what's your favorite thing ya did yourself?literally any project
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>>2861751built a generator from an old gas weed wacker, wheelchair DC motor, and various other parts. the hardest part was coming up with an engine governor that reacted to output voltage of the motor. I found a programmable servo controller to do that.it only outputs about 14 volts at 7 amps but I did it just because. I seem to be the only person that has built a generator like this and did it without using a genset governor and related equipment which which cost several hundred dollars.The great thing about this is that because the generator uses a DC motor it can be used to start the engine.
>>2861921this is the most diy thing i’ve ever seen
>>2861921I'm jealous, that's delightful. I may have to do my own.
work in progress but my grow room is coming along nicely
>>2861963SMOKE WEED ERYDEY
>>2861921So what are you doing with it? Jump starting cars? Charging a battery bank? How many watts do you get out of that 2-smoke?I still like my shoe rack because it ended up better built and looking just as nice as any piece of crap flat pack shoe rack I could buy at Ikea.
Converted my hand-crank honey extractor to electric using welding machine parts>whybecause the board and motor were free to me. It uses a 24vdc worm reduction motor and a wire feeder PCB from a MIG welding machine. The timing pulleys I bought and paid to get bored to fit the extractors input shaft and the motor shaft. There is a little wired remote pendant that has the on/off switch and speed control. Electric honey extractors are thousands of dollars, even the 2 - 4 frame ones. They use AC induction motors and speed control via VFD. Stupidly expensive. I made this for less than $200 not including the extractor which I already had. I can set it going and walk away, it really is bliss.
>>2861997>So what are you doing with it?nothing. proof of concept. "they" said it couldn't be done.
>>2861997>How many watts do you get out of that 2-smoke?14x7=98
>>2861923>I may have to do my own.the secret word is pololu
>>2861963looks cool. i had a few grows i made a 2x2 tent using pvc covered with panda film and a 400w hps.
>>2861963White mylar sheeting reflects light without refraction, unlike metallic stuff. Also a fan will make your plants have to put more energy into stems to stay upright, reducing the amount of energy that can go into flowering. You should be using SCroG method.
slide out surface for camping etcmade from scraps and a couple 500lb Vevor locking drawer slides that I got on sale. A pleasure to use even though it's basically just a table. Flat surfaces are a rarity in the woods
>>2862026It's so tiny! I grew up around Mexican apiarists, the only honey extractors I've played with held 40-60 frames and were driven by bike pedals, and those were the small ones. The big one was the hydraulic ram one guy nearby had, scary machine, but it must have held 120-150 frames.>>2862377Nicely done, anon.
>>2862367how did plants ever grow without humans...
>>2861751This worktable is probably my current favorite, because it's just - junk. And useful. And free. All this stuff was being thrown out, at work.>rolling server rack, good for absolutely nothing>decade-old mini PC. i3/8GB Ram - useless>monitor with a bad power jack>speakers with a broken cableAn hour of work, to add another Ram card, fix the broken connectors and assemble the server rack. Another hour to cut up a piece of junk wood, sand it, drill it and bolt it down. It's useful as hell, as a combination utube-watching station, radio and mobile workbench, that I can wheel into the driveway, or all around the garage.
>>2861751I took an old dresser and made it over into something completely unrecognizable from the original, which took a whole lot of care using a saw, an electric sander, about a gallon of darkly tinted polyurethane, half that much of titanium white, and even dioxazine purple tinted latex to balance the color of the internal light that came on when one of the top drawers was opened, and finally a lock rather elaborately linked to the top two drawers, and simple bronze drawer pulls in the middle of each Never had any use for the lock, and cut the cord to the internal light years ago. But it's still a wonderful piece of work, compact for its capacity, attractive in the way that very slightly melted Nestle chips are, useful everyday, and neither Western nor Oriental in its overall look.
>>2861751Super out of my comfort zone, and I didn't enjoy the process very much, but I'm amazed how good the final product is.
>>2862432I only have <15 hives at any one time and they don't all produce honey at the same time. Most I've had to extract is 40-50 full depth frames in a weekend. 4 Frame extractor is plenty.
>>2862685That's sweet anon, I'm jealous.
