Completed projects.

[Anonymous No.108184]

What have you been doing lately /diy/? More to the point, what have you finished?

I just got into playing around with jewelry, and here's my first attempt at a helm chain bracelet using nickle silver and bright aluminum.

>better than expected.

But yeah, let's see what you've done. Friendly critique and tips welcome, any project large or small. And hey, maybe a pat on the back will be something you don't have to do yourself...

[Anonymous No.108330]

no replies because 99% of the fags who are on this board never make anything themselves.

[Anonymous No.108372]

Very nice OP.
I'm working on a 3-way lamp right now using hardcover books. It's basically a skewed stack of books with a hole drilled through the stack, then a metal plate between the top two books with a hole drilled through, then the lamp head through that with a nut under the plate, the glueing the books together and clamping til it sets, clear coating the outside edges of the books to keep the pages together, etc.

The lamp shade is a bunch of pages from each book soaked in a borax and water reduction then glued to a frame from another shade that had torn.

Once it's done it will make the perfect bedside lamp for my wife. She's an avid reader but likes a dim light to read by so she has a big lamp and a smaller led candle. This 3-way lamp will be the perfect replacement and will look stellar to a book nerd like her.

[Anonymous No.108377]

>>108372
oh yeah, the reason for the borax solution is because it's a DIY flame retardant that works great on natural materials. Anything that burns instead of melts that can be soaked in the stuff will benefit.

Basically you put a big pot on the stove filled with water, slowly pour in one cup of borax for every 1-1/2 cup of water (or 1:2 ratio is fine too if you want to do it easier) heated for about 20 mins. Do not boil.

Soak things in it, let them dry completely. Repeat.

Now, what happens is awesome. Instead of catching fire, the stuff you soaked will smolder and go out. Basically heat reacts with the borax solution and creates a primitive form of glass which insulates the thing you're trying to set fire to!

[Anonymous No.108390]

two highbeds, some desks, a wallstand for a samovar, a hammer, beekeeper, welded two screen stand a longbow and arrows, short range radio transmitter... thats about it

about to finish my chain maile... (50%)

[Anonymous No.108450]

>>108330

No, we've been posting in our own threads.

[Anonymous No.108563]

>>108377
Coolness. Another idea, albeit far more expensive, is that there are flame retardant epoxies that dry clear you can coat the pages with to give strength as well.

[Anonymous No.108663]

Hand-made (origami) rose bouquets for a friend or two.

[Anonymous No.108669]

>>108663
Also tiny aluminum can robots.

[Harblong Cassidy !KzfKdB2Xmc No.108692]

I fixed a GE washing machine that was overloaded and had its tub fall off one of its mounts at full speed and generally scrape and knock the shit out of everything in its path. Reseated the tub, reseated the seating bar, realigned the drive belt.

Then it wouldn't work. The lid-open sensor was busted. I figured it was some wizardry involving vibrations, so I turned it on and smacked the contact with the screwdriver. Got a nice shock and fixed it, sort of. Now it always runs, even with the lid open. Oh well.

Not bad a repair to kill 4 hours and put 3 months of technical knowledge to pretty good work (I have no inborn mechanical instinct, I'm going off what I learn at my job in a small machine shop). Saved at least $150 on labor, and the parts I thought were broken ended up being just fine enough, so I saved $40 on superfluous shit.

[Anonymous No.108707]

Here is my workshop, most of the stuff has been DIYed.

CNC Mill + Lathe

[Anonymous No.108708]

Other side of the workshop, GTT Mirage + Foot pedal. The kiln door is operated by footpedal as well. The mirage is run off an oxygen generator in another room.

I have ~200lb of glass in 108 104 96 and boro.

[Anonymous No.108709]

Finally here is my bedroom. It has a laser cutter vented out the window. I do most of my assembly and electrical work here.

[Anonymous No.108710]

I took the doors off my closet and put a desk inside for a workstation nook. I made a pretty damn big aluminum chainmail skirt to hang in the closet opening. When i hung up it it didn't sit right and didn't look like how I thought. Now I'm stuck with a 5 foot by 1 foot stretch of chainmail I don't know what to do with.

Not into the whole armor thing. I could just hang it up on the wall but it's still fairly heavy and I would have to work something out so it would hang right. Any other ideas?

[Anonymous No.108711]

>>108709
Here is the hexapod you can kind of make out in the corner of the room.

[Anonymous No.108712]

>>108709
You can see the arms for this guy in the bottom left section of the floor.

[Anonymous No.108713]

>>108709
Did you read Inheritance yet?

[Anonymous No.108716]

>>108711
>>108712
Do they work?

[Anonymous No.108762]

>>108716
The hexapod can kinda walk, it was the first project I ever did on the CNC mill so I bought 2$ servos from hobbyking instead of the 50-100$ dynamixels which are standard on hexapods.

The quadrotor works.


I did read inheritance but it was a long time ago.

[Anonymous No.108790]

>>108711

OH MY GOD

Please, could you guide me to a tutorial or some such? It's gorgeous!

[Anonymous No.108801]

>>108762
>>108712
what's driving the quadrotor? an arduino?

[Anonymous No.109032]

>>108790
There is a lot that went into the hexapod, it was intended as a learning project so literally almost every part except the servos was made from scratch. All the aluminium/acrylic was machined or laser cut on my machines (which are themselves DIY, the cnc are conversions and the laser is an open source design). I even etched my own circuit boards.

In terms of tutorials, I picked up everything I know off the internet (mostly cnczone and cnc cookbook).

>>108801
The quadrotor is controlled by a coptorcontrol board (STM32). Its far superior to the arduino-based solutions. 8 bit microcontrollers really aren't suited to running a proper kalman/complementary filter.

[Anonymous No.109051]

>>109032
How old are you?