After almost 2 days we are finished with the first joints of our “secret” project. Next week, all of them should be finished.
Special shoutout to the repair site iFixit who are now on the Fediverse, you can follow them at:
They provide repair forums and free repair guides for phones, computers, consoles, kitchen equipment, tools, medical devices, cars etc. They also review and tear down new gadgets to see how repairable they are.
Repairing your existing stuff is much, much better for the environment than buying replacements.
#DIY and #RepairCafes have gone mainstream!
MAKE DO AND MEND From repair cafes to YouTube videos, how you could save HUNDREDS of pounds fixing broken belongings
Learn tips on how to keep your goods going for longer
by Harriet Cooke, Consumer reporter
14 Mar 2025
Excerpt: "If you’re not hands-on, another solution is to find a local repair cafe.
"There are more than 140 in the UK.
"Professional organiser Janine McDonald, 54, who runs Clear The Clutter Now, visited her local branch in Boothstown, near Manchester, with her 14-year-old Dyson DC24.
"'The motor had gone and it would have cost more than £100 to send it to Dyson to fix.
"'I fixed part of it by watching YouTube but it still wasn’t right, so I took it to my local repair cafe.'"
https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/33860996/save-hundreds-of-pounds-fixing-broken-belongings/
#DIYVideos #FixIt #RepairCafe #RepairCafesUK #SolarPunkSunday
Vous ne savez pas d’où viennent vos allergies au printemps? Ne cherchez plus, c’est de la faute des chatons dans les pivoines!
Ça m’a pris un petit paquet d’heures pour graver cette plaque au format A3. L’encre n’accroche pas super bien la plaque mais je vais tenter de la dégraisser lors de mes prochains tirages. Je vis aussi essayer de rajouter une couche colorée pour les pivoines et les feuilles, j’espère que ça sera cool quand ça sera terminé!
#catsofmastodon #diy #catsoffediverse #linocut
Working on my Micro 8088 and got the floppy controller done! But I forgot the 3.5" floppy uses a different power connector size (feels like a 1993 rookie mistake.) So waiting on an adapter. In the mean team, switched to my VGA board for some fun.
#Retrocomputing #Windows #Microsoft #vintagecomputing #Micro8088 #8088 #diy #soldering
While looking for new hardware for our home server (a 19'' mini rack server is very tempting...), I just came across project #minirack
10" rack server builds using a mix of off-the-shelf commercial and #diy #3dprinted mounts, panels, frontplates etc.
Looks interesting (and the mini racks are also rather cute).
Maybe interesting to some of you.
https://github.com/geerlingguy/mini-rack
https://mini-rack.jeffgeerling.com/
@trouble @ascentale @mossyfoot @bikenite I was asked what kind of battery. It's this one!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/186641137947
It's kind of a rare model but it is out there!
You'll need/want to take off the battery's included regulator circuit board; the MonkeyLight canister has its own. But that's easy, it's easy de-soldering.
Check out this wild creation from our community member Mictronics, shared in our Discord community! He built a #meshtastic node into an old #nokia 5130, and yes, the multi-tap keyboard works. Absolute retro tech wizardry.
#RetroTech #DIY #MakerCommunity
@fuchsiii @grumpygamer oftentimes said cores ain't even "dedicaded" but shared...
"shared core VPS" are a very big mistake, espechally on Hosters like #Hetzner...
So OFC said systems are overworked, espechally the convenience-based options where one just shoves on files and tells it to "bake it"...
If feasible, just grab' yourself a decently performing PC/Server/Laptop you can chug in a closet, SSH/RDP onto and use it as "build servant" ("Rechenknecht") to run your builds and then sent a notification once done.
@lp Les #cosmétiques c'est mon domaine alors je peux vous conseiller deux choses. 1- en avez-vous vraiment besoin d'andisudorifique? de grande chance que NON. contentez vous d'un déo simple (anti odeur) au besoin (pourquoi toujours en mettre?). 2- Je suis une fan de la Savonnerie des Diligences mais j'aime aussi celui de Gourmet Sauvage. Si vous le faite maison #DIY n'abusez pas du bicarbonate de soude ou des huiles essentielles #MoinsMaisMieux #SlowCosmétique
Hi liebe #DIY und #Balkonsolar Community, vor Kurzem habe ich hier mein Vorhaben geteilt, eine Terrassenüberdachung selbst zu bauen und Module darin zu integrieren.
Danke an alle, die mit Tipps und Links geholfen haben!
Jetzt ist es soweit: Die Planung ist abgeschlossen und die Materialien sind da.
Ich werde die Schritte, die mir bei der Vorbereitung geholfen haben, mit euch teilen. Beim Aufbau werdet ihr "live" dabei sein .
Folgt dem Thread
cc: @diy @balkonsolar
"My teen years: The transputer operating system" (Oscar Toledo G.)
Komm am 15.3. zum Repaircafé im Hackerspace Bielefeld!
jeden 3. Samstag im Monat ab 15:00 Uhr
Bringe deine kaputten Geräte, Textilien oder Fahrräder mit – wir reparieren gemeinsam!
Lerne, tüftle und tausche dich aus.
Kostenlos, Spenden willkommen.
#RepairCafé #Bielefeld #Nachhaltigkeit #DIY
On va bientôt devenir des adultes avec ma compagne !
Enfin… pas sûr ? https://www.pokepedia.fr/Rondoudou
#pokemon #rondoudou #cricut #homemade #diy #jigglypuff
Showing off new features for my home cockpit: Priority alerts, sounds and more status indicators
This uses my X4-SimPit extension for X4: Foundations, that sends ship telemetry via a socket to my node-red plumbing pipeline, which in turn forwards data to Websockets, SocketIO and MQTT. Various subscriber listen on the new messages to run blinken lights and my HUD app. I’m using the well known message format also used by Elite Dangerous so it’s compatible with that game as well.
Pick your poison: https://makertube.net/w/nUoG2ZPeAW1QhT3A2BXRrM / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp1PkVhH9cc
Oh yeah… and on Linux PC
Let me know what you think!
X4-SimPit code (pending changes) is here: https://github.com/bekopharm/x4-simpit
The cockpit panel has a dedicated project page here: https://simpit.dev/
Here are two of our hot raised beds and the one I've "Pixie proofed" so far. We now have a total of five raised beds though one is narrow and exclusively for some special raspberry bushes Melissa ordered.
I'm kinda getting back into the gardening and outdoor mood. The prospect of bees has helped. It's not too hard, it was a beautiful 80°F here today.
Have a good evening friends! I've got to clean up and make dinner.