Your current pet projects/hobbies?

[greed]

Always interested to know what people are working on and their pet projects.

 

[BD231]

Trying to get laid, 2 years with no luck thusfar. Completely unfulfilling hobby.

 

[pete6032]

Well, that escalated quickly

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Trying to get laid, 2 years with no luck thusfar. Completely unfulfilling hobby.

But it's something you can do for the rest of your life.

 

[lxskllr]

Working on? Not much. Eventually I want to try recovering a RAID array, and I want to try to figure out what magic some proprietary software I have uses to speed up hp48 file transfers. Might not sound fun, but I like solving problems.

I used to paddle whitewater canoe, and I really miss it, but I can't trust my back on remote trips anymore :^(

 

[pete6032]

Mostly just playing around with electronics, cooking, and going to the gym. I recently set up my raspberry pi to be an ad-blocker.

 

[Cappuccino]

sorry I am dumb but what is 'pet' project??? dafuq is this? i am Swedish .

 

[pete6032]

sorry I am dumb but what is 'pet' project??? dafuq is this? i am Swedish .

Pet project = Project or hobby you work on outside of work. IE maybe you roast your own coffee beans or maybe you paint or maybe you work on cars.

 

[snoopy7548]

Been putting off building a dining table and desk for way too long. Bought all the wood (reclaimed) and tools, but just too tired on the weekends to really start. Soon...

Besides that, I'm probably going to try to restore my pinball machine over the winter. It's in great shape, but it could use a little bit of cosmetic work. Should be a good thing to do on the weekends when it's cold outside.

 

[shortylickens]

Getting employed.

Its not a fun hobby.

 

[Cappuccino]

Pet project = Project or hobby you work on outside of work. IE maybe you roast your own coffee beans or maybe you paint or maybe you work on cars.

Ok I see. Thanks lol

 

[Bardock]

I am scanning a room full of boxes of slide carousels filled with my grandfather's old slides. Here is one, it's a pelican:

Using a nikon coolscan III picked up used with SCSI card and lovingly re-oiled and freed of dust and completely refurbished, works great.

This pelican tried to eat my grandfather's camera in the 60's in St. Petersburg Florida.

 

[highland145]

That ain't no damned penguin.

sorry I am dumb but what is 'pet' project??? dafuq is this? i am Swedish .

Hey, we might be related. Ancestry says I'm 14% Swedish. Let a brother hold a dollar?

 

[KB]

I am always creating or copying beer and liquor recipes. Next work will be a chocolate mint stout.

 

[highland145]

I am always creating or copying beer and liquor recipes. Next work will be a chocolate mint stout.

So, uh, what's your address?

 

[purbeast0]

https://spinthebottle.co

Worked on it for 20-30 hours a week in my spare time with another developer and another business guy for like a year. We're having trouble getting a lot of users on it but we just got someone on board who knows how to market so we hope that helps. I haven't done much dev on it in some time though since it's out in prod and working and pretty good quality, now we just need to get a lot of users on it to get real stress testing on it and see if it can hold up.

Other than that, I have some other mobile apps I've worked on that are in the app stores too, more guides to fighting video games, but I kind of stopped doing that since other people make ones that look better than mine and put them out for free. It's just not worth the time.

 

[highland145]

Pondering a black cherry shaker style wall clock. The cherry came from a tree at my Grandmothers. Part of the delay is that it's 1" thick and I don't have a way to halve it short of planing it and that's a waste of good wood.

 

[JM Aggie08]

Doing some light bathroom renovations while the wife is out of town. Replacing the crappy stock mirrors (somehow they got mildew in them??), light fixtures, faucets, etc. It's turned out to be more time-consuming effort, given the following:

• The builder decided to cheap out and GLUE the mirrors onto the wall. This has resulted in a couple of days worth of spackling/texturing/painting.
• The recessed can where the power for the light fixtures comes in is massive. The mirrors I am installing are 2" taller than the previous crap ones. I'm having to patch/spackle/texture/paint a segment of the recessed cans to allow a couple inches space between the mirror and new light fixture.

Mounting the shit and installing the faucets should be a breeze. I hate sheetrock.

 

[ImpulsE69]

Trying to get laid, 2 years with no luck thusfar. Completely unfulfilling hobby.

