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Writing about Raspberry Pi projects, AI-assisted development, and maker experiments.

PiPiece ​

I Rebuilt the Entire UI for My Raspberry Pi Camera App Using AI. Here's What Actually Happened. ​

A step-by-step walk through a full UI overhaul using GitHub Copilot (Claude Sonnet): TDD with a hardware camera, the hamburger clipping bug that took three tries, seven attempts to get one timer test passing, a dark mode debugging saga that ended with the AI giving up on the original approach, and how 100 files changed in a single session.

I Built an AI Bird Watcher with a Raspberry Pi 5 and an HQ Camera — in One Day ​

How I added automatic bird detection to PiPiece using LiteRT and EfficientDet-Lite0 — a 4 MB model running at 5–6 fps on the Pi 5's CPU, with full-resolution captures triggered by detection events and a real-time Vue UI powered by Server-Sent Events.

AI Development Workflows ​

Your AI Doesn't Know How You Work. Teach It. ​

The problem with AI coding tools that have no workflow context, and the fix: six Claude Code skill files that walk the AI through my actual development process every time I invoke them.

A Side Effect I Didn't Expect: I Started Sharing My Work ​

How automating commit messages lowered the friction for sharing — and why AI writing drafts need real editing (three fabricated facts in one draft, all plausible-sounding, all wrong).