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Do It Yourself

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Make it, Fix it, Renovate it, Rehabilitate it - as long as you’ve done some part of it yourself, share!

Especially for gardening related or specific do-it-yourself projects, see also the Nature and Gardening community. For more creative-minded projects, see also the Creative community.


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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?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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 ~

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That'll be so cool! My boyf and I are thinking about doing Link and Ganon for halloween~

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yessss ~ post photos here when it happens ! ⚡

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Started a couple of months ago a Home Automation Project. All DIY, No ready made accessories. For instance ESP32's, ESP8266, relay boards, diy PCB's, making movement and light sensors, pressure pads for stair lighting- you name it im making it for all round HA!!!! Even door locking/unlocking with fingerprint and voice sensors!! The only thing i bought to control everything is 3 5th generation Alexa's and Phone apps

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please send me an update as you move along and/when you're done! I'd love to see it develop!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can still find good stuff at thrift stores. I found a working Laser disc player I think I paid $30 for it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nice! Yeah I keep trying… have a toddler and an infant though so travel is limited.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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.