I made a piece called “Sad Hammer”. It was a cheap hammer that got overused and bent down and I thought it looks depressed, so I put it in a shadow box and hung it on my wall after visiting MOMA. I guess it’s really not that cool but I like it.
Nah. I glued it to the back of the the shadowbox with liquid nails I believe while it was laying flat on the ground. It’s been holding strong for 15 years so far!
Yeah I guess it’s funny now that you mention it. The background color matches the back wall more than I realized. The color of the back wall was tan originally.
It looks like a hollow tube for the body. I had one very similar to that in my cheap socket/toolkit. I got to a job and didn't have a real hammer so I grabbed this one that I kept in the truck. The first nail I tried to pull out I ripped the head clean off.
Love this. I used to own a very similar hammer and one day snapped one side of the claw off trying to remove a nail for a picture hanger... Very sad indeed
I do ham radio. Probably the coolest thing I've "made" is a setup where I can send email without the need for an internet connection on my end. I use a small laptop connected to a transceiver to send out high-frequency sounds (VARA) on very low power (5-10 watts) to towers around the world that will decode the signals, convert it to a regular email, and send it to the recipient (bob@overthere.com). Then reverse the process when I check for a reply. The whole setup fits in a small backpack and I can use a piece of speaker wire for the antenna. It's about as fast as dial-up used to be, but it works!
Do the towers have a spec that allows outgoing email to anyone? And does the email always come from the same address? If not are you authenticating through smtp? This is so interesting, thanks for sharing!
Look into WInlink. You have to have an amateur radio license, and you'll have to choose between different software (ie: radio modem), and you'll need an HF transceiver. Once licensed you can create a Winlink account (via radio, no web signups!), which gives you access to smtp through their gateways (which are actually owned by other hobbyists). Different towers/repeaters have different specs/protocols (PACTOR, Packet, I use VARA) but all of them allow you to send email to any domain or recipient, just like regular email. Hardest part is configuring your laptop (or even phone) to control your transceiver to send the signals out. The email you'd have is your_callsign@winlink.org and with HF frequencies you can hit just about any gateway listed here https://winlink.org/content/gateway_locations
Yeah it is a lot of fun, last week I was talking to a guy in Ireland just to switch bands and talk to another guy in New Zealand.
It's actually easier than ever to get in. You can get a decent handheld UHF/VHF local rig for less than $30, and a decent QRP HF global rig runs about $225 after you upgrade your license. There's study guides out there for $10 (and even free ones) that go over the actual questions you get on the FCC exam. The license fee has gone up to $35 from $10, but the equipment has gotten cheap enough for anyone to get in.
I have a scifi novel. It's circling right now in the first revision stage, but the story itself is complete and I feel good about it. Even filed for copyright. Now if I can just get back to work on it (rewriting sucks).
I made a batch of really good salsa over the weekend. It took me hours (I'm disabled atm), but it was a really good batch with incredibly fresh local tomatoes, peppers and onions.
First off, I'll take yours over the one in the picture any day. There's a roughness that comes from early amateur work that just feels more alive. Second, the one in the photo is a polymer clay, it was probably press molded and cleaned up for the photo.
What material are you using? I've been doing ceramics and sculpinh for about 20 years now and I'd be happy to answer any questions or give pointers.
I’ve recorded a few audiobooks for Librivox, a group that releases free recordings of public domain books. I use my government name for them, so I won’t say which ones, but you might have heard my voice if you picked the right one from !audiobooks@literature.cafe
Thank you so much for your contribution, librivox is what got me into reading and helped me discover my dyslexia and I've always held anyone involved to a high regard for it.
Who have you used for self publishing, and would you have gone with a publisher if you could do it again? Also, what type of genre in scifi, or are they different?
When I was a teenager, I made a trebuchet. It was so fun. It was not sophisticated at all -- just made of 2x4 with a steel rod as the axle. The axle was about 1 m from the ground, to give you a sense of its size. It wasn't large, but it could throw things quite far (about 60 m).
I've made contributions* to the OEIS, but since they require real names over there, and I like my anonymity here, I won't say which entries have my mark on them. Bow ties Number sequences are cool.
You're better off visiting the whole thing anyway.
* Mathematical, not financial, though I'd do the latter too if I had much to spare.
I've posted her elsewhere, but this is Teana. A few years back, my boy wanted a posable body for a Halloween Halloween monkey who's head broke off. One rabbit hole later and I was knee deep in the ball-joint doll section of the 3d printing community. He and I decided we'd make our own but as monsters.
The smoothing process for the white ABS I was using reminded me of my time working with porcelain and that's how Teana happened. Eventually Id like to sew a little dress and pose her on my brick-a-brack shelf in a decorative cloche.
More recently I've been building a mid century modern sectonal couch out of scrap lumber and a memory foam mattress. I'm far from a carpenter, didn't even own saw when I started, but it's coming together very nicely. It will look great with my TV.
It was a later model zenith with a broken screen. It's not the real wood style my parents had, the front is molded plastic, but it still feels nice. I gutted it, used a dremel to widen the hole behind the face, and nylon straps to hold up a cheap 32in from Walmart. I then disassembled an old tower and built it into the empty space inside and mounted a soundbar to echo off the back wall. The screen actually loses about 4cm off the edges became of the frame, but it feels more like the classic aspect ratio and that's nice. Also I've yet to watch a movie that needed that area anyway.
I released a couple of albums, unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on how you're looking at it, the great myspace purge of whenever the fuck that happened deleted their existence off of the face of the planet.
@rimu@piefed.social I don't know if it's a bug, but when I click the link in a mobile client it works, but on piefed.social the link resolves to https://piefed.social/post/www.nihilore.com, which obviously doesn't work.
Back when I dabbled in writing software, I made a fun project making dots orbit other dots. It was meant to be a very rough simulation of the path the moon takes as it orbits the earth, while the earth orbits the sun. I wanted to take it one step further, and built it to be more modular, where you could input how many "earth's" orbited the "sun", how many "moons" orbited the "earth's", and a speed decay or increase between each step. Ended up with the "sun" being an origin point, the number of dots around the origin I labelled "child objects," and the nested object depth as "generations" (what if the moon had a smaller moon that had a smaller moon).
Found out my CPU could update around 130,000 floating math points at 60fps (around 65,000 X and Y coords total, plus rendering overhead). Also found out that using specific configs, I could get it to form fractals like the Sierpiński triangle, the star of david, geometric flower shapes, lots of interesting stuff. It was very fun to play around with after finishing it.
