What project are you embroiled in? It’s it going well? What hangups are you running into? And, dare I ask, are you having fun with it?

  • Gormadt@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    I’ve been most of the way though the planning stages of a new desk, 3D printing cabinet, and air filtration system now for 6 months.

    I’m close, I can feel it.

  • pushka@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    Edit Oops I can’t read - not house related (I mean I’ll be in a house…) Textiles/making-clothing

    I haven’t really started but I’m making a kind of cast away minimal Grecian skirt and sash , inspired by Zelda tears of the kingdom in grey and brown for 2 dress up parties in 3 weeks ~

    I have the material and ribbons / elastics and I’ve made a kilt and some other costume things before ~ just ruminating on it thinking of the best way to approach everything - shoukd be pretty simple ~

  • 114145@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    Leveling floorbeams in preparation for casting a concrete floor for a new bathroom! It’s a lot of work…

  • StringTheory@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    The Toilet From The Deepest Pit of Hell.

    …or maybe I should call it The Toilet of Theseus.

    I’ve replaced so many parts, solved so many leaks, reseated the tank, yada yada yada. It broke again, this time the lever arm. Off to the hardware store again, looking for an indestructible lever arm. Sheesh.

    I’m just about ready to get a big bucket and some sawdust and slap a seat on it and call it good!

  • Hexorg@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    I’m building a 90s themed arcade in my shed. My friend wrote a proxy to the Wayback machine so that you can navigate to, say yahoo.com and our windows 98 computer will display it as it was in 1999. Virtually any site we could remember works! But I’m also wanting to keep my workshop in the shed so my plan is to add a second floor first. I’ve never done construction before, so I’ve been looking up building codes and “building” what I have and want in blender. here’s the stair case: I also 3D scanned my shed and can super impose new structure into it: . Now I’m ready to order building materials.

    • Inspectigator@beehaw.orgOP
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      2 years ago

      Alright, like… every part of this is awesome. WaybackMachine proxy, photo scanning your shed… this is GREAT! I would like to recommend using something like OnShape instead of blender, though. I’ve never found blender to be super helpful when trying to put together diagrams and such. I used SketchUp for a bit, but found it too restrictive.

      Lastly, another web-tool I’ve found to be ENORMOUSLY helpful with optimizing building materials purchases/usage is opticutter. It was hugely helpful for my most recent cabinet building project

      • Hexorg@beehaw.org
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        2 years ago

        Thank you! I would describe myself as intermediate at blender, so after a quick search for construction tools just decided that it’d be faster to use blender than learn a new tool and potentially be limited by whatever it supports. I’ll definitely check out opticutter though!

          • Hexorg@beehaw.org
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            2 years ago

            Currently I’ve been scouting Craigslist for 90s tech and along with just some crt Tv and monitors found the commodore 1702 display, and a really good collection of essentially all 90s classics laserdiscs.

  • Papamousse@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    It’s outside, it’s replacing all grass in my backyard with 3/8 river stone, adding fountain and shrubs and flowers etc. It’s pretty cool and almost finished. I don’t know if I should have done it 🤣 but once it started, I couldn’t stop in the middle!

    Also no more mowing!

  • lamentforicarus@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    I don’t know if it is ridiculous but the whole ordeal feels ludicrous. Basically, we’ve moved into a house that had been previously flipped. I am not sure who the previous owners were, but they absolutely used their yard as a trash can. We found an entire mattress hidden beneath a large pile of brush. The ridiculous part is our futile attempt to clean up all the glass! I think the only way to get rid of it all would be to dig up all the grass and replace it, but we are renting and I am not upgrading the home for them, so we’ve just been slowly picking it all up as we find it.

    • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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      2 years ago

      Can you contact your landlord and ask them to have it cleaned up? I can’t imagine the legality of leaving a bunch of potentially dangerous junk in the yard for new tenants to deal with. Maybe it would be more persuasive to talk to some landscaping people and get quotes for cleanup using whatever method they recommend.

      • lamentforicarus@beehaw.org
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        2 years ago

        I’m not sure about the legality of it, though that’s something to look into. I am actually fairly certain I am my landlords very first tenant as they don’t seem to know what they are doing, and they bought the house all of a month before I moved into it. They may not even be aware of the issue. I should probably talk to them.