I made a piece called “Sad Hammer”. It was a cheap hammer that got overused and bent down and I thought it looks depressed, so I put it in a shadow box and hung it on my wall after visiting MOMA. I guess it’s really not that cool but I like it.

I have a scifi novel. It's circling right now in the first revision stage, but the story itself is complete and I feel good about it. Even filed for copyright. Now if I can just get back to work on it (rewriting sucks).

I made a batch of really good salsa over the weekend. It took me hours (I'm disabled atm), but it was a really good batch with incredibly fresh local tomatoes, peppers and onions.

Finished this a few days ago. Kitbashed and custom painted.

The test animation that got me an animation position at work

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I make songs. I’m not sure how to link to them or any of my artist profiles without doxxing myself but yeah. I make songs. It makes me happy.

I’ve recorded a few audiobooks for Librivox, a group that releases free recordings of public domain books. I use my government name for them, so I won’t say which ones, but you might have heard my voice if you picked the right one from !audiobooks@literature.cafe

I've posted her elsewhere, but this is Teana. A few years back, my boy wanted a posable body for a Halloween Halloween monkey who's head broke off. One rabbit hole later and I was knee deep in the ball-joint doll section of the 3d printing community. He and I decided we'd make our own but as monsters.

The smoothing process for the white ABS I was using reminded me of my time working with porcelain and that's how Teana happened. Eventually Id like to sew a little dress and pose her on my brick-a-brack shelf in a decorative cloche.

More recently I've been building a mid century modern sectonal couch out of scrap lumber and a memory foam mattress. I'm far from a carpenter, didn't even own saw when I started, but it's coming together very nicely. It will look great with my TV.

It was a later model zenith with a broken screen. It's not the real wood style my parents had, the front is molded plastic, but it still feels nice. I gutted it, used a dremel to widen the hole behind the face, and nylon straps to hold up a cheap 32in from Walmart. I then disassembled an old tower and built it into the empty space inside and mounted a soundbar to echo off the back wall. The screen actually loses about 4cm off the edges became of the frame, but it feels more like the classic aspect ratio and that's nice. Also I've yet to watch a movie that needed that area anyway.

I’ve made four sci-fi novels, self-published them and am working on the fifth. I have been making sketches and paintings and done many exhibitions.

When I was a teenager, I made a trebuchet. It was so fun. It was not sophisticated at all -- just made of 2x4 with a steel rod as the axle. The axle was about 1 m from the ground, to give you a sense of its size. It wasn't large, but it could throw things quite far (about 60 m).

I released a couple of albums, unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on how you're looking at it, the great myspace purge of whenever the fuck that happened deleted their existence off of the face of the planet.

I've made contributions* to the OEIS, but since they require real names over there, and I like my anonymity here, I won't say which entries have my mark on them. Bow ties Number sequences are cool.

You're better off visiting the whole thing anyway.

* Mathematical, not financial, though I'd do the latter too if I had much to spare.

I completed my new bed about a month ago.

Since then, I refurbished a desk, and built a changing bench.

I have plans completed for a hallway table, and a foot stool. I'm waiting for it to get a bit cooler, I'll probably start in a couple of weeks.

I built the wooden arch my husband and I got married under in our backyard.

I've made a bunch of completely custom mechanical keyboards with my 3D prinnter and laser engraver, a few with PCBs that hold a Microcontroller dev board like a Pi Pico or Arduino, but for more of them, I hand-wired the switches directly to the microcontroller. My biggest and smallest.

I won't post pics because I don't want to doxx myself and my family but, my brother, my dad and I built a racecar and I did most of the painting. We even ended up in the paper because we were one of the few people who still paint our car instead of vinyl wrap everything.

I have a podcast called Almost Plausible where a couple of friends and I take an ordinary object and create a movie plot based on that object.

I've made a few games.

Oh wait, something cool? Well darn...

I made ice cream a few times. Nothing else I've ever made has been as cool.

