Tony is a Geek

https://github.com/danielmiessler/fabric "Fabric is an open-source framework for augmenting humans using AI. It provides a modular framework for solving specific problems using a crowdsourced set of AI prompts that can be used anywhere." "So what?" Well, if you've gone beyond the "hey, I can setup and access an LLM and now I'm a genius" phase, you will have hit the valley of disillusionment (is that even a word?), decided that LLMs are crap, attempted to do "stuff" with them & then mentally accepted that they are not smart at all, it's all an illusion to "appear to be intelligent", but really it's just word pattern matching and spewing out garbage in response to your questions, or just plain bollox. Then you thought, "hmmm... I'm going to write myself some prompts, that'll make life better", then you wrote about 5 very long and convoluted one's that you think are great & will be used for pre...

A UGV Rover 6-wheeled robot with Raspberry Pi5, awesome camera (pan & tilt / stabilisation) and a LiDar - what's not to like?  Well, it's open-source too. However, it comes with a bit of an odd setup, it is running a Raspberry Pi 5 board, but to control the device itself it's also running an ESP32 board that controls all the components. OOTB the setup is "okay", it's a web-browser based access to all the bits you need, it even has the concept of a jupyter notebook style Python setup that allows you to control / access all the features.  Although, this soon becomes a bit limiting. I hooked up a mini-HDMI to the Raspberry Pi 5 and it booked to Bookworm (12, I believe), which allowed me to then install things natively, I installed YOLO and got some really good camera / vision analysis going on. However, I then had the addition of the LiDar D500 attachment .   Now, this is where the "fun" started.  The lidar component came with links to a Windows .e...

Well, it's been a while since my last post.  Have I been up to anything technical? Yes & No. I've returned to the world of campervans! My previous motorhome (Kontiki 635) was stolen back at the end of April 2024 :-(  After a reasonably painless insurance claim process & lots of UK Police time, the motorhome was "found", however, it had been crashed / trashed - so was a write-off. I wasn't looking for another one, however, I then just happened to stumble upon a 2008 VW Crafter Campervan that ticked a LOT of boxes.  It was a professional conversion, it had a full size shower and a proper thetford cartridge toilet.  It had a king-size bed.  It has central heating - yes, the previous one had central heating, but that was a £65k van, this one was £16k! It has a solar panel, leisure battery and all connected up & working okay. It has a great layout inside, someone previously really thought about the design.  I'm the 4th owner and it's done 145k mile...