Building My Own Watch Face Editor
I have an Amazfit T-Rex 2 on my wrist most days, and a Balance 2 for when I’m pretending to be civilized. Both run Zepp OS. Both came with plenty of watch faces. None of them were quite what I wanted.
Zepp has tools for making faces, but I wanted something that worked the way I think. Drag things around on a round screen. See what it will look like. Press a button and get something I can put on the watch.
Continue reading “Building My Own Watch Face Editor”From Rogue on Unix to an AI-Built Dungeon on My Wrist
Around 1980, some of the first computer games I played were terminal games on a Unix system. One of them was Rogue.
There were no elaborate graphics. The dungeon appeared as text characters: rooms, corridors, treasure, and monsters represented by symbols and letters. Your character was an @. It took surprisingly little to turn a terminal screen into a place you wanted to explore.

Building a Newsletter Builder
One of the programs I have been working on is a newsletter builder. The idea is fairly simple: take a folder of Word documents and photographs and turn it into a club newsletter, with a consistent layout and a PDF ready to distribute.
A newsletter involves quite a bit of repetitive work. Articles arrive as separate documents, pictures may be embedded in those documents or supplied separately, and the club information needs to appear in every issue. Then there are headlines, captions, page numbers, and all the little adjustments that make the result look finished.
This seemed like a useful project for AI-assisted programming.
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More AI coding – Amazfit and Zepp OS
A bit more than a year ago I tried using AI to write some apps that I could use on my Amazfit watches. At that time I had one watch, the TREX-2

I later added the Balance 2, which is a bit more dressy

Compared to Apple, Google, or Samsung watches, I think these are a much better value. Anyway, back to writing an app for them. When I first tried, each AI I tried could not accomplish what I wanted. It came down to two issues, one was that they couldn’t find the Zepp OS documentation, and second they were terrible at writing the necessary code.
Well today I tried again and in no time I was able to create two apps.
Continue reading “More AI coding – Amazfit and Zepp OS”Comparison of free AI’s scripting for Blender
The latest rage (as of 10-19-2026) is AI driven 2d image to 3d model. Sites like Meshy, Trippo, and Trellis all let you upload a 2d image and get back a 3d model. The problem with these is the quality of the model. All it is is a collection of meshes that you can’t really edit or change in Blender. So I decided to see what the free levels of AI can do.
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Using Claude Code efficiently
I am working on a flight simulator game and claude code has been great. But I just exceeded my usage limits. Now I know I was not being very smart in how I use claude code. Basically it was one long conversation spanning days. So having a recursive set of mind, I asked AI what I should do.
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