Hey, how's it going?

So recently I just purchased the Codex MicroPad

and it's a really interesting device.

I feel it's like we all thought that OpenAI's first hardware

product would be some kind of pendant or some like

some AI specific device, but turns out it's a MicroPad.

So today in this video, we're gonna be doing an unboxing

and I will also test drive it a little bit and I'll give my initial

takes on whether the 200 something dollar price tag is

worth it.

And how I feel about it. So let's get right into the video.

So here it is. It also comes with this little thing here

and let's go ahead and unbox it.

I need a better unbox. I need a knife.

One eternity later

okay

okay so

comes out like this

USB-C

it's like little icons here.

Low profile,

comes with these keyboard inserts.

So yellow, yeet.

I'm assuming you could

configure these

pads.

This I'm not really sure, it looks like a mouse,

it's like a mouse.

But yeah, that's essentially the unboxing.

Pretty straightforward.

This is what you get.

So we're testing.

I got it plugged in. There's actually a button right here in

the back. You just click it. You can also connect it with the

USB that comes with it.

It's surprisingly

like tight tolerances, but you plug it in.

There's Bluetooth connection

and yeah, it's pretty cool. So we're going to go and play

around with it. This is not like a full fledged deep dive of

everything about this because I don't know yet. I just

got it. This is going to be just more of a first reaction and

we're going to play around with it and try to

build something. I was working on this like feature on this

like Pomodoro app that I was working on. So let's try to

build something just using this macro pad. Now it's like in

an awkward place because I have to like do a camera.

Okay.

So the nice thing is you can use this like voice like

dedicated bunch of voice. One thing before we go and

get started, there is this menu for

the Codex Micro.

And you can essentially like change all these things.

And as you move things around, it will actually do

the various actions, which I thought was a really nice

integration to it. Like if you hit the buttons, obviously if

you hit the buttons will take you to

the things that you're trying to go to.

So at a high level, each of these buttons control

different threads that you're on. The first thing that

like immediately,

like I'm a little like

weirded about is like kind of.

The ordering of these are like, I'm not really sure how

it's mapped.

So I'm sure I'll figure that out. The other thing is

this button, this knob right here. You can change it and it's

actually clickable when you could change kind of

very quickly, like some of the very

high level composer stuff.

So it's a way to very quickly navigate the composer.

It seems like it's kind of cool, kind of interesting.

One thing I really like about this micro pad is that I know

it's probably a lot cheaper to get a micro pad. That can

potentially do all of these things, but I wonder how much

of it has like first party support. Yeah. Which is

something to think about. Now, all of these buttons are

like customizable

in the

micro, but let's go ahead and just play around with it.

Like there's obviously like these dedicated buttons to like

turn on fast mode and not fast mode.

And then it's like to confirm to reject

and also

to create a Git work tree.

And this obviously is the voice. Like an accept, except key.

So yeah, it's very simply laid out

and let's just try building something with it.

Okay. I'm going to pin this work stream and then

I'm going to

say,

let's start the project

and open up the simulator for me.

That took a lot longer than I thought.

All right, so

it's gone and done it.

All right, cool.

So based on this, it's blinking right here. So I think I know

that this

is this particular thread.

So which which is really cool. And then

let's I'm also working on this like kind of game right here.

Let's just say start the game up so I could test play it.

Okay, so it took over this.

Okay.

Um, that's interesting.

Okay, so

this, it was just green. So it's basically saying it

just finished.

Let's go here back to the iOS app.

So I was working on this live activities kind of indicator.

I think I like it overall,

except I don't really want this background. I just want to

keep this background.

So we could try to fix that right now.

In the live activities, can you make it so that the

background is just black?

We can keep the

profile circle of the character that we're using.

I submitted the prompt and it's going

i could check in on the other tasks that i'm doing

so one thing that is like maybe it's not that intuitive for me

right now but for me it feels

like these

thread controls are like swapping on me

um it'd be great if i knew like oh this

this is for

the pomodoro app that i'm doing this is for the game that

i'm building as an example. But I do like that there is

these little

like

indicators.

But to be honest, in reality, I think I wouldn't be

like looking out

like this is not how I would be working. I would kind of

rather know exactly

what to hit without looking at it. So like the fact that I have

to like look, it's not that important feature to me, but it's

nice to look at, to be honest.

All right.

So it's pretty cool. It like switches everything to green.

All of these like little states are still like nebulous to me a

little bit. But I think like at a high level, fundamentally,

the most important thing

is you just prop with voice and then you just submit

and then you could like switch some of the knobs

very easily. I think like that's what I would use it the

most for.

There's also these

like

forward and back

and toggle

side mode and all these kind of like toggles are built

right in,

which is

nice.

It's okay.

I think the

back and forward is good. It's a little clunky, to be honest,

like when I when I play with it, it's a little clunky. But yeah,

let's go ahead and check

this feature.

