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I like making things. I'm mainly into making costume props and decorations. Basically I'm into making interesting things exactly once, learning a bunch of lessons on what to not do, but never do it again. I'm not a skilled wood worker or metal worker. But! I bound a book myself, coffee stained it, and made the cover out of sewn together leather scraps. It's a Necronomicon. I made a lightsaber almost entirely out of junk from ReStore (mostly plumbing parts). I made an EL wire tree with a dried tree branch about 6ft tall, a spool of decent gauge metal wire, and 50 10ft EL strands. Sanded and painted toy guns. Made a James Webb looking wall decoration out of black foam board, gold hexagons, and an NFC tag. Semi related, I modified an IKEA table to be a vaulted board game table where the tops mount on the wall via French cleat and it has cup holders to keep drinks out and away from spilling on the inside of the table. I have 3D printed some minor costume bits. Made a bunch of wizards wands out of paint, hot glue, and chopsticks. Made a float lamp (tie a bunch of annoying knots around a sphere). Currently trying to modify toy Poke Balls to have a functioning LED button but I really hate soldering.
I'm a programmer by trade so I also tinker with Home Assistant far too much. I have a jellyfish lamp with an RGB bulb that tells me the weather when I wake up. Just made an LCARS (Star Trek UI) dashboard for decoration.
I would like to know more about this jellyfish. And your lcars
I'll trade you a design I found/am getting set up for my workflow of a 3x3 macropad with a rotary dial to cycle through multiple pages of macros beyond just 9.
The weather jellyfish is simply a DIY hanging light kit with a jellyfish lampshade and an RGB bulb connected to Home Assistant, running this automation. The code is simply just check high temp of the day and set it to a certain color based on a 10ΒΊF range I decided on. (I used to have it blink white for snow and blue for rain, but apparently I haven't added that back in since moving away from my previous weather API.) I named it Abbott because Arrival is a great movie.
My LCARS dash is just using this sweet project for HA, and with a few hours of fiddling with all their different UI elements I ended up with this for my living room dash.
Same! My longest endeavor at the moment is getting my orchid to bloom prolifically (3 years), drying the blooms so they maintain their color (2 years) dipping them in epoxy so I 3D eternal blossoms and now I have 12 beautiful hardened orchid flowers I am figuring out what to do with. My husband has the same interest but uses more tech. We figured out how to print and assemble an impossible table to hold my miniature cactus. We both love tinkering for the joy of creatively problem solving.
That sounds very neat. Have any photos?
Those all sound pretty cool.