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>>1143170
Well, probably wont help you much but if you are buying pickling shit anyway pic related is fucking epic. You "bar styke pickled eggs." Ran out for the last mucherfucking tine yesterday and will be three weeks before i can have more.

Tonight i'm headed to walmart for $500 worth of eggs and oickling shit and already built a cellar shelf to store the mutherfuckers.

Good luck on your project OP. And to any anons into pickled eggs, you'll never pay $8 a dozen at the store for shit quality product again if u follow this pic.

>>1143170
Hope you're not planning to pickle the little guy. I'd take him for sure.

>>1143170
i do this occasionally. i use kosher salt, cut the vinegar with some water. boil the water but let it cool off. i don't like to use heat on the shit i'm pickling because it stays more "crisp". i forget the ratios i usually use, i just go by taste compared to a jar of pickles i buy and make a few gallons of brine at a time. when i pick stuff from the garden i just stuff them into jars and pour the premade brine/spices on them and stick them in the fridge. I'm bored so I'm probably gonna go google around for shit now. if i find anything interesting I'll share it here.

>>1142780
There is nothing wrong with makerspaces. Wish I had one where I live. If I want to do woodwork I have to invest in thousands of dollars worth of precision tooling that I'll never wear down in the couple of years that I'll be an unemployed student, after which point I'll start investing. A makerspace would let me use these tools for an affordable fee and let me learn and be inspired from other like-minded people.

Unless you're commenting that of the one or few makerspaces you've visited they're either a hotbed for unprofessional practices or unclean workspaces.

Either way nice b8.

>>1142780
>literally £millions worth of equipment
>along with people who know how to use it all and will gladly teach you
>membership is cheap and can be waived if you're in a tight spot
>best way to find people who are interested in whatever you're working on

Your problem with makerspaces is...?

If you live in any reasonably large urban centre things like makerspaces and men's sheds and co-ops are really the most sane way to go about it.

Space is expensive for individuals.

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>>1142190
I'm doing that too.

From what I have gathered, wiring and installing the working parts of an electric guitar are fairly straightforward. The difficult part is making a guitar design that does not look like shit, has a functional shape, has nice resonance and has a nice finish. all of the rest can be conquered with guides, accurate maths and pre soldiered kits.

Making something better than a pre built is the real challenge.

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>>1142199
Electronic part is rather easy.. Im more concern about design. How did you start ? Do you have any models or where can i get those ? As i said, my girlfriend is wood sculptor and might help me with it but is need some kind of model. Maybe creating shade of other guitars might work.

The neck and joining it correctly to the body is the tricky bit. The body itself and the electronics is fairly simple. You will need to rent a router to route the holes for pickups and possibly bridge (bridge style depending).

The neck... it may be better worth your time and money to just buy one. Getting the tools and materials together for a one off project will be almost as expensive as the premade neck. It only gets cheaper when you're already setup with everything to make them.

Water is insanely heavy.

Also it's much cheaper to buy a garden hose and poke some holes in it.

>>1138604
It might be heavy, but it can't be too hard to figure out a reasonable balance of weight and recharge time. Obviously a garden hose with holes is cheap, but this is 0 fucking work, especially if you have a complicated garden.

>>1138600
You're trying to solve a simple problem with a complex solution. There's no need for a robot to drive around watering your plants. Too many mechanical parts that don't fair well outside, and water and electric parts don't mix. Why not just run a bunch of garden hoses on the top of each row and poke holes in them. Hook them all up to a faucet and design a robot to turn on the faucet every few days

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>>1136619
The left most G in this image. I use it more than anything else that isn't a bobbin holder.

>>1136619
Is this a bad bait thread?

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For me as a panel beater a tremendous help

>>1146380

altho DIY is not your personal education board, and most users will tell you to just google it....

always check to see if theres power. then move on to other components. check batery to make sure its fully charged. then check connections, check switch. look for fuses or broken wires. check power at switch check power after switch. look for any relays that might need to engage to provide power. check them, replace if bad. if its a mower with a starter as you stated, it might have a solenoid switch. those go bad and will kill power to everything.

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>>1146380
Pic related. start a up without a problem. Runs Intel hot normally 5-20 minutes then dies without a sputter and will not start again for several days. Normal wear and tare good compression. Saw maintains spark even though it will not run.
Just had saw serviced for this problem.
Please include a quote for parts and labor.
Earn your money small enginefag.

>>1146407
Hmm. The first thing I would suspect is it's overheating. See if there's anything blocking any of the cooling stuff (e.g. leaves covering the fins).

>>1144267
>Will this shit kill me?
That could kill you dead in any number of ways.
>Do I have any alternatives?
Sure, buy one not made in China...
Shit.

>>1144267
It's a cheaply made one, hazardously cheap. It will work though.