All written with HTML, CSS, and JS, able to run in any browser. Unfortunately, I lost the project somewhere between distrohopping around a decade ago, and that was the last time I really programmed anything. All those skills have atrophied, and I don't have the drive to get back into it.
If you do want to do some light simulation programming that produces interesting results again, I'd suggest making a Boids simulation. It simulates the way birds or fish move in flocks/schools using only three fairly simple rules. I made one once in a few hours. If you do a little extra work you can make them follow your mouse around and lead a flock of birds around your screen.
I've made a bunch of completely custom mechanical keyboards with my 3D prinnter and laser engraver, a few with PCBs that hold a Microcontroller dev board like a Pi Pico or Arduino, but for more of them, I hand-wired the switches directly to the microcontroller. My biggest and smallest.
Electronics wise, this is absolutely an intro project if you do the PCBs how I did and leave a space to mount a Raspberry Pi Pico or similar. Then your PCB is basically structural support for some wiring and diodes, and all the actual electrical engineering is contained in a $5 dev board.
Generally the skills you need are a bit broad, but not deep at all, which suits my flighty mindset perfectly. A bit of investigating keyboard design rabbit holes (there are a surprising number of robust web tools for getting the alignment stuff for the keys), a bit of 3D printing, including assembling builds that are bigger than a build plate, a bit of CAD, a bit of PCB design (but again, ONLY a bit... there are pre-designed layout footprints for the microcontroller boards and for keyboard switches), and a bit of soldering, but generally of big and robust through-hole contacts that are hard to completely destroy.
I'm curious as to which part would be oversized? The number of keys? The spacing between them? The keycaps themselves? Any one of them would complicate things in its own way, but not ridiculously so, and potentially pretty trivially. If you're interested in following it up, making a macro-pad or numpad is a common first project, since the concepts are identical and the end result is still useful, but the investment and commitment are low if you screw it up or decide not to move on to anything bigger.
Well, keycaps potentially got added to the list of things to design, but otherwise the basics are the same. There would just be an adjustment to the 2-D "plate" files you'd need to use, and you'd run into the complications from a printer build plate sooner (depending on printer and keyboard size). You might not need to go a full 20-25% though. Just 5 or 10 might be enough and then you could maybe still get away with "normal" keycaps. Different shape families of keycaps have different names, and the XDA (sold by every random reseller on Amazon) or ISA (made for one specifix brand, XVX) both have pretty large top surfaces that would help with making your fingertips comfortable and blunting the aesthetic hit of altering a dimension we're subtly used to.
Hey, got any pointers for someone looking to do the same? I'm just now getting into serious soldering and really want to make the prefect keyboard for me.
For handwiring, Joe Scotto's videos on Youtube are excellent. For something a little more old school, but maybe more accessible theoretically, Matt3o's walkthrough from the before-COVID times is still viable.
If you want to design a PCB, KiCAD is quite usable now, and there are plugins for keyboard switch footprints and to take Keyboard Layout Editor data and place them perfectly. For me, with no EE background whatsoever, the biggest mental hurdle was understanding the design paradigm "electrical schematic first, physical layout next". I've been content to leave my PCB level at the point of making the entire keyboard PCB dumb and leaving the brains of the thing to a cheap and replaceable Raspberry Pi Pico (I like the clones that use USB-C). Physically, they're basically larger versions of this tutorial from adafruit, though I use more standard keyboard firmwares. The other benefit of a PCB is that the minimum order most places is five, so with a couple of design choices (e.g. include mounting holes and rounded corners) and some PCB standoffs, you can have two usable builds with no case at all, and a spare PCB.
I’ve gotten into website making. Like old-school personal website making, not the boring corporate template nonsense. It’s really been a joy to go back to html and css (and JavaScript sometimes, I guess) and make something
I've never been much a video tutorial person for this kind of thing. I've learned (and continue to learn) on a combination of trial and error, looking at the source of other peoples' websites, and W3 Schools. Here's the documentation/tutorial stuff they have on CSS.
That being said, I'm happy to do it for you for no cost (I've already got my plug with a Jellyfin server)
I made ice cream a few times. Nothing else I've ever made has been as cool.
I made music under the name "The Cool Side of the Pillow" in high school, but the site I submitted everything to died in like 2009 and I never kept any backups.
I have a bunch of mods for Skyrim, New Vegas and Arma 2 and 3 on the nexus and Steam workshop. One of my New Vegas mods was extremely popular when the game was new; I added and moved all the fast travel points to limit load times. Like putting one for each segment of the strip so you didn't have to go to Freeside and load 2 or 3 times just to get to the NCR HQ. Tho I only had the base game for the longest time, and never updated it for any of the DLC.
I won't post pics because I don't want to doxx myself and my family but, my brother, my dad and I built a racecar and I did most of the painting. We even ended up in the paper because we were one of the few people who still paint our car instead of vinyl wrap everything.
I'm in the process of building a device that lets you plug a landline telephone to a standard sound system. It's just so I can use it on stage, I wanna pick up the phone and sing with that vintage crackling voice.
Sadly, it is not "made" yet because I suck at electronics but I've got all the components I need and some time on my hands.
I clicked on this thread with excitement before I remembered I have designed a lot of cool things that I can't post without either opening my company up to industrial espionage or doxxing myself.
So I will post something my wife and I both worked on. This is one of our kitchen cabinets. All of them are white and boring, and we decided that since we own the house, we will have artwork instead of "resale value".
I've made an android app for splitting expenses. I was so frustrated when I was in charge of the excel sheet with my friends geoup New Year"s trip expenses, that I started working on it and I pushed it in production in the end of July. Which is especially great because I have a sizeable graveyard of things that I was burning for and then completely abandoned. It's called WEREVEN, it's free, has no ads (maybe I will monetize it in the future, but I don't want to annoy 20 people who use it), and I don't collect your personal data.
We moved into our new place in December. We had a fence post that needed replacing. The post was in a place that would work great for a fence gate. So I'm adding a new gate to our fence. This will serve to make the property as whole more accessible. It will also provide a means for those with mobility issues to enter the home without having to climb the big set of stairs at the front door.
I decided to make a proper project out of it. I could have just put in a simple gate, but I decided to go for something grander. I'm building a pergola gate! I've finished the columns and installed the first of two beams this evening.
The foundation of the gate are two 8' long steel fence posts driven 3' into the ground with a sledge hammer. The posts are approximately 5"x7", each made from five 2x6s laminated together. The beams are made from two cedar 2x6s edge joined together into a 2x12 beam. There will be two beams all together.
