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Best RC evar, don't fight me, fight my son he did the awesome styling

I furnitured!

I built this planter box, along with one three times as long as this one, out of cedar

This little table for my porch out of some lovely local white oak. It's a humble little thing but I'm rather proud of it because it's the first project I made with genuine mortise and tenon joints, some chopped by hand with a chisel.

A plant stand, also out of white oak. This one has slanted and tapered legs, and Avril Lavigne wrote a song about it. Why DID I have to make things so complicated?

And two bookcases from birch plywood and white pine. I was particularly careful planning this one, and managed to get the carcass and shelves of each bookcase out of a single sheet of 3/4" plywood, though it does mean the grain direction on the fixed bottom shelf doesn't make sense.

So many things!

We moved to a new house a couple of years ago and I mapped out the whole property, put it into LibreCAD, designed the space, and have been planting/building it since then. I now have thousands of plants, over 1000 unique types, and a vegetable garden in our 1/3 acre lot. I'm very proud of it, but don't really know how to best share it with the world (or if anyone cares).

I also have a web site that I've been building forever, lots of little programs, things like my irrigation system built from a Raspberry Pi, my homelab, all of the plants that I start from seed in the spring for the garden (thousands under grow lights with heated mats), the hydroponic system... I'm sure there's more.

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I've been refining this idea for about a year. I began it using a different medium, but the idea of P2025 and the reelection of dipshit spurred me to look at alternatives. I would like to get this idea out there, but I think fb has been blocking my posts, lolol.

Right now, everything is through Printful (I know, I know), but I'll order some stuff from Sticky brand and move over to Etsy once I've made a few sales.

https://stickrshockr.printful.me/product/american-pride-single-kiss-cut-sticker-american-pride-flag

I have a lot more ideas to continue and expand the series. We'll see if it gets anywhere.

My dad would be so proud. /s

I'm developing my first vidyagame, an RTS Clicker survival where you have to grow to be the largest organism on the planet, called Infinitree. Steampage going up in February, prototype is going out to F&F this month. Check out The Infinitree website for more info :-)

I've put together two servers for self hosting a lot of services for myself, rather than relying on platforms that continually get worse.

The one on top, a retired Datto backup machine, hosts TrueNAS scale with a bunch of different services (Pihole, Jellyfin, Immich, etc.) and our network shares. The bottom one, Dell PowerEdge R620, runs Fedora server. I plan to use it for locally hosted game servers, but it just runs Minecraft (AllTheMods 10).

I've used knowledge I've gained in the IT space to set up the networks, and even have a VLAN running for an Ubuntu server VM of which I host for a coworker to learn on.

A podcast called Almost Plausible, where a couple of friends and I take an ordinary object (such as a ceiling fan, a paperclip, or a toilet brush) and we create a movie plot based on that object.

You can find the show anywhere you listen to podcasts.

I made my own, single source bubble hash live rosin, from seed to final product, all by myself and it came out the best I've ever done.

I don't really have anyone to share it with who would understand and I don't know if any of you get it either, but I'm super happy with the end result and proud of all the work I did.

So much software.

The problem is, the target audience is so niche: CLI users, developers, people who value shallow dependencies, heterogenous environments, and localism. Not by any means unique or even rare, but certainly a minority. And I hate marketing and self-promotion, so it makes it difficult for me to even post release announcements.

Luckily, I'm mostly scratching my own itches, so userbase size isn't important, but knowing that at least a few other people are getting value out of my work would be nice.

Ima clarify that: large userbases are a royal PITA. Yes, there are benefits, but the sense if obligation can be oppressive, and it's hard to find ways of saying "no" nicely.

Does art count?

I got Doom running on my RGB keyboard

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Around a year and a half ago I started making my own keyboards. Like, I still use normal switches, normal keycaps, and off-the-shelf microcontrollers & firmware, but the layout and the structure are my own design, mostly fabricated at home. After a few experiments (one ortho, one ergo, one macropad, and one gutting of a broken off-the-shelf to try something larger) , I had three keyboards' worth of aluminum plates made. One was pretty basic but has remained a favorite and another really hit my retro intent for the design, but the second was sort of an ignored middle-child because it wasn't as refined as the third, or as earnest and satisfying as the first. I fixed it by designing a wrap-around case for it, changing the keycaps, and adding a little solenoid so it sounds like a telegraph machine whenever I flip a little switch. I'm really pleased that I was able to retrofit it to make it stupidly fun to type on. My boards are not exactly the perfectly-finished CNC aluminum showpieces some enjoy, but it's deeply satisfying to go from a pile of electronic bits, some sheet goods, and a reel of printer filament, to a functioning piece of daily-use equipment.

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I make music, including putting it to video every once and awhile. So technically "music videos," I guess. I don't share them all that much, but here's a weird one I'm kind of proud of.

