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I made a simrig for my youngest, with his help, out of the timber from an old bunk-bed, a car-seat from a wreckers, and some donated heavy duty locking casters that were the inspiration for the job. It was designed so the pedal area slid under the seat to make it more compact when not in use. All fully adjustable so it’d fit him as he grew. I was a bit miffed when he sold it, wheel and pedals included for $50. He could have got 4 times that.
(Table with TV not part of the rig. That’s part of my rig that I’ve previously posted)
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.
I like how it’s floating. It’s attached to the wall separately from the frame?
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!
Oh neat!
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.
Yeah it’s a bit of an optical illusion lol. Probably more obvious to see the difference in real life.
this is art!
We’re talking about it, aren’t we?
Oh my god, I’ve never had a piece of art tug at my soul before. That will end up in an art museum some day.
Shut up you! That’s cool!
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
Fantastic
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
Thanks!
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.
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.
Damn. That’s cool.
I made a pipe out of the stalk of a cannabis plant I grew
I hear spooky scary skeletons, I upvote. That’s the rules.
How hard is it to get an animation job nowadays? I heard it got really tough after AI
In my experience, it’s not so much as AI is a problem, it’s competition. There’s a lot of animators but not a lot of positions
this is based af
looks rly cool. I rly wonder tho, how does one make animations like this? you got mocap at home?
Thanks, glad you like it. I hand animated this with key frames by moving the character’s body parts around
This one is made by keyframes. There are tutorials on YT.
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.
You seem like a fun and cool person
I try to be lol
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).
First book? Got an agent or publisher?
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.
Cool. I just know agents and publishers have feedback and editing support too. Just was wondering what stage you are in.
Good luck.
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.
Home made salsa is the best!!!
I like this
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 still working on it, but this is my first attempt at making something with clay. How cute it’s supposed to be for reference.
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.
Solid first go!
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’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.
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Made this comment?Nicely done, at that!
Finished this a few days ago. Kitbashed and custom painted.
That’s really cool. I never tried kitbashing and painting (too messy for me) but I did dabble in building mecha out of Lego back in the day. Getting them fully articulated and proportional was a challenge, and I especially loved trying different methods of making hands.
The coolest one I ever built was about 15cm tall, fully poseable, and fit a minifig pilot.
I still have all that lego, but nowhere to set it up, so I haven’t built anything in years. :(
I tried getting back into Lego for a while before switching to Gunpla/mecha models. Lego was starting to get expensive and I had a friend who was pushing me to give Gunpla a try. Your guy looks pretty cool, though. My goal was to build my own custom mecha.
I got most of mine through second-hand bulk lots from kids selling their collections after they thought they grew out of them. Fools!
That is crisp looking! What scale is it?
1/100, about 19cm tall to the top of the head.
Very nice!
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.
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?
Hey, wanna dox yourself so an ardent sci-fi fan can have 4, soon to be 5, new books to read?
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