I Made This

Do progress updates, or even ideation posts, fit this community?

Motivations:

• I don't ton of free time, which means when I finally finish something I'm much more likely to share the end result and not get into the details that eventually got me there. IMO the details, especially the failures along the way, are a lot more interesting than just the result and provide more opportunity for teaching/learning
• Big projects can be daunting. Talking about the journey will help others be more willing to set off on their own journey

It's a quickie, but I think it turned out cute! My friend recently got a Hartford Whalers jersey and when I saw this little friend I couldn't help but make him into a little 3D model! I hope you all enjoy!

Been playing around with a little cnc mill I got for Christmas. I think these came out cute!

We’ve written a detective story and I'm wondering if anybody likes it. It’s kind of a detective story that “tells itself”.

https://www.loomers.world/derek/

You’re detective Derek Maker and you have to extract a confession by interrogating the suspects of an art heist.

We worked hard on writing the script (it's not AI generated!) and we programmed an AI to play out the other characters.

Solving it seems pretty difficult, because so far nobody's come close to cracking it!

Can you solve it? And do you think it's any good?

This is known as a Colpitts oscillator and I soldered this up last night after dinner. To my surprise it worked on the first try! With the component values I used it oscillates between 0.7-2.8V at a frequency of 1.28 MHz.

Hey everyone. I was the Director of Video Production for the Gravel Institute until it folded back in 2022.

Several Gravel Institute colleagues and I have been hard at work developing a new series of videos with Jacobin Magazine, and our first new video has released today, featuring OG Gravel presenter and brilliant historian Matt Karp.

Things are pretty terrible in America (and the world at large), but they don't have to be.

I know this sub isn't really a video-creator sub, much less a political one, but seeing as I literally made this video, I decided to share.

Recently dismantled a TV and its backlighting consisted of thin cfl tubes. This gave me the material to try something I've been curious about for a while! I sealed some yeast in a little section of tubing for a friend's birthday (his last name is Baker). Kind of a shitty gift as i doubt it would survive as a keychain but I had fun making it (and its failed predecessors). Here are the other attempts, from left to right: pepper, red and blue food coloring, yeast

Plug one side of the cable on the left of the box, the other side on the right, press the button and whichever light doesn't come on means that part of the cable is faulty. I learned a lot from my bad decisions :)

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/54114046

🚫 No AI is used in my process. Progress pictures and more are here!

Drew some sheargrubs and shearwigs from Pikmin! I hope you all enjoy! 😃

Tomorrow at work we have an event where everyone will bring a little thing and randomly give it away to someone else. I wanted to make something with wood and ended up with this little mushroom island.

I made this a few years ago and still use it regularly! The "spoon" side fills up with 1 portion of rice and the hole in the handle can fit 1 portion of spaghetti. What do you think?

Edit: sorry about the double post.. I thought I had backed out and lost the first one so I posted this one, and I just noticed the first one went up

Made this out of a plastic bottle after seeing a YouTube video (can't give credit unfortunately as I can't find it anymore).

You can make it into any shape that the bottle will fit around (and can't be much smaller than the bottle since it will only shrink so much).

I used a piece of wood as template, cut the top of the bottle, put it around the piece of wood and shrank it with a heat gun. I then cut off the excess and shaped the closing mechanism.

It took a few tries to get it right but I've since used the technique to make containers/protections for several objects and I'm very happy with the results!

If you want to try this, be aware that the tightest you shrink the bottle around the template, the hardest it will be getting it out! I suggest making the template in atleast 2 pieces, this helped me a lot. (In this example I first pulled out the small wooden tab with pliers, and once out the bigger one came out easily).

Had nearly all the parts lying around, so I put this thing together.

I wanted to add stereo speakers, but it's hard to find good wiring diagrams for such a niche thing. So, mono for now.

The motherboard has a bad cartridge slot. So I designed and printed a custom speaker holder that fits into the cartridge slot. All pressure fitted, no glue.

Everything works so far. Just waiting for a new shoulder button/SD slot cable, so I can finish it up and load up some GBA games. :)

And pliers and Dremel tool of course, but yeah this safety guard mod totally keeps you from cutting your nails too deep!

Edit: You'll probably need to zoom in on the lower clipper blade to see the guard addition.

That was fast

My youtube channel if you want to watch speed paint process

I produced this video for The Gravel Institute a few years back before the organization folded.

It's popped off again recently for some reason. Maybe because everything has gotten worse?

I saw these dress form Christmas Trees for sale and thought it could be improved. I've been making costumes for 13 years and wanted to give myself a challenge. Except for the wig, every piece was handmade.

-I cut up an old skirt to make the corset and used the biggest zip ties as boning

• Tore apart wreaths for greenery, pinecone, and silver pieces

• Cut up a hoop skirt and designed a chicken wire underskirt for support

• Used scrap leather for the harness

• Hand sewed 160 keychain rings onto the green high-low skirt I made, so branches could be attached

• Got a bunch of garland from a craft store and had a friend wire cut them into different sizes, to shove into the keychain rings and make it look like a Christmas tree

• Sewed the collar

• Modded fake white Poinsettia flowers so they could be attached to the corset, headpiece, and skirt

• Used a wire, fake cardinal, and pieces ripped from the wreaths to make the Headpiece

I'm so proud and so happy! It was the most time consuming, expensive, and complex costume I've ever made and it's the cleanest and most gorgeous thing I could have imagined!

Though I have no idea where to store it (it's been my literal Christmas tree this season) and the skirt alone weighs about 35lbs. 😅

If you would like to see a little speed-paint session for this piece, here is my yt link.

https://youtube.com/shorts/ZSScWGOODKw