deleted by creator

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.

I’ve been learning blender and a bit of Unity for the past two months to make Vrchat avatars. I’m currently trying to learn uv mapping so I can finally give my avatar some textures.

I got kinda obsessed with a security policy engine last year and am trying to build a visual novel around it.

The story is supposed to take place in the near future where advancements in medicine and technology have created an implant that allows humans to program their cells’ semipermeable membranes via software using this engine’s policy language. The implant has the promise of preventing all disease since the right policy can regulate what enters your cells. However, in reality, many people suffer side-effects due to having implants with poorly-programmed policies. You play as a tuner who needs to save ailing patients by fixing their implants’ buggy policies.

I’m thinking of making something similar to Trauma Center where there will be these real-time policy tuning games interwoven with sections of VN plot. Of course it’s all ideas and prototypes rn. Nothing ready to show :P

A colleague lent me a book with various yoga poses a few weeks ago and it has massively improved how I feel. Currently I’m working on digitizing it by creating an application where you can choose a pose, and it will be shown on your screen. I never made gui apps with GTK before, so it’s a nice learning experience.

Writing on the proposal for my phd. Unfortunately not really anything I could show at this point.

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.

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.

I host a podcast called Almost Plausible where a couple of friends join me to create movie plots based on ordinary objects. For example, some of our episodes are paper bag, axe, and toilet brush.

You can find it wherever you listen to podcasts, or on the Almost Plausible website.

Recently finished this corset: ,

It’s really inspiring to see such a wide range of hobbies in this thread

I’m building a replica of the talking skull from the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction at Disneyland.

I’ve got the skull 3d printed, primed and ready for paint. I picked up a new Arduino and am trying to get it programmed where it can connect to wifi and listen for artnet so I can control it with show control systems/software.

It has been frustrating because if it doesn’t update the wifi or whatever frequently enough it will go into a reboot loop. If I keep getting frustrated, I might find a way to use the one with a poe hat instead. It would probably be more reliable, but I’ll have to drop a new Ethernet run to where I want it. It will also be a much larger Arduino to hide.

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

I’m ricing my Arch Linux install, again.

Previously, I made a custom status bar implementation using eww widgets, to replace functionality I thought was lacking in the current offerings like waybar, polybar, and the likes. I wanted weather integration, Spotify widget with controls and album artwork display and such, apart from all the regular functionality. So my bar and it’s subwidgets were essentially just a huge system of eww widgets.

I’ve also been using i3 for the last decade at least. But now, I’ve finally decided to try Hyprland after visiting their website and falling in love with the smooth animations.

So I’m up and running now with an i3-like control scheme using the hy3 plugin. Now I’m exploring AGS as a widget system, which seems much more promising than eww in terms of setup and clear way of doing things and the library is solid and generic enough for my needs/requirements. AGS is also JavaScript so very familiar as I’m a web developer. It also seems much more efficient in terms of resources and CPU cycles.

It’s looking great so far and I’m thinking about using waybar as my bar, but we’ll see how far that gets me. I might just make a huge widget system again with AGS. It was pretty fun last time, a few years ago.