Thursday, March 27, 2025

Gemini 2.0 Flash image editing

Wow - long time between posts...

When I heard that Gemini had launched experimental support for iterative editing of generated images, I was keen to give it a try:


So far so good! But it needed to be more Eurovision!


Pretty good! He needs a name

Introducing Glow Bandit from Slovakia! Eurovision is all about the show, bring on the wow factor


Hmm, I was hoping for fireballs


Those don't look quite right


Geez, who turned out the lights


Oh dear, this is not going well


Well I guess his hair got brighter, shame he now has no face.


Ok, not quite so dark. Can we fix his face?


He's back in the dark again


Maybe if I ask it to think harder...


After that fail, I think we should go back to the start


We seem to be stuck with this monstrosity


Lets point it back to before things went bad


Maybe that's as good as it's gonna get. Let's see if we can get it to zoom an edited image and add detail


If at first you don't succeed...


LOL wut? The Sims - Eurovision edition. Lets see if we can make it more realistic


<slow clap with one massive hand >


Ok, hands almost work. What's up with his shirt?


WTH?


In summary














Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Mango Cube

Can't wait for these to arrive so I can start doing some "internet of things" hacking!

MangoCube; the Pocket sized Arduino compatible board

Monday, September 22, 2014

Amazing lap of the Nurburgring

An absolutely unbelievable lap of the Nurburgring in a Mclaren 12C GT3 during the 24hr race

Monday, June 24, 2013

Configuring Samsung WatchOn to control MySKY box

Samsung WatchON is a free app that came on my Galaxy S4 that turns the phone into a multi-device remote. It also provides video on demand (but not in NZ it seems).



I successfully configured the Sony TV and Pioneer DVD player in our lounge, and proceeded to torment my wife by randomly adjusting the volume/changing channel/turning the TV off - good times!

However,  I couldn't figure out how to add our MySKY HDi  pay TV box as a device.

Turns out, they are made by Pace.



To add it as a device choose, Add Device, Set Top Box, Show other brands. Then find Pace and keep trying codes until the box turns on/off (I think it was about code 14 before it worked). Then presto! No need to find three remotes to use the TV, it can all be done from your phone!

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Dream Cars: Koenigsegg

Great episode from Drive about Koenigsegg and how they build their amazing cars. Definitely worth the 30 minutes if you're a car fan. The engineering and original thinking they put into these beasts just blows my mind. Truely deserving of the term "super car"