Please no doomer responses.
I’ve been playing my guitar a fair bit. Relearning the solo dem another brick in the wall pt 2 because I never learned it right whe I was in high school and really wanna get that 5 fret bend down right. Havent learned a solo in a while, pretty easy reintro to solos.
Been getting my old anet 8 3d printer working again for a project for my girlfriend. Pretty fun iterativeprocess.
Also fucking around with retro games on an old pi I had sitting around. Contra hard corps is hella fun.
So what do you like doing? What have you been having fun with? What do you like?
I’ve been listening to Laying Down the Lore 40k which goes through the lore of Warhammer 40k on my weekend runs. I just go out, listen to something fun and interesting and feel great because of exercise.
Reading a lot of old Cark Barks Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comics, and also the full Dragon Ball manga for the first time.
Both Toriyama and Barks were absolute geniuses at their craft. Impeccable sense for aesthetics, comedy and storytelling.Terry Pratchett. Discworld sepcifically.
I’d only read a couple of random ones, and I’m getting older and there are like 40+ Discworld books so I decided I should get on with it. I’m alternating, so every other book I read is a Discworld one. Almost a quarter of the way through and I’m having a blast so far.
Discworld ended up less childish than I assumed when I read a few of them. He really is a clever, great, writer.
Riding a small euc and practicing whip cracks.
I’ve been working on my skeleton animatronic. I’ve wanted to do this for years, so I finally am. I have the design pretty well locked down. Printer filament ordered, parts trickling in as deliveries arrive from around the world.
I got the Bottango Solar board to drive the servos. Eyes pan and tilt, jaw jaws, head tilts and swivels, plus two hands that open and close and one arm that extends.
Heeeeey!
This is a very cool doot. More skele-matronics is a good thing.
Do you have a how-to on YouTube? I’d love to see how you did this. Halloween is my favorite.
I won’t make a step-by-step tutorial, but I will document a few steps along the way and publish my design when it’s complete. The only thing I have IRL for now is the thumb I printed and assembled. The hand design is the part I’m least confident in. And, the head is the most complex part, so those have been taking all the time till now.
There are plenty of tutorials online for this sort of thing. From modifying store bought models, to kits people make, to old-school casting plastic parts from self-made molds, to designing and 3D printing. I’m using Blender for the design, because I already know Blender, that’s a lot of previously-earned knowledge. I also have a lot of experience building things myself from previous jobs, and hobbies. I’m watching videos for the details I’m less certain of. The skull and skeleton are free downloads, but require extensive modification on the inside to this purpose.
The parts I can’t make and need to buy are stupid-expensive these days. The universal joint for the neck is only sold in pairs, but I only need one, I suppose to make it worth selling, were $15. The two boards to drive everything were $160 plus the two micro SD cards were another $22, but I went with a purpose designed solution, rather than an Arduino solution. There’s the servos ($45), the struts ($9), the turntable bearing ($7), a ball bearing for the jaw ($7), a box of tiny screws ($8), etc. It all adds up fast. Alibaba Express helps, but not much, buying enough at one store to get free shipping helps. Plus, of course, the 3D printer which I already have, but was $1000 six years ago, for a Prusa.
Yeah, I have a Prusa as well. It’s a Mark 3S+. I think I will be printing something large soon and I’m thinking about getting something bigger and faster, but I’ll burn that bridge when I get to it. I build a lot of stuff too. Good luck with it. Looks like fun.
ive been jerking off a lot
Wrong month bro
He didn’t say he nutted. Bro is just edging for a straight month.
Edging for a month
Bro is a masochist at this point
Trying to get back into reading daily. The TBR pile on my bookshelf has been languishing in purgatory for too long.
I’ve been spending a lot more time playing guitar lately. I’ve learned the solo to Whole Lotta Love, Iggy Pop’s New Values (the whole album has incredible guitar work), and Highway Star by Deep Purple. So much damn fun and so satisfying. I’ve also started a free Harvard online class in critical thinking. I’d suggest everyone do that if you don’t know it already. It really helps you cut through all the crap online and find out what’s actually happening rather than just believing things that match your current belief system. Oh, understanding cognitive biases is also wonderfully refreshing.
Learning Japanese. The online classes are only once a week so there’s not much pressure, and you can study a bit more during the week on your own if you want.
I’m learning how to drive stick shift cause I already bought an old Jeep LJ. The adrenaline rush from surviving a trip from point A to point B with minimal stalling is nice.
Nice little skill to have. I only drive stick shift. Makes for a good theft deterrent these days.
I know it said no doomer responses but I’ve been continually having fun with my xbox right up until last night. It did a “lets look at all your stats wont that be nice” thing. Told me id played for 23,600 hours. Since 2007. This isnt even my first account…
Now I’m gonna look through this thread and see if anything grabs my interest. If I’d spent that long on anything else I’d be a grandmaster by now.
Just learned that you can make metal press tools with 3D prints. Even just PLA+ works pretty well.
I stamped these in 22 gauge steel with a 20 ton press and the dies looked fine afterwards. The dies are about 3mm deep and the pressing came out just under 3mm. Looks surprisingly professional for my tooling.
I’ve planted watermelons about six weeks ago. Until now I’ve always failed at these -tomatoes, melons, kiwano… none have survived. So this time I read up on the ideal growing conditions and immunized the buds against common threats (snails and chickens mostly) by building a mini enclosure. So far it seems to work :
That was 3 days ago, the plants have already doubled in size since I took these pictures ! I visit them everyday.
It’s fun when it works
I’ve never managed to get anything to grow, but I think I’m gonna try again. Thanks for the inspiration
aha !! amazing ! let’s go !
gourd family plants grow extremely fast. thats why they can become weedy. seen one grow to several feet within 1-2weeks.
yea my neighbour also planted some kind of pumpkin nearby, and I fully expect both to basically cover the entire hill
I’ve learned all about a lot of open source projects for my new homelab. Immich to replace google photos, homeassistant for a lot of the smart home stuff to control them locally, and the most recent thing is setting my matrix homeserver for my friends to chat on.
turning stuff on a lathe is quite fun, calming and way quieter than most woodshop tools. i’m making spoons rn.
