Fun with AI??

Wayne · Apr 17, 2024

Ack - No twitter for me.

Doc J · Apr 17, 2024

thenated0g said:
"I found an account on Udio that is mostly generating songs about how his friend Seth shit his pants at work"

https://twitter.com/x/status/1778436378642239629

Dayum thats funny, Nate...tempting to learn that to make up a few songs about some people I know...

Doc

Doc J · Apr 17, 2024

SailHigh said:
AI's idea of soaring a scale sailplane over the slopes. Generated by Gemini

Like it - the model is in for some fairly sigificant problems though...

Doc.

jure · Apr 17, 2024

thenated0g said:
trying out some AI generate music. its pretty flippin awesome lol
Here's what i used to generate this music and lyrics: "A song about a duck and chicken fighting each other, def leppard style"

Thanks Nate !
I "made" a few blues songs about sailing in the Bay:

Whispers on the waves
Sailing the eight bar blues
Smooth sailing serenade

Doc J · Apr 18, 2024

jure said:
Thanks Nate !
I "made" a few blues songs about sailing in the Bay:

Whispers on the waves
Sailing the eight bar blues
Smooth sailing serenade

Very BB.

Great!

Doc.

thenated0g · Apr 18, 2024

@jure those are great. If you want, you can edit the picture and type in new words to get it to make up a picture for you as well.
For instance my friends play this game "helldivers" so i had it do some robot playing guitar picture for this song:

theNatedog - Helldivers | Udio

Listen to Helldivers by theNatedog on Udio. Discover, create, and share music with the world. Use the latest technology to create AI music in seconds.

www.udio.com

Tahoed · Apr 19, 2024

Full flaps, gear down....

Tahoed · Apr 19, 2024

I think my AI is into Steampunk......

jure · Apr 19, 2024

Tahoed said:
I think my AI is into Steampunk......

sailplane !

Wayne · Apr 19, 2024

LOL - Yep, that would be a sail plane.

Doc J · Apr 19, 2024

You guys dont have enough to do...

Doc.

Haoyang Wang · Apr 22, 2024

It looks like an F1E saiplane, with the rudder at the nose.

Doc J · Apr 22, 2024

Fascinating to watch. I saw a couple of comps in the UK about 45 years ago.

It doesn't seem to have changed but I bet it has.

zDoc.

jure · Apr 22, 2024

Haoyang Wang said:
It looks like an F1E saiplane, with the rudder at the nose.

thanks Haoyang , very interesting to learn about the F1E Free Flight Soaring class , with the "autopilot" mechanism .
some details may be found in this Model Aviation article from 2006.
Introduction to F1E

An automatic steering device keeps the aircraft directed into the wind. It consists of a forward fin with a rudder that is attached with an adjustable coupling to a magnet that steers the model in the desired direction.
If the glider veers to the left, the magnet moves the rudder to the left, which forces its nose to the right. If the glider turns right, the rudder will turn right and the model will turn to the left until it is again heading in the desired direction.

The nose pod is usually a teardrop-shaped unit that contains the steering mechanism, commonly called the “pilot.” A jewel bearing is located in the bottom center of the nose pod.

Autopilot Breakdown

Components: nose pod with bearing in center, magnet assembly with small ball at the lower end to fit in 3 bearing, forward fin, steering fin.

Magnet and fin assembly.

Complete autopilot.

Close-up of assembly. Screw at bottom of rudder locks magnet to steering rudder after it is set for proper direction orientation.

Top view. Steering rudder is to left. This will push model’s nose to right until steering rudder is straight.

Haoyang Wang · Apr 23, 2024

Doc J said:
It doesn't seem to have changed but I bet it has.

In the recent NFFS Digest, this German fellow controls the rudder with an electronic compass chip and servo.

Now, if you can do it with IC and servo, you can reverse the servo direction and put the rudder at the tail like everybody else since Write Bros...

Jarron · Jul 25, 2024

I played around with Suno.ai recently (This: https://suno.com/) and generated some songs about...abnormally fast blimps!:

Little Airship

Racing Blimp

High Air

Doc J · Jul 26, 2024

Love the Little Airship - Liked the Racing Blimp - couldnt hear the High air for some reason.

Great stuff!

Doc.

thenated0g · Jan 16, 2025

Some of my gamer friends and I were talking about all the AI influencer stuff and we started looking at some tutorials. Its actually super easy to generate real looking people, although i personally find it pretty easy to spot them. But we thought it would be fun to try and make up some Instagram accounts with only AI content and see who can get some views, basically low time invest and just see what happens. I used to use Midjourney, which is a monthly paid setup, but its pretty crazy, you can download local copies of these AI generators now and in about 5-10 minutes start kicking out your own stuff. I went with a program called Fooocus. Its still very much an "art". Like you need to learn the program and get a feel for what it wants in the test boxes to describe and get the picture you want.

One of the first things i did last year when i started messing with AI generation stuff was Star wars based pet pictures. So i went with that. Over the past couple days in my spare time i have been generating random scifi pet pics. basically enough to post a few times a week for a few months even if i dont make any more photos. Heres the ones i have posted so far and a link to the account if anybody wants to follow: