AI for homebrewing

I’m very fond of tinkering and making stuff. The best of it being way too much energy over just buying something. It’s weird but it gives a satisfaction in knowing I can do it. It’s not that I need to have it my way or make a particular specific version of something. It’s just some weird form of tech masochism.

Lately I’ve been accelerating my homebrewing with Google’s Gemini. In more than one way.

It works (almost) for 3D printing. At least for simple geometries it generates OpenSCAD code easily, and that we can turn into STL and render to printables.

Another fun project is a home improvement with a new staircase design. Not easy to do on paper. See the model it generated under the projects.

And then Home Assistant — it’s assisting me in setup as a container on the NAS (again, this could be done easier) and the latest project with creating an ESP32 e-ink panel, it’s reasoning on C code.

And of course, actual homebrewing. I can get it to design beer recipes and output as BeerXML and load it into the Grainfather system. If it could only do the cleaning.

This Hakyll site got a five minute design overhaul the other day, which I would never have got through without VSCode and Claude.

Looking forward to training my own AI. I guess the kids are close.