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How a chip is made:

Ever wondered how a silicon chip is made? This 3D isometric animation will walk you through the many steps involved. Details here.

Ceramic Beats:

This very cool little web toy lets you generate beats made from ceramic objects at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Unfortunately it doesn't use real sounds - rather a generative sound of what the object would sound like. Details here.

Poster Prompts:

The author has created some prompts for that are supposed to generate better poster designs. These all still look like slop. I get sent a lot of AI posters for Canberra Digest and I don't think people like seeing them. Just use Canva, slap some words on the page instead. Details here.

Automatic image captions:

Eyedrop is a app that automatically generates captions for images. The generation happens locally and requires no subscriptions. Useful for generating the image ALT tags. Details here.

4x3:

A little by Hank Green where you find the categories. Four categories. Three words each. One word is in all four. Details here.