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How hard would it be to build a "space suit"
I don't necissarily need it to be so tight it can operate in the vacuume of space,
Just enough to keep the Canadian winter off my face.
Climate control like heating and cooling and ventilation would be a plus but not totally necissary.
what about a snowmobile suit?
>>924811
I don't want to look that crazy anon
goggles and a scarf?
as for heated clothing, this is something i have actually researched pretty extensively and it's not really viable unless you have a ton of money to drop on expensive Li batteries or you're also using a vehicle like a bike or a scooter. If you have a powered scooter you have an essentially infinite power source from the alternator / generator. Otherwise you're going to be lugging around huge batteries or paying out the ass for Li-ion and still having to carry quite a few of them to get any decent heating time. The heated jacket itself...
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hel me out here please DIY dinosours i found a misteri on a metal forum from spain and i cant find this company and what its the disc for.
aditiona information it come in a box of stuff when buy a lathe, the disc is hard bery hard so any one ?
Perhaps it is an accessory for the lathe you purchased? A spacer or shim of some kind.
>>923250
100mm outer diameter, 1.48mm thick?
Shim, I think.
pop it in the CD drive and see whats on it
Looking to acquire lots of cheap foam
Looking to do some cheap insulation that doesn't require dry wall or paneling.
Any ideas? Airier the better I suppose, I could use like bubble wrap or pool toys, but the air is going to leak there
You could probably get a lot of styrafoam for cheap or free, maybe you could buy styroafoam sheets or even packing peanuts if you have something to put them into.
>>922846
In third world countries they've used empty plastic bottles or even old car tires as insulation.
>>922854
I only have 2 liter bottles, they're too thick and I don't know how I'd attach them, I was just going to glue the foam to plywood, plus I'd have to put air back into them
Hey /diy/, I am troubleshooting these old speakers that look like hubcaps. Right, so their sound started cutting out at maybe a third of their max volume right after the house circuit it was on had some difficulty grounding itself. Pretty suspicious, so I thought that the power supply had been damaged. I wanted to test the system with my bench power supply but found out that it takes 13VAC 5A.
I have not seen many electronics that take low voltage AC so this is new. Where do you even buy replacement transformers? All I found was Ebay has this a halogen transformer at...
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>>921739
>alloywheel speakers
>Loud music
Pick one.
a lot of AC devices will work fine with a DC input coz they're just gonna rectify the AC anyway. so you can use your bench supply, no harm will come to the amp.
although you will need to adjust the DC voltage to about 1.4x the AC voltage to get the same effect, so use 18Vdc.
Hey /diy/ I've got this GBC here, going to do a front light mod on it, before that I wanna try and customize it . Spray paint? Custom light? Any ideas appreciated.
>pic related
>actual color of GBC
Custom cases look cool.
>>918518
Ye but as of now I have no idea how to go about it, any ideas as to how I could spray paint designs without it getting sticky? I was thinking regular spray paint with some stencils then using a final coat of matte spray to make it smooth and shiny. Dunno how well the plastic would look and feel though
Mods are asleep. Post sinks.
(Also, home reno thread)
Personally, I have no problem with champagne oak, but it's not my decision, now is it?
Kitchen re-skin, yo.
TELL US OF YOUR PROJECTS!
TELL US OF YOUR EXPLOITS!
in other news I have a wired programming question.
I have a rotary encoder that'll be reading tens of thousands of revolutions at a time and a device which will send signals at irregular intervals.
I need to record and export the number of revolutions(to the single or half revolution if at all possible) between signals(and between startup and the first signal) onto an Excel spreadsheet.
does anyone know of a good Arduino to Excel interpretation and recording software?
>>895179
Do you need the spreadsheet to be filled out in real-time? If not, Excel is capable of reading text-based files just fine. I think if you give the file a .csv extension it might just work automagically.
Does the Arduino have a counter circuit? You might need to buy one to work with the encoder.
Made a standalone with built in ds1302, 74hc595 for driving a LCD and triggering triacs. Uses an atmega328 and I program it with an arduino mega as ISP.
Also OP, your best bet is to read up on C# and the APIs that exist to interface it with excel.
I want to build a waterproof diy 3ft ship hull out of wood with an integrated camera to livestream my local coastline, how feasible is this? What can I do about range? And will an electrical engine work with such a big hull? What kind of electronics can I salvage at the local dump?
>why not a rc heli/quad
It wouldn't feel the same especially on still waters like at the lake
The build needs to be able to be controlled with high waves and bad weather so it doesn't get lost
It's all about the waterproofing. Wood boats have very tight joint tolerances, so I wouldn't suggest that unless you are an experienced woodworker. Consider carving a block of styrofoam, then sealing it with bondo if that does not describe you. Range will be affected by the drag of the hull, the capacity of motor+battery you put in it, and the efficiency of the propeller you use; so find an RC boats guide and research best methods. RC boat expert does not describe me, so I stop now.
Hobbyking has cheap b-grade 3ah 6s lipos, might come in useful.
>>924053
>how feasible is this?
It's not exactly rocket science
>What can I do about range?
