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.
I finally revamped the tree of life diagram for the index of my notebook on esoteric spiritual traditions. Every element is clickable / tappable and goes to a different place in the obsidian notebook:
Mainly doodling and art in general.
I have enjoyed viewing these doodles 👍
Thanks!
I picked up an old project of mine which I had stopped in 2018 after a disk failure lost me a few weeks of work. It’s a celtic thing (in 3D). Eventually I want to make a proper scene with some foliage, moss growing on it, etc.
Oh nice, that looks pretty cool! I love Celtic loop designs.
Thanks ! yea they’re cool
I’ve been working on a hobby Python project to extract YT URLs from a CSV file, mass download them as audio files, extract their thumbnails and crop them to be square (Like proper album art), then re-encode them again.
I’ve gotten the functionality of the CSV Extractor and Thumbnail Fixer completed, but I still need proper message displays for them, as well as a menu to select between the 2 functionalities.
If it’s possible, I would love to automatically add the title and artist metadata to the files based on the filename, though I haven’t figured out a way to do that yet.
I revived an old car that has sat in my mother’s yard for several years. Didn’t need much to get going, just a jumpstart and some fresh gas, but now I’ve got a set of wheels I don’t have to care about. Might turn it into a Lemons racer.
Imo if you don’t care about it get it to someone who will, wheels are an absolute game changer when you don’t have any
Personal hobbies are okay. A life including service shouldn’t deprive you of that.
I’d consider donating this car if it were in better shape; in its current state, sure, the engine is running and it’ll move under its own power, but it’s still got a long way to go before it’ll be road-legal, or even safe to drive.
Right now, any charity organization that’d accept the car would probably just have it crushed, which would just be a waste to me.
Didn’t mean to give you grief, hope you enjoy whatever you end up doing with it. Matching barely legal beaters with people I see sleeping rough is kind of my Thing, as long as they can gimp between parking spots enough to not get towed it’s a huge comeup
My desktop that was powerful enough to do most things died a few months ago at the worst possible time; it came on the heels of emptying a lot of my savings on vets to find out that my girl had advanced bone cancer, and then even more on sending her over the rainbow bridge and getting her cremated.
So both as a way to save some money and a way to keep my mind off of her, I’ve been putting together a new computer using a few spare parts that I have had laying around. Truth is, my old computer, though old, had been upgraded up the wazoo through the years to the point where most of that stuff could just transfer over (750 watt powersupply, Nvidia 3060 12gb card, max amount of RAM that it could take, etc…)
All I really needed was a new mainboard and processor. As long as I bought a used one that used DDR4 instead of 5, I already had everything I needed.
The “Project” is adapting my second-to-last PC case to accept newer components. (upgrading the front USB ports, things like that) Because it’s an OEM Acer case, I can’t simply order in an upgraded swappable unit, so I’m having to get creative with soldering.
It’ll probably fail and I’ll have to buy a new case too, but oh well. It’s fun to try. I have so many old computer parts laying around, let’s see how Dr. Frankenstein I can go.
Just recently got an upgrade for my desktop computer by getting one from a pawnshop. Had to, a little begrudgingly, get a new monitor and HDMI cable since the TV I have been using as a monitor is too old for this new desktop.
Started getting things set up last night and still have a ways to go to make it feel good, like my laptop does.
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.
I’d definitely call that a project. Great job cleaning up your area!!!
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 :)
Excellent work.
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)
Was going to recommend ifixit as well - I got the little toolkit and replacement parts from them and their guide was very useful.
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.
yeah thats fair, I’ll prolly wait until my battery is in pretty poor shape before attempting a replacement since I don’t want to crack the phone open for a negligible increase in power, will just have to shop around and see who is offering the best replacement batteries when the time comes!
Thats fantastic! I wouldn’t downplay it you took a risk and it worked out, great job.
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.
After many years, I finally found decent LED lights to replace the incandescent bulbs on my two McIntosh amps (MC7108, MC7100).
Not a huge project, but it was something that I had been wanting to do for many years.
Here is a photo of my MC7108 with the new lights installed.
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 !superbowl@lemmy.world 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.
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.
Did timing chains on my partner’s car. Getting ready to change out the bathroom fan and run some cat6.
Your partners car has a bathroom? And ethernet?
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!