Hobbies are expensive. You need to spend more on your hook--i mean hobby.

I'm in the middle of trying to write a solo album. Probably never get it finished, but hey...it's fun.

 

[SMOGZINN]

I am scanning a room full of boxes of slide carousels filled with my grandfather's old slides. Here is one, it's a pelican:

I have a similar project I'm starting work on. I have something like 3000 old photos and negatives that I need to scan in, some from my parents some from before I got a digital camera. Every time I sit down at my computer I scan a few of them, and then when I'm feeling bored I do some touchups on the ones already scanned. It is going to take me a few years to finish them all.

Besides that I'm working on braiding a 8 foot nylon bullwhip because I want to learn whip cracking, and I recently attended a class that included whip braiding and it looks like something I can do and would enjoy. I'm still in the researching and acquiring materials stage of this project. I'm hoping to have a working whip finished by end of October in time for nice outdoor weather for practicing with it.

I'm also working on creating a large leather bound book as a present. It will be a blank book of shadows. I'm looking for something like 400 pages with a high quality cotton pages whipstiched together. This project is in the planning stages. I'm hoping to have this done by the end of January.

Started a batch of nigori. It is currently in the primary fermenter and will stay there basically untouched for at least 5 more weeks.

Poolside daybed. I'm working on a daybed to put poolside. The frame will be treated lumber and cinderblock and the bed itself will be made from outdoor fabric and open cell foam. I have most of the materials and I had planned to finish it this weekend, but my father is ill and I'll be traveling to Houston to spend time with him.

A few smaller projects, all of them not expected to take more then a day each. A flogger, a dragon tongue, a new sheath for my hunting knife (or repair the current one), a couple of tool rolls for custom kits (electronics, leather, jewelry, carving knifes and chisels) I'm really considering going with waxed canvas for this. If this works out well I might make more. My idea is to have each one hang by a carbineer over my workbench so I can grab the toolkit for the project I'm doing and roll it out and have all the tools at hand.

Rust removal by electrolysis. I was given a box full of my grandfathers wood working hand tools that my cousin has had for years, but he did not care for them and they are badly rusted (my grandfather would have been furious) and I am working on removing the rust via electrolysis.

Made a bench rotary / belt sander tool. Basically I just attached a spin wheel to an old 7.5 amp 1/2 inch drill motor added a speed controller and mounted it to my bench. The wheel is made to be able to attach a 9 inch sanding disk, and I'm looking at being able to attach other things to it as well. In the future I'm hoping to turn this into a simple lathe. I have a foot peddle switch I might add to it soon. This is an ongoing project.

Recently completed:

Set up Retro Arch on my HTPC. This still needs some work specifically integrating it with Kodi, but is good enough for now.

Made a pair of folding height adjustable sawhorses for my workshop. This is something I've needed to do for awhile now, and just got around to. This was in preparation for the daybed project (and a few others still in the early planning stages)

Made a few decorative body chains for my girlfriend.

Made insulated storm/blackout shutters for the house. My bedroom has large ceiling to floor windows that face east. Blackout curtains work, but the room is still 5-7 degrees warmer than the rest of the house in the summer. Solution, a set of removable insulated shutters on the inside of the windows that I can open and close at will. Made from OSB backed by some extra MDF I had in sitting around the garage and painted and covered in fabric matching my blackout curtains. It looks okay, and works really well for insulating. Daytime peak temperatures have dropped 5 degrees in the room on average.

Cold brew coffee setup. This was rather simple. Just made system that I can keep in the fridge. It is basically two large cups with holes drilled in the bottom of one and a filter between them. I fill the top cup with grounds and place it in the other cup and fill it with cold water. It sits in the fridge for 24 hours, then I pick cup 1 up and hold it in place with a shim while the newly brewed coffee flows through the filter into the bottom cup. Takes a few hours to completely filter through, but then I have a weeks worth of cold brew concentrate that I store in a glass bottle.

 

[highland145]

Made me tired just reading all of that.

 

[shortylickens]

Made me tired just reading all of that.

