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Trying to buy up a lot in my city and going to be building pic related soon.
Anyone have any experience with this? I can lay the foundation myself, and will be hiring out a company to do the rest.
I have a general sketch up of what I want to be going for, but am looking to find some software that will help me get down into the nitty gritty of the whole thing, just so I have as much shit finalized as possible, biggest reason is that when I find the silo with relatively the right dimensions, I want to snatch that shit up asap.
I also have plans on building an office space out behind, but have not decided if I'm going to go with a basic but traditional building structure, or if I will be using a box car.
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This sounds fucking retarded from start to finish.
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You do realize that your house will be 30% stairs, right? You'll likely just lose a lot of money with this.
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>>955443
This looks like a way to build a house out of a silo. Why do you want a round house with only one window/door anyway? and a tiny house at that? probably on the order of 400 sqft there for both levels (works out to ~16' diameter circle on two levels.
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Thought i'd post my progress on my guitar so far. After I burned the Lichtenberg pattern in, I let it dry for about a week and stained it over the weekend. The water from the pattern caused the grain to come out a bit but i didn't want to sand it to avoid removing some of the finer detals in the pattern. Stain came out alright, though.
I still need to wire it up and install the hardware. The kit I got came with hardware but I might buy new stuff. What it came with is kinda shitty.
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These are the pegs for the bridge, which are a real piece of shit. As you can see, one peg is noticeably smaller than the other, and slips in and out of its hole real easy. I think I might just buy a proper bridge.
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Also, I had some gold leaf laying around and I thought it would be neat to use it shield the cavities. I know most people use copper tape but I thought this would work just as well. I tested it with a 9v battery and its definitely conductive, so i think it should work well enough. It might not make a difference but no harm in it
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looks great, monitoring!
Picked this up at a thrift shop and the record player needs fixed
it kind of spins but its rough, and the on off auto switch feels cemented in place
im working to get the platter off but its probably going to take a while
any advice?
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>>954933
>any advice?
i usually toss garbage in the bin...
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>>954933
>the on off auto switch feels cemented in place
Rip it apart and start there
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Barely moving turntable usally means it needs a belt.
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/ohm/ electronics general - red, hot, and dripping solder 2016-03-01 03:37:09 Post No.954566
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Reposting from the last thread
I'm trying to a build an ADB to USB adaptor, I've got a SparkFun Pro Micro which just has wires shoved in to the big curly cable coming from my SMK Apple Keyboard II. I've got VCC and GND on the Micro connected to the right pins on the ADB cable and I've got a 1K Ohm pull up resistor between VCC and the data cable which is plugged into the right place but as far as which port on the Pro Micro I'm supposed to plug it into goes I have no idea so I phoned a friend and he said port 5.
Everything's done according to
http://blog.jomon-lab.com/arduino-projects/adb-to-usb-adapter-using-arduino-keyboard-function/wire-connection
and I've flashed the arduino ok.
What am I doing wrong? When I run it, it just prints "AYYYY".
Should I be connected to pin 6 on the SparkFun? How am I supposed to know which pin to use? How can I go about debugging this? The tutorial says port D6 so I'm according to http://cdn.sparkfun.com/datasheets/Dev/Arduino/Boards/Pro_Micro_v13b.pdf I should be using the fourth port from the bottom of the right hand side of my board?
I hate asking for help but I don't know a whole lot about this kinda thing and don't know where to start, help me /ohm/, you're my only hope.
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>>954644
Forgot pic
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>>954644
Ayyy lmao
>If using Arduino Micro and Leonardo board, PORTD6 is DIGITAL PIN12
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Trying to reverse engineer something like this, Any ideas on how? I read a few electric bike guides, just seeing what else is out there.
http://billionsinchange.com/solutions/free-electric
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>>954163
Have you tried google? Cause there are shit tons of results for stuff like this.
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>>954163
I did calculations ages ago for this shit. you'd need to pedal for 8 hours straight to make about 7c worth of energy. why spend a whole day pedaling when you could just pay 7c? this was the whole point of electrification.
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>>954164
Get your tickets.
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Shit materials to work with 2016-02-27 15:47:15 Post No.953286
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Shit materials to work with
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>fiberglass
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Electrical tape
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Cat 5 cable and rj45 connectors.
Oh, wait, they're wonderfull.
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>working on something
>fuck something up/injure myself
>say "ah fuck" or "fuckin cunt"
>get back to work
>annoyance begins to quickly subside
>female roommate pokes her head into the room
>tells me to "calm down"
>annoyance turns to genuine anger
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>>952152
Make sure you eat a good meal about 45mins to an hour before working on a project. It will stop stuff like that from bothering you in the first place.
