We had a family gathering to celebrate a Birthday last weekend.
The usual: having barbecue, hanging around, eating cake.

I became really bored in the afternoon and my increasingly sluggish body clearly desired a little walk.

But I didn't like to walk alone, so I tried to get my son to join me, but he thought that idea to be even duller than hanging around in the garden.

So I half jokingly suggested that we might look out for mushrooms to have something more interesting for dinner than just barbecue leftovers.

He was instantly convinced and I was happy to have a walking partner.

But little did I know what had happened in the woods overnight...
Turned out, we not only secured dinner, but next day's lunch on top of it!

I used screen printing plates which are framed in aluminium plofiles and acryllic glass roof plates. It has two sliding doors. It gets really hot in there in the summer, so lots of openings for ventilation

Edit: I don't have a banana, so here is a buddy of mine that helped building it for scale:

Microwave has been on the counter for a few weeks, since neutral on this one kept floating.

Microwave is now back in its cubby, and we have a big increase in counter space.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/48175584

these are the tools that we have pieced together and organized to bring on our honda trail 90. the dimensions of the M19A1 .30 cal ammunition can used are 11.75″ x 3.75″ x 7″ or 280 mm x 95 mm x 178 mm, and it weighs roughly three kilograms (6.5 pounds) we'd guess with all the tools n stuff.

this is how it looks when opened.

and this is all the stuff laid out!

all the way to the left are some replacement wheel spokes rubber-banded together, and just to the right of that are a couple empty Ziploc bags. the big colorful makeup bag at the top is the main toolbag, then under to the left is some Scotch-Brite; under to the right is a squeeze bottle of baby powder. in the bottom middle is a plastic snack bag with a microfibre towel and a couple paper towel sheets. and finally, in the bottom right is a plastic case with small consumable and/or volatile items.

this bottle makes it easy to coat stuff in baby powder, which we find to be a really good dry lubricant, especially for changing tire tubes.

this are the items in the plastic case. note the magnetic tape on the case to keep it secure to the inside of the ammo can. from left to right, top to bottom, it contains:

• scuffing pad for tire tube repair
• big tube patches
• smaller tube patches
• assorted rubber bands
• butane lighter
• (terrible) instructions from the kit the patches and rubber cement came from
• small adhesive bandages (yes the packaging is dirty but it is still undamaged)
• rubber cement
• much better instructions from a bicycle tube patching kit where we got the scuffing pad

these are the contents of the tool bag, except the sockets:

• 3/8″ ratcheting wrench
• stainless steel scissors
• small phillips screwdriver
• a slightly rusty but functional file
• double-ended screwdriver shaft (1/4″ and 5/16″ shanks, with the latter end having a double-ended PH2 & slotted bit in it)
• pressurized carbon dioxide cartridge, for tire inflation
• snack bag with extra goodies (will touch on later)
• plastic tire levers for getting the tires off. they're made for bicycles but work well for our small tires!
• nylon cable tie
• screwdriver handle that goes with that shaft
• needlenose pliers
• sidecutters
• spoke wrench (the blue thingy)
• longer 3/8″ wrench extension
• electrical tape
• shorter 3/8″ wrench extension
• 8 mm/12 mm double box-end wrench
• 10 mm combination spanner
• 14 mm combination spanner
• 17 mm/19 mm double box-end wrench
• 5 mm hex key (with phillips end)
• 4 mm hex key (the shiny one)
• slip-joint pliers
• crescent wrench
• 1/4″ ratcheting wrench

then the sockets, top-down then left to right:

• 10 mm deep 3/8″ drive
• 14 mm deep 3/8″ drive
• 17 mm deep 3/8″ drive
• 18 mm deep 1/2″ drive with 3/8″ adapter (for the spark plug)
• 14 mm 3/8″ drive
• 12 mm 3/8″ drive
• 10 mm 3/8″ drive

this is what's in the snack bag. the snakey black thing is heat shrink. the peacock-looking thing at the bottom is a feeler guage, and is used to measure the small gaps between stuff. it was about 11 cents and has seen better days but it works okay. then, the rest:

• a foot or two of 16 AWG stranded wire
• 8 mm 1/4″ drive socket
• 6 mm 1/4″ drive socket
• 7 mm 1/4″ drive socket
• 10 mm 1/4″ drive socket
• 3/8″ to 1/4″ wrench adapter
• 1/4″ drive 1/4″ socket (for driving screwdriver bits with a wrench)
• long PH2 screwdriver bit
• pipette
• 1/4″ wrench extension
• three butt connectors (blue is bigger, red smaller)
• four female bullet connectors (same deal)
• three male bullet connectors
• tire inflater (for use with carbon dioxide cartridges)
• 7 mm hex head screwdriver bit
• two "crimp on wire connectors" (the translucent thingies)
• male spade connector
• 1/4″ hex shaft to 3/8″ square drive bit
• 5 mm socket
• 3/8″ drive 5 mm hex key driver
• pencil sharpener
• 10 mm hex head screwdriver bit
• 5 mm hex key screwdriver bit
• (another) long PH2 screwdriver bit
• short PH1 screwdriver bit
• long PH1 screwdriver bit

and thats all the stuff in the toolbox! ideally we'd have a second tire tube in there in addition to the one zip-tied to the downtube, but we don't. our tire pump is also located on the milk crate on the rear rack. same goes for the rest of the zip ties! although those are ABS, not nylon. most of the actual tools were bought secondhand for a little under $10 total—a few we already had.

as for the ammunition can itself, it was about $5. it is structurally sound and watertight, although the carry handle would rattle. it would rattle a lot in fact. the solution was simple: cut a strip of magnetic tape to stick under it, so it can't shake around on its own, but still functions as a proper handle when grabbed intentionally.

now finally, latching this thing closed...

voila! we have a capable, durable, nice to work with, and above all cheap toolbox.

a VERY IMPORTANT note for owners of these old japanese motorcycles

hopefully this proves useful to at least one rider out there haha

My rain gage got it's first test the other day. We got a nice 1 7/10" of rain in there. The water line is just barely visible under the bottom holder bracket.

And yes BillyBob in Kansas, your rain gage is metric because it measures in tenths of an inch. So take that! You commie pinkos in California!

As a side note: We got a light frost last night. It got down to 31F/-1C at some point last night. Not a hard enough frost to kill the bell pepper plants outright, but it did singe and tip the leaves a bit this morning.

I'm a mobile developer and my desk has always been a mess because of all of the devices I need to manually test on scattered about.

This weekend I decided to finally organize my desk. To help do that I looked up some solutions for phone organization and decided instead of buying an organizer I can just design and print my own.

Used a caliper to measure the dimensions of the devices, wrote down an approximate ideal size of the organizer based on that.

Created this design in opencad after relearning the tool (haven't used it in a few months).

Then got it printed in petg.

And voila it works. I'm pretty happy the first prototype worked as the print time was around 4 hours so I really didn't want to have to iterate too many times.

And it shows. The water level in my well is finally raising again. It has been 2cm^*^ at the lowest point

* There is a 'safety' margin there. I did not set it exactly at zero so I always have a little more than is shown.

It beeps when it's done.

It beeps when you press the button.

It beeps when you place it on the base.

But today, it beeps no more.

I classify this as a repair.

I use shampoo from a large bottle with a pump. The pump can't get the last bit out of the bottle.

I cut apart the pumps from two shampoo bottles and epoxied the caps together to make an adapter. I'm going to use it to attach the old bottle to the new bottle and drain the remainder out.

It was covered by another bedsheet, but because the cover folded in itself that was much harder to untangle and I had to turn a drier again. It took more time to post it here though ;)

Relatable little fella.

I was talking to my daughter about her sick uncle and probabilities and the goddamn worst thing happened. I saw a dice on the table so I picked it up to demonstrate an improbable outcome.

I called "im going to roll a six" then rolled a 6. Well, thats unlikely but its a one in six chance. Highly unlikely i could do it again...

I rolled at least 6 6's in a row. By the 5th I was convinced it was a loaded dice. I confirmed it is not a loaded dice on roll 7 or 8.

Fucking what the hell universe

I got this entertainment center from my roommate when we went our separate ways and I dont remember why this shelf didnt have the brackets it came with or if this shelf even was made for this but regardless, it made using this shelf a hazard.