>>2862677looks nice
>>2861751homemade fleshlight
>>2862677why is the light so low
>>2863302Imagine it's the 1800s, and instead of a bright modern lightbulb it's just a little shelf there with a candle your wife lights in the evenings so you can find the knob when you stumble home drunk in the middle of the night. Now imagine it's the 1960s, you're drunk and fucked up on quaaludes, and your drafting up some new electrical codes. You realize that most of the homes in your east-coast home town have a light by the front door that's only 5ft-6ft from the ground. Guess what the electrical code often calls for in the US, especially in east-coast states? Porch-lights mounted on a wall adjacent to the front door must position the bulb 60"-72" from the ground. Enjoy your shit-tier history lesson.
>>2863305porch lights are pure boomer jewry. fuck assholes that burn them all night for no fucking reason. i want to be able to see the stars and not eye rape every bird and bat thats out eating bugs that would otherwise be biting me. having your porch light on doesnt prevent crime either. if anything it makes it easier for feral niggers and meth heads to see what theyre doing and if you live in some shithole where thats a problem you should be planning to move anyways
>>2863314I leave mine on until 2am and live in a gated community. Enjoy your eyerape and fuck bats.
>>2862079Some of mankind’s best projects have been done in a resentful act towards “them”. I approve.
>>2861751- Built a soundproof room in the workshop- "Built" (3d printed) and painted a piano figurine for my toddler which she loved
>>2863302Homeowner liked the height. Just used existing wiring
>>2861751Minecraft torch 3d printed with some flickering leds for the kiddos is probably my favorite because minimum effort. Tried 555 timer and a battery but 9volt only lasted a couple nights even with only 45 min on. Now it’s just got a usb plug and runs off the wall.
>>2862581>how did plants ever grow without humans...outside lol
>>2861751I carved some crack spoons, they look pretty good.
>>2862367I've been doing this a long time bud lol you sound silly
>>2861751I did this for an architecture subject during lockdown. "Make a 3D model of any iconic structures" lol
built my kids a level pad for their playground
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>>2867283>>2867286>>2867289>>2867292retired neighbor with a mini-excavator dug it out in march of last year, took me until february to get the thing completed; multiple long stretches of puzzling over how to accomplish _x_ next step. but the end result is sound and has impeccable drainage.
>>2867295*took me until september
>>2867292>>2867295hell yeah
>>2863314too bad jamal go rob someone who doesn't have a porch light.
you can maybe see in >>2867286 that it's actually on a shelf of bedrock that juts out of my back yard hillside, also visible in >>2867292, so that rebar is in holes that i rotary-hammer drilled into the bedrock to prevent any sliding. the back wall is essentially a retaining wall so there are two "deadman" beams sticking back into the hill and pinned in place with more rebar. Front corner had its own little footer poured that i used my laser level/detector to gauge the exact right height so i could fit the two courses of block in below the bottom course of the timbers. this shit took me ages to think through.
Plugged a radiator leak on my bike with JB weld. It has held for 4 years now.
I picked up an old rando guitar at a prop studio warehouse sale and decided to coat it with cut up tins. I also got a new pickup for it although it’s not wired up to any of the knobs and it needs a second pickup. Overall it turned out pretty well and it plays okay. When I got it the action was super high, but I just shimmed the neck. I also brought it to my guitar teacher and he told me if it was his, he’d probably bury it in his hard as lawn art lol
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>>2867289i even rented a skid steer (for filling the frame and backfill with ~11 yards of gravel) as a reward to myself for getting everything done. was very fun. my first time running any 'equipment'.
>>2862377That is awesome. I've been thinking about a similar style pull-out for my old 98 E250. I recognize that old duffle from Basic too. Stuffed that thing to the brim with our boots and bdus and got shoved onto a cattle car at Fort Sill AZ. That was about 24 years ago. Also, Beautiful jeep. In it's proper natural home. >My contribution is replacing the bearings in my 00 Durango a couple of weeks ago. Rides like a brand new vehicle.
Portable automotive soldering station using T245 tips and can have a Milwaukee M18 battery plug into it directly. While the dock and brass wool holder aren't brilliant, the rest is great. It has a magnetic base to stick to any ferritic workpiece, or you can lock it to a belt clip. You can also plug in a unit that allows you to power it off a 2.1mm barrel jack, for use with a cigarette lighter plug. Using a T245 tip means even on 12V you get at least 60W. On 18V it should be more like 150W, more than enough to blast through lug terminals.
