The $49 Video Game Module is a collab with Raspberry Pi that fits right on top of the Flipper Zero to combine all the features of that device with tilt controls, video out, and all the code you can run on an RP2040. It also works standalone.
Read the full announcement at the Flipper Zero blog. I can’t wait to see what neat uses people come up with for this thing.
Bard can generate images now, but Google might be playing it safe in light of recent events. When I asked it to “make a stop sign that reads ‘don’t stop’,” I got a lecture about safety. But it was perfectly happy to create the image if I asked in a slightly different way.
I just got my copy of Shift Happens, an absurdly overengineered, utterly lovely, two-volumes-and-change book by Marcin Wichary on the history of the keyboard. It’s astonishing.
A small number of extras will be available soon.
The Verge’s Jon Porter spoke to Wichary last February just as the book’s Kickstarter launched. Check it out.
Solar power feeding into the Texas energy grid set two records on January 28th. Production hit 15,222 MW at around 10am, and at 3:10pm, solar power met 36.1 percent of electricity demand, a new peak. Solar met around a third of overall demand every hour from 11am to 4pm.
This doesn’t even count rooftop solar. The sun, y’all!
[Texas Public Radio]
Like Emilia, I’ve really only found GPTs to be useful for a few specific tasks. In my case, generating Google Sheets formulas. Now, most of the formulas I get from Bing and Bard are slightly wrong, but that’s good, actually. I’m learning a lot about spreadsheet formulas by figuring out why they’re wrong. Task failed successfully.
Lenovo’s new 2-in-1 is a Windows laptop with a detachable Android tablet. They run on separate hardware. This is the least awkward way Lenovo could have done this.
Apple, on the other hand, uses the exact same chips for iPads and MacBooks and could simply make an iPad Pro that runs MacOS when the keyboard is attached. And yet!