Start it.

And then there, it fixed it. Okay, nice. So that's exactly

what I wanted. I think the time

is not really great.

So that's basically, I probably need to fix this time as well.

So let's go to it and then we could fix it.

I'm using my left hand, by the way. I'm right-handed,

but it's just the way my camera is set up.

We can say something like

the live activity

time indicator

in minutes

should not be blank, dash, dash. It should be a

specific time.

Okay. So looking at this, it looks like right now it's, it's to

most recent chats, but I could change it to

pin chats,

which is more kind of like how I actually use it. So if I have

the pin chats,

then, okay. Yeah. So it's one, two, three.

So that that's a lot more exactly like how I use chat

GPT more. Like, I guess if it's recent chats, you would

always just tap on one. Like I don't really know why that's

the default. And

looks like here, you could also change the knob could also

be just reasoning only, or it can also do the other, Oh,

reasoning or also conversation scrolling. This is

really interesting. I want to try this out.

Okay.

This is probably more useful.

Honestly,

it's a little clunky to do it. It doesn't feel very smooth,

but it's understandable. But I could see myself using it in

dismal mode because to be honest, I don't really change

the reasoning that often, like the effort level.

But what this allows me to do is quickly switch,

switch between

and then read kind of previous messages and then,

you know, do some kind of input

and then

submit it

and then move on.

And I could see this workflow

that this kind of workflow being pretty, pretty useful,

actually. Now if this was like more mobile

where I could just hold it in my hand and I had like

a glasses

display that kind of kind of project what I'm seeing,

that would be even better.

But yeah, this is a this is a pretty cool little tool.

Let's see what else is there. All right. This is this is

pretty cool, too, because so ChatGPT recently announced

the voice chat and now voice chat is integrated into

Codex.

So I think that's really cool.

Let me just give that a shot.

OK.

It's it started and it ended

okay why is it I

think I found a bug to be honest.

Let's, maybe it needs to be a new thread.

Like, I'm not sure.

Okay, it might have to have been a new thread, so let's go

ahead and try it out.

Nope.

Okay, the

starting the agent is not really working. I don't know why.

Oh, okay. I'll check what's going on. No, no, no, no, no,

stop.

Okay, stop it.

Okay, can you start

the game? While you're working on the game in my

current

thread,

Sorry, in this current thread for my

Anime Pomodoro, can you

also start working on a

watch version of my app?

Right, sure. I'll start that as well.

The game editor

is already open.

I'm still pinning down which project is your Anime

Pomodoro one. Okay.

It's the

Xcode project.

Uh, okay. I've asked to start a watch version as a new

project task.

The game is already running in its debug window,

and I'm working on the watch version in a separate task.

So, both are in focus.

Can you

go to the task that you just started?

Yeah, I'll pull it up here.

It's still setting up, and I'm checking on it.

Can you pin this?

Sure. I'll take care of that.

All right i just stopped it but

yeah so

here's some high level things

i could i could see this entire workflow turning into

um

this

micro pad i think it's fun it's like i don't know if i would like

use it day to day to be honest

um i'm gonna try i'm gonna try to use the hell out of it for

the next like week or two and i'll have like a full

review and like deep thoughts about it.

But from what I can see right now, I think just the deep

integration to the. Codex app, it's a pretty big cell.

And with like ChatGPT voice,

basically

allowing you to control various threads very easily,

seamlessly.

I think having one kind of device allowing you to

also

in parallel, go

and look at

threads

and then read through them, you know, using the knob to

like read through the different things and then just

switching and then having ChatGPT just like target it.

I think like one thing that the voice

app needs is context to what I'm looking at without

having to like figure out where it is. Like from what I

can tell, it doesn't really have that like context to what I'm

looking at. It just kind of has its own context. So yeah,

I was

building some random stuff.

It's an interesting like device. It's really expensive for

what it is,

but they need a, they also need a button to like pause.

I could probably hot key one of these buttons to like stop

generation as well. But yeah, I kind of like it. I don't think

anyone actually needs it. You can do most of these things

with a keyboard and just like reading it. And also.

ChatGPT voice kind of

gets rid of some of the need for this kind of like hot key

management and things like that. But I just, I think

it's nice. It's built pretty well.

I think the build quality is pretty nice.

It's very Apple-esque. Except for, I would say there's like

some elements to it that's like kind of

to the hacker ethos. Like there's these like

exposed

LEDs

and the exposed PCB. It's like somewhat exposed

PCB board. Yeah. So I don't have a full opinion of it.

This was just an unboxing and a quick video,

just showcasing some of the features. I'm going to play

around with it more, learn more about it, and I'll have a full

review in the future. But yeah, I hope you guys enjoyed

this video.

I've been away on holiday for quite some time but

I'm back. I have a bunch of videos coming down the

pipeline so

subscribe and I'll see you guys on the next one. Bye.