Hopefully I’m not breaking any guidelines on self-promotion, but I bet some of y’all have made some really cool things.
Whether it’s physical, art, a website, or software – what is something that you’re really proud of creating?
Please remove if this violates any guidelines (I couldn’t find anything specific).
I posted this last week in a different community but I built this 3D-printed digital counter that tallies the bird chirps heard in my backyard. It’s powered by a Wemos D1 Mini microcontroller.
That’s amazing! What are you using the detect the audio? I have some spare D1s lying around…
A raspberry pi station that’s running BirdNET Pi. I made a write-up about the whole project.
Made these record album stands. Wanted something where someone could stand there and flip through them instead of having them slotted in sideways where people have to pull them out to look at them. There’s a other one on the other side.
Those look great! My record player stand has them slotted sideways and I wish I would have figured out a way to incorporate a design like this instead. Nice work!
Went on a kind of a tear and built a handful of keyboards. I built all i wanted and don’t have plane for more for myself at the moment.
Classic mechanical keyboard enthusiast: more keebs than hands 😂
Well… Some are more for the shelf because I’m already a LotR nerd. I only have two copies of the trilogy, the hobbit, Beren and Lúthien, The simllmarillion, and Tales from the Perilous Realm… I needed more Tolkien things to show off lol.
Oh wow, you have some really nice keebs!
Thank you! I tried different things with each one. The only thing similar between them is that two have wooden cases, and two have the same switches because kailh deep sea silent tactile a are sooooo good!!!
You should post build detsils here, I’d love to read more about these.
That sounds like a good idea. I might make a post later. I’m not at home, so i wouldn’t be able to do it properly since I don’t have all of them with me at the moment.
You own all these? Damn you must be rich.
i’d wager it’s probably the opposite precisely because they own all these :p
I built an e-bike. I had the bike sitting around, bought a kit and went from there. Pretty satisfied with it after having 1500~ miles. It has a good top speed and was a lot cheaper than buying a premade one. I’m surprised at how well the motor and battery have held up, considering I bought nearly the cheapest one I could. Sometimes I’m pleasantly surprised by the quality of cheap Chinese goods.
I’m an electrician, so maybe this is cheating but I make places bright and functional for a living.
I just finished redoing an old Excel spreadsheet at work so that things update automatically. It’s a good feeling. Years ago I made a spreadsheet for my independent contracting work that I just had to input the date and it generated a summary of my work to give to my boss, I was pretty proud of myself. I also used it to understand which days I made the most money on so that I could make better decisions about when to work. I wish I could have a whole job just making spreadsheets…
being proud of fantastic spreadsheets is underrated! spreadsheets are life.
I don’t know if it counts as cool, but I’m definitely proud! I had a large round footrest-type piece of furniture that was made of cheap leather, which was just completely disintegrating. After months of covering it with a blanket, I finally made a little crochet cover for it!
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I made a “cave” under the basement stairs. I completely closed in the normal opening that people make into a closet. Then I cut a hole in the drywall that goes under the stairs. Finally, I installed a whole-wall cabinet, except that ONE of the doors actually opens to the hole, Narnia-style. Kids love it. And me…
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in office, used more cabinets to make computer station for my and wife’s PC. Single piece counter all the way. l installed PC towers in 12" cabinets. Ventilation you say? I cut holes in the wall, install 140mm noctuas, and tie then to PC. So when PC turns on, whole cabinet exhausts to basement stairwell behind wall.
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I made on of them little life simulator programs with natural selection and genes and such. I love watching my little dudes evolve.
Currently I am rewriting it to be much faster through multi-threading, gpu graphics, and more! My dudes are gonna be so fast.
I made a planter garden box out of reclaimed pallet wood
I’m hoping to build more and start placing them around town with native plants and flowers to help beautify ugly cars centric places
I signed up for this super techy sounding thing called buildspace with my rather non-tech idea of writing a book. I didn’t expect to mesh well with the crowd, but once I got in I decided to not be so jaded and try to enjoy the ride.
I’ve been writing for a while now and have tried to publish a few novels. Receiving nothing but rejections and somewhat hiding all the work I’ve put in to crafting my stories.
Having a rallying force of other people excited to not just create things, but also release them publicly was refreshing! Even if most of the ideas were some word salad of tech buzzwords, the energy was motivating.
So I wrote a book called Besnowed and published it on Amazon during the 6 week program! I call it a nostalgic novel and wanted to capture the feeling of coming home to celebrate a holiday.
Here’s a snazzy website that gives a brief overview: The warmth of winter in a book.
Or you can find it on Amazon!
Congrats on publishing! That’s amazing. Dig the Substack newsletter, too.
Thank you for the kind words! 😊
I made these coasters a few years ago – coasters with coins glued to the top and sealed in epoxy. It was surprisingly easy and they’re still holding up. (Gift idea: coins have years on them.)
I’d like to believe my music is the coolest thing I’ve made. Progressive rock with lots of orchestration and some industrial flavor. My most recent EP.
I made a website for viewing and comparing versions of Wikipedia’s map of war in Ukraine:
https://projects.rys.io/ukrainvasion/You can zoom, pan, and compare between two versions of the map to highlight the changes that happened between them. It gets auto-updated with fresh versions from Wikipedia every couple of hours. You can leave it in an open tab and it will reload every now and then to load the new versions.
And… it doesn’t use a single line of JavaScript, it’s all HTML and CSS (and some background scripts to fetch new versions).
