Hey, Ask Lemmy, we all know that people love to talk about themselves, and I’d love to hear about some of your pleasant experiences. So, please, no matter how big; no matter how small, tell me something that you are proud to have made :)
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I made a t-shirt from pieces of other t-shirts. It’s messy as fuck but I wear it with pride. I want to make more and improve.
Pics or it didn’t happen! Lol jk but I am curious because that sounds like my kind of style.
I make music. It’s not amazing music but it’s mine and doing it brings me great joy. I have a recording studio in my house, and use much of my down time for writing and recording music. I’ve slowly been teaching myself audio engineering and production, try to drop a song or two each year, and am working on a full-length album.
Unfortunately I can’t really share that here without doxxing myself. I do still maintain a Reddit account solely for the purposes of promotion and networking with other amateur recording artists, only because the music making communities on Lemmy are not very active.
Audio engineer here, if you need assistance let me know.
I sculpted this tiki mask using blender and then milled it out of aluminium using a 3 axis mill.
You can make your own, if you have a 3D printer or a milling machine: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4636877
Woah, That’s Cool! How did you get the wood-like effect on the 3rd image? Or was it a render? Also, What influenced your material choice to be metal?
Thanks. The third image is a render.
After I designed and 3D printed it I brought it to school when I was an apprentice (now I teach there), where a classmate thought it looked cool and wanted to make it out of aluminium that he got from his job. I got jealous that is was so much cooler than the 3D print, so I also got a large piece of aluminium to make my own.
I make video games on occasion. My portfolio is mostly jams and unfinished prototypes, and while I am working on something special, at this rate it will be a million years before it’s ready for release.
I catch my wife playing this one sometimes and it makes my heart happy
Sometimes I paint minis. These were a couple of characters I played where I made a custom figure
Kurt is technically a kitbash. I took a figure that was originally a bard holding a harp, cut out the harp and gave him some books. He was a gifted kid turned wizard-college-dropout, really pulling from life experience there.
For Robin I made a couple of additions with clay. I’m really bad at that, but it makes me happySolid job on the minis!
I built a maze game in Godot. It uses depth first search to make a maze then you have a little wizard dude that runs through it. Each time you complete theaze the next one get bigger.
I made a DaaS product https://kaleh.net/trace. A lot goes into it:
- endpoint location
- transformation of records into canonical model
- storage/indexing
- WWW html & copy
- Billing integration
- the whole thing
It took awhile to plan out and develop, but I am proud that it exists and that I have subscribers. Now that I have a dataset, I am working on other product offerings atop that dataset.
Back in the 90s, we bought an 87 year old house that had been neglected for decades, but the neglect was what we liked. That meant that nobody had “upgraded” or modernized it.
We spent the next 7 years renovating it, fixing every wall, repairing plumbing, installing a cast-iron woodburning stove, etc.
When we were done, we had turned the ugliest house on the street into a museum piece, and sold it for far more than any house on the street had ever sold for.
why did you sell it?
Turns out it was haunted.
I’ve been making plans to do something like this for a while, if only to build something that satisfies my own eccentricities. I’d love to know how the process was for you.
It was a blast. My wife made most of the design choices, which was cool with me, we generally have similar tastes, and I was enjoying learning how to use tools, and fix things properly. It was like a college degree in house renovation.
Most of the time it didn’t feel much like work, except for that one room that had five layers of wallpaper, with several layers of paint between them, and wallpaper on the ceiling with several layer above that. Scraping all that garbage off the walls and ceiling was one of the most unpleasant jobs I’ve ever done. Once it was all stripped, though, the rest seemed easy.
I considered becoming a Flipper, long before that was a thing. I wish I had done it.
Nowadays I barely have energy and time to cook and maybe go to gym. Was it easier back then regarding work life balance?
My kids
I admit, I knew I was pretty much demanding this exact response when I made the post, but it’s a really nice one either way. Thank you :)
My son is my biggest one.
Second, I completely redesigned the UI for one of the most popular image editing apps (it had been on Windows for years and my design was v1.0 for Mac). My design was nominated for an Apple design award that year, and Don Norman called my UI ‘innovative’ (I still have that email).
I really thought it was going to say “second, my daughter I guess” my phone was at a weird angle and I saw “design” and thought it said “daughter” and my brain filled in the blanks 😂😂
But seriously that’s pretty cool! The biggest design program or something like paint.NET?
Haha. XD
Not paint.net, but if I’m more specific, I’ll dox myself. It’s the most popular software in its niche.
I wouldn’t have any idea then lol not my scene so no need to doxx yourself to others lol. Either way, great job!
Thanks!
Something out of myself. Raised poor, lived in a renovated chicken coop for a while. Almost homeless a few times. My wife and I now have two nice paid off cars, a nice home, good jobs, our kids are all doing well and we spoil the shit out of our granddaughter.
We just had this delivered to her! Something I always wanted as a kid and wanted to be able to afford for our kids but couldn’t.
You’ve done so well, you have my congratulations :)
Hell yeah! Overcoming circumstances you didn’t choose is the hardest fucking thing.
https://newdawnowl.itch.io/microtonal-grid
I made a pure code, microtonal step sequencer that makes it really easy to try out what microtonal music is like.
I’m also very proud of how quickly and easily I implemented the conway’s game of life into it, only took me about an hour or so.
I’m not proud of how long it took me to get rid of the “clicky” bug.
I don’t know what microtonal music is. I don’t understand beats, notes, or any of those numbers or scales or who Conway was, but I just spent about an hour playing on this thing🤩. Bravo sciencey music person!
