Hey, Ask Lemmy, we all know that people love to talk about themselves, and I’d love to hear about some of your pleasant experiences. So, please, no matter how big; no matter how small, tell me something that you are proud to have made :)
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I made a printable pattern that allows you to origami fold two d6 dice from a sheet of letter paper. It means I can give my acute psych patients board games if they ask and even if they’re sick enough to insert them into their orifices there’s very minimal harm possible.
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I have other games that also utilize pieces made very similar to the pieces used by this chess set and have even made checkers to accompany that set.
That’s a brilliant solution, I had never even considered anything along those lines. Sounds like you’ve really helped some people out - I’m absolutely saving this template for later use.
I contributed to this animation collaboration project over the course of several months. I worked on maybe 3 or 4 separate pieces, and the final product turned out incredible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vsMHNTQMDU
A few cool things I made of my own volition didn’t even make it in, like a power-fist attachment I modeled and rigged up, and a custom bootup screen animation for the computers.
Although, one main piece I worked on required redoing it like 3 times to get it right. The model we used for reference had a lot of very complex and challenging shapes. :)
It was super rewarding, at a time when I had a brief window where I quit the awful job I was in and could dedicate myself to being a 3D artist. I learned a LOT, collaborating with so many (~40-50?) artists from all over the world.
I received a lot of praise for being able to take feedback and critique well, because I didn’t lose spirit when being told “Your second attempt at this part still isn’t up to quality yet.”
I also received a commendation for going above and beyond, because I designed the rifle grip myself! (The reference model just attaches the rifle to the arm, but we wanted him to hold it.) It was a challenge designing something that looked like it belonged in the design and fit the hand the other artists designed for it.
The level of attention to detail 3D artists can wind up creating is absolutely breathtaking, and seeing the end result here? Gorgeous. Thank you for your contribution :)
Once made a game on my calculator. Not uploaded from my computer, literally typed it in and developed it on the calculator. Had to do some optimization and everything to get it to run reasonably since this wasn’t a very advanced system. It was a pretty simple game about flying a spaceship through an asteroid field, with collectables that blew up all the asteroids onscreen, and your score was how far you flew. It was just nice to actually finish a project for once, and on such limited hardware, and have it actually be fun to play!
https://remocon.tv/
It is a platform that lets people control robots from anywhere in the world in real time, with a live camera feed and everything. There is an API so people can upload their own robots and have others control them.I make music and I’m occasionally pretty happy with some of my guitar playing.
My kids. They are incredible people and I am so lucky to have them.
Many moons ago I had the good fortune to get a contract job creating an online tournament system for a game company. When I asked if there was a requirements document or a spec they said, “The only spec is: we need a tournament system.” It was totally my kind of project - I had carte blanche to do it however I wanted. What I came up with was way beyond expectations. I got a letter of commendation from a small game company in Utah that produced games for them. We field-tested it in a couple actual game tournaments and it worked great. Sadly, for unrelated business reasons my system ended up never being used, but it’s still the project I’m most proud of because I pulled it off almost singlehandedly.
Its actually a picture but if I share it then I no longer truly own it, so no.
It’s no longer online in order to minimize data exposure, but during some major wildfires a decade ago, a small city was evacuated with my city being the nearest safe place to be (~4 hours away), so I built a site within a couple of hours to let people with spare rooms offer space to evacuees. For nearly a week I became the place to find vetted information about resources for everything an evacuee needed to know. It took the province and Red Cross 4-5 days to get their systems up and running so I was an important stop gap. I’ve since devised a system for evacuee information that I can deploy in less than an hour (it’s always running, but I confirm data for each deployment to make sure links and phone numbers are still valid).
People like you make the world a better place.
Thanks. Very kind of you.
You are a hero.
I don’t know about that. If you see someone that needs help, you help. I do appreciate your kind words though!
All it really takes to be a hero is the willingness and ability to help meeting opportunity. A pinch of humility while we’re at it.
You’re really cool. I hope one day to be skilled enough at something I can help people with like that. :)
Aww, thanks.
The best way to gain skills is just to start. Find a problem that needs solving and try to solve it! On that note, if anyone is interested in building a similar site for their area, reach out. I’d be happy to clone what I have and help with the setup to build out a network of sites that are ready to go, The tech is fairly basic - the hardest part is the initial time to find all the information that will be needed and having someone ready to run point in their area when bad things happen.
Something I’m still proud of was a diorama I made in 5th grade for Halloween. It was called the “Peanut House of Horror” and featured dried peanuts with little googly eyes being disassembled in every conceivable way on cardboard torture devices — think a stretcher rack pulling one in half, a “pit and the pendulum” device slicing into one, etc. with peanut shells all over the floor. My parents supported the creativity and humor. Other parents, not so much. But to paraphrase John Waters, you need to possess good taste to appreciate poor taste.
