PDF Chatbot
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...
MazeVR – Pac-Man distraction
Tristan heard about my project and pointed me to this Code Bullet video....
MazeVR Dev Log – Day 3
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,...
Dev Logging
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,...
MazeVR Dev Log – Day 2
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...
MazeVR Dev Log – Day 1
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...
Leveraging AI for side hustles
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...
Welcome
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....