I got Doom running on my RGB keyboard

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Hardware projects. Sadly, a lot of them are 90% or more done but never finished due to me not having access to my 3d printer anymore for another 6 months.

• I made a smart dumb doorbell (a simple doorbell that sends a phone notification and plays a sound through speakers using ESPhome and home assistant with a battery that lasts many months). I couldn’t find anything like it that wasn’t point-to-point since we live in our shed right now. Very cheap to make too. Like 25€ or less in total. https://github.com/JustEnoughDucks/SmartDumbDoorbell/tree/main

• My fully custom flight stick for space simulators https://github.com/JustEnoughDucks/LibreMiG-S which I stopped when we moved and started our renovation. We are almost to the point where I can set the 3D printer back up and iterate the housing the last time. My favorite but took a ton of time and was pretty frustrating sometimes.

• A HomeAssistant media player and voice assistant satellite. It plays through a 90s Yamaha AV receiver and controls it with and IR LED. Needed also for my doorbell https://codeberg.org/JustEnoughDucks/S3-DAC-INTCONN

• my newest project: a fitness tracker without a screen. It tracks all the essential biometrics like heart rate, spo2, activity, and sleep and that is it. No stupid SaaS or enshittificstion bullshit. It doesn’t have gps because if I need that, i will just use my phone. I just finished designing the development board for it. https://codeberg.org/JustEnoughDucks/Essence-Track-DB

I’ve made this modding tool for the video game Sins of a Solar Empire 2

https://github.com/JustAnotherIdea/sins2-scenario-tool

It’s still a work in progress, but I’m very happy with how it’s turned out so fat

I don’t think either are particularly exciting and I didn’t take pictures, but I’m proud of them.

After years of putting it off, I’ve finally cobbled together a gaming PC, it’s not a powerhouse, most of the parts are about 10+ years old salvaged from my wife’s upgrades over the last few years, and I still need to find a keyboard and mouse I like

I don’t really have space in my home for a desk, the spare bedroom/office is home to my wife’s computer and don’t really have room to squeeze in another, so I built it in a HTPC case, and it’s pretty damn cool playing on the 70inch TV with surround sound and the hue lights synced up to it

The other is the cabinets above our fridge. We got a new fridge that’s a bit bigger than our old one, and there’s a bit of a weird bump at the top that prevented the cabinets from swinging open fully.

So I moved the hinges to the top of the doors instead of the side, and added some gas springs so they stay open, they have enough clearance to open that way.

The measurements the springs came with to tell you where to mount them are total bullshit. Took a bit of trial and error to figure that out, but my cabinets now have DeLorean-style gullwing doors.

A very large and powerful platform for web and command line processesing with a gazillion features.

I really wish I had something for this but im not the most artys or crafty of persona.

Does art count?

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.

Latest terrarium, work in progress, used from thrift, front doors open.

PIC

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 from 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.

So much software.

The problem is, the target audience is so niche: CLI users, developers, people who value shallow dependencies, heterogenous environments, and localism. Not by any means unique or even rare, but certainly a minority. And I hate marketing and self-promotion, so it makes it difficult for me to even post release announcements.

Luckily, I’m mostly scratching my own itches, so userbase size isn’t important, but knowing that at least a few other people are getting value out of my work would be nice.

Ima clarify that: large userbases are a royal PITA. Yes, there are benefits, but the sense if obligation can be oppressive, and it’s hard to find ways of saying “no” nicely.

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!

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.

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.

I’ve been making more music than I usually do lately. Here’s my most recent track: https://on.soundcloud.com/zNnZQUjdG2V4H3Hz8

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.