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⚡2026-08-12 Started the move to Cloudflare, finally.
Moving to Cloudflare means I'll be digging out some old JavaScipt type stuff to post soon.
Some of it will have to be modernized to work again, some not. We'll see.
I think the first thing I may post, other than an old clock I made for work, is a JavaScript version of 'Pocket Chord Finder'.
I'ts kinda old, but worth moving to JavaScript now. But first I must port it from another language, and convert the database it uses in the backend.

⚡2026-08-08 Updated Help section of LCM-LoRA Studio.
Using Whisper to transcribe worked fairly well.
I will have to tweak the process, program a tad. But worked out great !
Spent a lot less time typing, which was one goal.

⚡I got my LCM-LoRA Studio AI Image Gallery up and running. So go check it out.
I'll rotate the images I've generated using LCM-LoRA Studio over time, giving everyone a good preview of it's outputs. So check back often.

⚡And, I finished up one of the tools I'll be using to build the HTML help for LCM-LoRA Studio and my website. I'll also be using it for other programs that I write.

Which I haven't got a name for it yet. Except for Whisper Site Generator (Whisper -> SQLite DB -> Static Web Site Generator).

It'll listen to me talk. It'll paragraph the text for me automatically. And pretty the text up into some HTML where I can either create a whole brand new page from it, or I can just copy and paste it into an existing page. Which is what I'm getting ready to do now with this audio. I'm going to update the news page and I'm going to add this text to it.

So basically, yes, AI is used to make this part of this page. But if I could ever separate the middleware from it (my site specific stuff) I could release it as a tool. Because I would also like to use it for another, future site, and that would need to be done first.

I'll also be using this tool ro generate the HTML Help for LCM-LoRA Studio. Which should make the work go a little faster.

See some screenshots below.

Just click on the links.

Whisper Site Generator
Whisper Input

Whisper Site Generator
Edit Main Content

Whisper Site Generator
Export Static Site


Older News:

⚡Finished adding a 'Build Static Site' option to my web site. Going to keep DB local, and just push 'static' updates.


⚡I just finished rebuilding my web site


Always loving the Pi, wishing I had this type of stuff when I was growing up rather than Z80's 6800's, and machine language, etc...
I've created a lot of things on the Pi over the last.. since ~2012 ?

However I think the first thing I'm going to release is something Ive been working on recently, trying get the Raspberry Pi 5, to spit out an AI generated image faster than 45 mins!!! :(

Then I got it down to 20 mins, then 10, then 3, now 1.5 minutes with no hats and no acceleration !! :)

It uses a special LoRA model that gets added to the model pipeline that changes the number of steps it would take down to an average of only 4 steps.
Significantly reducing the time a Raspberry Pi 5 takes to spit out a simple 512x512 image.

The Pi OS, everything running and loading from a Class10 SD Card. Although of course it runs better on a Pi5 16G with a Pi 5 Solid state drive hat and a nice Solid State drive.

But, it will do a 1.5 minute image on a Raspberry Pi 5 8G version with only a BIG Class10 SD Card. And I mean BIG, because EVERYTHING image generation regardless of what you use for a computer, takes a lot of storage space.

The program is called 'LCM-LoRA Studio'.

Create a high-quality image, in an average of ONLY 4 STEPS using just a low-end CPU or a Raspberry Pi 5.

Check it out at: LCM-LoRA Studio

You can download the whole thing from the repository at GitHub github.com/rock-stevens/lcm-lora-studio


I welcome anyone interested in image generation on the Pi to check it out. (Runs on a PC too, CPU only)
Simple one command line install, and one command line to run.

Note: I may be slow to respond to comments and messages, so just bare with me.

Later...


2025-07-30:

⚡I just finished rebuilding my web site

And, now that I am finished testing it, I'll start uploading my data to the site.

Over the coming weeks/months you'll start to see some content. I have created a lot over the years

📣New: Theme Button on header of site. Dark and Light Mode. Try it !
It uses one cookie named 'theme' to remember 'light' or 'dark'. But that is all.

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