Try amazon, it's the same shit but they actually try to get good customer reviews.

>>1144267
I hope you dont need that in a hurry, because I doubt Shenzen is less than a day away. Tells you there, you should have it by May 10th tho.

goto a local store, get a multi-volt selectable adapter, prob pay 2-3 times the price, but, you'll have it quick. It'll still be Made in China tho. And how the fuck you can make, package and ship these fuckers halfway round the world for a couple of bucks - I couldn't fucking post that three streets away for twice the price.

tldr, go local, or learn Zenlike patience (Chinks R always faster than eBay quoted delivery times tho)

>>1146560
>shit earbud
>shit headset
>build a speaker

too much of a jump dont you think

>>1146561
I mean, I plan on building headphones eventually, but that will require quite a lot of prototyping for comfort, material analysis, and custom parts. Fibreglass looks like the right material to build one out of at least for a prototype, maybe cast aluminium for the small precision pieces, but all the custom fittings and such are out of my league. I enjoy building things, so why not just build speakers instead? Would you suggest just buying a replacement? Where's your /diy/ spirit?

>>1146579
>i want diy wahhhhhhh
>i want to build a car, i dont know if gas or electric

it is not /diy/ if you don't know what you are doing and give us nothing to discuss other than go google it yourself

>carry lots of bundles up ladders
Sorry I mean at once.

>>1146522

Best thing you can do is learn Spanish.

(Pic related: Timberline are absolute shit tier shingles)

>>1146546
i'm canadian, all white guys who say Eh, hows it goin budds

>>1146324
Something that uses a microwave magnetron. Enjoy hair loss

>>1146325
sound fun

Fusor.

enjoy the miracle of atomic fusion in your own home.

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>>1146021
2 Pin Line Female Microphone Connector
It looks kinda like it

>>1146021
Try with 2pin round connector, i've found sime similar looking plugs for batteries in electric bikes

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>>1146100
>It looks kinda like it
It's round and has two pins so yeah. it looks kinda like it.
That Amphenol 80-MC2M looks kinda like it.
The connector OP is looking for looks like pic related.

Mostly because i wanted to save a little on energy, plus I want to make interesting lighting . From what i was researching, I estimated total costs to be around 300 dollars, but thats a rough estimate.

The costs would be highly dependent on the strips you use. You can get cheap ones for a couple bucks, but quality LED will be a lot more expensive.

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>>1145717

WS2812b are addressable and at ~$40/5 meter strip they're pretty affordable. You'll need at least a 10 amp power supply per 5M strip, and if you want to control it you'll need an Arduino ($5 knockoff) and at least an IR remote.

>>1145701
My external HDD is connected to a raspberry pi and I run samba on raspi. I can acess files from any device. Plus raspi is a torrent box everything gets saved into the hdd and can watch stuff immediately. I have no idea if you can do it with a router. You can use your desktop/laptop as a samba share too though.

I think it goes something like this:
Attach drive to computer
make it "shared"
enable sharing between devices on router
connect both devices to router
access files with a filemanager like airdroid or ES file explorer

Or if you have a dedicated old computer to act as a server you can set up an ad-hoc network. Connect via wifi directly to server. I think only one connection at a time this way though. I have a batch file for win 8 to do this if you need it. Think it's not been obfuscated on win7, so you can do it without a batch file.

Also IIRC(it's been a while) some network drivers or protocals might need to be installed or enabled

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the easiest way, i suppose, is just to use a router with one or more shareable USB ports, and stick an external USB drive on it. (an independently-powered drive is more likely to work.) i have an old router that does that, but only for FAT formatted drives, which means max file size is 4gig. a used router like that costs less than $10.

if you've got the dough, Western Digital makes the consumer-grade WDMYcloud series of network drives. hook one up to your router and you have network access to its internal HDD thru the LAN, the Wifi, and remotely through the internet. has nice features like powering down when not in use, and creating restore points of the data, like you have in windows.

>>1145575
You may think this is a fun idea but it is very dangerous and we cannot condone it on 4chan.

Beer is not a novelty item and wearing it on a belt in anything other than a freezer will result in warming and spoiling the beer.

Use empty bottles if you must, 2 x elastic bands per bottle minimum.

Dont fall over or else you will be cut in half.

>>1145575
You are likely to be raped by an alchy

>>1145583
This, get ready to be a hobo magnet.

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>>1145549
I have a few things around the house already. A few different lights, a prism, the lens from an old rear projection tv, and a concave mirror. I don't think any of my light sources will work.

>>1145549
I really don't think you can do it on a DIY budget. Possibly at night, but not during the day.

>>1145552
It will be a halloween display so it will only be up at night. It would be fine to just project on my house. I do own a home theater projector but I'd rather not use that and I'm not sure it would be very bright.