Mr Peanut? NOOOO!!!
A free mobile game “Wandering Alchemist” I’ve released on both Android and iOS. Free as in offline, no ads, no in-app purchases (Besides a fully optional “support the developer”). It’s a GPS walking game where you gather ingredients, brew potions, sell them to merchants and decorate your neighborhood.
On some days it’s awesome, on other days I ask myself why I do this to myself. But overall it’s fun :)
I’m currently working on a big update that reworks all the visuals, a lot of them are still from early on and look really shoddy. For example before and after:
brew potions, sell them to merchants and decorate your neighborhood.
“Potion sellah! I require your most powerful potions!”
“You cannot handle my powshuns, adventurah… they’re much too strong for you.” :>
A classic!
I do have a few small jokes/Easter eggs in the game, but nothing too egregious. Would be fun if a merchant explodes when your potion is too strong, though that would be bad for the age rating (:
My name is on a plaque (along with dozens of others) attached to the Nancy Grace Roman telescope that just launched. I don’t think I’ll ever top that. I also had a hand in building the primary mirrors for JWST, seeing images come back from it has been incredibly rewarding! Working in aerospace definitely has its awesome moments, despite being “just a job” most of the time.
Last year I built this cupboard and hutch, along with a matching buffet.
I would kill to have that cabinet, it’s so pretty… Thank you for your contribution :)
Longtime woodworker here, I’ve never built a traditional china cabinet - that’s mighty nice work! Hat tip.
Greetings fellow craftsman! Thank you very much. It was a big but worthy project.
I’m impressed
This was the biggest woodworking project I’ve tackled yet.
I once sanded and (poorly) refinished a nightstand. In my defense, it was my first time and I don’t think it was stain grade wood. It was always meant to be painted. That’s as far as my skills go. Although, where I moved, inherited quite a few very nice wood working tools so, I might be learning once some of the house maintenance is under control!
Finishing is an entire discipline unto itself. The finish on the cabinet above: I took the surfaces to 180 grit with a random orbit sander, then sanded along the grain at 220 by hand, vacuuming and tack clothing between each grit. Popped the grain with water, sanded at 220 again, and a final tack clothing. No stain, and a polyurethane finish, first coat was 2 parts urethane to 1 part thinner, the remaining 3 coats are 50/50. Wiped on with a cotton rag, cut from an old T-shirt, rubbed out with a piece of paper grocery bag between each coat followed by a light tack clothing to remove the whisper of dust. Do that between each, but not after the last coat. The result is a durable shell coat that still has the texture of wood, you get the depth from wetting the surface but not a visibly thick layer of plastic.
Granted, I did start with $9/board foot black walnut that I hand selected from the lumber yard, not some random night stand. But, I’ll assert there’s no such thing as “stain grade” or “paint grade” wood. People take wormy maple and make stuff like this out of it:
I will grant you that some species of wood have open and uneven grain that will absorb stain at different rates across the surface, creating a hideous blotchy appearance, and wouldn’t you know it most of those species are cheaper, easily available species that have bland and boring grain like pine and birch. Most “stains” look terrible on wood like that. My choice is to go with little to no stain, let the wood speak for itself, maybe subtly tint it with the top coat, or use shellac, either as a top coat or as an intermediate layer. If the wood you’re working with is very prone to blotching, start with a coat or two of blonde shellac to fill up the pores, then switch to your darker garnet or whatever. Shellac is compatible with basically all finishes and is sometimes used as a compatibility layer between water and oil based finishes so you can top coat over it if you want something more durable than beetle poo.
Great info, thank you for taking the time to share!
Damn, that looks fine!
Thank you.
Speed the read write speeds of every server and workstation at work by introducing on the fly compression. I hypothised it would work because we had a surprising amount of idle cpu and even where we didn’t a lot of the clock cycles were waiting for IO. Had to design some benchmarks, run on test systems, do a blue field deployment on a few prod servers, etc, but it was really rewarding to go from idea to implementation. It’s was actually noticble to users for start up time too! It lead to a more aggressive compression on some backups that ended up delaying the need for hardware purchases too.
Years ago I was asked to make a website to educate the public and promote a campaign to bring back a formerly-declared-extinct species.
There were scientists, zoologists, researchers and volunteers in the field who did the REAL work. I had the easy part.
But when the website was launched, I received ‘thank you’ emails from all over the world. Reading all of those letters was one of the most rewarding feelings.
And the best part . . . Though it’s still a threatened species (I’m told recovery potential is strong), today there are more than 500 of these animals living in the wild.
What animal? Critter pics please!
Thanks for helping them out. It’s definitely something to be proud of.
What a wonderful lizard!
handsome little fella