I made music under the name "The Cool Side of the Pillow" in high school, but the site I submitted everything to died in like 2009 and I never kept any backups.

I have a bunch of mods for Skyrim, New Vegas and Arma 2 and 3 on the nexus and Steam workshop. One of my New Vegas mods was extremely popular when the game was new; I added and moved all the fast travel points to limit load times. Like putting one for each segment of the strip so you didn't have to go to Freeside and load 2 or 3 times just to get to the NCR HQ. Tho I only had the base game for the longest time, and never updated it for any of the DLC.

I'm in the process of building a device that lets you plug a landline telephone to a standard sound system. It's just so I can use it on stage, I wanna pick up the phone and sing with that vintage crackling voice.

Sadly, it is not "made" yet because I suck at electronics but I've got all the components I need and some time on my hands.

Love to a woman.

I made a human once, turned out well

We moved into our new place in December. We had a fence post that needed replacing. The post was in a place that would work great for a fence gate. So I'm adding a new gate to our fence. This will serve to make the property as whole more accessible. It will also provide a means for those with mobility issues to enter the home without having to climb the big set of stairs at the front door.

I decided to make a proper project out of it. I could have just put in a simple gate, but I decided to go for something grander. I'm building a pergola gate! I've finished the columns and installed the first of two beams this evening.

The foundation of the gate are two 8' long steel fence posts driven 3' into the ground with a sledge hammer. The posts are approximately 5"x7", each made from five 2x6s laminated together. The beams are made from two cedar 2x6s edge joined together into a 2x12 beam. There will be two beams all together.

Tomorrow I'll hang the second beam, add some cross pieces at the top of the beams, add some foundation reinforcement, and start building the actual fence gate.

I've made an android app for splitting expenses. I was so frustrated when I was in charge of the excel sheet with my friends geoup New Year"s trip expenses, that I started working on it and I pushed it in production in the end of July. Which is especially great because I have a sizeable graveyard of things that I was burning for and then completely abandoned.
It's called WEREVEN, it's free, has no ads (maybe I will monetize it in the future, but I don't want to annoy 20 people who use it), and I don't collect your personal data.

Back when I dabbled in writing software, I made a fun project making dots orbit other dots. It was meant to be a very rough simulation of the path the moon takes as it orbits the earth, while the earth orbits the sun. I wanted to take it one step further, and built it to be more modular, where you could input how many "earth's" orbited the "sun", how many "moons" orbited the "earth's", and a speed decay or increase between each step. Ended up with the "sun" being an origin point, the number of dots around the origin I labelled "child objects," and the nested object depth as "generations" (what if the moon had a smaller moon that had a smaller moon).

Found out my CPU could update around 130,000 floating math points at 60fps (around 65,000 X and Y coords total, plus rendering overhead). Also found out that using specific configs, I could get it to form fractals like the Sierpiński triangle, the star of david, geometric flower shapes, lots of interesting stuff. It was very fun to play around with after finishing it.

All written with HTML, CSS, and JS, able to run in any browser. Unfortunately, I lost the project somewhere between distrohopping around a decade ago, and that was the last time I really programmed anything. All those skills have atrophied, and I don't have the drive to get back into it.

I’ve gotten into website making. Like old-school personal website making, not the boring corporate template nonsense. It’s really been a joy to go back to html and css (and JavaScript sometimes, I guess) and make something

Started a new hobby :)

Many years ago I wrote a program that accepted DECWriter print jobs, parsed the escape sequences, and output them as PostScript.

We had an application that ran on an OpenVMS system. The application could only support DEC printers, so we couldn't use any modern devices. The DEC printers were no longer made so all our printers were either purchased refurbished, or Frankenstein printers one of our guys assembled from the carcasses of dead printers.

My program could be used as a print filter in a Linux LPT queue. This allowed us to replace DEC printers with any printer that could natively support PostScript and any printer that had ghostscript support.