Tomorrow I'll hang the second beam, add some cross pieces at the top of the beams, add some foundation reinforcement, and start building the actual fence gate.
Many years ago I wrote a program that accepted DECWriter print jobs, parsed the escape sequences, and output them as PostScript.
We had an application that ran on an OpenVMS system. The application could only support DEC printers, so we couldn't use any modern devices. The DEC printers were no longer made so all our printers were either purchased refurbished, or Frankenstein printers one of our guys assembled from the carcasses of dead printers.
My program could be used as a print filter in a Linux LPT queue. This allowed us to replace DEC printers with any printer that could natively support PostScript and any printer that had ghostscript support.
When I first started in the job, my predecessor told me about the issue with the printers and it seemed like an interesting project.
First test was to ensure I could convert barcodes in the print jobs. The print jobs for the DEC printers sent the barcodes as SIXEL graphics. SIXEL graphics were bitmaps sent as rows of six vertical pixels.
Once I verified that could work, it was just a matter of writing the parser for all the rest of the escape sequences that controlled the formatting. That and learning how to produce the PostScript.
At the time I asked my boss if he wanted me to implement it, but he said we were going to migrate to a new system very soon, so it wasn't worth the effort.
I still thought it was an interesting project, so I kept working on it on my own.
Several years passed, and we were still using the old system. The man who maintained our printers died, which led to a problem. Without him to maintain the printers, they started failing faster than we could replace them. In a meeting to discuss how we would respond printer issue, I mentioned that I had continued working on my filter at home and I only needed a a few weeks of focused effort to get a functional print filter. This time my boss told me to proceed.
We very quickly replaced all our old DEC impact printers with modern laser printers.
We had some forms on tractor feed paper, so I converted the forms to PostScript and added that to the filter. I was also able to get it working with Zebra label printers.
I had a problem with the barcodes. My script generated perfect barcodes, but our barcode pens couldn't scan them. After looking at the barcodes that the DEC printers made and comparing them to what my filter produced, the only difference I could see was that the DEC barcodes looked like crap. Jittery dots instead of perfect, straight lines. So I modified my script to make the graphics produced look just a little bit worse, and they started working.
That print filter continued working flawlessly in production for several more years until we finally managed to migrate to the new system.
I just finished another video about another versus puzzle game that I plan to publish tomorrow, but can't share it quite yet so click the Dr. Mario one instead I guess.
I got into home distilling during the pandemic. Fun, and damn fine sipping. Done gin, whiskey and vodka I'm proud of. My rum was a failure, but only in the sense that it tasted like whiskey. The congeners for rum are too hard for my setup. Aged in an oak barrel and everything.
I made a an excellent coffee liqueur with my magicks, home roasted beans used in a cold booze-pressed espresso and a vanilla bean then aged on oak and applewood.
It was the inspiration for my username - you can "correct" any coffee based drink with quality booze. Yum.
My personal project since the beginning of COVID has been a programming language/data manipulation tool.
At some point I realised that not writing a program is better than writing one (juat like how if a Unix task is simple, you'll just type the command in the shell rather than writing a script). The the aame vein, if you can write a few characters to map the sum of an array of values with maximum value in a nested list of numbers in some column of a 2-dimensional array, why should I write a program to do it?
I know my explanation seems overly generic, but I've already gone on for too long. If you're curious, check the examples and videos on the web site. Please feel free to ask questions, I could talk about this stuff for way too long.
A fractal calculator where each non-operation buttons are calculator themselves once you zoom in, and the result in that calculator becomes the number it puts as a button, in C.
I made a copper guillotine at school from scrap copper they had laying around and i was allowed to take. And as soon as i was done they didnt allow me to take any more copper :(
One day it also "suddenly" vanished at my parents. Hmmm yeah lets be honest they threw it out
Literally the coolest thing I've made was a beer fridge when I was home brewing. Outfitted a standing freezer with a CO2 manifold and taps in the door. Three homebrews on tap and I could even use it to make eisbocks.
made some baby toys for my friends a while ago, those were pretty cool
took some hardwoods, printed a template, rough cut on the band saw, route the profile with a guided bit, make some neat wheels out of laminated hardwoods and a hole saw and sanding. they came out quite well
The tablet is garbage, and I'm sad I'll probably never buy a tablet pc again but i would like to see if i can adapt this for an iPad one day. For now it'll remain in this state until i can figure something else out with it.
I've gotten quite into making food. I mostly find recipes but I'm good enough now to modify or combine them as needed. Most recently I (quite successfully) tried to copy a restaurant meal I had: fried rice with veggies and fried chicken, with a special sauce. The main ingredient is Gochujang, a pleasant rich spicy type chile paste you can get from the store.
About a decade and a half ago I made a picture gallery for Android called floating image. I got fairly popular with about two million installs, but my focus drifted. Still, it was a pretty neat achievement for a spare time project.
A server rack fan controller circuit. It's not finished yet, as some wiring remains. I'm currently waiting for my 3D printer to finish a mounting block that will hold the thermostat relay, the fan capacitors, as well as cover up the terminals under the breakers, as I don't want any exposed 230V.
Getting a DIN rail mounted in a 19" rack was a bit of work, but everything now has a compact mounting location at the topmost rack position.
I built a bluetooth receiver into the aux line on my car stereo so I could maintain the aux as well. It worked flawlessly for a few months until a connection broke because I didn't have actual connectors to use. Need to find a source for the kind of connector that plugs into the aux line but the one's I've found so far are too expensive and I'm not even sure they're the right ones.
A simulation vein for my preceptees out of the soft face part of the O2 tubing full of cranberry juice for the vein, a knot on one end and an IV / syringe on the other for pressure, and a mepilex over it for the skin / soft tissue. I can make sure they know how to get the needle in and out and activate the safety properly before I let them stick me a couple times for practice before moving onto a patient.
We have enema bottles full of mineral oil that I use to grease hinges and wheels. Really the hospital supply room is macgyvers wet dream it's one of my favorite parts of night shift nursing.
Also my dog chewed out the back of my zip up hoodie so I used Elmer's as basting glue and put the inside of an upholstery style pillowcase from goodwill on the inside, sewed a fun shape around it, then made a cutout back patch. And the reason that hoodie even has a zipper is because I had to put one in after the EMTs scraped my drunk ass out of a ditch and cut it off.
