I just decided to start asking this instead of ‘what do you do?’ when meeting people. Figured I’d try it out on you folks.

  • meyotch@slrpnk.net
    14·
    6 days ago

    I’m living on an old farm with lots of junk.

    So naturally I am building an 8 foot tall wind-driven kinetic sculpture of a Wendigo.

    I bought a welder and a cutoff saw. All the materials are retrieved from the trash gully that every respectable high desert property must have.

    It’s a form of cope and even ritual magic for me. Embody the spirit of hoarding and greed so it is vulnerable and can be imprisoned, that sort of vibe.

    It will take all winter to finish it. The rebar armature is flexible and bobs in the wind. I will add sun bleached oak branches to give it flesh.

  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
    8·
    6 days ago

    A bunch of FOSS hardware and software. https://twystlock.com was my latest creation. My next is a suite of modular open source home automation sensors including everything from air quality to mmWave presence.

    In a more “professional” FOSS sense I just presented a new federated identity management system at IIW based on ActivityPub and OpenID Connect: https://fedid.me.

    I also make a lot of behind the scenes algorithms.

  • dddontshoot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    7 days ago

    Duct tape and cardboard solutions to questions like “How do I get these two pieces of photography equipment to work together?”

    • meyotch@slrpnk.net
      1·
      6 days ago

      I recommend you try gaffer tape instead of duct tape.

      Advantages:

      • Remains flexible and removable forever.
      • Looks nicer, a cool matte black or manynother colors.

      Where I get off making this recommendation:

      I needed a light-excluding bellows for a photographic project. I made one using black illustration stock and gaffer tape. It worked extremely well on the first version and held up to hundreds of cycles of extension/compression. My application was sensitive to pinhole light leakage and there was none.

      It would have lasted longer but that was the end of that project.

      My two cents. I love DIY stuff!

      • dddontshoot@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        Fair comment. I used gaffer tape a lot at the beginning of my journey because it was convenient and available, but everything I built fell apart eventually, so I started using cloth duct tape. I recently discovered aluminium duct tape which is genuinely amazing. It’s like regular cloth duct tape, but it can be shaped really precisely, and it holds it’s shape even if everything else falls apart around it.

        • meyotch@slrpnk.net
          2·
          4 days ago

          Also a fair point. My devices did not need to last indefinitely and I found the gaffer tape to be very forgiving when prototyping, allowing removal and replacement as I worked out the kinks.

  • Tiefling IRL@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    4·
    7 days ago

    I had a shop that made flaming nipple tassels, though I just closed down until the future is more certain. I also create sideshow and fire performances. My most recent one involves a drill and my skull.

    And finally, a lot of D&D content, such as an entire world setting inspired by the tarot deck

  • mwproductions@lemmy.world
    4·
    7 days ago

    I have a podcast that I create with a couple of friends. We take an ordinary object—such as a ceiling fan, or a paper clip, or a toilet brush—and we create a movie plot based on that object. The show is called Almost Plausible, and can be found wherever you listen to podcasts.