coat of paint on a grey primer that has dulled the tone of the red-
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and find or make some details for the tables that are at the moment completely bare. not even a menu to be seen!
Al's diner is a dodgy diner at the moment!:D
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Led's at full power that look better but highlights the empty tables!
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AlanL said:
Nearly finished the diner. Added a length of LED light strip to the roof. The strip is rated at 3 volts (not easy to find) and therefore simply uses a pair of AA batteries -
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The battery box luckily fits nicely in the gap at the rear of the building. I added a trimmer to reduce the brightness of the LED's but not sure that the LED's should be dimmed. It makes the diner look a little dodgy with poor service, lots of diners waiting to be served and no menus on the tables :D
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The on/off switch is inside the air conditioner unit with an open underside-
View attachment 349738 The outside silver paint has had a little weathering -View attachment 349739

Just need to finish the sign, this one was my first attempt to see how it looks. It is straight off the printer without any smoothing and a quick coat of paint on a grey primer that has dulled the tone of the red-
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and find or make some details for the tables that are at the moment completely bare. not even a menu to be seen!
Al's diner is a dodgy diner at the moment!:D
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Led's at full power that look better but highlights the empty tables!
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I prefer the dimmer lighting. This way the patrons can't see the "dinner food" they're putting in their food holes.....:giggle:
 
Finally getting back to trains – the pink giant gouramis in the swimming pool are getting ready to breed, so I keep being distracted by them!

This week’s effort was to re-paint a distressed truss bridge and then stress test it (courtesy of a visiting Stainz loco!). I believe that my engineering work is not yet complete. Looks like I will need to add sloping end-post beams to each of the portals to better replicate a truss effect. Have no idea what type of truss this is as the design uses criss-cross patterns.

Still, it should hold up OK once I have some decent anchorages (abutments?) at either end. I keep admiring the stone walls grizzmo grizzmo produces They’ll do nicely!

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