Today i made a "toddler-stopper" from the side of an old cupboard. Now the little goblin can't crawl through the loom (yes, loom) and get to the nice book shelf on the other side of the room.
I’ve made a lot of stuff, but it doesn’t always fit in community art channels because its usually not a single visual.
For years in school/college I made Garry’s Mod / SFM animations. I was slow at it, and the subject matter was often something dumb, but a few times I made big hits. I had large gaps where I didn’t have inspiration for big lengthy animations and instead uploaded silly gameplay clips or whatever seemed funny at the time, but my old channel is visible here:
I finally decided I didn’t want my whole creative legacy to be based around manipulation of a single game company’s models, so I wrote a book. It’s on Nook, Kobo, and several other sites (not Amazon) and called Rangers of the Frostscape.
That said, slow feedback and low visibility hit me maybe more than it should have. I’ve seen many artists make things for the joy of creation, which I had to admit wasn’t what I was doing. Fighting purely for popularity is a doomed venture these days.
I'm in the process of remaking my "Doom Pumpkin" for Halloween as well. If connects to my HomeAssistant setup and has four 12v car horns, a speaker to play audio, LED's for eyes, a big red arcade button for a nose, motion sensors in front and back to interact with kids (it tells them it farts fireballs if they walk behind it) and an anti theft mode where if it's picked up the horns start going off. Press the button and a random sequence of horns will go off. It also will randomly set a horn off if it hasn't been touched in a while. And when it senses someone in front it will taunt them to press the button. Since it's built in to HomeAssistant I can set when certain functions work and for a couple days before Halloween it will be outside taunting the neighborhood during the day.
The first version was a couple horns powered by an arduino uno and would just randomly activate 2 horns in different ways. The new one added two more horns (one is a little beep beep forklift horn, the other is an oooogah horn) to go with the high tone and low tone car horn.
I’ve mad myself sad and/or angry countless times. Thankfully I’ve also made my significant other happy and/or thankfull multiple times also so there’s that.
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Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world · 60 pts · 1d
I made a piece called “Sad Hammer”. It was a cheap hammer that got overused and bent down and I thought it looks depressed, so I put it in a shadow box and hung it on my wall after visiting MOMA. I guess it’s really not that cool but I like it.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1d
I like how it's floating. It's attached to the wall separately from the frame?
Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d
Nah. I glued it to the back of the the shadowbox with liquid nails I believe while it was laying flat on the ground. It’s been holding strong for 15 years so far!
Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Oh neat!
Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
Yeah I guess it’s funny now that you mention it. The background color matches the back wall more than I realized. The color of the back wall was tan originally.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Yeah it's a bit of an optical illusion lol. Probably more obvious to see the difference in real life.
NickwithaC@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d
Shut up you! That's cool!
hexagonwin@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 23h
this is art!
Okokimup@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 21h
We're talking about it, aren't we?
sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 21h
It looks like a hollow tube for the body. I had one very similar to that in my cheap socket/toolkit. I got to a job and didn't have a real hammer so I grabbed this one that I kept in the truck. The first nail I tried to pull out I ripped the head clean off.
Bonifratz@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 21h
Fantastic
Lenggo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 11h
Love this. I used to own a very similar hammer and one day snapped one side of the claw off trying to remove a nail for a picture hanger... Very sad indeed
Jspelts@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 1d
I do ham radio. Probably the coolest thing I've "made" is a setup where I can send email without the need for an internet connection on my end. I use a small laptop connected to a transceiver to send out high-frequency sounds (VARA) on very low power (5-10 watts) to towers around the world that will decode the signals, convert it to a regular email, and send it to the recipient (bob@overthere.com). Then reverse the process when I check for a reply. The whole setup fits in a small backpack and I can use a piece of speaker wire for the antenna. It's about as fast as dial-up used to be, but it works!
urushitan@kakera.kintsugi.moe · 8 pts · 1d
Do the towers have a spec that allows outgoing email to anyone? And does the email always come from the same address? If not are you authenticating through smtp? This is so interesting, thanks for sharing!
Jspelts@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d
Look into WInlink. You have to have an amateur radio license, and you'll have to choose between different software (ie: radio modem), and you'll need an HF transceiver. Once licensed you can create a Winlink account (via radio, no web signups!), which gives you access to smtp through their gateways (which are actually owned by other hobbyists). Different towers/repeaters have different specs/protocols (PACTOR, Packet, I use VARA) but all of them allow you to send email to any domain or recipient, just like regular email. Hardest part is configuring your laptop (or even phone) to control your transceiver to send the signals out. The email you'd have is your_callsign@winlink.org and with HF frequencies you can hit just about any gateway listed here https://winlink.org/content/gateway_locations
urushitan@kakera.kintsugi.moe · 3 pts · 1d
Thanks!
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
Damn. That's cool.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 14h
Thats so cool.
My paternal grandfather was a ham radio guy.. he died before I could learn anything from any of it, and all his gear got sold at an estate auction.
I think its neat how you guys can bounce signals off the atmosphere to talk over the horizon to europe and shit.
Jspelts@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 11h
Yeah it is a lot of fun, last week I was talking to a guy in Ireland just to switch bands and talk to another guy in New Zealand.
It's actually easier than ever to get in. You can get a decent handheld UHF/VHF local rig for less than $30, and a decent QRP HF global rig runs about $225 after you upgrade your license. There's study guides out there for $10 (and even free ones) that go over the actual questions you get on the FCC exam. The license fee has gone up to $35 from $10, but the equipment has gotten cheap enough for anyone to get in.
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 23 pts · 1d
I have a scifi novel. It's circling right now in the first revision stage, but the story itself is complete and I feel good about it. Even filed for copyright. Now if I can just get back to work on it (rewriting sucks).
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
First book? Got an agent or publisher?
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 4 pts · 1d
Not yet. Know better than to try and do it myself. Also know you rarely get rich writing, it should be to tell the story first.
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Cool. I just know agents and publishers have feedback and editing support too. Just was wondering what stage you are in.
Good luck.
aramis87@fedia.io · 21 pts · 1d
I made a batch of really good salsa over the weekend. It took me hours (I'm disabled atm), but it was a really good batch with incredibly fresh local tomatoes, peppers and onions.
Jspelts@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d
Home made salsa is the best!!!
Chef@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1d
I like this
disregardable@lemmy.zip · 19 pts · 1d
I'm still working on it, but this is my first attempt at making something with clay. How cute it's supposed to be for reference.
naught101@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
Solid first go!
