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Whoa! My ears popped from the climate change! Oh and hey! Look what fell out! It's a tiny boat!   These little pond sailers actually sail! This is Whisker 1 and Waterbear 1. Human hair was used on the two lower attach points on Whisker's sail. Edit: I finally got a somewhat acceptable video of my micro pond sailers. Those tiny things are really hard to film. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdoPhtX2z_k  Edited because Imgur won't play nice Sun Dog fucked around with this message at 07:11 on Aug 17, 2013 |
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Sun Dog posted:These little pond sailers actually sail! This is Whisker 1 and Waterbear 1. Human hair was used on the two lower attach points on Whisker's sail. Do you have any pictures of them on the water?
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Sep 21, 2011 20:48
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Why use human hair? Eeewww
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Sep 21, 2011 21:25
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 Sorry for the tiny picture. Hopefully, this will be my next project. It's a 1951 Nash Ambassador. I'm going to be talking to the seller here in the next day or so to visit and decide on the purchase. I know nothing about restoring classic cars, but hope to use this project to learn, among other things, welding, body work, and upholstery.  See that red one at the front? Yeah, one day, my pretty, you will look like that. One day...
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Sep 22, 2011 00:43
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I don't know if this counts but I'm currently attempting to watch every episode of Star Trek. All of them. In (roughly) the order in which they supposedly occurred. So far, I've made it through all of Enterprise and am half way through season one of the original series.
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Sep 22, 2011 02:31
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taqueso posted:Do you have any pictures of them on the water? Yes, but it's not a good picture.  I'll try to get a movie tomorrow. Vander posted:Why use human hair? Eeewww I can see you are not dedicated builder.  I needed something finer and smoother than the sewing thread I had, and my hair was the closest thing to hand. Bad Munki posted:I don't know if this counts but I'm currently attempting to watch every episode of Star Trek. No, it does not, you huge nerd. The strings on your Aeolian Harp must have settled in by now; how's it sounding? Sun Dog fucked around with this message at 07:19 on Aug 17, 2013 |
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Sep 22, 2011 10:33
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When I moved into my new house, my landlord had left a few pieces of furniture (a desk and a coffee table). He informed me that I could do whatever I wanted to with them as he did not want them anymore. They were pretty ugly, so I decided to make them not ugly. I have never done anything like this before, but I was bored on a Tuesday eveing so I decided to refinish them. Here is the ugly desk:  I sanded it down by hand as best I could:  First few coats of black:  For future projects I will cut stencils out of something more sturdy than regular paper. This took almost two hours to cut out with an x-acto knife:  It looks great after a clearcoat for protection. It bled out a little due to the flimsy paper:  The desk after detail and before clearcoat:  I also did the coffee table in the same style, all done and clearcoated:  I learned a few things from this project, having never done anything like it before. I think everything turned out awesome and I'm actually looking forward to picking up some more ugly stuff no one wants and making it into something awesome.
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Sep 22, 2011 13:15
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Here's a Christmas card I made for some unfortunate goon in the year before last's Secret Santa... I couldn't afford to buy them anything decent back then so I cobbled together some crap from my junk box. It's a kindof general knowledge gameshow, where it reads out a question and you have to answer by pressing the A, B, or C button. If you get a question wrong you have to listen to Boney-M chistmas carols of increasing levels of awfulness. It makes you keep pressing a button while the music is playing so you can't just run away as your ears get ravaged.  It runs on a ATmega88, and uses PWM to drive the speaker through a transistor if you care about that sort of thing. The USB is just for charging. A piece of paper pushes under a copper wire to turn the thing off when the card is closed. ((a small writeup here)) It didn't take long to build and program, the hard part was editing all the drat .wav files.  I was planning on giving out a URL to a gift code voucher or something once they got all the questions right, but I was too cheap, so at the end I "gave" them 64Mb SD card that held all the .wav files! AngryFeet fucked around with this message at 07:07 on Sep 27, 2011 |
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Sep 22, 2011 14:29
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I am currently working on setting up the entertainment center at the new place I moved into. I have already run network drops, and surround sound wires, and have mounted the speakers on the walls. I have built some shelves, and still have to finish staining them, then they are going up. I will post pictures when I am finished. However, I need some advice on another project. I have a panasonic HD video camera. It is very similar to a flip video. about the same size and whatnot. I want to find a way to mount it on me, either at chest or head level. It is not tiny, like a go pro, but it does have a tripod mount. I was thinking of finding a way to mount it on my chest, via a strap or something. It has to be pretty secure, as I want to use it for parkour and races. Anyone have any suggestions?
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Sep 22, 2011 15:08
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 I also posted this in the "Weird things you've made" thread but I want to see how far I can take this concept, if it turns out alright I might've found myself a new hobby. Anyway my first problem is trying to bring out the carving, I can't widen the lines any more than they are without taking a dremel to it and it ends up looking dirtier if I do. So I was thinking of some kind of combination of staining etc? I'm not really sure what I'm doing, but I like the concept so any advise on improving it would be awesome.