Any time I tried to put something on it, good chance it would fall off due to it only resting on the pegs without any way to secure it.

So first thing I did was use digital calipers to set the size of the peg and make a prototype shelf bracket. First iteration was ok, but not great. it spun in place making it hard to align it with the shelf, and the lip I added didn't stop it from sliding backwards. Unfortunately lost that peice so that one is not pictured.

Attempt 2 was to make the lip higher and it did work better, but the spinning problem was still there.

Attempt 3 was just finding the distance between the peg holes and printing a part that had 2 pegs connected together to prevent the bracket from moving. This took me 3 prints but I got there eventually. After i made sure that worked, I printed what I thought would be the final version and it was pretty damn close.

The only issue was I didn't account for the length of the glass, so the glass didnt fit on my brackets. I also realized that I made the material way thicker than needed to connect the two pegs together so I fixed that as well.

I then 3d printed a final set of two brackets for the front that extended the lip out so that it would rest nicely and I nailed that part first try which felt incredible.

Now this shelf doesnt move AT ALL. Its so much sturdier and nice to use. I bought a AV reciever which is what sparked this whole endeavor. I really tried to just set it up and let it be but trying to get this heavy receiver on this shelf without it falling made it a pain and I felt if I let it be, this glass would end up breaking which I didn't want.

For anyone curious, its a Denon 1910. I wanted this so that I could eventually get surround if I wanted but mostly for a center channel and maybe a sub for my TV setup. Me and my girlfriend are watching more movies and TV recently and the movies especially make me want better sound.

I may do another post about making a shelf for the other side. Right now, only one side has a shelf. Cable management rakes or something may also be a fun project just to make the wiring not such a nightmare.

"Dust is the ultimate equalizer"

Original artice is in German. Here is a google translation: https://taz-de.translate.goog/Internationales-Staubarchiv/!6200086/?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp

Here is the original url: https://taz.de/Internationales-Staubarchiv/!6200086/

A fine bunch of nice fat carrots! Growing decent carrots has been a bane in my "farming" career. Always spindly with tiny roots. Not this time!

My name is Bluewing and I have done this! (finally)

While I'm fairly certain the lake I live next to will prevent freezing, to it's best ability for a while yet, you never can tell. But it's only a matter of another week or so before the firt killing frost around here.

Fortunately, my "farm" is pretty much done for the year anyway. Just some late bell peppers I need to cover and maybe the carrots. The tomatoes and chillies have been done for a week or so now. The deer ate the beets and the string beans have been pillaged now too.

It's now time to to go grouse hunting and put a few birds in the freezer for the long winter. I might even head south to add a couple of pheasants to the list. I know my dog would be extra happy to make a trip or two to see if them roosters can run. So we will see how my recently repaired knee holds up.

****Gratuitous photo of one of the Monarchs resting in my yard this past week

Edit to add: The local morning temperature as recorded by my tiny little "not really a weather station" was 33F/1C. So not quite a true frost. The temp currently stands at 50F/13C with an 80% chance of rain this afternoon and evening.

Already knew the basics of C++ but trying to learn more. Kinda sick of being dependent on LLMs for writing graphical applications for me. Claude is just as good as an youtube totorial, i'll tell you that.

What you see before your yes is my earliest attempt on creating animations - the player already moves on the scene - The sprite is cutoff bacause i haven't tuned the frames just yet

When opening it I realized I had actually bought a 12-pack of bratwursts. Score.

I went shopping for shoes with my daughter and we found this pair of pink tennis shoes. Nothing expensive, just something she can break in with no real concern as she is still growing fast.

(I'm getting old...)

So we brought this pair home and after giving it a closer look, I thought if I could fit something to reinforce the shoe laces holes it might make the shoes easier to tie and maybe prevent the material to tear so easily.

I had to dig around a bit to find those "eyes" or whatever they are called. I dislike gold color with all my heart but it was all I had; we talked a bit and my daughter liked the idea and the color.

The pliers to apply those were already in my scrap bucket, covered in rust spots. Fished it out along with the hole puncher and went to work.

Fifteen minutes later the work was done and the shoes just looked... better. And my daughter was happy.