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 21h
First off, I'll take yours over the one in the picture any day. There's a roughness that comes from early amateur work that just feels more alive. Second, the one in the photo is a polymer clay, it was probably press molded and cleaned up for the photo.
What material are you using? I've been doing ceramics and sculpinh for about 20 years now and I'd be happy to answer any questions or give pointers.
Mac@mander.xyz · 17 pts · 1d
Well,
I, uh...
Made this comment?
toomanypancakes@crazypeople.online · 8 pts · 1d
Nicely done, at that!
plaztek@piefed.ca · 17 pts · 1d
Finished this a few days ago. Kitbashed and custom painted.
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 21h
That is crisp looking! What scale is it?
plaztek@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 20h
1/100, about 19cm tall to the top of the head.
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 1d
I make songs. I’m not sure how to link to them or any of my artist profiles without doxxing myself but yeah. I make songs. It makes me happy.
saltesc@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
We already know it's you, Mark Ronson.
Monster96@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1d
The test animation that got me an animation position at work
erayerdin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
looks rly cool. I rly wonder tho, how does one make animations like this? you got mocap at home?
Ludrol@szmer.info · 1 pts · 22h
This one is made by keyframes. There are tutorials on YT.
Monster96@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 18h
Thanks, glad you like it. I hand animated this with key frames by moving the character's body parts around
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 21h
I hear spooky scary skeletons, I upvote. That's the rules.
hexagonwin@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 1d
this is based af
CombatWombat@feddit.online · 15 pts · 1d
I’ve recorded a few audiobooks for Librivox, a group that releases free recordings of public domain books. I use my government name for them, so I won’t say which ones, but you might have heard my voice if you picked the right one from !audiobooks@literature.cafe
ace_garp@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 21h
Thanks for your efforts! 💗
I've listened to 100s of librivox.org books over the past 15 years.
The only name I can bring to mind right now is GreenKRI, who did some Aesop's Fables and other readings. 🙂
Excellent website.
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 21h
Thank you so much for your contribution, librivox is what got me into reading and helped me discover my dyslexia and I've always held anyone involved to a high regard for it.
notsosure@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 1d
I’ve made four sci-fi novels, self-published them and am working on the fifth. I have been making sketches and paintings and done many exhibitions.
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 6 pts · 1d
Who have you used for self publishing, and would you have gone with a publisher if you could do it again? Also, what type of genre in scifi, or are they different?
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 21h
Hey, wanna dox yourself so an ardent sci-fi fan can have 4, soon to be 5, new books to read?
notsosure@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 20h
mwproductions@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1d
I have a podcast called Almost Plausible where a couple of friends and I take an ordinary object and create a movie plot based on that object.
nanometer1625@thelemmy.club · 12 pts · 1d
When I was a teenager, I made a trebuchet. It was so fun. It was not sophisticated at all -- just made of 2x4 with a steel rod as the axle. The axle was about 1 m from the ground, to give you a sense of its size. It wasn't large, but it could throw things quite far (about 60 m).
wjrii@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 21h
So not launch a 90 kg projectile 300 meters? Pity.
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 21h
I always appreciate a superior seige machine.
palordrolap@fedia.io · 12 pts · 1d
I've made contributions* to the OEIS, but since they require real names over there, and I like my anonymity here, I won't say which entries have my mark on them.
Bow tiesNumber sequences are cool.You're better off visiting the whole thing anyway.
* Mathematical, not financial, though I'd do the latter too if I had much to spare.
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 21h
I've posted her elsewhere, but this is Teana. A few years back, my boy wanted a posable body for a Halloween Halloween monkey who's head broke off. One rabbit hole later and I was knee deep in the ball-joint doll section of the 3d printing community. He and I decided we'd make our own but as monsters.
The smoothing process for the white ABS I was using reminded me of my time working with porcelain and that's how Teana happened. Eventually Id like to sew a little dress and pose her on my brick-a-brack shelf in a decorative cloche.
More recently I've been building a mid century modern sectonal couch out of scrap lumber and a memory foam mattress. I'm far from a carpenter, didn't even own saw when I started, but it's coming together very nicely. It will look great with my TV.
It was a later model zenith with a broken screen. It's not the real wood style my parents had, the front is molded plastic, but it still feels nice. I gutted it, used a dremel to widen the hole behind the face, and nylon straps to hold up a cheap 32in from Walmart. I then disassembled an old tower and built it into the empty space inside and mounted a soundbar to echo off the back wall. The screen actually loses about 4cm off the edges became of the frame, but it feels more like the classic aspect ratio and that's nice. Also I've yet to watch a movie that needed that area anyway.
greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 13h
You seem like a fun and cool person
bizarroland@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1d
I released a couple of albums, unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on how you're looking at it, the great myspace purge of whenever the fuck that happened deleted their existence off of the face of the planet.
loric@piefed.social · 11 pts · 1d
https://archive.org/details/myspace_dragon_hoard_2010 has a bunch of the myspace mp3 files. Your stuff might be in there.
bizarroland@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d
Oh, oh god no, lol
Nihilore@quokk.au · 10 pts · 1d
My website www.nihilore.com
arsCynic@piefed.social · 2 pts · 21h
That's awesome. It even has post-rock. Bookmarking this one.
arsCynic@piefed.social · 1 pts · 19h
@rimu@piefed.social I don't know if it's a bug, but when I click the link in a mobile client it works, but on piefed.social the link resolves to
https://piefed.social/post/www.nihilore.com, which obviously doesn't work.rimu@piefed.social · 2 pts · 13h
Thanks, I'll see what can be done about that!
arsCynic@piefed.social · 1 pts · 2h
I only saw the "Please report bugs" at the bottom of the page now, sorry for the unnecessary ping. I filed the bug report: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/1880.
rimu@piefed.social · 2 pts · 2h
Too slow, already fixed ;-)
https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/commit/0646801d7fd0ed270d219e22594386b3d49bc30a
arsCynic@piefed.social · 2 pts · 1h
Legend.
Ludrol@szmer.info · 1 pts · 22h
Wow! That's quite a collection. If I remember I might use them in my next game jam.
L7HM77@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 1d
Back when I dabbled in writing software, I made a fun project making dots orbit other dots. It was meant to be a very rough simulation of the path the moon takes as it orbits the earth, while the earth orbits the sun. I wanted to take it one step further, and built it to be more modular, where you could input how many "earth's" orbited the "sun", how many "moons" orbited the "earth's", and a speed decay or increase between each step. Ended up with the "sun" being an origin point, the number of dots around the origin I labelled "child objects," and the nested object depth as "generations" (what if the moon had a smaller moon that had a smaller moon).
