Shout out something you’ve done lately you’re proud of. I spent most of last week building 10 new “soil boxes” for the vegetable portion of my small farm’s crops. Fully fenced in, basic irrigation setup and everything in the ground growing or ready to grow.
Did timing chains on my partner’s car. Getting ready to change out the bathroom fan and run some cat6.
The project of cutting my dissertation down into a short book is almost done, and I’m hoping to start shopping it around to publishers soon.
I’ve also recently started laying out the bones for an open access textbook for one of my classes, which will be my summer project.
Hell yeah, are you comfortable sharing the very general topic? Don’t dox yourself if it’s hyper specific though.
The dissertation -> book project is a philosophy of technology.
The text book will be for world religions classes.
Fantastic, that’s great!
I’ve been preparing to run a TTRPG called Death in Space for my friends, and I have poured dozens of hours into map making for one of the bigger locations of the setting. It’s called the Iron Ring, and it is a giant orbital structure built around a yellow moon called Inaro.
This screenshot of the map is approximately 150,000 square meters. I plan to have about 5 more locations this size.
I’m on the planning phases of an origami exhibition. At the moment I’m still selecting the figures, and more importantly practising them in order to have exhibition worthy folds.
Inspired by the [email protected] community I want to showcase how owls are portrayed in origami. Some of the models are complex, so I expect it will take me quite some time to learn them.
Don’t know if you’d call it a project but the wife and I have gotten probably 500lbs of metal out of the rivers near us. I’m keeping the wagon wheel. The pile in my truck was just the first trip to scrap.
You guys magnet fishing or just dragging the old fashioned way?
I had a magnet fishing kit but for some dumb reason I never took it out and ended up giving it away when I moved, kind of want to get one again and see whats in some nearby lakes.
Magnets, got them in February. We have fun doing it.
niceee, plus you’re cleaning up the lake!
Hope you find something cool :)
I’d definitely call that a project. Great job cleaning up your area!!!
Excellent work.
As a part of university club, I am building autonomy for a rover than will go for championship.
Does that mean you’re writing it’s code ( if that’s correct terminology in this case)? Or building the actual rover? Or both? I haven’t worked with robotics since I was in college.
I am glueing pre-existing libraries inside ROS2 with python. So far I procrastinate writing my own code, but I discovered that I will need to write small plugins.
Also today I discovered that dean wants to use the rover for promotional stuff in a week. So now I will need to get the UI working. (As far as I know the team has vibe coded prototype for testing)
That’s fantastic! It must be wicked exciting to get to work on something that’ll have so many eyes on it.
I had a cracked phone screen (which made ~half the screen unusable) and after an absolute debacle trying to get it fixed at a phone repair place, I finally just ordered the parts and did it myself.
I was intimidated because I haven’t messed with phone repairs before, but it came out great and works as it should.
Its not a major project but it was a weird stress and I feel much better having it fixed.
Any tips you would proffer for someone considering a similar repair? (Iphone SE 2nd gen ~2019)
Ifixit.com! Most screen replacements will come with screwdrivers. If you can get a couple guitar picks that will help with opening. Read the instructions carefully. Take your time. Good luck, it can be done!
Nice, yeah I actually have a pretty sweet little small electronics repair kit and the replacement screen, just haven’t gotten around to doing it cause time.
Previously ran into the issue of not grounding properly before getting into the guts of a device and fried a motherboard!
I havent done an iPhone but a Galaxy and bought the iFixIt kit for my phone (battery replacement) which came with everything and had detailed instructions along with it.
Did you feel like the battery replacement lived up to your hype? In the past I have replaced a battery and have wondered afterwards if it actually made much difference… Maybe it was old stock, but I felt like the original battery and the 3rd party replacement were about the same :(
I gave the phone away after doing it so I can’t report back on that, but way back when I had my Note 4 and LG V20, it did seem like the third party batteries I used would wear out quickly. On the other hand, I think modern phones are far easier on their batteries.
If the installed battery is failing or close to failing, you’re either going to install 3rd party or toss the phone in the trash so I think its worth a shot. IIRC the actual replacement parts in the kit (separate from all the repair tools which you keep) were fairly inexpensive so it’s not a big loss if it doesnt last, especially if you think you might use the repair tools again in the future.
Thats fantastic! I wouldn’t downplay it you took a risk and it worked out, great job.
I restored my families old cast iron dutch oven and tried to make brownies in it. Weeks of scrubbing and different chemical solutions before I finally got it stripped. Now 8 coatings deep of flax and its looking fantastic. Brownies did not come out so hot the first time though…
Great job! You can always make more batches.
I had time to work on another song! Originally, I started this song to use it in a bigger project that I’m working on but it slowly evolved into its own thing. So, technically it’s not finished but it’s finished enough
That’s great! I appreciate the artists out there doing the shit I’ll absolutely never have the ability to haha.
We’re northern prairies Canadian for context, so my bigger projects are on hold until it’s finally warm enough outside not to hate being alive out there. Basically starting tomorrow! Hopefully no more false starts to spring weather.
My father wanted to stop paying Americans for his media consumption, especially sports but has not much tech literacy. He’s better off than most of his peers at age 68 but piracy isn’t part of his knowledge base and my mother was against pirate devices in their house until…well, Trump 2.
So I built him a mini PC for his TV and taught him how to use/update Stremio on Debian and the necessary plugins/debrid service. He has to write down instructions but rarely does he get stuck and ask for help so long as the GUI of anything he’s using doesn’t suddenly change drastically on him. Having no blackout games and video on demand recordings of recent games without having to manually DVR if he misses one live has him ecstatic.
It’s set up to use the Stremio beta Flatpak while browsing using web.stremio.com instead of actually using the app frontend because the built in players are utter crap. Now everything just opens in external mpv with an ideal .conf file we made.
Good for you and your parents. Always support sailing the seas.
I built an ebook reader out of an old heltek since I have an abundance of those recently. It was fun.
Been making loquat bread. Basically take any basic white/wheat bread recipe and replace any sugar with loquat. Its VERY good and tastes almost the same. At some point, my wife and I are planning on making loquat wine (and/or fruit juice?). We have two mature trees that produce enough that the whole neighborhood gets the fruit and we still have left overs!
Looks like I’m about to learn what loquat is.
Very easy to manage tree if you live in desert/hot conditions. Its also grown for looks too from what I hear.
This website gave me a bunch of different things to try out: https://loquatfest.com/
Excellent video on the trees/fruit itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNAlxj_ZfvY
Thank you!
What do the soil boxes look like?
They look like I’m an engineer not a carpenter lmao. So kinda shitty but functional. I used 4 X 4 lumber and made them 8 foot by 16 foot. With wrap around wire fencing I dug into the ground then secured to the exterior. Built door frames out of 2 X 4s and with the same wire fencing. Stainless steel hinges, handles and latches. Hope to get a few years out of em before I have to replace stuff.
