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Suburban Dad posted:That's really neat. But what the gently caress is on that power cord, a dried up intestine? Well, it's a scrunchie-style cord cover that matches the bedroom curtains, but now I'll just see an intestine, thanks a lot  I did consider futzing with a new outlet but the Project Art Director (my SO) liked the idea of just accepting and highlighting the power cord so scrunchie it was.
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That's what an offshore sailing tether cord looks like Just imagine when you're sitting down to Netflix and chill, you're 1200 miles off the coast of California, on your way to diamond head, Hawaii, it's 30 minutes to Sunset and sundowners (rum drinks) are being passed around on deck and in three days you'll be in Hawaii https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj6yZfe7oUg At the 0:30 mark you can see a guy behind the wheel with his yellow tether on Edit: link to tether https://www.landfallnavigation.com/kong-orc-tether-single.html Hadlock fucked around with this message at 05:03 on May 18, 2022 |
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Suburban Dad posted:That's really neat. But what the gently caress is on that power cord, a dried up intestine? I like it. It makes it look like the TV is pooping.
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It's the umbilical
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Trabant posted:Well, it's a scrunchie-style cord cover that matches the bedroom curtains, but now I'll just see an intestine, thanks a lot Sorry. You put in a lot of effort to make the TV look good when not in use and it really stuck out to me.
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Yeah that thing gotta go.
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You can get wire raceway things for your wall that are easier to deal with than installing a new outlet (they just use adhesive mostly) and look pretty decent.
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Facebook Aunt posted:I like it. It makes it look like the TV is pooping. Vim Fuego posted:It's the umbilical lol gently caress Wallet posted:You can get wire raceway things for your wall that are easier to deal with than installing a new outlet (they just use adhesive mostly) and look pretty decent. Yeah, I pitched that originally as we have one of those in the living room. Still not sure why we didn't go that route, tbh. Suburban Dad posted:Sorry. You put in a lot of effort to make the TV look good when not in use and it really stuck out to me. Nah, I'm kidding -- it's all good!
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I get Victorian-era-ectoplasm-photography vibes from your weird intestine cables. 
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just lean into your Videodrome theater and figure out a little air pump system to make it gently pulsate
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Post your projects: So we can call you out for where you slacked off
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Suburban Dad posted:That's really neat. But what the gently caress is on that power cord, a dried up intestine? It's Modern Art, you Philistine!
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:just lean into your Videodrome theater and figure out a little air pump system to make it gently pulsate ... in time to songs from The Cure and Iggy Pop
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Just throw some wire in the wall , extra points if you cut through all the studs in the process
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The in wall wire kits are fast and easy*, I used them for both of my TVs. *if you already have fiberglass rods and no horizontal studs
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I made some more signs, I’m about halfway to my goal of 20 now, which I think would be a good number for a booth at a craft market
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Holy smokes, those are all rad
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It’s LED, it’s called LED Neon Flex and so far I haven’t been able to find a product I’m completely satisfied with. You have to cut the LEDs at specific marked points in order to solder the connections, so the closer the cut points the better. I was originally using a wire with 2.5cm cut points, which seems small until you need to fill a tiny gap. I recently switched to a wire with 1cm cut points that is much better for precision work.  The problem is that the original wire was colored LEDs covered in pigmented silicone, which produced a more vibrant color. This new wire is colored LEDs covered in a translucent white silicone, which washes out the color and just makes working with the wire when it is off more confusing, since all of the new wires look the same when they are off. The color of the new wires looks more pastel.   If I could find a wire that had 1cm cut points and pigmented silicone that would be ideal. Unfortunately most vendors only have photos of the wire when it is on (and usually they take a photo of the white wire and then reuse that photo with the color photoshopped in) so you can’t see the color of the silicone itself.
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I feel like I’ve hijacked this thread with my signs but whatever I’m happy with they way they look I think the Luna moth turned out nicely, I’m not as thrilled with Sacke & Sugar and I feel like that will only appeal to a very very small number of people  And a special request I got for a cacodemon from Doom. I like the final product but I don’t think I will do anything this complicated again in the near future  
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Deadite posted:I made some more signs, I’m about halfway to my goal of 20 now, which I think would be a good number for a booth at a craft market These are just brilliant. Super impressive.
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Just finished putting together a tiny pc for the living room  I put an industrial signage motherboard in it, not super powerful by any means but it's plenty good enough for watching vids and running dosbox. I'm not sure what I'll do with all the serial ports yet but it's nice to have them. 
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Cover your room in i2c sensors and program a needlessly detailed HUD for your home imo.
