After my 30 days of AI experimentation, I’m better able to use the tools available to build small-but-complete software projects. Today’s project is a simple photo booth app that uses your device’s camera to create a vintage-style photo strip you can download.

At first I tried the new and flashy GitHub Spark for this, but I found it did too much coding with too little prompt information, and the application platforms it prefers to use are more complex than needed. I started over with the old reliable GitHub Copilot with VS Code, which I’ve been using everyday in my work and increasingly in my own projects, and it was easy. It only took about two hours to put the app together and personalize it.

The web app is hosted on GitHub pages: https://patrickfarley.github.io/photobooth-app/