I really wish I had something for this but im not the most artys or crafty of persona.
I make music, including putting it to video every once and awhile. So technically “music videos,” I guess. I don’t share them all that much, but here’s a weird one I’m kind of proud of.
Dang, that’s creepy and I like it. Nice work!
Thank you!
“once in a while”
Doesn’t make a lot of sense but that is the correct phrase.
Around a year and a half ago I started making my own keyboards. Like, I still use normal switches, normal keycaps, and off-the-shelf microcontrollers & firmware, but the layout and the structure are my own design, mostly fabricated at home. After a few experiments (one ortho, one ergo, one macropad, and one gutting of a broken off-the-shelf to try something larger) , I had three keyboards’ worth of aluminum plates made. One was pretty basic but has remained a favorite and another really hit my retro intent for the design, but the second was sort of an ignored middle-child because it wasn’t as refined as the third, or as earnest and satisfying as the first. I fixed it by designing a wrap-around case for it, changing the keycaps, and adding a little solenoid so it sounds like a telegraph machine whenever I flip a little switch. I’m really pleased that I was able to retrofit it to make it stupidly fun to type on. My boards are not exactly the perfectly-finished CNC aluminum showpieces some enjoy, but it’s deeply satisfying to go from a pile of electronic bits, some sheet goods, and a reel of printer filament, to a functioning piece of daily-use equipment.
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More pics! Love the yellow and gray builds.
Thanks! They’re the twins of the one I just spruced up. The gray one is bare aluminum with oak spacers. Construction wise, it ended up looking a LOT like Matt3o’s BrownFox from like ten years earlier. No surprise, I suspect. The Swill plate generator I used was likely borne out of people wanting to do similar projects. It has Box Navy switches combined with Vortex-designed VSA keycaps that you can find mislabeled all over ebay/AliExpress/etc. as “double shot DSA”, except for the BBC Micro inspired F row, with is just 12 red DSA blanks and one that I lasered a design onto.
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The yellow one has “Fauxly Panda” no-name heavy tactiles from Aliexpress, a 3-D printed case and feet, Akko “SA-L” keycaps, and a design (very) loosely inspired by the later Atari 8-bits. The color scheme is meant to sort of vaguely evoke the original 400 and 800. I am really pleased with this layout, which is just a TKL with the F-row shoved over, a few missing keys above the nav cluster, the Shifts split in two, and the modifiers shrunk down and reduced to give that “dangling spacebar” look so many old keyboards have. Only thing I’d do different is not split the left Shift. I just never got used to having two keys there, so all three boards now just map shift to both keys.
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This has been an immensely fun hobby, and I’ve probably done a dozen projects by now, though I’ve probably topped out how refined my designs can be and still be fabbed on a 5W diode laser and an Ender 3 clone. Last project before the solenoid and aesthetic retrofit was my goofy no-stabilizers Battlecruiser, which I’m currently using for work.
This looks awesome man. You got any with numpad?
Oh hell yes, the compact layouts that keep their numpads are my usual preference, though in adding numpads I also decided to do my own plates on my home laser, and that was easier without longer keys, so they got a little… weird.
- First one. Did my own (slightly cockeyed) legends on the keycaps.
- Second one. F Row returns. Tried to make a case that fit the weird layout. More DIY legends.
- Third one. Tried to do a southpaw and minimize the need for custom keys, though it still benefits from a few.
- Back to F-row-less. Careful selection can make this work with purchased caps. It also has a PCB, though the microcontroller is just manually wired instead of being integrated or even socketed.
- HEHEHEHEHEHE.
- Bonus. Numpads don’t have to be part of the board.
I did not realize I need a lefty numpad.
I’m not a lefty, but as an accountant, it’d be great to use my mouse without taking my hand off the numpad
They’re really more for use cases like yours and for gamers who want/need one but want to keep their mice close in. As with most well-known layout concepts in the hobby, Keychron sells some. I found it to be… fine, but obviously mine has more compromises than usual. I mostly use one of those smaller ones that still has a right-hand numpad (typing on the black and white one now), or I keep that external numpad to the right of my mouse.
Thanks, I might check that out. I just got my first mechanical keyboard for Christmas and am loving it. I wonder if I can talk work in to buying me a lefty one.
A very overdue Christmas themed drawing that I’m not finished with just yet. So here’s some fluffy tinsel I just got done with rendering!
My shitty cartoons that I moved to a new animation-focused YouTube channel that now are getting less than 1/10th the views after seeming like non-subscribers liked them but subscribers were leaving my channel every time I uploaded them.
Well, don’t leave us hanging. Show the shitty cartoons!
