DIY Smart Doorbell for just $2, no soldering required ( frenck.dev )
Good DIY projects with limited space/for apartment living?
Hi!...
Using pressure-sensitive Velostat/Linqstat as a velocity-sensitive MIDI pad ( www.youtube.com )
EDIT: I think this video shows a better design, although I note some improvements below:...
Bokashi Composting from Start to Finish (DIY Bokashi Bucket) ( youtu.be )
Also interesting is this video.
Converting our food waste into cooking gas with this DIY biodigester ( youtu.be )
From ProjectKamp.
Server as heating device - how do I do this?
So I have this silly idea/longterm project of wanting to run a server on renewables on my farm. And I would like to reuse the heat generated by the server, for example to heat a grow room, or simply my house. How much heat does a server produce, and where would you consider it best applied? Has anyone built such a thing?
pen-type multimeters
Any recommendations? Are any of them usb-c rechargeable? Seems like most of the ones I'm seeing take AAA batteries.
The Miraculous Medal I got and broke a while ago is now attached with rubber bands and strong knots instead of tiny folded pieces of paper looped through the hole ( lemmy.ca )
Previously:...
I beam trollies
Oh boy Fedi, do I have a weird one....
This Hi-Tech Bird Feeder Lets Clever Magpies Exchange Bottle Caps for Food ( mymodernmet.com )
This is clever. But in a way, it's also shifting the environmental impact from these bottle caps. I can't imagine under which conditions the birds' may be a problem (e.g. getting too much food). Maybe someone with better knowledge on these species can tell if there could be a downside (no matter how improbable, just the risk of...
Water is running again, ram pump installation year 2 ( slrpnk.net )
A couple of years ago I built two ram pumps and installed them in the stream near my house. They pumped water for the garden for a few months during spring and summer. I'm okay with the fact that the pumps are just useful during part of the year, but didn't really like damming up the entire stream for my installation, seemed...
I fixed my dad's angle grinder with a ball bearing I salvaged from my gerbil's old excercise wheel a few years back. ( i.ibb.co )
It was even the same brand. I love when hoarding materials pays back.
Fifty Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio 📻 ( blinry.org )
Build an Automated Hydroponic System ( youtu.be )
Lost Print Vacuum Casting In A Microwave ( hackaday.com )
Arcade Cabinet built from secondhand materials ( movim.slrpnk.net )
Something neat I've discovered - you can repost the content of your movim blog straight into a lemmy post and it's all compatible, uses the same markup. I'll repost all this to imgur as a backup at some point but for now this is awesome....
Unsupported Acer Chromebook Repurposed as Linux Writing Laptop ( imgur.com )
One of my hobbies is fixing up ewaste laptops and giving them away. I actually do lots of ewaste electronics, from TVs to space heaters, but the laptops are where I put in the most work. Some are new, intact, and ready to go with nothing more than a OS reset. Others have had parts removed or damaged, and need more work. Most of...
What's Up?
Hello, comrades! What kind of stuff are you up to these days? Anything cool, anything you want to share about?
DIY book scanner project ( www.diybookscanner.org )
How to Make Biofuel at Home ( www.motherearthnews.com )
Not All Batteries are Created Equal | Hackaday.io ( hackaday.io )
I tapped a rod directly into brick without chemical anchor/epoxy and it worked! -- was it a good or bad idea?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/8959162...
Followup to the One Button Sound Recorder - Transcription with spchcat ( slrpnk.net )
So I was finally able to get back to work on the sound recorder. The general gist is that this is meant to be an audio recorder with transcription and email capabilities, which is also ruthlessly simple to use. There's one button. You push it, a recording says "recording" and it starts recording. You push the button again and it...
there’s another DiY community
There are several DiY communities in the fedi but if we ignore the big centralized instances, there is:...