this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2023
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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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[–] Inspectigator@beehaw.org 2 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

[–] Hexorg@beehaw.org 2 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!

[–] Inspectigator@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Hexorg@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years 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.

[–] SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years 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.

[–] Hexorg@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

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