Matt Stone and Trey Parker spent an entire summer making the pilot episode of south park using only stop motion animation and construction paper. How would I be able to make something similar on a smaller scale obviously?
>>2986305>>2987025> Be OP> Ask question > Get offered detailed help> Abandon threadThis is why no one helps anyone on DIY.
>>2986973>how to le stop motion?>make scenes and take a picture of them and put them all in a sequence>no not like that!
>>2986305Pratice wiping figures when on the toilet. You don't have to complete the whole bowl movement in one go like usual but can pause, wipe, inspect, adjust technique, and repeat. Then take a photo until you've got your own pilot episode.
>>2986305https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S70z4vC1mYY
>>2987231> Let me Google that for you.Fuck off this is a board for huma users.
I found a deal on 4000 watts of solar panels for $400 but they are high voltage like 200 volts per panel. Am I correct to assume these are not suitable for DIY off grid projects?
>>2987164Sodium chemistry has not yet become cheaper than LFP. It will eventually but not yet and it remains to be seen by how much.LFP or LifePo4 uses less than 3% lithium in its chemistry, and lithium prices were in free fall over the last few years. They were making and selling 314Ah cells for $30 each in china up till last year. Recently the companies producing LFP raised prices a bit due to increase costs on materials like aluminum and copper. We will see throughout the year if sodium ion cells mature and become more cheap than LFP. But as others have pointed out they have a huge voltage drop issue which means any battery pack has to deal with the amperage doubling as it discharges. We need a new ecosystem of BMS and charge controllers and inverters to accommodate that issue.LFP also does not have a thermal runaway to fire issue. It will produce some toxic gas and some heat but unless its wrapped in combustible materials it cannot self ignite or sustain a burn.
yeah but what about solid state batteries
>>2987274what about spinning flywheel water tank on the roof batteries
>>2987277mhm mhm
>>2987274Seems like an optimisation for mobile use, they could potentially be more energy dense and more power dense. If cycle life could become better then they could replace everything, they definitely have the potential to be safer if they lack organic liquid electrolytes, but I see them remaining more expensive and lower lifespan than LFP for the forseeable future.For home storage I'd go the opposite route, liquid flow batteries. Anyone else seen that hack Rowow's durable ion transfer membrane? Iron flow batteries could be easy to diy at home with that.
Opinion on picrel (left) for garage/general use bench (Vevor/SuccBuy on AliExpress/other on and offline shops). Comes in many sizes and configs (drawer/tool plates/wheels, etc.) which can go into well over 400€, but looking for basic one for around 150 €.Plus:• Rated for 2000 lbs• Adjustable height• Steel span across length• Power socketsMinus (?):• Solid wood, but, on closer inspection, looks like it's small bits of wood glued together.Alternative would be also picrel (right) feet/stand good for 1000 lbs, in combination with either of the two boards (three layers treated 27 mm pine/single layer 28 mm pine). Feet would be rotated for stability, like this (topview): [ / \ ]Plus:• Actual full length boardsMinus (?):• Height not really adjustable, though I could buy taller feet/add a piece of wood between feet/bench. Not a tall guy though and being able to place downward force could actually be a plus for a lower bench.
>>2987122Guess it depends on what you're planning to do on them, but go on...picrel: 38mm ss
>>2987120>dimensional lumber>No idea wtf you're talking aboutYou need us to Google that for you too? It is one thing to be stupid. That is a limitation from birth. It is a whole different issue to be ignorant. That is a choice.
>>2987140Did you seek help for the bug that bit you or are you just going to wait for the butthurt to heal itself?
>>2987088We just made one from a 4x8. Its in my garage. The bemch is nice but the 4'x8' is a little too big. I've considered making it into a 2'x8' to make more room for the cars.The back is screwed into the wall. The front legs are 2"x6".
>>2987275What type of board and thickness?
i love having a shed, i can just go out and paint things at 9:45 pm. all my wood is dry. and i built its all myself.
>>2987280post tools with timestamp or gtfo
>>2987282lol why
>>2987284he's got no tools! what a faggot!
>>2987285check my toolmarks in your mom's vagina
>>2987272I don't. not sure why you think I do.
This is the tech stack we need to learn in 2026 my dudes.
>>2985838>I don't know how I feel about having something that caries waste water just press fit togetherwait til you learn how clay tile and cast iron are held together
>>2986644>clay tileAll of our roofing tile uses a variation of picture related. Are the roofing tiles in your area just sitting on the roof? Must be a really shallow pitch if that is the case. Don't get much weather? Must be nice. Like being a pencil. Easy to look sharp when you don't have to do any real work.>cast ironIn my area they joined the pipes with lead. Not that anyone has used them in 70 years around here. My place has metal drain lines. They are black but the joints are threaded so I assume they are some kind of steel.
