I don’t necessarily mean adult as in NSFW.
I’d probably bring in my RG280V. It was my first handheld emulator. I had emulated games on my phone in the past and even used a Bluetooth controller but playing on it felt different. More real in a way.
I grew up with the Game Boy so the idea of having thousands of games on the go is pretty neat to me.
I’ve since moved on to the RG405M.
What about you? Do you have anything neat or special to you that you could talk about for a couple minutes?
Would love to see photos as well
Ma dick
Edit: Buncha prudes…
That’s him right there, officer.
Will you at least tell jokes, like Louis CK while you violate everybody?
Are you ready for the critique or is that all just part of the enjoyment? Secondly, if presented with a challenge of sword fighting would you accept?
Im ready for anything
I’d like to bring a tall ship sailor. Preferably from the 18th or 19th century. I bet they’d have some interesting work stories to tell.
I’d bring my Moog Theramini. Nothing like playing the air waves! It’s magic science!
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I own a sextant. I have other cool stuff, but that’s the one that probably has the most universal appeal.
This has been a very cool thread.
Not sure what a show and tell is, I guess my laptop with tons of stickers, and boot up something that looks hackery. Besides that, my guitar perhaps?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_and_tell
It’s something kids do at school. They bring in something important to them, show it off, and describe it a bit
I’d bring my Split ergonomic keyboards I’ve built/am working on.
I’d love to get others into the hobby or crowd source help in coding QMK from those who are already in it. Online forums are a great resource but for some there’s no replacing an in-person teacher.
I’ll hopefully come back and edit this post when I get home to share a picture.
I built one of those Ben Eater 8 bit breadboard computers, which I’m pretty proud of.
Is a copy of Ben Eaters or did you do your own thing?
I largely followed along with his build, but tried to rearrange everything to be more compact.
I also had to make some changes to get it to work, since there are actually a few well-known issues with the way it’s done in the videos.
I have plans to hook it up to a Raspberry Pi Pico, and set up a webserver so people can control it online. Could be a fun mod for sure.
Very cool!
I was recently at a maker space that had thousands of unused ICs and thought this would be an excellent project. I couldn’t really interest anyone else. They wanted to just keep hording the things away.
How would you rate your jumper wire neatness compared with his?
An attempt was certainly made to keep it tidy.
Wow I thought you meant the 6502 computer, but it looks like that’s the original one made of logic gates and shift registers, right?
Yep, that’s the one! I 100% want to give the 6502 a shot too, would be fun to run something more complex than a Fibonacci Sequence on it, haha.
Somethings ESP32 related. Meshtastic radios, a controller I am building to add some features to my car.
Ah, a fellow mesher :)
For now I can only talk to myself though.
Me too. That’s probably why I would want to talk about it. So others will get onboard.
I would bring all the different handicrafts I tried… From crocheting animals (amigurumi), needle felting, diamond painting, miniature building kits, tatting (tho I haven’t have much experience with this), cross stitching, polymer clay, bracelet making, braiding (Kumihimo), beading, “light” jewelry making - depends how much time I have :D
BTW I am open for more craft ideas - I do try to find new ones I haven’t tried before. :)
I could bring all of my new hobbies that lasted about a month too! We could trade lol.
Nothing wrong with a month long hobby. Life is too short to not try new things. ;)
I had a bad mindset “cheap one minute joy” was negative in my mind. Now I know there is no such thing. :) Joy is joy - and by it’s nature fleeting. And if you don’t mind sharing, what were your hobbies that you really liked even if they haven’t lasted?
I just looked up amigurumi after reading it here, how hard is it to get started with 0 experience?
The magic circle can be a struggle. If you do check it out and this ends up as a point of frustration keep looking for more tutorials. I went through a few before someone did it in a way that made sense to me lol
It isn’t that hard. You need a crochet hook, some yarn and stuffing. And maybe one needle with a big eye - but that’s not that important. I watched some youtube tutorials and learnt that way. The big trick with it is to use the “magic circle” to start the project. Here is a random video for beginners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ushHnIxLdYw&ab_channel=olliehollycrochet Hope you can try it :)
*forgot that you need a marker too to see where the “row” starts. (I usually just use a piece of those twisty ties that comes with packaging, but you can use a simple paperclip or even a big safety-pin.)
