🏎️The New Delorean, AI Finds, and Create a Room

The Delorean finally returns

Mar 20, 2023

Hey friends! How was your St. Patrick’s Day?

We baked some Irish soda bread, celebrated my daughter’s birthday (she’s 3 now), and continued work on our wall in the backyard.

We measured the new brickwork - and I used a grinder to make it all level. One could say that you’ve never lived until you’re cutting through concrete like butter - bits of concrete spraying everywhere.

I got so much concrete dust in my hair that I could stand it straight up.

Oh - I also ground down all these pesky metal screws that were left over from some old railing. THAT was fun. Grinding through metal until it heats up to the point of melting.

Now we’ll be getting to work on our garden.

Maybe we’ll even get some chickens at some point - I believe we can own up to 5 here in Columbia.

OR some quail. Quail are way cuter than chickens, and lay eggs too.

Y’all been keeping up with all the GPT-4 and Midjourney announcements?

Whether it’s Midjourney making hands look real, trying to start a business with GPT-4 advice, or GPT-4 using humans to solve captchas - the AI space IS NUTS.

It’s 2021 NFT’s all over again - but it doesn’t cost me 0.06 ETH to play.

Let’s dive in!

🏎️The New Delorean

Eyyo! The new Alpha 5 Delorean finally got unveiled.

I’m quite surprised that it doesn’t really look like a Delorean.

More like a fancier Tesla tbh. Here’s a picture.

It’s a nice car for sure - but it . . . it doesn’t scream this.

The doors do pop up - which is pretty darn cool, and there’s a bit of grilling on the back window - just like the old model.

I’m curious to see how the car is reviewed once it begins to roll off the assembly line. Will it exceed expectations and be a unique entry in the car space or . . .

will it just be another Tesla clone?

I guess we’ll just have to wait and see!

You can reserve a slot - and actually sell that slot to others.

If you want to watch some live video of what it looks like - you can see some footage here.

Go check out the official page at the Delorean site!

The Delorean Alpha5

🤖AI Finds

I’m sure you’ve been seeing lots of AI stuff in your newsfeeds these days - so I’ll keep to links and short descriptions instead of saying things like, ehem, “THIS LIFE CHANGING TOOL WILL MAKE YOU MILLIONS WITH 20 MINUTES OF WORK A DAY.”

AI ART GENERATION TOOLS

AI Photo Studio + Modelling Agency: Don’t spend money on stock photos - create your own. Check it out
Sinkin.ai: This website hosts a few custom stable diffusion models - from anime to photo realistic. Great example of how open source stuff like Stable Diffusion allows people to get really creative. Check it out.
Dezgo: Another text to image generator, but free to use. Check it out.
Stadio: Run any ai model for 50 cents an hour. not bad if you ask me! Check it out.
Comprehensive AI Promt Guide: I’ve started looking for good ones - and this is the best one I’ve found so far. Very conversational! Check it out.

TEXT GENERATION TOOLS

Img2Prompt: Drag and drop an image, and get the predicted image prompt. Check it out.
Zeeno.ai: AI in your keyboard - I’m not sure if this tool will be “The One” but it’s certainly a harbinger of things to come. Check it out.
Transcribe any audio file for free. Very cool. Check it out.
Drinkwater: Automate your work with chatgpt - I’ve shared this one before, but I’ll share it again. This one is sick. check it out.

MISCELLANEOUS

Talk to books: This one is nifty! Check it out.
Make Music with AI: I played with this for around 15 minutes. Check it out.
Bearly.ai: A powerful all-in-one AI tool - from copy to image generation. Check it out.
Microsoft Designer: This one is gonna be nuts - Canva + AI smarts. I can’t wait to get access to this. Check it out!

🪑Rooms.xyz

I wrote briefly about Rooms a while back - but now I’ve gotten access to the Alpha.

AND IT’S AWESOME.

Take the idea of a website - and make it interactive. Make it less like a 2D magazine you click through - and more like an experience.

With Rooms.xyz you create rooms.

At first glance you may wonder - Oh it’s a cool voxel website, but what’s so game-changing?

Take a look at the little room I mocked up below.

Every one of those objects in the image can be clickable - and upon click - you can code them to show text, direct you to a website, or direct you to another room.

You could build your resume in here, or an interactive text adventure, or just a cool house.

or a horror murder mystery . . . .oooooh.

The voxel world is your oyster!

You can make your own voxel models, edit any of the existing ones, upload your own music, run code. It’s amazing.

It’s also very easy to use - just drag and drop different objects to place them in your little room - then link objects as necessary.

Want the picture on the wall to transport you to the garden room? Do it.

Here’s the room that I mocked up. This works best on desktop that I’ve found - but it may work on mobile!

Check it out at the link.

I’ve made most of the objects in the room clickable to play sounds - and that light switch does work!

My Rooms.xyz Room

🐙The Land of Random

It’s the Land of Random - Duna duh nuhhhh, duna duh uh uh . ..

Torrent Party

Occasionally I see products that are so "full degen” it blows my mind - Like creating watch parties from torrents. Sheesh.

Torrent Party

GPT-4 Developer Livestream

There are some pretty crazy demos of GPT-4’s tech in here. It’s worth watching!

3D Text Demos

From Hulk Smash text to oreo cookie words, there’s some real fun stuff to discover in here. I wish more websites had this sort of thing!

Oreo Text?

Sirius P5 Earbuds

Remember those fancy Gravastar earbuds I shared a while back? They made a new version - with 40 hours of playtime, an open-ear design, and interchangeable dope cases. AirPods don’t hold a candle to this design.

Sirius P5 Earbuds