Steel, iron, and even copper just sucks compared to polypropylene, I work with high pressure systems and this shit is thicc, flexible and it gets fused in place so you have to be very retarded to screw it up.
>>2986595it's a feeding plate for your scat slave or dog idk
>>2985413Thats a great setup if you want to be standing in shit while you shower.
Thread that errored out:>>2975961>I'm new to electronics. Where to get started?It is an art/science of applying principles to requirements.Find problem, learn principles, design and verify solution, build, test, post results, repeat.Read the datasheet.>OP source:https://github.com/74HC14/ohmOPbake at page 10, post in old thread>Comprehensive list of electronics resources:https://github.com/kitspace/awesome-electronicsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
It's the last fucking time I do something so profoundly stupid and autistic.
>>2988701why not strip board?
>>2988720Perfboard was what I had at hand. Good thing is that now I'm out of those, so I can finally move to proper PCBs.
I think I did an OK job hand soldering this with an iron but bloody hell these chips are tiny
>>2988674Worst case, the 15/16V rated components in your computer (especially capacitors) don’t last as long, not that I’d risk it with my build. It may not even boot, detecting it as a fault in the PSU. You also have the issue of brownout when the battery voltage is low. You still have usable capacity in the 12-10V range, but the computer may not like that.I think the only sensible path forwards is to use a bidirectional buck/boost converter as both a charger and a regulator. You could even keep your ATX supply doing double duty as a battery charger, though I’m not sure what you’d do about its other rails.>>2988701Hope you breadboarded it first.
There's probably a better board for this, but I'll try anyway. I found a nearly perfectly preserved dead dried up frog in my crawlspace. I'd like to preserve it if I can.For dried-up specimens, amphibians like this.. Is a preserving in some sort of solution (like wet specimen type thing, not sure the names) an option? Or am I better off just throwing it in a jar? I don't really want to look at it or handle it, but my sister is into shit like this so I figure I'll put it together as a gift.
>>2986968Just leave it there
>>2986968>DeadFunny thing is frogs can sort of hibernate for the longest time.Once found one buried under over a foot of compacted sand, which had accumulated over (at least one) winter (that was in the summer). Thought it should be dead. It wasn't.
>>2987103>not deadi think you're right
>>2987146>KekYou should build an altar to little guy; who knows, might be an ancient divinity
>>2986968>preserve a dried frogthey're surprisingly common and simple to make
Do I have to look out for something specific when buying a used miter saw?
>>2987051Bearing whine will be obvious on start, so is a burned armature. There's nothing that can really go wrong with the table itself.
>>2987052Gotcha, thanks.
>>2987053The motor is the most important thing on these things and the one most likely to give up on you, as alot of people just overwork them by cheaping out on disks and pushing on the saw instead of letting it cut at it's own pase.As i said before you will hear it if there is a bearing problem. A burned armature or spent brushes would give out lot's of sparks, unstable RPM, it would cut out randomly under stress, it's would smell burned. The table is basicaly two slabs of aluminium and a couple of roller bearings, so the only thing to go wrong is if you loose the travel lock or one of those little legs for leveling.The arm that the saw is riding on has two plastic bushings, that can get worn out, but it's something that can easily be felt the moment you pull the saw towards your - you will feel the entire thing being unstable and wobbly.Last is the tilt mechanism that requires a spring to move back up, but again, it is something that if broken you could pick up the moment you put your hand on the handle.
Turns out I was awful at sharpening my chainsaw and it now goes through wood like butter.Post tools that improved something you where doing terribly
>>2987016>never found a drill sharpener that actually worksthe chinks have come up with a winner in the 13x series but like everything from the orient it needs fucking with out of the box to function correctly. and that was about an hour with a dial indicator knocking the various parts around i liked it enough i bought a 26d to do up to 3/4 and will buy the biggest one eventually
>>2986753That motor seems comically massive considering it can be done with a dremel
>>2987023your dremel has a 1 1/2 inch wheel
>>2986753are these actually good for sharpening?
>>2986753I remember being a young lad in a hardware store and we had one of these. I was never shown how to properly use it, I ruined many chains after being told to sharpen them without understanding anything about it.
What do you guys think of the growing use of AI in DIY shit? I've been vibe coding shit with all of the major AIs (free/jew mode. because i'm not going to give them any fucking shekels). I'm a retard and coding is white people magic so being able to slop some python code to interface shit using arduinos and esp32s is cash fuckin money. yeah the code always sucks, but run it through a few times, bounce around between them, and you can get something fairly complicated working in under a couple hours. coders are fucked.anyway, in the spirit of DIY what are some good uses for it, what have you been using it for? because besides fuckin deepfake porn, or propaganda, slopping up your own programs is the only thing I can think of that REALLY unlocks some potential for the everyday retard.