Also, keep this shit in /b/.
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>buy around a dozen PVC elbows
>get home
>realize some asshole put the 1.25 inchers in the 1 inch box
>have to waste another hour going to Home Depot again
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>>952152
>go to work
>continue the project from the other day ~80% done
>the boss's wife is around (complete imbecile, that don't know shit about carpentry, but since its small business she thinks she has power over others)
>hey anon, you can't put this big screws in that chair
>why ?
>they look bad
>but they are not visible at all after we finish it
>look if you have other colors, these are bad, im telling my husband
>kk, tell him
>1/2 h later he storms in and proceed to call names on all of us for not listening to his wife
>but but but
>no buts, I change the screws
>next week I got less money in the paycheck, coz they covered the cost of the new "not so bad looking" screws from the employees
Sometimes I want to quit, but then I realize money/time spend at work ratio is pretty good ( 4500 a month for 30h week )
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Is This A Good PC Build For $771? 2016-02-25 05:17:37 Post No.951989
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>>951990
Read the stickys, /g/ doesnt allow these threads sonny
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>>951992
Okay, but it doesn't belong here either.
Post categories of tools where quality doesn't matter so you should just get the cheapest ones you can get.
For example: Sockets. Your typical Harbor Freight sockets will last you just as long and work just as well as the Snap-On equivalent and as such, it would take a tremendous idiot to pay the Snap-On surcharge.
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And here's an example of a tool category precisely opposite of sockets: Saw blades. Better quality saw blades have such improved cutting performance and leave such a finer finish on work, that it's easily worth paying 3x more for the quality stuff.
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>>951380
lol ya ok I can see you have never had to work with your hands a day in your life
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>>951383
>"You spent HOW MANY days worth of pay on those sockets?"
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So I made my own cooling vest out of some duct tape and cooling mats. Looks very terrorist, but I'm only going to be wearing it around my house so meh.
It works well, but it only lasts for an hour or so. I want to figure out a way to make it last longer.
The cooling pads I use now are chilled to 4C in the fridge. Icepacks would last longer, but are too cold to comfortably wear so I'm looking for a way to have a solution that freezes at 5-10C so the cooling pads would be solid in the fridge, and melt as they absorb body heat.
There are commercial products that work this way, but they are prohibitively expensive (especially with shipping) and do not disclose their contents.
Any idea where I should start with this?
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Open the goddamn window
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>>947885
Cooling pad between ice packs and body?
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>>947885
It's only a matter of time before a big sports company jumps on this, think long and hard about the choices you will face.
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/QTDDTOT/ - Quentin Tries Dieting Despite The Outrageous Tacos edition. 2016-01-22 10:13:14 Post No.934023
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Old one is sliding to oblivion, time for a /QTDDTOT/ reroll.
I have just pulled the voice board out of an old Yamaha organ, it delivers A - G through various outputs simultaneously, I want to throw some frequency dividers at it, tack some time based effects on it and turn it into a drone box, but I am confused about the power. I have never seen labeling like this before. Pic related shows its inputs. They are labelled V and -12. The -12 pads goes to the negative side of the electrocap, assumedly serving as a decoupler. I can connect any old 12V supply to this, as long as I connect the negative side to -12, and the positive side to V, correct?
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Have you searched for schematics of the thing? Positive ground electronics was a thing in the PNP transistor era in some cases.
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I have a power strip with a switch similar to pic.
Recently it started having issues where the light in the switch would start flickering and correspondignly the plugged in appliances were only sporadically receiving electricity. This occurs both with and without appliances plugged in.
What could be the cause of this? Unfortunately I’m missing the right screw driver for safety screws so opening it up is not an option. I’m mainly asking out of curiosity since I don’t intend to fuck around with electricity, but I can’t figure out what might be the cause of such a seemingly simple mechanism (a mechanical switch to close a curcuit) to malfunction like this.
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>>934542
neon bulbs will do start flickering after a few years; just ignore it. the loads are almost certainly not ''sporadically receiving electricity''; there's a 99% chance that's just your imagination.
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Is 4Kv enough for an air ionizer ? 2016-03-12 07:39:21 Post No.960577
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Is 4Kv enough for an air ionizer ?
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Hey /diy checkout my shitty homemade air ioniser, I know there's high voltage on the hairs, but is the 4Kv that it's generating enough to ionize air molecules ?
