Post your idiot spare time projects. i'm the subtle buttocks

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~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

Do you like beer? Do you like Something Awful?

I make cheap beer, then build boxes from random bits of wood I find on the side of the road to store them in.

I also made a desk to fit a room with a diagonal corner by cutting up a normal desk and reattaching the leg and drawers to fit.

# ¿ Jul 27, 2013 13:42

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# ¿ Sep 27, 2023 15:27

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

Ana5000 posted:

And what's stopping them from adding a camera and image recognition software for the missile to periodically literally look where it's going?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERCOM

# ¿ Jul 28, 2013 13:57

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

echinopsis posted:

i taught (tried to) my dad about more than 1 tab tonight. turns out you dont need to close your web browser to check your gmail

i may have opened the proverbial "can of worms" (a literal can of worms would be more pleasant)

if he uses firefox then Pin As App Tab is great for gmail

edit: I think they renamed it to Pin Tab. right-click a tab to pin it so it can't be closed. when it turns blue you have new email

# ¿ Aug 8, 2013 10:29

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

Sagebrush posted:

it's windows 7 dumbass. and i do not desecrete stebe's legacy, i honor him by keeping that same drat 20" display for nearly a decade now even though the backlight is dimming and the pixels are getting sluggish cause it still has phenomenal color and viewing angles

also it's a really pretty design

those 20" ACDs were basically the most bomb-rear end LCD when they came out for like a year until dell started buying the same panels to make a quality line (UltraSharps)

I have two on my desk; one has nearly no lamp-hours, it's great
(except it means I can't get it to look the same as my other one which has several thousand hours)

# ¿ Aug 23, 2013 11:11

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

802.11weed posted:

gonna buy three electromechanical pinballs from the mid-late 70s. i do not have room for 'em but gently caress it, it's a good deal

that owns

# ¿ Aug 27, 2013 13:51

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

Moist von Lipwig posted:

p sure I wouldn't notice this unless someone told me to look for something wrong

I'm in USA at the moment and I couldn;t help but take a photo of this store

Sagebrush posted:

do not shame posts in the idiots spare time projects thread

yes, iff they have a project in them
(so feel free to shame this one)

# ¿ Sep 2, 2013 05:43

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

I liked kingdom of heaven but the funniest thing was orlando bloom as a blacksmith

# ¿ Sep 3, 2013 04:49

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

If a Butt has one or multiple Farts then every Fart has a ButtID in the database with a foreign key relationship between them.

When you model this in EF then in C# a Butt class automatically has a collection of Fart objects in it, and likewise every Fart object has a link to its Butt.

# ¿ Sep 28, 2013 02:11

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

I haven't done code-first EF but in normal db-first EF when you import that table arrangement then you will get both the FartOwner and the FartOwnerId automatically created for you

# ¿ Sep 28, 2013 02:27

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

those spring terminals loving suck

I think I would have prefered to start with a real breadboard, or banana plugs

# ¿ Oct 11, 2013 00:54

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

Captain Cool posted:

I have an idea for an ios project that would use 3d graphics, physics, and eventually some image processing. but the only 3d graphics I've ever done is drawing wireframes in qt in college. should I jump in and get an ios dev license, or play around with unity or something first?

you don't need the $99pa IOS dev licence until you want to deploy onto the device, you can use the sim for free

# ¿ Nov 23, 2013 07:25

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

Jonny 290 posted:

Nice, well done!

Speaking of PSUs, reminder that xbox 360 PSUs make GREAT 12/5v supplies. my old ham PSU shat out so i was rootin' around for something, found an old 360 brick. It's got a bunch of wires - all the black ones are ground, all the yellows are +12, and it has a blue and a red wire alongside. The red is +5v *always on*, and the blue is PSU sense - technically it's supposed to see about 3 volts, but if you just connect it to the red wire, the PSU will turn on and spit 12v. Or if you want, have your device close a relay or something to send volts to the blue wire , and you have remote power supply switching.

They're rated at 15 amps at least on the 12v rail, and I think the 5v can do an amp or so. Super handy thing to have around.

they are also surprisingly reliable for something 150+W without a fan or even any passive ventilation.

# ¿ Feb 1, 2014 11:20

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

Jonny 290 posted:

weird, they must have redesigned the fan in or out at some point. mine's got a little 40mm that even spins up from low to high when I load it heavily

nah I think you must be right, I've just never noticed it (or the row of tiny holes so I was wrong about ventilation too) before.

# ¿ Feb 2, 2014 06:14

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

power botton posted:

brewing beer is like repairing your own manual car. like yeah its useful i guess but these days i can just pay someone to do it for me and itll be much more reliable.

nah.
brewing beer is like ironing your own clothes.

sure you could pay someone to do it and save some time, but it's not really that hard to do yourself and it saves you money.