I have recently made a Pastebin in Rust. I have hosted it on Linode server, It’s not something unique but I really like it since I have made it from scratch.
here is the link: https://paste1.duckdns.org/
I love valheim. It’s an incredible game that keeps getting better. My first foray into the plains was difficult, and I developed a burning hatred for the fulings (goblin things) there. Monsters rarely drop their heads as trophies. I killed thousands and built a large shed and mounted hundreds of their heads on my walls. No pics handy but if anyone is interested I’ll hop on and screenshot.
lol “goblin murder spree” cabin
Little late, but I built an axe throwing range in my garage a few years ago. It’s taken quite a beating though, and one of the kids knocked the target off the wall, so it’s out of commission right now, but I was always happy to show it off when it was up and running.
Latest terrarium, work in progress, used from thrift, front doors open.
Excepting the center-rear plants and two epiphytes (Lowes), everything sourced or created locally.
Substrate: rock (found and cleaned), charcoal & dirt (made myself)
Contents: Mosses, dead and alive, green onions, tiny pine trees, purple hearts (swiped for the gas station trimmings), driftwood (found hiking and canoeing, power washed), reindeer moss (not quite visible)
Lighting: Thrift store light with various grow bulbs, still painting and assembling. Not thrilled with the color, can’t get the high color-fidelity (CRI) grow bulbs I’ve used before, had to mix it up best I could.
Animals: Nothing so far, but I want to pack it with detritivores like millipedes, springtails and roly polys. Wife is getting me a chameleon, probably tonight! Not sure how to keep the bug population going with him in there. Ideas? Rocks to hide under? I may also get a Pac Man frog.
It’ll be way cooler and different in a year. Just put the round, green moss in, hasn’t settled naturally, stuff like that. The pines will be worked over as bonsais, some stuff may die or turn out inappropriate, wood may move around, etc.
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Ik people dont like ai but ive put lots of effort into ensuring it is heighly accurate.
Lmao hello again, I follow it good work
Thx for the support. I keep dropping the link anywhere thats vaguely relevent lol.
Does art count?
For a second, I thought that was a shell casing next to the frog. Which, admittedly, would have made for a more intriguing narrative.
You mean the acorn shard or the piece of stick?
I’ve similarly been told before it looks like the frog is smoking or chewing on the blade of grass.
The piece of stick. Though I couldn’t so positively identify it, hence the momentary confusion!
I like the second drawing with the motion of the wind and the pillars! Nice photos too! 😃 Forest one is such a vibe
Thanks.
Interestingly enough the one with the wind is based on a dream I had. It may be why it came out so vivid.
I got Doom running on my RGB keyboard
Fucking amaaaazing!
SMH…I love it, but really? 😆
Ha ha ha, ye, practical it is not! In my defense, it started as trying to solve a real problem I was having. The keyboard doesn’t have a capslock/numlock indicator, so I had the idea of using the backlight as an indicator.
Got that running, but I was having fun so I decided to make a little snake game
Showed that to a friend who made the usual joke of “ok yeah, but what about doom?”
I knew it was going to be unplayable, but I’ve never actually put doom onto something weird before and it felt like a rite of passage, so I thought why not. It was surprisingly easy! Only took an hour or so thanks to doomgeneric
Delightful
Is any piece of hardware safe from doom?
This is my thesis as to why the Brazilian Electronic voting machines are fairly safe from hacking and vote manipulation. We have never seen one running Doom in the wild.
I’ve put together two servers for self hosting a lot of services for myself, rather than relying on platforms that continually get worse.
The one on top, a retired Datto backup machine, hosts TrueNAS scale with a bunch of different services (Pihole, Jellyfin, Immich, etc.) and our network shares. The bottom one, Dell PowerEdge R620, runs Fedora server. I plan to use it for locally hosted game servers, but it just runs Minecraft (AllTheMods 10).
I’ve used knowledge I’ve gained in the IT space to set up the networks, and even have a VLAN running for an Ubuntu server VM of which I host for a coworker to learn on.
I made my own, single source bubble hash live rosin, from seed to final product, all by myself and it came out the best I’ve ever done.
I don’t really have anyone to share it with who would understand and I don’t know if any of you get it either, but I’m super happy with the end result and proud of all the work I did.
Looks great, I bought a press recently, but trying in shake I have decided I need to grow my own plant to do that and get good results. I was thinking about doing it, but seeing what you got out in now more motivated to get that done this year.
The hardest part is starting my dude! I highly recommend trying to grow at least once. It’s a lot of time and effort to grow it, harvest it, turn it to bubble hash, and then press it into rosin, but I find it very rewarding, especially now that I’m making decent product. You can also apply a lot of what you lean growing cannabis towards growing food crops like tomatoes and corn.
Looks delish mate, good work
Looks like good work
I’m developing my first vidyagame, an RTS Clicker survival where you have to grow to be the largest organism on the planet, called Infinitree. Steampage going up in February, prototype is going out to F&F this month. Check out The Infinitree website for more info :-)
