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    We painted this room. Still need to get up the stairs. Had to scrape a lot of paint and wallpaper off.

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        I can see why the original owners went with yellow to brighten the room bit personally I love dark blue in that style of home

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      WOW. This is such a nice job!. I really like the combination of blue and wooden brown. And the plants too. It feels like a high-fantasy book!

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        Yeah, we were thinking of doing something with the wood, but the blue just makes the wood look better. An unexpected, but appreciated, side effect.

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        Yeah. I really like it over the Chi-Chi’s yellow.

        In the Navy was the name, it’s a Sherwin Williams color, but Home Depot matches anything.

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          We are looking to redo a lot of our house. I’m going to have to save this color. Thank you. We also have a lot of wood.

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        Funny thing. When we bought the house, they got the city records to see how old it was, and they said it was always just kind of here. So we might be pushing over 200 years? I hate to make any claims though. It used to be a dairy farm before the city built in around it, and lived in and updated many times in between.

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      Really nice pick of color you have. 3 years ago when we moved, I insisted on the same color for one floor while the other had some similarly-dark off-white, around similarly wooden furnishings.

      The dark tone of the blue can be noticeable in cloudy weather and winter light, but never regretted the tone.

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    I am trying to restore a typing machine. Unfortunately I have forgotten to make a picture from the front when it was still in one piece.

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        Not really sure, but right now I think that everything would be working if I deep clean it and give it some oil. Oh and some minor replacements like the orange and black strip that carried the ink definitely needs to be replaced.

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    pair of socks Knitting a pair of socks for my spouse.

    It’s from a single skein of yarn that goes from light gray to gray to black. I split the skein up so both socks would end up being the same gray on the leg part, but it’s taking longer to get to the gray than I’d planned so they may have a pair of mismatched socks.

    Edit: I can’t html tonight

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      I too have been on a sock knitting kick! I’m just starting out learning so I haven’t tried knitting two at the same time.

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        It’s the only way I’ve ever done socks. I admire people who have the willpower/drive to make a 2nd sock after the first one’s completely done, I know I’d just have a bunch of single socks.

        Good luck with your socks! They’re one of my favorite things to knit.

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    I very recently started making my own headphones. It turns out you can just buy headphone parts, so I ordered some AKG drivers, Grado headband and gimbal rings, brainwavs pads, and a few other parts. Still waiting on some parts but I’ve CAD’ed up some of the cans and the pad adapters, hopefully going to print some later tonight. My Lemmy app is kinda shitty and I’ve never been able to upload pics in comments but I’ll try and add them when I’m at my computer later. I’m making them somewhat modular so I can try out different combinations of drivers, pads, and can geometry. Initially all the structure will be 3D printed but later I might mill out some nice hardwood once I find a design that I like.

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    Okay, so not “in progress”, but here’s my last keyboard. Used lots of tools available to the keyboard community, but I laser cut the plate that holds the switches (and the one for the bottom, but that was no big deal), designed and 3D printed the side case, hand-wired the keys’ matrix, configured the keyboard software for the Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller, and used infusible ink and the laser to turn blank keycaps into custom ones.

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      Which switches did you use? I like the case design too, it’s refreshing to not see your standard boxy keyboard.

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        Box Jades, which I like quite a bit, but they have already proven to me that they’re only about 90% as awesome as Box Navies. Haven’t tried Zeal Clickiez or any of the more exotic MX, and it’s been decades since I used a buckling spring, but man I love a good heavy clicky switch.

        Well, yes, I do work from home. Why do you ask?

        As for the shape, the goal on this was no stabilizers, meaning no key could be more than 1.75u wide, and even among those I didn’t want to have buy anything beyond a single full size board’s worth of blank XDA. It was a challenge getting a layout with any symmetry, but I got close, and if I were starting over the only change would probably be something around L-Shift and the backspace and the delete key where Numlock usually is.

        Okay, I cheated a bit, as I think it had like 3 or 4 more 1u keys than a 104-key board, but who doesn’t have a few spare 1u lying around?

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        Thanks! I see every flaw, and in particular the color of the keycap legends isn’t what I’d hoped, but it’s been a really good keyboard so far. I’ve been mostly using my own home-builts for work and my home desktop for a few months now.

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    I just finished installing an air horn on my truck. Certainly louder which was my goal, but it’s higher pitched than I was expecting. Not sure how I feel about it yet. Still have the OEM horn to replace if it’s annoying.

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    I built this web page because the range estimator in the F150 Lightning is dog shit. I keep adding little features here and there. Really would help any EV specifically Teslas since we know their range estimate is terrible too, but I drive a Lightning so it’s biased towards it. I have one more feature I intend to add then I’m going to start learning how to turn it into mobile apps.

    https://lightningcalcs.pages.dev/

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    I’m 3D printing and painting new models for our Frosthaven games. Here’s a picture of the last game we played

    And for context, this is what that scenario looks like without my deluxificarion:

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    I’m very slowly making a Rain World mod. It’s supposed to be a recreation of planet Zebes from Super Metroid and Zero Mission.

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    I’m currently trying to start an online business selling puzzles. It’s taking up my every waking second I’m not spending with my daughter.

    Starting a business is exhausting…

    www.boardlore.com

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        Built a voron 0.1 last year. Hasn’t gotten that much use lately due to some stubborn adhesion Problems and recurring resulting blobs of molten plaatics all over my hotend and printhead.

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    So I’ve been trying to learn Spanish and Chinese recently, and as a programmer, I’ve also been making a few tools to help me with it! Right now, the first works, and the second is…. well it kinda works, but it’s more in-progress

    1. Emoji Flashcards - http://flashcards.bpev.me

    Generates Emoji-Audio-Text flashcards with audio in a bunch of languages (meant to be used with Anki). The idea is that it’s better to avoid using your native tongue when learning a language, so use common visual images (Also, please help fix my translations 😂)! But my friend just vetted the Japanese deck, and I’ve been updating the Mexican Spanish deck as I go, so maybe those ones are pretty okay right now.

    2. Multireader - https://github.com/bpevs/multireader

    For reading e-books with select-to-translate, so I can read a book in another language, and highlight when I don’t know a word. I want to make it create flashcards from the words I highlight.

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    language apps