My Anti AI computer / 我的反人工智能计算机

HOME AWAY FROM HOME This is my anti AI computer, as in a place where tokens cant reach me, 2x pico 2040, one to drive the display and keyboard and one to drive the floppy drive with pio, keyboard is artsey.io chords with 2 extra keys, the battery is 2x18650 3000mah, has about 24 hours life with display on full brightness, or 1 week if I use eink, the floppy is just old floppy sony mpf. The os is small os with forth as a language and also has apple2 emulator to run some apple games from the floppy, and also emulator that can run zork2 compiled bytecode.

家外之家。这就是我的“反人工智能”计算机，一个 Token（人工智能生成的文本单位）无法触及我的地方。它搭载了两块 Pico 2040 微控制器，一块用于驱动显示屏和键盘，另一块通过 PIO 驱动软盘驱动器。键盘采用的是 artsey.io 和弦键盘布局，并额外增加了两个按键。电池由两节 18650 3000mAh 电池组成，在显示屏全亮度下续航约 24 小时，如果使用电子墨水屏则可达一周。软盘驱动器就是老式的索尼 MPF 软驱。操作系统是一个小型系统，以 Forth 为编程语言，并内置了 Apple II 模拟器，可以运行软盘里的 Apple 游戏，还有一个能运行 Zork 2 编译字节码的模拟器。

The pcb is cut on my cubiko cnc but with my own heightmap code that does very good interpolation as the FR2 copper clads are very bendy and can have 0.6-0.7mm between highest/lowest point, also I made the design so the cnc moves only X or Y but never both otherwise error just accumulates and its hard to do 0.2mm traces. I used 0.8mm fishtail endmill. Some people can do 50wpm on artsey but I can barely do 15 :) still working on it though.

PCB 是用我的 Cubiko CNC 切割的，但我编写了自己的高度图（heightmap）代码来进行精确插值，因为 FR2 覆铜板非常容易弯曲，最高点和最低点之间可能有 0.6-0.7 毫米的落差。此外，我优化了设计，让 CNC 只在 X 轴或 Y 轴上移动，从不同时移动，否则误差会累积，很难实现 0.2 毫米的走线。我使用了 0.8 毫米的鱼尾铣刀。有些人用 Artsey 键盘能达到每分钟 50 个单词的输入速度，但我勉强只能达到 15 个 :) 不过我还在练习。

The tension is that all the code is vibecoded, the display driver, the cnc software, the pcb software that generates gcode, the os itself, its 6502 and zork zil emulators, the floppy controller, the spi rpc between the picos, the forth interpreter, everything. I said few words and it appeared in my hands. So the software has no value to me, but the artifact as a whole I do enjoy and I really like the sound the floppy makes.

这种矛盾在于，所有的代码都是通过“Vibecoding”（指通过 AI 辅助生成代码）完成的：显示驱动、CNC 软件、生成 G 代码的 PCB 软件、操作系统本身、6502 和 Zork ZIL 模拟器、软盘控制器、Pico 之间的 SPI RPC 通信、Forth 解释器，一切皆是如此。我只需说几句话，代码就出现在我手中。因此，这些软件对我来说没有价值，但我很享受这个成品本身，而且我非常喜欢软盘发出的声音。

I am sure if I would’ve written all this code it would’ve taken me months to do this, and I am sure I would’ve enjoyed it more, in a “I hunted my dinner” kind of way, but I need to get used to just getting the thing that does what I want and move on, like eating at McDonalds. [ By McDonalds I mean the total alienation between me and my food, When I was 12 years old I was a shepherd for a bit, and sometimes I had to eat animals I was friends with, I had deep emotional relationship with my food, and now it is just calories I consume. ]

我敢肯定，如果这些代码全由我亲手编写，可能需要几个月的时间。我肯定会更享受那个过程，就像“亲手狩猎晚餐”那样。但我必须习惯这种“直接获取想要的东西然后继续前进”的方式，就像在麦当劳吃饭一样。[ 我所说的麦当劳，是指我与食物之间彻底的疏离感。我 12 岁时曾当过一段时间牧羊人，有时不得不吃掉我当作朋友的动物，那时我与食物有着深厚的情感联系，而现在，它们仅仅是我摄入的热量。]

And so, the place I go to escape from AI is made by AI. I can deny it, and slowly go mad as it engulfs and suffocates me, or I can just grief and accept that what I loved to do is now done by machines. I am a racing driver in a self driving car. At the moment the car has somewhat cryptic interface and few can really get the most out of it, for some the car can fly, for some it moves backwards, but this will change. Video of how typing looks: Few more photos:

于是，我用来逃避人工智能的地方，恰恰是由人工智能制造的。我可以否认这一点，在它吞噬并窒息我的过程中慢慢发疯；或者，我可以哀悼并接受我曾经热爱的事物现在已由机器完成的事实。我是一个坐在自动驾驶汽车里的赛车手。目前，这辆车的界面还有些晦涩，很少有人能真正发挥它的最大潜力——对某些人来说，车能飞；对另一些人来说，它在倒退——但这终将改变。打字效果视频：更多照片：