It depends on a multitude of things, but you shouldn't expect more than 2km for controller range. It mostly depends on how you want to solve the streaming though, if you want to stream from the boat directly via 3G or some form of Wimax, you're not likely to get the 3km range. If you stream video using conventional 5.8G methods, then you upload the feed...
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How would you made pic related from an old dentist's chair?
I would consider my skills and available tools/materials, come up with a construction, and use google and the stupid question thread when issues arise. I'd go through several design iterations, considering various advantages and drawbacks of different methods. Eventually I'd settle on 2-3 variants that seem promising. Only after that I'd present my plans to /diy/ and make a thread asking for feedback and posting pictures of my progress.
But I don't have a dentist's chair, so it's more of a hypothetical thing.
>>923327
/thread
>>923327
sticky plz
i need help determining what paint to use, i thought rustoleum satin finish was going to be good, but it just leaves it tacky even after a few days of drying. any reccomendations?
Have you sanded the surface before painting?
yes, definatley, took a few days
I get a lot of powdery paint dust on mine. Would a wet rag be safe to get rid of excess? Curious about OP as well.
I've never worked on a refrigeration system before, but why WOULDN'T this work? I've got a friend who does plumbing so he has most of the pipe bending and fitting tools I'd need.
Obviously excluding the fact that it isn't time or money efficient compared to buying one prebuilt. I have a feeling there's some major flaws with my design but I don't know enough to spot them.
DESU I'm probably not going to do this in case I fuck up the seals and asphyxiate myself.
>>922744
I'm not a fridgie, but that seems legit to me. Why not mount the hanger for the evaporator assembly between the fans though? It's dead space anyway in terms of airflow and will make for a much more compact unit.
"Digital thermostat + Display" = some sort of remote controller?
>>922747
I've got a digital thermostat that runs off 240V and has a 240V relay controlled by some kind of microcontroler with a thermister. Basically it just lets me set a temperature range (HiLo or LoHi) with a digital readout rather than relying on the analogue thermostat.
I originally bought it to put in a fridge that was misbehaving, but now I've just got it laying around.
The odd offset design for the window unit is to minimize the length the pipes have to be and the distance the window has to be...
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>>922744
do you already have any components? the design seems fine but the details are in the physical characteristics. what size evaporator? what size condenser? what size compressor? Are your condenser fans sized correctly to maintain an adequate high side pressure? why are you running 24v fans when you have 240v supplied? are your evap fans sized to maintain proper suction pressure and superheat?
also, you don't need a 'moisture trap'. they are used mostly on refrigeration systems and not necessary on...
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/pol/ here
Does /diy/ know how to make sky lanterns?
>>922692
Yeas but not of biodegradable material. So I'm going to be a dick and not share my info.
>>922758
good on you. those things kill animals every year.
>>922692
READ THE FUCKING STICKY AND FUCKING GOOGLE IT
At one time, there was a thread that listed a bunch of youtube channels that were /diy/ related...
anyone have that list again?
No bit two awesome channels I can think off the top of my head are Ave and clickspring. Both are quite entertaining
Along with those two there's also Dave from EEVBlog.
And then there's a little sea of car /diy/ channels. I'd recommend Eric the car guy.
Ignore Scotty Kilmer.
>>920206
>eevblog
>do it yourself
pick one, since that guy does fuckall but talk
I like these:
Matthias Wandel
w2aew
AvE
Applied Science
What are you brewing bros? Just pitched yeast/cultures for a flemish red.
>>919453
Also have a picture of the pellicle from my other sour that I brewed back in September, it was just re-racked along with a culture of lacto and some Basil Hayden's whiskey barrel slices.
>>919453
Is that right before pitching? How the fuck do you get your wort so clear at that point in time? Do you filter or use some finings?
>>919536
Nah that was just after adding malt. I do pour the wort through a brewing stainless screen when adding it to the fermenter to remove hop trub and help with aeration.
Dunno whether to post this on /k/ or /diy/ but basically very soon I'm coming into possession of a Martini Mk. III
I want to hang it up but all the 'gun racks' I find on the interweb are either for like 5 rifles or tacticool.
Considering I want just the one rifle and it is an antique I'm thinking of some kind of wood and/or brass hook wall mount thing - but I don't know what to get or make one from scratch
halp plox
>>924527
Buy a five rack and slice off four racks.
Also, be sure that you are aware of your local display laws. In Canada, the weapon still ahs to be secured somehow, and not displayed with ammunition.
>>924533
Most of how they're designed means it wouldn't look very pretty (even if I did a very good job of cleaning up after) - plus it'd be wasting money buying a large rack to chop it up
The martini as its so old counts as an antique so it can sit there quite freely - until I load ammunition for it but that's a different matter
>>924527
Make a gun rack from a deer rack. Deer antlers are pretty cheap and look classy. Here's a rack on ebay that's a matched set. It currently has no bids, and is only 15 dollars.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/8-Point-Whitetail-Deer-Antlers-Horns-White-tail-/272089052394?hash=item3f59c574ea:g:ZIoAAOSwYaFWgXQg
One word of warning though deer antler stinks while you're grinding it or using high speed saws. Apart from that, antler is a perfecy diy material, and would look great with that rifle.