When I first started in the job, my predecessor told me about the issue with the printers and it seemed like an interesting project.

First test was to ensure I could convert barcodes in the print jobs. The print jobs for the DEC printers sent the barcodes as SIXEL graphics. SIXEL graphics were bitmaps sent as rows of six vertical pixels.

Once I verified that could work, it was just a matter of writing the parser for all the rest of the escape sequences that controlled the formatting. That and learning how to produce the PostScript.

At the time I asked my boss if he wanted me to implement it, but he said we were going to migrate to a new system very soon, so it wasn't worth the effort.

I still thought it was an interesting project, so I kept working on it on my own.

Several years passed, and we were still using the old system. The man who maintained our printers died, which led to a problem. Without him to maintain the printers, they started failing faster than we could replace them. In a meeting to discuss how we would respond printer issue, I mentioned that I had continued working on my filter at home and I only needed a a few weeks of focused effort to get a functional print filter. This time my boss told me to proceed.

We very quickly replaced all our old DEC impact printers with modern laser printers.

We had some forms on tractor feed paper, so I converted the forms to PostScript and added that to the filter. I was also able to get it working with Zebra label printers.

I had a problem with the barcodes. My script generated perfect barcodes, but our barcode pens couldn't scan them. After looking at the barcodes that the DEC printers made and comparing them to what my filter produced, the only difference I could see was that the DEC barcodes looked like crap. Jittery dots instead of perfect, straight lines. So I modified my script to make the graphics produced look just a little bit worse, and they started working.

That print filter continued working flawlessly in production for several more years until we finally managed to migrate to the new system.

A fractal calculator where each non-operation buttons are calculator themselves once you zoom in, and the result in that calculator becomes the number it puts as a button, in C.

Lots of things, but I think my strawberry shortcake soap is the last thing I made that I was truly proud of.

I got into home distilling during the pandemic. Fun, and damn fine sipping. Done gin, whiskey and vodka I'm proud of. My rum was a failure, but only in the sense that it tasted like whiskey. The congeners for rum are too hard for my setup. Aged in an oak barrel and everything.

I made a an excellent coffee liqueur with my magicks, home roasted beans used in a cold booze-pressed espresso and a vanilla bean then aged on oak and applewood.

It was the inspiration for my username - you can "correct" any coffee based drink with quality booze. Yum.

I clicked on this thread with excitement before I remembered I have designed a lot of cool things that I can't post without either opening my company up to industrial espionage or doxxing myself.

So I will post something my wife and I both worked on. This is one of our kitchen cabinets. All of them are white and boring, and we decided that since we own the house, we will have artwork instead of "resale value".

Literally the coolest thing I've made was a beer fridge when I was home brewing. Outfitted a standing freezer with a CO2 manifold and taps in the door. Three homebrews on tap and I could even use it to make eisbocks.

I'm in the process of remaking my "Doom Pumpkin" for Halloween as well. If connects to my HomeAssistant setup and has four 12v car horns, a speaker to play audio, LED's for eyes, a big red arcade button for a nose, motion sensors in front and back to interact with kids (it tells them it farts fireballs if they walk behind it) and an anti theft mode where if it's picked up the horns start going off. Press the button and a random sequence of horns will go off. It also will randomly set a horn off if it hasn't been touched in a while. And when it senses someone in front it will taunt them to press the button. Since it's built in to HomeAssistant I can set when certain functions work and for a couple days before Halloween it will be outside taunting the neighborhood during the day.

The first version was a couple horns powered by an arduino uno and would just randomly activate 2 horns in different ways. The new one added two more horns (one is a little beep beep forklift horn, the other is an oooogah horn) to go with the high tone and low tone car horn.

About a decade and a half ago I made a picture gallery for Android called floating image. I got fairly popular with about two million installs, but my focus drifted. Still, it was a pretty neat achievement for a spare time project.

Here's a random review: https://youtu.be/t7q2m5cDzhE