Found out my CPU could update around 130,000 floating math points at 60fps (around 65,000 X and Y coords total, plus rendering overhead). Also found out that using specific configs, I could get it to form fractals like the Sierpiński triangle, the star of david, geometric flower shapes, lots of interesting stuff. It was very fun to play around with after finishing it.
All written with HTML, CSS, and JS, able to run in any browser. Unfortunately, I lost the project somewhere between distrohopping around a decade ago, and that was the last time I really programmed anything. All those skills have atrophied, and I don't have the drive to get back into it.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
If you do want to do some light simulation programming that produces interesting results again, I'd suggest making a Boids simulation. It simulates the way birds or fish move in flocks/schools using only three fairly simple rules. I made one once in a few hours. If you do a little extra work you can make them follow your mouse around and lead a flock of birds around your screen.
halfeatenpotato@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 1d
I built the wooden arch my husband and I got married under in our backyard.
justdaveisfine@piefed.social · 9 pts · 1d
I've made a few games.
Oh wait, something cool? Well darn...
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 21h
Spill the beans, are they digital or table top?
justdaveisfine@piefed.social · 1 pts · 19h
Digital games, published to Steam.
I'd love to make a table top game eventually.
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org · 9 pts · 1d
Love to a woman.
wjrii@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1d
I've made a bunch of completely custom mechanical keyboards with my 3D prinnter and laser engraver, a few with PCBs that hold a Microcontroller dev board like a Pi Pico or Arduino, but for more of them, I hand-wired the switches directly to the microcontroller. My biggest and smallest.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1d
How hard do you think it would be to make a custom oversized keyboard PCB? I have real thick fingers, a 3d printer, and zero electronics experience.
wjrii@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 21h
Electronics wise, this is absolutely an intro project if you do the PCBs how I did and leave a space to mount a Raspberry Pi Pico or similar. Then your PCB is basically structural support for some wiring and diodes, and all the actual electrical engineering is contained in a $5 dev board.
Generally the skills you need are a bit broad, but not deep at all, which suits my flighty mindset perfectly. A bit of investigating keyboard design rabbit holes (there are a surprising number of robust web tools for getting the alignment stuff for the keys), a bit of 3D printing, including assembling builds that are bigger than a build plate, a bit of CAD, a bit of PCB design (but again, ONLY a bit... there are pre-designed layout footprints for the microcontroller boards and for keyboard switches), and a bit of soldering, but generally of big and robust through-hole contacts that are hard to completely destroy.
I'm curious as to which part would be oversized? The number of keys? The spacing between them? The keycaps themselves? Any one of them would complicate things in its own way, but not ridiculously so, and potentially pretty trivially. If you're interested in following it up, making a macro-pad or numpad is a common first project, since the concepts are identical and the end result is still useful, but the investment and commitment are low if you screw it up or decide not to move on to anything bigger.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 6h
Spacing and keycaps. Literally just scale up a keyboard like 20-25%. I make a lot of typos touching adjacent keys with my Shrek-fingers.
wjrii@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 5h
Well, keycaps potentially got added to the list of things to design, but otherwise the basics are the same. There would just be an adjustment to the 2-D "plate" files you'd need to use, and you'd run into the complications from a printer build plate sooner (depending on printer and keyboard size). You might not need to go a full 20-25% though. Just 5 or 10 might be enough and then you could maybe still get away with "normal" keycaps. Different shape families of keycaps have different names, and the XDA (sold by every random reseller on Amazon) or ISA (made for one specifix brand, XVX) both have pretty large top surfaces that would help with making your fingertips comfortable and blunting the aesthetic hit of altering a dimension we're subtly used to.
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 21h
Hey, got any pointers for someone looking to do the same? I'm just now getting into serious soldering and really want to make the prefect keyboard for me.
wjrii@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 20h
For handwiring, Joe Scotto's videos on Youtube are excellent. For something a little more old school, but maybe more accessible theoretically, Matt3o's walkthrough from the before-COVID times is still viable.
If you want to design a PCB, KiCAD is quite usable now, and there are plugins for keyboard switch footprints and to take Keyboard Layout Editor data and place them perfectly. For me, with no EE background whatsoever, the biggest mental hurdle was understanding the design paradigm "electrical schematic first, physical layout next". I've been content to leave my PCB level at the point of making the entire keyboard PCB dumb and leaving the brains of the thing to a cheap and replaceable Raspberry Pi Pico (I like the clones that use USB-C). Physically, they're basically larger versions of this tutorial from adafruit, though I use more standard keyboard firmwares. The other benefit of a PCB is that the minimum order most places is five, so with a couple of design choices (e.g. include mounting holes and rounded corners) and some PCB standoffs, you can have two usable builds with no case at all, and a spare PCB.
alamar@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d
I’ve gotten into website making. Like old-school personal website making, not the boring corporate template nonsense. It’s really been a joy to go back to html and css (and JavaScript sometimes, I guess) and make something
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 21h
Any chance you know some good tutorials? I'd like to make a custom css theme for my Jellyfin server and know next to nothing about it.
(Shameless plug, I'll also trade access to said server to anyone who will do it for me. No VPN needed)
alamar@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 15h
I've never been much a video tutorial person for this kind of thing. I've learned (and continue to learn) on a combination of trial and error, looking at the source of other peoples' websites, and W3 Schools. Here's the documentation/tutorial stuff they have on CSS.
That being said, I'm happy to do it for you for no cost (I've already got my plug with a Jellyfin server)
toiletobserver@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d
I made a human once, turned out well
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 8 pts · 1d
I made ice cream a few times. Nothing else I've ever made has been as cool.
I made music under the name "The Cool Side of the Pillow" in high school, but the site I submitted everything to died in like 2009 and I never kept any backups.
I have a bunch of mods for Skyrim, New Vegas and Arma 2 and 3 on the nexus and Steam workshop. One of my New Vegas mods was extremely popular when the game was new; I added and moved all the fast travel points to limit load times. Like putting one for each segment of the strip so you didn't have to go to Freeside and load 2 or 3 times just to get to the NCR HQ. Tho I only had the base game for the longest time, and never updated it for any of the DLC.