Programming is really the most obvious use case. I've done hundreds of hours of programming work in a few ten hours in the past half year. Helps if you know how to program though, sometimes it takes the AI longer to spot its mistake than for me.It can also make electronics recommendations, e.g. if you have a noisy line or brownouts on your microcontroller. Helps with recommending specific parts or even circuit setups. Not that you can't find this info on google, but you get there faster. Also various calculations, like it's quite good at heat loss calc, if you just give it your surface areas and material/insulation type, it can spit out fairly accurate numbers. Solar maybe less good, was sometimes inflating numbers by using bad data sources. Sometimes used it for mechanical guesstimates, load/shear stress on specific parts, Grok has fairly good spatial understanding from images and text.
>>2986683What about "do it yourself" did you not understand?
>>2986683I have used it to fact check shopping lists for entire projects and it has caught my mistakes.
>>2986683The profanity in this post is excessive
it's just a heuristic front end for search engines it can help in finding knowledge but you still have to do the work
If you need to use any of these tools or the such, I dont know what to tell you... you are an absolute fucking cuck and you should never work on anything ever againI dont ever measure anything at all whatsoever and everything turns out absolutely perfect. People using measuring devices are just compensating for their lack of skill
>>2984650prove it
>>2984155I agree to an extent, craftsmen have used their hands to measure since biblical times and has worked well for thousands of years. Who needs more?
>>2984720post a picture of something from a distance of ~1m with the camera at eye height
>>2984155Its fine if you are the last guy to finish something.
why do i enjoy using the broken old tape measure more than the new one is it because the new one is thinner and old one feels sturdy bending and shoving into corners even for around 1m measurements
Have you ever just went ahead and ignored all laws, zoning requirements, and permits required for construction?How did it work out for you?
>>2984029imagine reporting somebody for improving the neighborhood you live in
>>2976196Im an electrician and we mostly do work without permits. Kitchen remodels and other addons like new lights or outlets where there were none before. Were flipping two apartments bow with no permits. Its way easier and faster this way.We have a few guys that always pull permits no matter what and its always a pain in the ass with inspector scheduling and little bullshit they decided we need in this particular neighborhood that the neighborhood next to us doesn't need. One time we were gonna just do a panel swap but the inspector said no its too close to the gas line it cant he here anymore. So we had to move it to a completely different room and ittook a week and cost the guy thousands of dollars.Dont pull permits if you dont have to its gay as fuck.
>>2976196I'm about to dig up my foundation and install new weeping tile all the way around. I live right next to city hall and I don't plan on applying for shit.
>>2983593> use satellite data that report annuallyBuild a fake one, tear it down before city comes.Make a big fuss with city.Rinse, lather, repeat until permanently whitelisted.
>>2984311It's always the previous owner, especially foreclosures.
I live in an apartment. My neighbor stinks of curry. The smell gets in here through this hole. How can I seal it up to prevent odors from getting through? And the wire still needs to pass through to get to the range hood. This is an example picture I found online. In my actual case, the hole is behind the range hood not underneath it.
>>2986545>jeet shakerim fucking dying
>>2986582That's a shit solution.Fill the hole with expanding foam.Then use a knife/razor to trim that below the surface of the drywall.Then use drywall joint compound to fill the hole flush with the wall.
>>2986563Jesus christ... It's patching a hole in drywall, you don't need a 3d printer for this.
>>2987066I'm pretty sure maybe 1:30 people here on /diy/ have actually ever done anything themselves or worked in a trade.
>>2987075Then they shouldn't be here. We should not be shitting the place up just to cater to people who don't belong here.
Lost this piece working on my lawn mower, anyone know where I can get a new one?
>>2985388>7 eurosbrb investing in socket adapters
>>2985381Really bro? Go to your hardware store.
>>2985397No need to be a dick. Everyone starts somewhere. We can't ALL be 100% knowledgeable ALL the time.
>>2985945There's a difference between being a novice at something and having no common sense.
>>2985529>7 €Plus 9,19 € s&h...
Would you fix this wall yourself? He says it's fine, those are structural prickly pears.
>>2985568its fine get over yourself and your bullshit
>>2985568cut one side of the tire cheek with a jigsaw then fill with dirt, after that you can just cover with concrete and it will look cool just ensure each tire is level with a string and a water level
>>2986291Nice. That actually looks like a decent use for some used tires...
>>2985573nothing wrong with it youre being dramatic
>>2986291Mad Max meets Square Foot Gardening.