# ¿ Mar 30, 2014 15:34

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

spankmeister posted:

the solution is to drink lots of Grolsch in flip tops and reuse the bottles. flip tops own for home brewing

if you like grolsch you can actually get a decent amount per empty bottle reselling them too

# ¿ Mar 31, 2014 11:10

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

it doesn't survive being pasted into an IRC window either, so it's not necessarily some HTML issue

# ¿ Apr 7, 2014 11:33

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

Sagebrush posted:

every bit of my aliexpress stuff has worked so far, except for the one package i entirely did not receive.

only issue I've had with aliexpress is getting the wrong size of something that asked you to manually specify a size in the comments, which they obviously didn't read
seller did not respond to the aliexpress "dispute centre" form
after 2 weeks I contacted my CC company and got a refund

# ¿ Apr 8, 2014 11:03

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

prosaic

# ¿ Apr 18, 2014 09:21

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

Sagebrush posted:

nws that link dude

# ¿ Apr 19, 2014 09:31

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

I agree, it can only end well (unironically)

# ¿ May 9, 2014 10:07

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

I admire your dedication to hand-writing labels!

I just write a letter of the alphabet on the crown seal and drink them in that order

# ¿ Jun 26, 2014 08:16

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

Sagebrush posted:

i don't think it was necessary to re-jet carburetors for ambient weather at any time after, like, 1925

i have a 45 year old motorcycle with carbs that are a 60 year old design and the only ambient condition that affects it is altitude, in that you lose some power above 8,000 feet (it continues to run without danger though)

try to keep up

wouldn't EFI cars also lose power in thin air conditions?

# ¿ Jul 14, 2014 08:56

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

echinopsis posted:

the thing is that the colour is also relative to what came before it. if i let it go 255 for all colours it looks green but only because its been preceded by red and the green is the last colour to clamp when i crank the gain. my system and the settings so far give a convincing set of colours kinda

that's a good point I ran into the same issue with the philips Hue LED light bulb

# ¿ Jul 16, 2014 08:44

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

Shipping: Does not ship to Australia | See details

# ¿ Aug 5, 2014 12:22

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

echinopsis posted:

also my dam game will be realistic it'll be set like years ago, not much modern machinery and people will
be boozing and taking amphetamines and u might have to pay off the police

this sounds cool, like hoover dam

pay off your company doc to say that the workers in the tunnels aren't getting ill from the asbestos they just drink too much

# ¿ Aug 11, 2014 08:48

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

echinopsis posted:

yeah I was inspired by that doco/drama [7 wonders of engineering or aomethinf] about Hoover dam. coz it took so long the workers actually built a new town to live in

cool; I liked that series

# ¿ Aug 12, 2014 00:19

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

echinopsis posted:

so far I can't find a thread on this forum about using the unreal 4 engine and I wish there was coz gently caress using another forum

gamedev thread in CoC unless by this forum you mean the 219 then I think you might be out of luck

# ¿ Aug 12, 2014 00:20

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

Wild EEPROM posted:

how big of a box do you need the biggest problem with boxes is shipping

find someone else that needs to ship some contents to the same destination and split the postage

# ¿ Aug 21, 2014 08:35

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

What is the difference in compiled binary sizes?

# ¿ Aug 24, 2014 11:39

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

i'm Roughneck Escabeau

# ¿ Sep 12, 2014 08:00

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

rotor posted:

you have been hosed by a grue

with the lights out, obviously

# ¿ Sep 17, 2014 07:57

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

i have a GTX680 plz do the needful and send the rodrocket

# ¿ Nov 1, 2014 04:35

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

Doc Block posted:

idiot iphone game spare time project update:

couldn't get the flames to look right when animated, so i threw that poo poo out and replaced them with cool particle effects instead

you should render that with a transparent background and send it to adult swim

# ¿ Nov 24, 2014 14:06

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

Carpet Simulator 2015

# ¿ Feb 15, 2015 12:53

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

Fanged Lawn Wormy posted:

no 9v no prob lol

i did the same thing on my baby swing
gently caress buying D cells every 2 weeks

# ¿ Mar 12, 2015 12:20

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

computer toucher posted:

Repainted to be less horrible:

I'm glad it actually works on 4.8V

# ¿ Mar 20, 2015 14:24

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

please don't post gtaV loading screens

# ¿ May 24, 2015 03:04

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

Dr. Honked posted:

crazy arduino jail

mods

# ¿ Jun 8, 2015 12:16

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

i thought of a silly project when I upgraded my downlights to LED

each downlight is a single 7W LED emitter

I have a useless flashlight that came with my 18V drill/driver kit

a variable stepdown DC transformer is like $2 on ebay and will be in my mailbox from china in 4-6 weeks

# ¿ Jun 8, 2015 12:18

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# ¿ Sep 27, 2023 15:27

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

TRON JEREMY posted:

futzing around with 3d modeling. i made a sharp crow

the next pok�mon is shaping up to be a real monster

# ¿ Jun 18, 2015 10:58

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