Open AI’s Dall-E 2 is now available to everyone. What can it do, what can’t it do, and where is it going?

Whisper is an open source English speech recognition released by Open AI. A quick review, some testing and throw it some curve balls.

Using Python, OpenCV2, take an image and pixel-ize it without Photoshop (with apologies to Calvin and Hobbes – Transmogrifier).

How to create QR code stl files for 3d printing, using Python, qrcodegen and OpenSCAD.

How to use the Etsy API by using the OpenAPI spec to generate code for Java Spring Boot.

How to remove the boot messages, icons, customize the boot splash image and background desktop, control reboot / shutdown, refresh of screens and switch browser tabs.

How to setup a Raspberry Pi to boot into a full screen web browser, hiding mouse pointer, disabling screen saver, putting the browser in kiosk mode and using the Raspberry Pi 4 B dual screen output.

How to configure a Raspberry Pi to transmit IR output using the new kernel drivers, ir-keytable & ir-ctl, rather then LIRC. Building on the previous post, Raspberry Pi IR Receiver.

How to configure a Raspberry Pi to receive IR input from a remote control using the new kernel drivers, ir-keytable & ir-ctl, rather then LIRC. Then using that input to run a script to reboot the device.

How to implement a Spring Boot domain object / JPA entity that handles Stripe event webhook callback, using a custom @Convert to save to a MySQL database as a json type column.

(That should cover the buzzwords, Google bait and scare off anyone who doesn’t care.)