Cliff Notes:

Scanning photos

Crafting bullwhip

Leather binding

Some weird food called nigori

Plant bed next to pool

knife sheath

tool rolls

Removing rust

Belt sander

home made HTPC

Adjustable sawhorses

Body chains for slutty girlfriend

storm shutters

cold brew coffee

 

[JM Aggie08]

I have a similar project I'm starting work on. I have something like 3000 old photos and negatives that I need to scan in, some from my parents some from before I got a digital camera. Every time I sit down at my computer I scan a few of them, and then when I'm feeling bored I do some touchups on the ones already scanned. It is going to take me a few years to finish them all.

Besides that I'm working on braiding a 8 foot nylon bullwhip because I want to learn whip cracking, and I recently attended a class that included whip braiding and it looks like something I can do and would enjoy. I'm still in the researching and acquiring materials stage of this project. I'm hoping to have a working whip finished by end of October in time for nice outdoor weather for practicing with it.

I'm also working on creating a large leather bound book as a present. It will be a blank book of shadows. I'm looking for something like 400 pages with a high quality cotton pages whipstiched together. This project is in the planning stages. I'm hoping to have this done by the end of January.

Started a batch of nigori. It is currently in the primary fermenter and will stay there basically untouched for at least 5 more weeks.

Poolside daybed. I'm working on a daybed to put poolside. The frame will be treated lumber and cinderblock and the bed itself will be made from outdoor fabric and open cell foam. I have most of the materials and I had planned to finish it this weekend, but my father is ill and I'll be traveling to Houston to spend time with him.

A few smaller projects, all of them not expected to take more then a day each. A flogger, a dragon tongue, a new sheath for my hunting knife (or repair the current one), a couple of tool rolls for custom kits (electronics, leather, jewelry, carving knifes and chisels) I'm really considering going with waxed canvas for this. If this works out well I might make more. My idea is to have each one hang by a carbineer over my workbench so I can grab the toolkit for the project I'm doing and roll it out and have all the tools at hand.

Rust removal by electrolysis. I was given a box full of my grandfathers wood working hand tools that my cousin has had for years, but he did not care for them and they are badly rusted (my grandfather would have been furious) and I am working on removing the rust via electrolysis.

Made a bench rotary / belt sander tool. Basically I just attached a spin wheel to an old 7.5 amp 1/2 inch drill motor added a speed controller and mounted it to my bench. The wheel is made to be able to attach a 9 inch sanding disk, and I'm looking at being able to attach other things to it as well. In the future I'm hoping to turn this into a simple lathe. I have a foot peddle switch I might add to it soon. This is an ongoing project.

Recently completed:

Set up Retro Arch on my HTPC. This still needs some work specifically integrating it with Kodi, but is good enough for now.

Made a pair of folding height adjustable sawhorses for my workshop. This is something I've needed to do for awhile now, and just got around to. This was in preparation for the daybed project (and a few others still in the early planning stages)

Made a few decorative body chains for my girlfriend.

Made insulated storm/blackout shutters for the house. My bedroom has large ceiling to floor windows that face east. Blackout curtains work, but the room is still 5-7 degrees warmer than the rest of the house in the summer. Solution, a set of removable insulated shutters on the inside of the windows that I can open and close at will. Made from OSB backed by some extra MDF I had in sitting around the garage and painted and covered in fabric matching my blackout curtains. It looks okay, and works really well for insulating. Daytime peak temperatures have dropped 5 degrees in the room on average.

Cold brew coffee setup. This was rather simple. Just made system that I can keep in the fridge. It is basically two large cups with holes drilled in the bottom of one and a filter between them. I fill the top cup with grounds and place it in the other cup and fill it with cold water. It sits in the fridge for 24 hours, then I pick cup 1 up and hold it in place with a shim while the newly brewed coffee flows through the filter into the bottom cup. Takes a few hours to completely filter through, but then I have a weeks worth of cold brew concentrate that I store in a glass bottle.

What is this?

 

[highland145]

Cliff Notes:

Scanning photos

Crafting bullwhip

Leather binding

Some weird food called nigori

Plant bed next to pool

knife sheath

tool rolls

Removing rust

Belt sander

home made HTPC

Adjustable sawhorses

Body chains for slutty girlfriend

storm shutters

cold brew coffee

Hell, shorty, now I'm doubly tired.

 

[shortylickens]

What is this?

Seriously? No google for you?


You'll have to google it. I cant post any results here on ATOT.