>>2869123thats a slick setup anonwhat soldering iron and control did you use?
>>2869145I used a KSGER V2.1S board, it can be wired to use a JBC T245 handpiece instead of a T12 handpiece. I loaded custom firmware onto it, and set the right voltage cutoffs and enabled the iron sleep mode when it's docked in a stand. Also on one side it has the 5-pin iron plug, and on the other side it has a banana socket for plugging in the stand. There's a strange passthrough via two threaded inserts to get electrical contact between the built-in iron dock and the control board.It's printed in PETG, with brass spade terminals as the battery contacts, and a 1mm thick stainless steel faceplate. To cut the holes in the stainless I had to hold the edge of the faceplate on my drill press with one hand (don't have a vice for it), pull down the handle with the other hand, and squeeze water onto the hole with a plastic pipette held in my mouth. I do not recommend it.Also it's all flipped from the normal layout because I made it for a left-handed person.
>>2869148Designed it all in Sketchup Make 2017. Downloaded some battery models from grabcad and imported them as STLs to ensure a good fit. I also referenced existing battery clip models. Grabcad is good for this sort of thing.
>>2861751I removed the bulkhead on one of the rooms and built a new frame over it to reduce the size. Works included>Designing>Wood working>Demolition>Installing plaster board>Plastering>Installation of piece>Installing coving>Installing skirting board>PaintingAll by myself.
>>2869123>>2869148Sometimes I want to get me a 3D printer and get back into CAD because I would love to print up a little adapter to hook up picrel to an 18V battery and have banana plug outputs. It would be so handy for troubleshooting random shit wherever you are. IIRC, there’s an old AvE video where somebody sent him basically that for a Makita battery. If you could get a boost/buck converter that could do like 1V-30V and 300-500W without doing goofy Chinesium electronic stuff, you could probably jump a car if you let it sit on the battery charging for a few minutes.
>>2863302Looks pretty bright to me.
>>2866934You should've chosen a background image with a plane.Also, what did your teacher, professor or whatever say?
>>2867289Fucking hell, expensive looking playground. Hope your kids love you for it.Nicely done though.
>>2870645the playground set itself was a christmas gift from in inlaws for the kids, it looks like $1600 or so off amazon, really nice cedar set from Gorilla.however what kicked this project off is that1) my whole property is sloped, so i needed someplace level to put it, and2) i already spend enough time on yardwork and did NOT want to have to mow/weedwhack around the legs and posts and whatnotas for what i bought:90 timbers: $560 including deliveryskid steer was $250 to rent for the weekend, plus $125 for delivery/pickupbunch of rebara handful of tools i didn't already own (laser level/detector, angle grinder, rotary hammer + bits, i'm sure there were more)a TON of 9" to 12" timberlok screws to suck the timbers tight together, probably $200 worthgravel and mulch were probably a grand all told (initial round of mulch was a year ago, it has since compacted over the past year, so i had more brought in to raise it back up
>>2870733Oh yeah, concrete + CMUs for that lower corner, all of that filter fabric you see in the image to separate the gravel from the mulch (it's really high quality stuff), and then a bunch of paint for the playset itself since it was originally natural cedar color but paint is the best weatherproofing you can put on anything wood
>>2862377those bananas are fucking huge
Only seen in bike mode
Removed that stupid abomination they call a full bolster with an angle grinder and some sandpaper
>>2872437Indubitably based.
I built a free standing, adjustable angle climbing wall during covid lock down. The construction was pretty amateur but the end result worked pretty well.
>>2863302I noticed this when shopping for new outdoor lights a couple months ago. The thing you don’t realize is most lights are like an L-shape with the mount and either goes up or down. So my guess is that the original light was an L going up, and then anon or his wife or mom found that upside down L light at Lowe’s that they absolutely loved, brought it home and installed it without thinking about the fact that it’s 18” lower than the previous light, and now is trying to justify it as some colonial style bullshit instead or returning it and ordering a similar style that would sit at the proper height.