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Sep 22, 2011 15:15
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Kim Jong ill posted:
Why don't you dig out the area that isn't copy sort of like a woodblock for printing. You could always paint the "background" and the face of the text different colors. EDIT*** I photoshopped a really quick idea of what Im talking about. Essentially create two layers, top and bottom. On the top would be the outside frame, and the letters. Those are all stained or painted one color. The second layer would be everything inside the frame but not text. You carve all of this down a little so that it has a little depth. Paint or stain this another color (I did a white wash). Just my 2¢ I also like the idea of a black and white, but I like being able to see the wood grain. Given this just looks like a 2x4 it probably won't have an amazing grain but I think being able to see it makes it appear more handmade. 
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Sep 22, 2011 15:28
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As in the area inside the block letters? I could probably do that with the dremel without making too much mess. I think maybe black background white lettering wouldn't look too bad painted?
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Sep 22, 2011 15:33
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I'm currently messing with several things. I've been hollowing out old, second hand books (bought when our local library was doing its yearly clearance. I couldn't bare to cut up a perfectly fine book). I gave one as a birthday gift for a friend. A dark green work by an Italian theologian, with only 'The Devil' and his name on the cover. Which is fitting, because he uses it to store his weed.  I also hollowed one out for myself, but it's weedless. Another book, I'm currently turning into a lamp. I managed to stab myself in the leg while working on it, by the way. I'm also trying to redecorate my flat - it's currently very, very grey. It'll mostly be painting a desk and some walls, putting a cover on a couch and hanging new curtains, but it should make the room a little more colourful. I'm also playing with lightbulbs and will probably be making a little lamp and some terrariums. And because you can't have enough lamps, I'll probably try to make this with a lamp inside. I really like this sort of stuff. Simple pleasures and all that. Also, stabbing yourself in the leg, pinching your thumb between pliers, stepping on glass, cutting your fingers with an exacto knife, worrying about inhaling stuff you shouldn't be inhaling. Fun!
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Sep 22, 2011 16:18
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Sun Dog posted:No, it does not, you huge nerd. The strings on your Aeolian Harp must have settled in by now; how's it sounding? Haha, that was expected.  The strings are all holding the same tone now. Currently using the cheap lovely fishing line I got at the sporting goods supply. When I strum them, they sound a bit...stringy. They just don't "ring" like I would want. I'm thinking about replacing them with really fat (but light) guitar strings. steel-wound nylon should do the trick, I just haven't bothered to pick any up yet. Still, it plays readily enough. What I really need is a sash window to put it in, since that's sort of the design I ended up with. 
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I like that idea but because of the way I did the smaller writing in lines I wouldn't be able to turn it into a relief. I think I could take out the material inside the letters and then remove the same width of material from outside the frame, which would probably work better for me because I'm not entirely confident on being able to remove all the material inside the border to a very good standard. Edit - Yeah the wood isn't too good but it's the best I could find lying around, there was some red gum but it would've needed some serious sanding back to get it into shape. Kim Jong ill fucked around with this message at 16:52 on Sep 22, 2011 |
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Sep 22, 2011 16:44
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Kim Jong ill posted:I like that idea but because of the way I did the smaller writing in lines I wouldn't be able to turn it into a relief. Either way it should look good, as long as you're having fun with it. Post it when its done, I will be curious to see what you do.
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Sep 22, 2011 17:21
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AngryFeet posted:If you get a question wrong you have to listen to Boney-M chistmas carols of increasing levels of awfulness. It makes you keep pressing a button while the music is playing so you can't just run away as your ears get ravaged. That's clever. Nice work, I like it!
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Sep 22, 2011 18:43
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AngryFeet posted:Here's a Christmas card I made for some unfortunate goon in the year before last's Secret Santa... I couldn't afford to buy them anything decent back then so I cobbled together some crap from my junk box. I love this. Do you have schematic or write-up posted somewhere? Would love to do something similar.
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Sep 22, 2011 20:49
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bear is driving! posted:I also did the coffee table in the same style, all done and clearcoated: How elegant! Was that spraypaint, the base color? I finally got a somewhat acceptable video of my micro pond sailers. Those tiny things are really hard to film. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdoPhtX2z_k I built the catboat and the experimental, and my husband built the sloop.
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Sep 23, 2011 10:37
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AngryFeet posted:If you get a question wrong you have to listen to Boney-M chistmas carols of increasing levels of awfulness. It makes you keep pressing a button while the music is playing so you can't just run away as your ears get ravaged. How can you sleep at night knowing that you put someone through this? Really nice work making the card. Do you have a video of it in action?
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Sep 23, 2011 11:33
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Kitchen remodelling. Dear god, what am I doing!?! 
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HardCoil posted:Kitchen remodelling. Dear god, what am I doing!?! That'll make for nice before/after shots.
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Sep 23, 2011 13:07
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Photos like that make me never want to own a home. Paying a mortgage might be cheaper monthly than renting, but poo poo does housework suck. Especially for a not-handy-man like me! Some awesome photos in this thread, makes me feel like a worthless sack of bones!