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 21h
Oh shit dude, that mod was what stopped NV from killing my computer back in the day!
greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 13h
I won't post pics because I don't want to doxx myself and my family but, my brother, my dad and I built a racecar and I did most of the painting. We even ended up in the paper because we were one of the few people who still paint our car instead of vinyl wrap everything.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 22h
I completed my new bed about a month ago.
Since then, I refurbished a desk, and built a changing bench.
I have plans completed for a hallway table, and a foot stool. I'm waiting for it to get a bit cooler, I'll probably start in a couple of weeks.
Zos_Kia@jlai.lu · 8 pts · 12h
I'm in the process of building a device that lets you plug a landline telephone to a standard sound system. It's just so I can use it on stage, I wanna pick up the phone and sing with that vintage crackling voice.
Sadly, it is not "made" yet because I suck at electronics but I've got all the components I need and some time on my hands.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 20h
I clicked on this thread with excitement before I remembered I have designed a lot of cool things that I can't post without either opening my company up to industrial espionage or doxxing myself.
So I will post something my wife and I both worked on. This is one of our kitchen cabinets. All of them are white and boring, and we decided that since we own the house, we will have artwork instead of "resale value".
kettuli@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 5h
This is actual resale value, I’d pay good money for that fox.
toofpic@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d
I've made an android app for splitting expenses. I was so frustrated when I was in charge of the excel sheet with my friends geoup New Year"s trip expenses, that I started working on it and I pushed it in production in the end of July. Which is especially great because I have a sizeable graveyard of things that I was burning for and then completely abandoned.
It's called WEREVEN, it's free, has no ads (maybe I will monetize it in the future, but I don't want to annoy 20 people who use it), and I don't collect your personal data.
WoodScientist@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d
We moved into our new place in December. We had a fence post that needed replacing. The post was in a place that would work great for a fence gate. So I'm adding a new gate to our fence. This will serve to make the property as whole more accessible. It will also provide a means for those with mobility issues to enter the home without having to climb the big set of stairs at the front door.
I decided to make a proper project out of it. I could have just put in a simple gate, but I decided to go for something grander. I'm building a pergola gate! I've finished the columns and installed the first of two beams this evening.
The foundation of the gate are two 8' long steel fence posts driven 3' into the ground with a sledge hammer. The posts are approximately 5"x7", each made from five 2x6s laminated together. The beams are made from two cedar 2x6s edge joined together into a 2x12 beam. There will be two beams all together.
Tomorrow I'll hang the second beam, add some cross pieces at the top of the beams, add some foundation reinforcement, and start building the actual fence gate.
NABDad@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d
Many years ago I wrote a program that accepted DECWriter print jobs, parsed the escape sequences, and output them as PostScript.
We had an application that ran on an OpenVMS system. The application could only support DEC printers, so we couldn't use any modern devices. The DEC printers were no longer made so all our printers were either purchased refurbished, or Frankenstein printers one of our guys assembled from the carcasses of dead printers.
My program could be used as a print filter in a Linux LPT queue. This allowed us to replace DEC printers with any printer that could natively support PostScript and any printer that had ghostscript support.
When I first started in the job, my predecessor told me about the issue with the printers and it seemed like an interesting project.
First test was to ensure I could convert barcodes in the print jobs. The print jobs for the DEC printers sent the barcodes as SIXEL graphics. SIXEL graphics were bitmaps sent as rows of six vertical pixels.
Once I verified that could work, it was just a matter of writing the parser for all the rest of the escape sequences that controlled the formatting. That and learning how to produce the PostScript.
At the time I asked my boss if he wanted me to implement it, but he said we were going to migrate to a new system very soon, so it wasn't worth the effort.
I still thought it was an interesting project, so I kept working on it on my own.
Several years passed, and we were still using the old system. The man who maintained our printers died, which led to a problem. Without him to maintain the printers, they started failing faster than we could replace them. In a meeting to discuss how we would respond printer issue, I mentioned that I had continued working on my filter at home and I only needed a a few weeks of focused effort to get a functional print filter. This time my boss told me to proceed.
We very quickly replaced all our old DEC impact printers with modern laser printers.
We had some forms on tractor feed paper, so I converted the forms to PostScript and added that to the filter. I was also able to get it working with Zebra label printers.
I had a problem with the barcodes. My script generated perfect barcodes, but our barcode pens couldn't scan them. After looking at the barcodes that the DEC printers made and comparing them to what my filter produced, the only difference I could see was that the DEC barcodes looked like crap. Jittery dots instead of perfect, straight lines. So I modified my script to make the graphics produced look just a little bit worse, and they started working.
That print filter continued working flawlessly in production for several more years until we finally managed to migrate to the new system.
DonkeyStar@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d
Lots of things, but I think my strawberry shortcake soap is the last thing I made that I was truly proud of.
missingno@fedia.io · 6 pts · 19h
Earlier this year I made a short video essay about how Dr. Mario's garbage mechanics are unusually different from the rest of the versus puzzle genre. I think it's my best work yet... but sadly it ended up as my worst view count.
I just finished another video about another versus puzzle game that I plan to publish tomorrow, but can't share it quite yet so click the Dr. Mario one instead I guess.
Pipster@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 20h
Started a new hobby :)
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 15h
you know about the trick with the wooden dowel and the power drill to mass produce consistent rings from wire i hope
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
I got into home distilling during the pandemic. Fun, and damn fine sipping. Done gin, whiskey and vodka I'm proud of. My rum was a failure, but only in the sense that it tasted like whiskey. The congeners for rum are too hard for my setup. Aged in an oak barrel and everything.
I made a an excellent coffee liqueur with my magicks, home roasted beans used in a cold booze-pressed espresso and a vanilla bean then aged on oak and applewood.
It was the inspiration for my username - you can "correct" any coffee based drink with quality booze. Yum.
loke@fedia.io · 5 pts · 1d
My personal project since the beginning of COVID has been a programming language/data manipulation tool.
At some point I realised that not writing a program is better than writing one (juat like how if a Unix task is simple, you'll just type the command in the shell rather than writing a script). The the aame vein, if you can write a few characters to map the sum of an array of values with maximum value in a nested list of numbers in some column of a 2-dimensional array, why should I write a program to do it?
The result is Kap: https://kapdemo.dhsdevelopments.com/
I know my explanation seems overly generic, but I've already gone on for too long. If you're curious, check the examples and videos on the web site. Please feel free to ask questions, I could talk about this stuff for way too long.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
Any language feature you're particularly proud of / find interesting?
Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
A fractal calculator where each non-operation buttons are calculator themselves once you zoom in, and the result in that calculator becomes the number it puts as a button, in C.
kettuli@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 5h
Well now I have to see the calculator itself!
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 1d
I made a copper guillotine at school from scrap copper they had laying around and i was allowed to take. And as soon as i was done they didnt allow me to take any more copper :(
One day it also "suddenly" vanished at my parents. Hmmm yeah lets be honest they threw it out
WoodScientist@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
I'm pretty sure Ea-nāṣir stole it.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1d
Literally the coolest thing I've made was a beer fridge when I was home brewing. Outfitted a standing freezer with a CO2 manifold and taps in the door. Three homebrews on tap and I could even use it to make eisbocks.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1d
made some baby toys for my friends a while ago, those were pretty cool
took some hardwoods, printed a template, rough cut on the band saw, route the profile with a guided bit, make some neat wheels out of laminated hardwoods and a hole saw and sanding. they came out quite well
the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 13h
I made a Homemade Tablet Digital Art Keyboard for my Surface Pro 3 when i was using it for drawing daily.
The tablet is garbage, and I'm sad I'll probably never buy a tablet pc again but i would like to see if i can adapt this for an iPad one day. For now it'll remain in this state until i can figure something else out with it.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
I've gotten quite into making food. I mostly find recipes but I'm good enough now to modify or combine them as needed. Most recently I (quite successfully) tried to copy a restaurant meal I had: fried rice with veggies and fried chicken, with a special sauce. The main ingredient is Gochujang, a pleasant rich spicy type chile paste you can get from the store.
Tomorrow is taco soup night!
gjoel@programming.dev · 4 pts · 23h
About a decade and a half ago I made a picture gallery for Android called floating image. I got fairly popular with about two million installs, but my focus drifted. Still, it was a pretty neat achievement for a spare time project.
Here's a random review: https://youtu.be/t7q2m5cDzhE
ace_garp@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 21h
A startup sound and a shutdown sound, about 20 years ago.
Just 2 short drum fills, made in LMMS or something.
Had fade-in on one, and panning effect thrown in on the other.
I liked them.
Can still kind of replay the shutdown one in my head :-)
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1d
A server rack fan controller circuit. It's not finished yet, as some wiring remains. I'm currently waiting for my 3D printer to finish a mounting block that will hold the thermostat relay, the fan capacitors, as well as cover up the terminals under the breakers, as I don't want any exposed 230V.
Getting a DIN rail mounted in a 19" rack was a bit of work, but everything now has a compact mounting location at the topmost rack position.
PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
I made a tensegrity table similar to this: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.pinimg.com%2Foriginals%2Fae%2F17%2Ff5%2Fae17f5be987f05a170f6dc84ef54544e.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=d25b8ea019ed112df8de7a0f38d1180627aed20690f1b0319af7c26ba2af5535
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 18h
I built a bluetooth receiver into the aux line on my car stereo so I could maintain the aux as well. It worked flawlessly for a few months until a connection broke because I didn't have actual connectors to use. Need to find a source for the kind of connector that plugs into the aux line but the one's I've found so far are too expensive and I'm not even sure they're the right ones.
Apytele@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1d
A simulation vein for my preceptees out of the soft face part of the O2 tubing full of cranberry juice for the vein, a knot on one end and an IV / syringe on the other for pressure, and a mepilex over it for the skin / soft tissue. I can make sure they know how to get the needle in and out and activate the safety properly before I let them stick me a couple times for practice before moving onto a patient.
We have enema bottles full of mineral oil that I use to grease hinges and wheels. Really the hospital supply room is macgyvers wet dream it's one of my favorite parts of night shift nursing.
Also my dog chewed out the back of my zip up hoodie so I used Elmer's as basting glue and put the inside of an upholstery style pillowcase from goodwill on the inside, sewed a fun shape around it, then made a cutout back patch. And the reason that hoodie even has a zipper is because I had to put one in after the EMTs scraped my drunk ass out of a ditch and cut it off.
wjrii@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 21h
Also the preferred food-safe finish for wooden cutting boards and butcher blocks!
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 3 pts · 1d
I made a ton of ebook readers out of stuff that shoudnt be ebook readers. Its fun.
chunes@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 14h
I made a random party generator for Final Fantasy Rennaissance, a FF1 fan game built from scratch with the stated goal of including as many classes as possible from across the franchise.
I also built a random team generator for Fire Emblem Engage.
not@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 22h
I made a skin for Winamp 2.
Today i made a "toddler-stopper" from the side of an old cupboard. Now the little goblin can't crawl through the loom (yes, loom) and get to the nice book shelf on the other side of the room.
Katana314@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 19h
I’ve made a lot of stuff, but it doesn’t always fit in community art channels because its usually not a single visual.
For years in school/college I made Garry’s Mod / SFM animations. I was slow at it, and the subject matter was often something dumb, but a few times I made big hits. I had large gaps where I didn’t have inspiration for big lengthy animations and instead uploaded silly gameplay clips or whatever seemed funny at the time, but my old channel is visible here:
https://www.youtube.com/Katana314
I finally decided I didn’t want my whole creative legacy to be based around manipulation of a single game company’s models, so I wrote a book. It’s on Nook, Kobo, and several other sites (not Amazon) and called Rangers of the Frostscape.
That said, slow feedback and low visibility hit me maybe more than it should have. I’ve seen many artists make things for the joy of creation, which I had to admit wasn’t what I was doing. Fighting purely for popularity is a doomed venture these days.
MuttMutt@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1h
I'm in the process of remaking my "Doom Pumpkin" for Halloween as well. If connects to my HomeAssistant setup and has four 12v car horns, a speaker to play audio, LED's for eyes, a big red arcade button for a nose, motion sensors in front and back to interact with kids (it tells them it farts fireballs if they walk behind it) and an anti theft mode where if it's picked up the horns start going off. Press the button and a random sequence of horns will go off. It also will randomly set a horn off if it hasn't been touched in a while. And when it senses someone in front it will taunt them to press the button. Since it's built in to HomeAssistant I can set when certain functions work and for a couple days before Halloween it will be outside taunting the neighborhood during the day.
The first version was a couple horns powered by an arduino uno and would just randomly activate 2 horns in different ways. The new one added two more horns (one is a little beep beep forklift horn, the other is an oooogah horn) to go with the high tone and low tone car horn.
kettuli@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 5h
I’ve mad myself sad and/or angry countless times. Thankfully I’ve also made my significant other happy and/or thankfull multiple times also so there’s that.
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d