I made a simrig for my youngest, with his help, out of the timber from an old bunk-bed, a car-seat from a wreckers, and some donated heavy duty locking casters that were the inspiration for the job. It was designed so the pedal area slid under the seat to make it more compact when not in use. All fully adjustable so it’d fit him as he grew. I was a bit miffed when he sold it, wheel and pedals included for $50. He could have got 4 times that.

(Table with TV not part of the rig. That’s part of my rig that I’ve previously posted)

I made a piece called “Sad Hammer”. It was a cheap hammer that got overused and bent down and I thought it looks depressed, so I put it in a shadow box and hung it on my wall after visiting MOMA. I guess it’s really not that cool but I like it.

The test animation that got me an animation position at work

I made a pipe out of the stalk of a cannabis plant I grew

I’ve posted her elsewhere, but this is Teana. A few years back, my boy wanted a posable body for a Halloween Halloween monkey who’s head broke off. One rabbit hole later and I was knee deep in the ball-joint doll section of the 3d printing community. He and I decided we’d make our own but as monsters.

The smoothing process for the white ABS I was using reminded me of my time working with porcelain and that’s how Teana happened. Eventually Id like to sew a little dress and pose her on my brick-a-brack shelf in a decorative cloche.

More recently I’ve been building a mid century modern sectonal couch out of scrap lumber and a memory foam mattress. I’m far from a carpenter, didn’t even own saw when I started, but it’s coming together very nicely. It will look great with my TV.

It was a later model zenith with a broken screen. It’s not the real wood style my parents had, the front is molded plastic, but it still feels nice. I gutted it, used a dremel to widen the hole behind the face, and nylon straps to hold up a cheap 32in from Walmart. I then disassembled an old tower and built it into the empty space inside and mounted a soundbar to echo off the back wall. The screen actually loses about 4cm off the edges became of the frame, but it feels more like the classic aspect ratio and that’s nice. Also I’ve yet to watch a movie that needed that area anyway.

I won’t post pics because I don’t want to doxx myself and my family but, my brother, my dad and I built a racecar and I did most of the painting. We even ended up in the paper because we were one of the few people who still paint our car instead of vinyl wrap everything.

I’m in the process of building a device that lets you plug a landline telephone to a standard sound system. It’s just so I can use it on stage, I wanna pick up the phone and sing with that vintage crackling voice.

Sadly, it is not “made” yet because I suck at electronics but I’ve got all the components I need and some time on my hands.

I’m in the process of remaking my “Doom Pumpkin” for Halloween as well. If connects to my HomeAssistant setup and has four 12v car horns, a speaker to play audio, LED’s for eyes, a big red arcade button for a nose, motion sensors in front and back to interact with kids (it tells them it farts fireballs if they walk behind it) and an anti theft mode where if it’s picked up the horns start going off. Press the button and a random sequence of horns will go off. It also will randomly set a horn off if it hasn’t been touched in a while. And when it senses someone in front it will taunt them to press the button. Since it’s built in to HomeAssistant I can set when certain functions work and for a couple days before Halloween it will be outside taunting the neighborhood during the day.

The first version was a couple horns powered by an arduino uno and would just randomly activate 2 horns in different ways. The new one added two more horns (one is a little beep beep forklift horn, the other is an oooogah horn) to go with the high tone and low tone car horn.

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Finished this a few days ago. Kitbashed and custom painted.

I’ve made four sci-fi novels, self-published them and am working on the fifth. I have been making sketches and paintings and done many exhibitions.

I’ve recorded a few audiobooks for Librivox, a group that releases free recordings of public domain books. I use my government name for them, so I won’t say which ones, but you might have heard my voice if you picked the right one from !audiobooks@literature.cafe

I completed my new bed about a month ago.

Since then, I refurbished a desk, and built a changing bench.

I have plans completed for a hallway table, and a foot stool. I’m waiting for it to get a bit cooler, I’ll probably start in a couple of weeks.

When I was a teenager, I made a trebuchet. It was so fun. It was not sophisticated at all – just made of 2x4 with a steel rod as the axle. The axle was about 1 m from the ground, to give you a sense of its size. It wasn’t large, but it could throw things quite far (about 60 m).

Started a new hobby :)