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Lately I've been getting into making pens at my maker space. I used to get tons of ads on facebook for a company that makes machined bolt-action pens but they're like $100. Why do that when I could make that poo poo myself? So I drew up a design in Fusion 360, ran off some plans, and started making them. They're designed to fit Pilot G2 refill cartridges, since I had some laying around already and they're available. You also need pretty much any clicky pen spring. Top to bottom: My first version in scrap steel, second version with my first attempt at a clip, and my latest that I made for my dad. The latter two are aluminum with brass, and I think they turned out quite good in feel. They also 3d print relatively decently, albeit with a lot of post-printing cleanup to get good function. For everyone's goony making, here's a PDF of the plans, as well as 3d files for 3d printing. In general they've been taking me about 3 hours to make one on a lathe and milling machine. The really tricky part is the milled out slot for the knob. It's easy enough to machine, but I couldn't find a good way to depict it in the plans. It's just a slot milled out as specced, then rotate the body 45 degrees for the 'extended' position. If anyone makes one, I'd be interested to see it!
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I’ve been volunteering at the playground renovation of the main community park the last few days and got to build a lot of stuff. Thursday’s work was building this replacement roof for one of the sections, and I got to see it installed today.  Forgot to take a picture yesterday but I built the main part of a moon rover “car.” Today I installed the suspension beams and wobbler bridge along with one of the contracted workers.  They were very happy every time I came back. “Oh hey devmd01 is here, let’s get him on something complicated because he knows what he is doing!” Can’t wait to show my kids what parts I built. I definitely put my initials on a few pieces where it wasn’t going to be visible. devmd01 fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Jul 17, 2022 |
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work was giving away old dell monitors and qvc selling partycades for $100, so...    need to redo the sloppy bezel and add a spinner for arkanoid which was the only arcade game I was ever good at
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I finally got a space at a Halloween craft market, I'm excited to show the locals something that isn't candles, soap, or dog treats 
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I feel like if you had the right kind of Instagram or tiktok ad that you would sell a poo poo load.
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Deadite posted:I finally got a space at a Halloween craft market, I'm excited to show the locals something that isn't candles, soap, or dog treats Holy poo poo these own where can I find your market
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Deadite posted:I finally got a space at a Halloween craft market, I'm excited to show the locals something that isn't candles, soap, or dog treats these are are really impressive including your technical skill as both a bender and illustrator
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Truly wonderful  How do you plan on pricing them?
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Mister Dog posted:Holy poo poo these own where can I find your market Roseville, Minnesota in October. The twin cities seem averse to Halloween markets in general and this was the only one I could find. Also the craft market community seems pretty insular so it was hard to even get and organizer to respond to me. Trabant posted:Truly wonderful I'm still trying to figure that out. My wife says $200 should be the floor and that I should adjust up based on size and complexity. I honestly don't care if I sell any of them, this whole project was about me not being happy with the vendors I saw at other Halloween markets in the area. I'll happily turn my basement into a neon junkyard with the unsold signs. kreeningsons posted:these are are really impressive including your technical skill as both a bender and illustrator Thanks! Though it isn't glass neon, it's LED strips covered in silicone so it's not as impressive as it looks. The only real skill required is knowing how to use a soldering iron.
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Deadite posted:I'm still trying to figure that out. My wife says $200 should be the floor and that I should adjust up based on size and complexity. I honestly don't care if I sell any of them, this whole project was about me not being happy with the vendors I saw at other Halloween markets in the area. I'll happily turn my basement into a neon junkyard with the unsold signs. That's easily the minimum price, if not low. I'm guessing the scythe and the coffin were the fastest to make and even those couldn't have taken less than a couple of hours each. And yeah, if other vendors are selling things in the <$20 range, you'd stand out. But the signs seem truly worth it. How big are they?
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Deadite posted:I finally got a space at a Halloween craft market, I'm excited to show the locals something that isn't candles, soap, or dog treats
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Trabant posted:That's easily the minimum price, if not low. I'm guessing the scythe and the coffin were the fastest to make and even those couldn't have taken less than a couple of hours each. So $300? $400? Again I'm not really that interested in actually selling them so I'm fine with pricing them high. I'm willing to give steep discounts to anyone who will display one in a public way too. The axe and the razor blade were the fastest to make. The axe only has 4 pieces, wired in parallel, and the shapes were simple so it only took about an hour. The razor blade only has 3 pieces wired in parallel but the shapes were more complicated so it took around 2 hours. Wiring the LED strands together in a series really increases the time it takes to make. ilkhan posted:Do/would you take commissions? I can think of a couple designs my wife would love. I've made some special request pieces for other goons, but from now until the end of October I'm going to be focused on completing as many of my planned signs as I can. After that I have no idea what I'll do.
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Deadite posted:So $300? $400? Again I'm not really that interested in actually selling them so I'm fine with pricing them high. I'm willing to give steep discounts to anyone who will display one in a public way too.
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You never answered my message >:( Odds are extremely high that if people are going into this fair to buy ~$20 soaps and totebags and poo poo you'll get a lot of oohs and aahs but nobody's going to buy your stuff at any price point over ~$20, so there's no point even worrying about it. You'll have better luck handing out business cards and structuring your stand around getting people to take pictures of your stuff with your name and contact info prominently displayed, rather than hoping you can underbid the candle stand my wife's been watching a shitload of Forged in Fire type stuff lately so I got some knife blanks and scraps from the wood shop and we started putting little things like this together  
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