Making any progress, you slackers? Tell us about it!
I turned a ring “box” on a lathe and my fiancée said “yes!”
I believe congratulations are in order. Getting a good surface finish on a lathe can be really hard, but you did it!
Thank you! The surfacing part was actually done mostly by hand because if a chicken and egg situation of making the inside components and adding the hinge, without throwing things off balance on the lathe. But after four prototypes, I definitely learned a lot!
That’s amazing!
Thank you!
Congratulations! 😃🎉
We celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary yesterday, easy peasy 👍 The trick is simple, don’t marry someone who is an asshole. I certainly didn’t, and hope my wife feels the same way 😅
Myself, mostly.
Me too, bruh.
🫂
I bought a used 125 gallon aquarium 6 months ago that I need to reseal and build a new stand for. Got the sealant, lumber, and tools last month. Right now I’m working on procrastinating the actual DIY part.
Is there an aquarium / fishkeeping community on lemmy? I know it’s kinda niche.
Just got a bunch of stuff delivered to build my own hyperhdr tv backlight. Its a relatively small project, but im hoping itll have a huge impact on my viewing experience 😊
Ooo is there a guide you are following for this? I tried setting this up a few years back during covid and never could get it working right. I still think it was faulty hardware but I went through at least a half-dozen grabbers.
Yeah, there is a guide for the raspberry https://www.raspberrypi.com/tutorials/raspberry-pi-tv-ambient-lighting/ I donk know if hyperhdr would run on weaker, more readily available hardware than the pi 3. ive seen some YouTuber (dont remember who) use Hyperion with a Pico, but here was noticable delay. Since hyperhdr is a more optimised fork of hyperion intended for 4k content, the pico may be able to to run hyperhdr for 1080p content, but im not willing to take that risk. Also check what kind of power supplies you can even get. 5v 15a power supplies apparently don’t exist in Germany, so i had to use 30 led/meter strips instead of 60
Awesome, thanks! I may dive back into this project again since I would still really like to do it. I think I actually have a spare Pi 4 around here somewhere that I got for my 3d printers but ended up swapping that to a thin client. Appreciate it!
Built a pantry extending into a garage. Did drywall and mud for the first time. I see the mistakes but wife is happy. So thats a win!
Just got all the supplies I need for making a Dopp bag.
Just finished a crochet blanket with hood for my little one. Still have to put a ridge of dragon scales down the back for him.
Planning to replace the old TV coax cable with Ethernet cable so everybody in the house gets their own low-latency connection for gaming. The problem is that TV cable is installed in a daisy chain while Ethernet has a star topology, and there’s only room for one cable from the basement to upstairs. So at the moment I’m pondering whether to keep the daisy chain and place a switch in every room, use some sort of MoCA (Ethernet over coax) adapter or go all the way and install fiber.
Also, we should really replace the carpet in the master bedroom with hardwood soon.
(Edit: spelling)
I’ll go ahead and say that I’m using a MoCA connection to my main PC, and have no complaints about it at all. It’s the 2.5Gbps by ScreenBeam.
Not sure how exactly that works with the daisy chain, but brief reading seems to indicate that it should be fine to add a MoCA endpoint in each room, unless you wanna just rewire the upstairs with a single switch and Ethernet cables to each room up there, assuming you have room to run all the cables in the upstairs only.
just finished sewing (or rather just modifying) myself some pants
Epic pockets, I hope.
they’re alright lol
Depends how many levels of recursion you’re interested in.
The most immediate project is to rewire all the ceiling lighting in the basement, to get it all on one circuit, while also eliminating a few dim spots and swapping some old flourescent fixtures for some nice dimmable LED panels I got on a sale, for the area that we eventually wanna turn into an entertainment center. I’ve got all the supplies ready, but I keep getting sidetracked by lawn work and issues with the car.
THAT whole project is in service of tearing down and rebuilding the drywall facade walls in the basement, and being able to have working lighting available for that project.
THAT project is in service of finishing waterpoofing the basement after we had a gutter and sump system professionally installed last fall. That eliminated all the issues we had with water seeping up from under the foundation, but there’s still a very small amount that leaks in from over the TOP of the foundation, when there’s heavy-enough rain. For that, we need to rip out the remainder of the walls, which were partially ripped out to install the gutter, and put up a liner directly on the foundation walls that will redirect all water down into the gutter.
THEN we can replace the carpet that we had to rip out after the record-setting rain storm we had last summer that soaked the entire basement.
THEN we can move everything in the garage back intonthe basement.
THEN I can being working on the car that grenaded itself when it threw a timing chain.
Also, does buying a new car count? Cause that was our entire 3-day weekend.
all my crochet projects are on hold until it cools off a bit. the sensation of sweaty hands and yarn is a no-go for me.
Currently putting the finishing touches on a wall-mounted chest of drawers for the workshop, which is holding everything from screws to scrap metal to machinist vices. It’s made of scrap pallet wood and ply and totally hand-tooled (planes/chisels/saws). My workshop is very very small (under 8ft by 9ft) and doubles as my home office, so this baby really frees up major space.
Just the rest of the drawer labels left to do. Not sure if these photos will work, but here goes:
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I replaced my brakes last weekend. Did the pads, realized I also needed to do the disks and brake fluid too. Ended up being a lot more work than I wanted, mostly because I was missing tools.
Making progress on linen shorts. The belt fits, despite some unfortunate inaccuracies while attaching the waistband. Button hole and button are next. Or hemming…
I just put up an awning over our back deck. Now it’s time for modifications. I’m going to adjust how the straps connect for the fabric so it’s tighter and water runs off better. then I’m going to seam seal and put on some waterproofing spray.
After that, my daughter and I are building a padded bench for a window nook in her room. The design and measurements are done. Fabric and foam have been purchased. Actual work completed: zero.
The new mantle I’ve been working on is finally ready to install! So, we’ll be mounting it this weekend, along with the TV (yes, “tv too high” but we don’t have an option). So excited to finally have this done!
