MacAnus

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[–] MacAnus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

Better not be!

[–] MacAnus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

No worries :) thanks for your input!

[–] MacAnus@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 weeks ago

I think you're right!

These look just like them, and i'm pretty sure the luna moth eggs on the top voted comment are actually green shield bugs eggs too.

Thanks!

[–] MacAnus@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah I'm starting to believe this chart may not be trustworthy...

I googled Luna moth eggs and it seems theyre more of a brownish shape (🤭).

It's getting real annoying having to sift through the bullcrap in search results...

[–] MacAnus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

We do have a lot of those...

[–] MacAnus@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Wow that looks spot on! And they're about 1mm in diameter.

Never seen those moths though...

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by MacAnus@sh.itjust.works to c/whatisthisthing@lemmy.world
 

Pretty sure these are eggs... But what creatures will emerge?

Finger for scale

[–] MacAnus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

That seems right, thanks!

I'll mark this as likely solved :)

 

Outside a local school window.
I'm guessing it has to do with networking but I'm curious about why they're outside, especially as they're not that high off the ground and can easily be tampered with from the street.
Stickers on them read "ROCK" and "ROLL".

[–] MacAnus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Good question, I just read the article and couldn't find it either

[–] MacAnus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Tout a fait d'accord.

[–] MacAnus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

J'imagine qu'ils sont chiants à enlever, comme la gravure, et ça fait une étape de plus dont le voleur se passerait sûrement bien.
C'est pas infaillible mais je suis sûr que ça a un impact.

[–] MacAnus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

There's an episode of the Lions led by Donkeys podcast about her called "Episode 254 - Zheng Yi Sao, The Pirate Queen of China" for anyone interested.
They go into more details on her life and achievements, I had a good time listening to it.

[–] MacAnus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Well that's quite the literal translation :)

 

For packing joints.

I made a little baseball bat years ago for that purpose and recently had fun making more different ones for friends.

As you can see I used a piece of rebar for the bat.
I "turned" it using a drill and angle grinder then going through different grains of sanding:

The lightsaber's hilt was made the same way, using a dremel tool to get more control on the details.
The "blade" is made of Corian, a synthetic stone commonly used for countertops.

The sword required a lot more precision to make and ended up okay but looking closely nothing is really symmetrical or straight...
I grinded it from a random stick of metal, the pommel is made from aluminum and the grip is two layers of sewing thread soaked in superglue, sanded, then superglued again.
A cross-guard would have added a lot of character but I didn't find a nice and easy enough way to do it, and I was short on time...

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by MacAnus@sh.itjust.works to c/imadethis@lemm.ee
 

Today I jumped back on this project that has been on pause for about a year :)
Turning cheap defective desktop speakers into a set of wireless Bluetooth stereo speakers.
Got the idea from this video from DiyPerks.

I'm trying to recycle as much as I can:
Desktop speakers were defective and given to me by family,
Bluetooth receivers are from old earbuds,
Batteries come from and old powerbank,
Charging module from old vapes (still need to figure out a few things about them, not sure I'll end up using those).
The only thing I bought so far are amps for the audio output tu the speakers.

Any input or advice is welcome :)

I'll keep you updated with more details if anyone is interested

 

Recently dismantled a TV and its backlighting consisted of thin cfl tubes. This gave me the material to try something I've been curious about for a while! I sealed some yeast in a little section of tubing for a friend's birthday (his last name is Baker). Kind of a shitty gift as i doubt it would survive as a keychain but I had fun making it (and its failed predecessors). Here are the other attempts, from left to right: pepper, red and blue food coloring, yeast

 

Plug one side of the cable on the left of the box, the other side on the right, press the button and whichever light doesn't come on means that part of the cable is faulty. I learned a lot from my bad decisions :)

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by MacAnus@sh.itjust.works to c/imadethis@lemm.ee
 

I made this a few years ago and still use it regularly! The "spoon" side fills up with 1 portion of rice and the hole in the handle can fit 1 portion of spaghetti. What do you think?

Edit: sorry about the double post.. I thought I had backed out and lost the first one so I posted this one, and I just noticed the first one went up

 

Made this out of a plastic bottle after seeing a YouTube video (can't give credit unfortunately as I can't find it anymore).

You can make it into any shape that the bottle will fit around (and can't be much smaller than the bottle since it will only shrink so much).

I used a piece of wood as template, cut the top of the bottle, put it around the piece of wood and shrank it with a heat gun. I then cut off the excess and shaped the closing mechanism.

It took a few tries to get it right but I've since used the technique to make containers/protections for several objects and I'm very happy with the results!

If you want to try this, be aware that the tightest you shrink the bottle around the template, the hardest it will be getting it out! I suggest making the template in atleast 2 pieces, this helped me a lot. (In this example I first pulled out the small wooden tab with pliers, and once out the bigger one came out easily).

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