I know it produces high voltage because it bends a flame when I put it near the hairs.
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>>960577
As much as I admire hack jobs, I have to ask what the fuck?
What is going on there?
Why did you make the final product so uneven?
Why is there a resistor that goes to nothing? (at letter F)
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Use small carbon hairs as breakout points. 4Kv is enough
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>>960580
It took me less than an hour to build.
Its uneven because I'm shitty and not an OCD maniac.
Resistor J was too high so I replaced with Q iirc.
>>960583
Thanks, where do I get the carbon hairs from ? Are the wires still OK ?
This thing costs me less than 2$ to build literally.
Nice Tesla coil BTW..
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I know this should go on /g/ or /adv/ but /g/ has a no technical support rulre and you guys might help more than /adv/ since there is DIY here. I picked up an HP dv6324us for $50, its shit I know but it seems like a pretty good deal but it turns out its just freezes during startup or screen doesn't turn on at all. At first I thought it was the HDD becuase the HDD light didn't turn on but later research turns out that if I press on the palm rest and it works than it means it's the GPU which I did and it worked . So according to what I read, I am supposed to put coins on the GPU and heat it up with a hairdryer? I am not really sure about this since many places on the internet suggest similar things but all have varying threads. I also found some motherboards on eBay with a GeForce Go 7200 GPU instead of the current Go 6150 it has install but I'd like to spend as few of sheckels as possible. Some suggestions or a few tips of owners that had pic related?
>inb4 "buy new laptop faggot"
>already have a /comfy/ 3rd Gen Ultrabook but this is for a project maybe sell it
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Sorry about muh engrish, on mobile
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>>960396
I take it you have a dedicated gpu? It sounds like there's a bad connection between the motherboard and the gpu. Take it apart, blow some air through it, put it back together and try again
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>>960396
>but /g/ has a no technical support rulre
mother fuck, no wonder we get so many computer threads
thats like NYC sending all its homeless people to new jersey
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I dont know where else to ask this question, and I will try to phrase the question properly but I want you to understand what I mean so first this:
When I try to create a lampshade, or make a desk, or even modify a computer case, somehow it is never as good as the best I see online by DIYers or top company designers or even gifted amateurs, so what am I doing wrong? How do people learn how to make things so they look great. I mean I know a team of people would work to design, lets say, a sports car and when you look at it the thing is perfect its just so fuckin good.
Another example, some guy buys a computer case and modifies it and its frikkin great!!!!!
I try a design and all i do is ruin the case. How do I learn how to be good at making stuff ? How do people know how to do even simple stuff like making their computer look better - oh or is that difficult stuff?
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>>960245
Being able to build things goes hand in hand with being able to see art.
It sounds pretentious, but you'll find most of the great, say furniture markers, or car builders; they'll have a keen eye for aesthetics.
That, along with well honed skill will get you to where you want to go. As for things not turning out the way you want them to, that could just be down to you need more practice at what you're doing.
Doing a lot of it will get you to a stage where you can knock stuff out all day for fun and it'll look exactly how you want it to, if not better.
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>>960252
Hey thank you for the reply.
What you are saying is true but when i look online at the workshops of people who design stuff they have machines that cost $$$$$$megadollars and I just have hand tools and a few cheap electrical tools. are the tools important do I really need pipe bending machines and sandblasters and lathes etc. Is it down to having expensive machinery?
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>>960245
when you are making something and you think oh shit, i could have done x differently, or when you finish and think hmmm, it looks shit because of x.
remember these things and then do them differently next time.
alternatively consider that it looks shit to you because you made it. sometimes beauty comes from what we cant see, if you made something then there is no mystery to it and so to you its plain.
if it looks bad but you dont know why then you are fucked sorry.
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Anyway to fix this? I tried duck tape but it didn't hold up
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>>960241
You're not going to get a reply that fast on this board. And no, not really. It's fucked.
Depends how DIY savvy you are, you could fix it up quick and cheap with some screws and plate metal.
You'll probably get some suggestions to use two part resin to rebond the two ends but I'd be surprised if it lasts any longer than that did.
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>>960238
If it's solid, can't quite tell from the pic, you could use a couple of steel dowels, say 1/4", drill into the plastic, THEN two part epoxy those in. If it's not solid, you'd have to use a lot of epoxy with said dowels (enough to get it a few inches inside the cavity) and it'd be questionable.
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>>960246
I'm not 100% sure but that's the kind of shit that falls apart to dust when you try and drill it out. Could be wrong but you might end up in the same boat.