It's often good to approach what llm said as a guidance, and not as ground truth.

You can ask follow up questions or point to potential feasibility and it will change its answer.

Exactly, bit banging an 8-bit bus isn't that different from pushing the data out of the USB port. It would be great to try an LLM trained on pre-1900 documents and ask it if powered flight is possible.

Great work on PicoGUS.

It was Gemini Flash, probably an even faster variant optimised for immediate response on search pages.

> Interesting that Gemini said it was infeasible.

Unless there is a hardware limitation or the hardware does not support it, anything in software is possible.

Gemini and all these other LLMs are designed to convince you that they have "awareness" which they do not have any of the sort. They are neither sentient nor do they have consciousness

Meta comment to your meta comment : this is a very personal opinion but I cannot stop myself from thinking less about your message (even though I agree with it), just because of that edgy wannabe way to go about naming Microsoft. You want to say Microsoft say that, you want to say Github say that but if you say a vaguely insulting name only to have to specify what you actually mean... It doesn't bring anything to the conversation, except lower the level, and if a company has flaws as big as Microsoft you don't need to resort to childish name calling to expose them. This is my personal opinion.

Hah! That's neat! So much fun stuff to be had with that particular bit of kit.

Yes, the guy clearly spent more of his time than it's worth - you can buy a wifi dongle for a few bucks on aliexpress.

But that's exactly the point of such experience. It's a challenge, and the guy/gal nailed it.

The Pico is USB 1.1, so the upper bound is 12 Mb/s.

Wifi printer, where both your machine and the printer are connected to the same AP? yes

If you'd rather just expose a USB printer to the network, a Pi Zero is a better fit.

The Pico W can host an AP.

No, it's not really easier to buy a Wi-Fi dongle. My target device is the Spotify Car Thing and SuperBird doesn't have Wi-Fi components. My Claude Code Pro subscription was idle, so it cost me nothing. Also, according to an article from Tom's Hardware from two years ago, four million Picos have already shipped, so I've unlocked this ability for let's say 500,000 devices. Finally, my day job is in the Wi-Fi industry... this wasn't a learning exercise.

The author's tone when they discuss the cost of the project is self-deprecating. They know it would have been simpler to just buy one.

But also, the author has given the community a great gift, both directly (the blog post and the project!) and indirectly (the idea: what else can be implemented in similar ways).

Finally hacker news on .. Hacker News. No need for it to be economical cheap.

It’s nice that it doesn’t need the WiFi stack or host side configuration though. This would be great for headless machines.

> The project is cool thought to learn about networks, NAT, Proxys, ect...

The author learned nothing though...

except now we don't need to spend that $5

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The pic "AI Slop 2. A Real World Situation" is great, the USB cable is connected to the wrong end of the Pico!

It's one of the neat features of the AsciiDoc language. The user is able to change captions mid document, in this case :figure-caption:. AsciiDoc and Antora are things I've invested a lot of my time into

https://baiyibai-antora.gitlab.io

I'm kind of fascinated by the first diagram on the page. It sits so firmly in the uncanny valley for me and I can't put my finger on why. By itself every part looks ok and normal, but as a whole it just screams AI to me. I don't know if its the color choices or the composition or something else. It all just feels that little bit off.

I mean, I know its AI, the page says so itself, no one is trying to hide it. But it also just gives me AI vibes on such a subliminal level that I can't figure out why.

Actually, all of them are fallible, very incompetent machines that are good at writing text. They're not people, they don't have any qualities of people except the really bad ones, and they are absolutely miserable at reasoning.

The only people I know who use Gemini are unemployed.

The only people I know who use Claude vibe-code everything, often including their communication -- they probably let Claude kiss their kids goodnight.

Everyone else uses ChatGPT, and the world is worse off for it.

They are machines. "it" is the only acceptable pronoun, and personifying these machines adds emotion into the discussion and the use of the tool. They are not people. They do not behave like people. If you feel like they do, and you're e.g. autistic, that's entirely fair, so please take my word that they do not behave sufficiently like people in any way.

Nothing they do mirrors the behavior of engineers. They instead mimic the language of engineers. I understand that this is all it takes in a lot of circles to gain respect, which is quite a sad state for those circles, but that doesn't mean its a universal experience.

Gemini writes pretty shitty code in my experience. We tried it out for a grand total of half a day at work before deciding it wasn't worth our time and switched back to Opus.

ChatGPT writes like it's life depends on it and refuses to correct its own mistakes. It'll figure out a way to write 4k lines for something that could've been done in 500

DeepSeek will just wing it and tell you it's done only for you to find 1 major + 3 edge case bugs.

ChatGPT is very good at code-reviewing Claude’s work and finds the howlers in it fairly reliably

But this is a Pi Pico, which is a microcontroller and not a Linux system.