Author: Al Rojas
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Building a Custom Weather Dashboard with Raspberry Pi
What’s up, everyone! It’s been quite some time since my last blog post—what a busy year it’s been! Among the new hobbies I’ve picked up, photography quickly became a favorite. It started with a casual visit to Glazer’s in South Lake Union, and next thing I knew, I was leaving with a pre-owned Sony A7C…
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Building an Image-to-Sticker Generator Using Stable Diffusion, Shopify, and Printify
Building an Image-to-Sticker Generator Using Stable Diffusion, Shopify, and Printify It’s been a while since my last post! I have to applaud people who consistently blog—it’s much harder than I expected, even with assistance from tools like ChatGPT. For this post, I’m sharing a project I’ve been working on that integrates Stable Diffusion 2.1 with…
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Houston. We have Bounding Boxes.
This is going to be a short post and continuation of my previous post. I finally have some code that successfully created an initial bounding box. This post will contain a few images showing the placement as well as the code itself. This time I’m sharing an example of my query and the exact output…
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Optimizing Pokémon Card Identification: Data Prep and Model Training with ChatGPT-4o
Hey everyone! Sorry for the delay in my posts. It turns out the only real limitation of AI is the human element! Balancing work, code testing, and blogging takes way more time and effort than I anticipated. I’m still getting the hang of this, so it’s been quite the learning experience. Thanks for your patience…
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Improving Pokémon Card Recognition Model for the Pokedex App
Introduction Today, we took significant steps toward improving our Pokémon card recognition model. Our goal is to create an application that can accurately identify Pokémon cards from images, leveraging a dataset of 17,000 high-quality images. Below is a detailed account of our journey, challenges, and solutions implemented to enhance our machine learning model. Setting Up…
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Setting Up Pokedex Project GitHub Repository: Step-by-Step Guide
Introduction In this blog post, we embark on an exciting journey where ChatGPT generated all the code while I executed it in real life. Together, we set up a GitHub repository for our Pokedex Project, removed sensitive API keys from the code, and aligned our branching strategy with modern best practices. This process ensures our…
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Discover 17,000 Pokémon TCG Cards with ChatGPT-4o Pokedex App
Welcome to my latest project—an innovative Pokedex application crafted entirely by ChatGPT-4o with just a few minor tweaks from me. This app is designed to revolutionize the way you manage and explore your Pokémon TCG (Trading Card Game) collection. Here’s what you can do with it: This Pokedex application is currently in beta, with ongoing…
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Pokedex App – Built by ChatGPT
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