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Make it, Fix it, Renovate it, Rehabilitate it - as long as you’ve done some part of it yourself, share!
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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.
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
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!
Please send me an update as you move along and/when you're done! I'd love to see it develop!
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.
You can still find good stuff at thrift stores. I found a working Laser disc player I think I paid $30 for it.
Nice! Yeah I keep trying… have a toddler and an infant though so travel is limited.