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Sep 23, 2011 13:26
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I'm the non-handy-man incarnate, so this IS pretty crazy. I have good friends who advice and help out a bit. It's hard, but also an incredible learning opportunity
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Sep 23, 2011 15:00
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mike12345 posted:That'll make for nice before/after shots. That's the after shot 
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HardCoil posted:I'm the non-handy-man incarnate, so this IS pretty crazy. I have good friends who advice and help out a bit. It's hard, but also an incredible learning opportunity I hope you take a lot of in-progress pictures and post them, I love seeing that stuff. It always gives me ideas.
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Sep 23, 2011 17:06
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Yeah, I have a quite a lot, cellphone only tho'. I'll post a bunch when (if) everything is done.
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Sep 23, 2011 17:11
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I reconstruct old T Shirts into new clothes.     Most of my clothes start out as XXL men's T shirts, then I turn them into something I would want to wear.
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Sep 23, 2011 17:52
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Kim Jong ill posted:
If you just stain it the carved lines will take the stain darker than the rest and you can sand the top layer off so it just leaves the stain in the carvings. It would work the same way with paint too, just brush a layer on let it dry and then sand off the top layer leaving it in the carved areas.
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Sep 24, 2011 00:09
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They're not terribly much to look at at the moment, but I'm having a go at making some Witcher swords: The 'blades' are recycled jarrah and the guards are server rack rails  I used a $20 can of "real chrome" spray paint for the "silver" sword, which turns out to have barely any difference to the $5 can of "silver" spray paint for the "steel" sword. I think I will rough it u[ with some steel wool and a tiny bit of grey paint.
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Sep 26, 2011 13:48
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I'll bite. Working on a steampunk gun for the NY Comic Con coming up in a few weeks. Trying my damndest to make it work to some extent; got the lights working now, but I need to figure out my motors next. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtuFNYzYy9I
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Recommendations on a place to buy servos? We've looked around at various hobby stores, but we're not quite sure yet. The use of it is kind of interesting. I'm on my school's Baja SAE team (race dune buggies), and for the first time we have someone who is wheelchair-handicapped. We want to make sure everyone can drive (always a yearly goal), so obviously a physical pedals won't do it. We think the basic solution is going to be rigging up some racing bike-esque brakes handles to use as throttle/brake. They'll control a thumbwheel pot which some small chip (they want to use Arduino but I'm leaning towards a smaller AVR) will send as a reading to a servo, which'll actually move the throttle switch. It really doesn't need that much torque, as the physical resistance is fairly low, but the thing needs to be able to handle a Baja race. We'll secure it down as best we can, but at the end of the day there will be some jostling. Any suggestions?
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This is our latest gravity bike build. It isn't quite complete yet. We got it running late at night before the Fall Maryhill Freeride. Unlike the bike I posted earlier in the thread, this one is a complete frame up build. We made everything ourselves with the exceptions of wheels, brakes, and headset.  I'll have a full build with pictures posted up as soon as I get my sdcard. Until then, I'll leave you with a video our friend made of our fun Maryhill weekend. You get to see me eat poo poo into some hay bales. http://youtu.be/b8_83fws9aM
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DahtBard posted:Recommendations on a place to buy servos? We've looked around at various hobby stores, but we're not quite sure yet. The use of it is kind of interesting. I'm on my school's Baja SAE team (race dune buggies), and for the first time we have someone who is wheelchair-handicapped. We want to make sure everyone can drive (always a yearly goal), so obviously a physical pedals won't do it. We think the basic solution is going to be rigging up some racing bike-esque brakes handles to use as throttle/brake. They'll control a thumbwheel pot which some small chip (they want to use Arduino but I'm leaning towards a smaller AVR) will send as a reading to a servo, which'll actually move the throttle switch. It really doesn't need that much torque, as the physical resistance is fairly low, but the thing needs to be able to handle a Baja race. We'll secure it down as best we can, but at the end of the day there will be some jostling. Any suggestions? Do not use servos. Installing a throttle cable to a motorcycle handle and placing that on the steering column will provider greater more tactile control of acceleration; you could get a throttle locking handle to provide an ability to maintain speed through turns, and put a second handle on the other side that has a similar cord going to the brakes. It also removes the possibility of run-away acceleration due to a bad bit of code, pot crack, or other electronic issue. Then everyone else can also steer the racer like a pirate ship too!
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Thread returned! Hopefully we've gotten some more interest in DIY!
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I hope so too. I am almost done with my media center project, and I have a few coming down the pipeline, such as a hacked roomba and chest-mounted hd camera.
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Sep 29, 2011 21:04
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If any electrical engineering/schematics/circuit board type goons are interested in helping me with a paid project, please PM or email me at my SN@gmail. Its a DMX lighting controller sort of thing.
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Sep 30, 2011 00:26
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I made a nifty bottle opener mount thing. No silly catch can, and no more thinking about caps. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8RWMvdhVMs 
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Sep 30, 2011 01:41
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Ha, that's awesome. You must have a pretty strong magnet in there to catch them very reliably. Have you tested it to see how many it will hold before they start to fall off?
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