Welcome to the home of Common Sense Engineering. This is where I and my colleagues collect various business ideas, past successes, failed ideas and future dreams....

I have been trying to find a way to use ChatGPT to “chat” with a local collection of documents, ideally PDFs, TXTs and potentially other formats. It turns out there are a lot of YouTube videos on the topic…and a bunch of approaches, but it seems to basically come...

Tristan heard about my project and pointed me to this Code Bullet video....

Once I established the Quest template for Unity, I went back to basic Unity development to experiment with building a maze programmatically. The problem with developing for Quest on a Mac is that you can’t leverage the “play” mode in Unity to test/debug your app. (With a Windows PC,...

I wanted to stat a Dev Log for a VR project I am working on but was always frustrated that individual posts in WordPress are presented in reverse chronological order, making is so a “story” appears to run backwards. I asked ChatGPT for some ideas and it suggested: Initially,...

My first step in building this app was to reacquaint myself with building apps for the Oculus Quest 2 using Unity. I had experimented build some VR apps, most notably a recreation of my 1990’s tribute to Asteroids known as SpaceRocks. As this work was done back in December...

Back in 1982, my college roommate (Skull) had been awarded the Darin Scholarship at RPI. As part of the scholarship, he was given a state of the art IBM PC. While I am sure there was considerable scholarly work done on that PC, a great amount of time was...

With the release of ChatGPT 4 and other technologies like Midjourney 5 (AI image generation), there are a bunch of people out there suggesting you can build a passive income company leveraging this tech. This morning I signed up for a paid account with Midjourney and developed the steampunk...