A very overdue Christmas themed drawing that I'm not finished with just yet. So here's some fluffy tinsel I just got done with rendering!

Latest terrarium, work in progress, used from thrift, front doors open.

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Excepting the center-rear plants and two epiphytes (Lowes), everything sourced or created locally.

Substrate: rock (found and cleaned), charcoal & dirt (made myself)

Contents: Mosses, dead and alive, green onions, tiny pine trees, purple hearts (swiped from the gas station trimmings), driftwood (found hiking and canoeing, power washed), reindeer moss (not quite visible)

Lighting: Thrift store light with various grow bulbs, still painting and assembling. Not thrilled with the color, can't get the high color-fidelity (CRI) grow bulbs I've used before, had to mix it up best I could.

Animals: Nothing so far, but I want to pack it with detritivores like millipedes, springtails and roly polys. Wife is getting me a chameleon, probably tonight! Not sure how to keep the bug population going with him in there. Ideas? Rocks to hide under? I may also get a Pac Man frog.

It'll be way cooler and different in a year. Just put the round, green moss in, hasn't settled naturally, stuff like that. The pines will be worked over as bonsais, some stuff may die or turn out inappropriate, wood may move around, etc.

EDIT: Got the chameleon! "Doctor Lector". Still working on insect populations, but we got 20 crickets to start him off.

Hardware projects. Sadly, a lot of them are 90% or more done but never finished due to me not having access to my 3d printer anymore for another 6 months.

• I made a smart dumb doorbell (a simple doorbell that sends a phone notification and plays a sound through speakers using ESPhome and home assistant with a battery that lasts many months). I couldn't find anything like it that wasn't point-to-point since we live in our shed right now. Very cheap to make too. Like 25€ or less in total. https://github.com/JustEnoughDucks/SmartDumbDoorbell/tree/main

• My fully custom flight stick for space simulators https://github.com/JustEnoughDucks/LibreMiG-S which I stopped when we moved and started our renovation. We are almost to the point where I can set the 3D printer back up and iterate the housing the last time. My favorite but took a ton of time and was pretty frustrating sometimes.

• A HomeAssistant media player and voice assistant satellite. It plays through a 90s Yamaha AV receiver and controls it with and IR LED. Needed also for my doorbell https://codeberg.org/JustEnoughDucks/S3-DAC-INTCONN

• my newest project: a fitness tracker without a screen. It tracks all the essential biometrics like heart rate, spo2, activity, and sleep and that is it. No stupid SaaS or enshittificstion bullshit. It doesn't have gps because if I need that, i will just use my phone. I just finished designing the development board for it. https://codeberg.org/JustEnoughDucks/Essence-Track-DB

I love valheim. It's an incredible game that keeps getting better. My first foray into the plains was difficult, and I developed a burning hatred for the fulings (goblin things) there. Monsters rarely drop their heads as trophies. I killed thousands and built a large shed and mounted hundreds of their heads on my walls. No pics handy but if anyone is interested I'll hop on and screenshot.

I have recently made a Pastebin in Rust. I have hosted it on Linode server, It's not something unique but I really like it since I have made it from scratch.

here is the link: https://paste1.duckdns.org/

I don't think either are particularly exciting and I didn't take pictures, but I'm proud of them.

After years of putting it off, I've finally cobbled together a gaming PC, it's not a powerhouse, most of the parts are about 10+ years old salvaged from my wife's upgrades over the last few years, and I still need to find a keyboard and mouse I like

I don't really have space in my home for a desk, the spare bedroom/office is home to my wife's computer and don't really have room to squeeze in another, so I built it in a HTPC case, and it's pretty damn cool playing on the 70inch TV with surround sound and the hue lights synced up to it

The other is the cabinets above our fridge. We got a new fridge that's a bit bigger than our old one, and there's a bit of a weird bump at the top that prevented the cabinets from swinging open fully.

So I moved the hinges to the top of the doors instead of the side, and added some gas springs so they stay open, they have enough clearance to open that way.

The measurements the springs came with to tell you where to mount them are total bullshit. Took a bit of trial and error to figure that out, but my cabinets now have DeLorean-style gullwing doors.

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Ik people dont like ai but ive put lots of effort into ensuring it is heighly accurate.

Little late, but I built an axe throwing range in my garage a few years ago. It's taken quite a beating though, and one of the kids knocked the target off the wall, so it's out of commission right now, but I was always happy to show it off when it was up and running.

I bought a cheap white led strip from AliExpress to make an edge light around the bathroom mirror. A few cuts, a bit of soldering, and I made some discrete corners pieces with my 3D printer. Double sided tape for a semi permanent install.

So simple, but the results are great. It's ZigBee as well so I can add it to the smart home if a need arises.