Thank you so much for your kind words. Just a reminder that if there’s something you particularly want to show off to people, you have a “share code” you can use to send it to people and they can import it in.
Also, you are the exact audience for this tool. I wanted to let people who didn’t have the music theory knowledge of microtonal theory to be able to try out microtonal music, or just western music in various scales just to have fun with.
The Conway’s game of life thing is just an idea that I had.
EDIT : You can try any TET suggestion from the Xen Wiki :
Conway was a mathematician who suggested a mathematical variant of a life simulation. It’s an interesting … thought experiment? on emergent behaviours in systems with simple rules leading to complex and unpredictable results…
This is really cool. Simple, fun, and easy to understand. Nice work!
thank you. I purposefully made it so that there were layers of complexity that could be enjoyed by different levels of user. If you want to just make music on a grid, you can, there are preset systems if you want to try them, and you can custom create scales too, only use the UI, or import in using text instead of the UI by using the share window.
Keyboards (home and work)
Macro-pad (for me and the Mrs)
Hitbox controllers (for playing Street Fighter 6)
My last two PCs
Turned a broken laptop into an emulation console
A bunch of “Ikea hack” furniture pieces around the house that I don’t have pictures of currently.
All of this is cool but I specifically love IKEA hack furniture, what’s your favorite?
Thanks.
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I cut a bunch of Pax wardrobes down to size to be full length fitted wardrobes in the bedrooms.
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A room has a nook with an awkward sized gap next to a wardrobe. I got a narrow CD shelf unit from Ikea and attached 3 of them together to make a narrow and deep shelving unit that fits perfectly to fill up this nook.
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Our bathroom had little space and little storage. The Ikea over sink medicine cabinet had the correct depth to fit, so I got 2, cut and modified them and fixed one on top of the other to make a narrow stnading bathroom storage cupboard.
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Got an Ikea oak kitchen counter top and cut it to fit alongside a wardrobe to make a long double computer station for the Mrs and me to be able to do computer work from home.
That’s awesome. I need a pantry and I don’t have a lot of space to fit it, just one small empty wall. Been kind of looking at a few IKEA options. Unfortunately there isn’t one near me so I have to order for shipping and can’t see things in person.
It is much easier to go to a showroom with measuring tape to find something. If you’re only looking online then it is going to be difficult to compare the measurements of all things or see if it could still be put together after being cut down. Sometimes solutions lie in garage storage or bathroom storage to find things that would fit in your pantry.
Also worth looking at some other non-Ikea furniture shops.
Yeah that’s very true. When I go back to visit my family I have to pass an IKEA so I’ll have to stop by. But yeah I wasn’t limiting it to just IKEA. I have a feeling for the small space I have, I’ll end up having to make one. I’m currently using a storage rack meant for bins but due to a terribly placed vent, it’s like 10" from the wall.
Good luck
Thank you!
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I like the space theme on both. :) It’s a nice touch. But, may I ask why the spacebar is split into 3?
Thanks. They’re custom keyboard layouts. The backspace is split into 2 buttons and so it the right shift. The row to the right of spacebars is also not standard. I wanted to make the keyboards as small as possible while having as many buttons on it as possible. All buttons are programmable and you can make them do whatever you want so it’s handy to have more buttons. e.g. I’ve got a single button shortcut for copy/paste. Can also make it do things like: if I hold right shift it acts as a shift key but if I tap right shift then it acts as an up arrow key. There’s one key that inputs my full email signature and one for an abbreviated signature.
even cooler now tbh! i didn’t even notice the other keys didn’t have the labels that they usually would. it is kinda cool to see what people do with custom keyboards and the like!
It was originally two, but the left and right keys wanted some space.
There are two big ones at the moment. The first is that I made my own cyberdeck, and I even have an assembly animation for it:
https://dalek.zone/w/oSAxetbgfQBrYHTgz4AXLB
It took me several months and two iterations. But I’m very happy with the end result. It could use some more tweaks, but it’s been working well so far.
The second is that I’ve more or less completed a multi-player video game called Sunken Barrels:
https://codeberg.org/Sir_Thominick_IV/Sunken_Barrels
Just like my cyberdeck it could use some polish, but again I’m very proud with the result. It is fully playable, it’s fun, and it fills the nostalgia from the original Garry’s Mod game its based on.
I’ve thought of building my own cyberdeck on a couple of occassions, yet haven’t bit the bullet yet. I like the assembly video, soothing in a way. I never played the original Garry’s Mod game, so I’ll make sure to take a good look at your project :)
I’ve thought of building my own cyberdeck on a couple of occassions, yet haven’t bit the bullet yet. I like the assembly video, soothing in a way
It was a lot of fun to build! I definitely learned a lot and would take a different approach on a future one, which I very well might do.
I’d probably go with a pelican case for a new one, get a beefy battery bank with pass through charging, and get a bigger screen.
The interface, the IO wrapper/panel, the heavy use of heat inserts, and extensive modeling is something I would not change.
I never played the original Garry’s Mod game, so I’ll make sure to take a good look at your project :)
Fair warning, it is a multi-player only game. And you’ll need to either all be on the same network or do port forwarding (port 8080).
I’ve loosely been debating posting about it more to get it more attention, and maybe make a discord for a centralized place for people to play it. But I’ve been to distracted on other projects lol.
I don’t have anything specific to show. But I am an aspiring author who took an old English Creative Writing assignment and turned it into a 16 book epic decades later. I should be ready for publication by the end of this year.
