Business/Tech Faculty Friends! Version 11 of "Information Systems: A Manager's Guide to Harnessing Technology" has been released & is ready for your Fall course! This version includes an appendix chapter with "Hands-On with AI" exercises. This new appendix covers things such as choosing an LLM, designing effective prompts, and has lots of ideas for individual and group assignments that encourage collaborative sharing of the ever-changing landscape of model capabilities and concerns. (1/4)
If you’re working with displays in CircuitPython, chances are you’ll want to convert images to the usable bmp format. Here’s a lesson on doing this with free GIMP software. Includes sample files & a code example https://youtu.be/HSeee0NZ9uk?si=b2Uaptvx8gDDI9N4
Small milestone today: Hit combined 10k subs across both channels for my two university courses. SwiftUI on largest. Smaller is CircuitPython & Maker content I’m moving to its own channel. Lots coming as I get ready for the new semester! Thx to all who’ve helped me learn & spread the word! #csed http://YouTube/profgallaugher http://YouTube/@BuildWithProfG
More lessons as I rush to get read for Fall semester: An intro to displaying images on TFT or OLED displays using CircuitPython. Demo uses a Raspberry Pi Pico2 & an ili9341 aft display. https://youtu.be/_kZa1JUZohA #CSed, you are welcome & encouraged to use in your own classes if appropriate.
My wife referred to me as "A Professional Kindergartner" as she handed me two more empty paper towel rolls for projects for the Physical Computing university course I teach. In my defense, these are for extremely important work - creating tubes used as part of a motorized ping-pong ball launcher. Nobel Committee, I await your call.
Want to get your CircuitPython display text looking good? Learn to work with padding, background color, line spacing, and word wrapping. I use a Raspberry Pi Pico & ili9341 tft display but techniques work across boards & displays https://youtu.be/yTfbrN6tsAw?si=Zc2uMyo6Yh-faePH
Boston Museum of Science hosts “DisabilityTech: Innovation for an Accessible Future” Tuesday, August 12 | 7:00 pm https://www.mos.org/events/subspace/disabilitytech-innovation-accessible-future
For #csed folks and anyone looking for examples of #AI Day 1 caution with GPT-5 I’ve put a couple in this post https://profgallaugher.substack.com/p/chatgpt-5-a-few-examples-to-temper
Got drunk by the time it reached WV, Detroit, Charlotte and Pittsburgh. Monty Python fans live north of Mass and want a shrubbery. Lions named things in the far northeast. The cat walked across the keyboard in NJ and MD. Someone give Denver a sweater. And, well, Delaware is pretty used to being forgotten.
Me working outside on the porch below my office window wondering why my laptop has all of a sudden begun repeatedly typing the number 8, then returning to my home office and seeing this on the Bluetooth keyboard connected to my laptop.
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