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=ushHnIxLdYw&ab_channel=olliehollycrochet
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Thanks! I’ll give it a shot!
I’ve taught a few people to crochet and all it really takes is patience, and and accepting that you’re going to feel like you’ve somehow got both too many and also not enough hands for the first little while. There’s no shortage of tutorials online so it’s just a question of finding a beginner one that clicks with you and going from there.
And if you get stuck, need to ask newbie questions, or just want to show off the first few wonky rows of stitches you make to people who will understand what an achievement it is, [email protected] is the community for you!
I immediately thought of tatting just because it’s kind of interesting that you can do it two such different ways with such different tools, and also because using a shuttle looks like actual witchcraft.
Do you have any projects? I would love to see some of your work
Alas, not really! I have a cheap shuttle and am still trying to get the hang of “the flip” but I’ll get it eventually. I did manage a sort of wonky snowflake but that’s about it so far. Trouble is, as you know, all the other hobbies getting in the way 😄
Currently working on cross stitching a dragon from the Discworld books, knitting some crazy speckly socks and a shawl that is way behind where it needs to be to be finished on time, and planning various sewing projects. RIP my free time.
Just left another comment with links to some of the more active craft communities on here, we’d love to see what you’re working on if you ever want to share!
I’m trying needle tatting, but my experience is to end up with exactly what I started with, namely a thread waiting to be used :) While it’s easy in theory, I still have problems of grasping the building blocks.
My last big project was a “never again” cross-stitch from aliexpress. Totally understandable where you are :) And thank you for the links, I missed one of those from my subscriptions!
You and I would get along I feel.
If you are into this stuff I’m sure we could be virtual craft besties :)
I kinda miss this thing from 100+ years ago when women (mostly only women) gathered together and did handicrafts while sung songs or told tales and gossiped about everything :)I’m down to be Internet crafting buddies! :D
Also, if you’re at all lefty and within a reasonably drive of a major city you can probably find a group of anarchists or communists who still do quilting bees and crafting bees. A lot of what I know I learned from people who absolutely do not look like they’d be sewing and knitting. Haha. Spike mohawks and full punk vibes, plus knitting needles and gossip. It’s awesome.
:) Right now I’m back to digital crafting = programming. So nothing to write home about. I did try to find some like-minded people over here, but it’s not easy here. I’m living in Las Vegas. And that means we are immigrants from dozens of different countries and basically 10% of born Americans were raised here. No history and virtually no community in this facade of a city. Probably I would have more luck in a small one gas station town :D
What are you crafting these days?Hey, sorry I haven’t replied. I switched to a different account (@[email protected]) and haven’t checked this one.
I’ve been doing a lot of sewing. Mainly dog toys and pillows for making life a little more comfy :)
The new Dharma has arrived.
We do a lot of hanging out and gossiping on fedi tbf. Mastodon is really big on crafts, and on Lemmy we have places like [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] etc for specific crafts.
For the crafts a bit too niche to have their own active community, [email protected] loves to see completed projects!
Gonna tag @[email protected] and @[email protected] too because I feel like a lot of folks don’t realise how much craft stuff we have on here!
My autograph collection.
…and then have some paper set aside to get everyone’s autograph from the show-and-tell.
I’d bring my best girl Laika, because she’s awesome and I don’t have any interesting junk.
If the timing is right, I would bring a mushroom grow bag with mushrooms sprouting.
If not… probably my radiacode gamma spectrometer and some of my radioactive items. Maybe a clock with radium painted dials and a piece of trinitite. I think that there are many different points of discussion that can be of interest to a broad audience (radioactivity, spectroscopy, electronics, US labor law story of the radium girls, nuclear explosions, background radiation… etc). As a bonus I can bring a UV flash light and show the radium fluorescence. Adults love UV flash lights.
Reminds me of a prank that a physics professor pulled on us. He put the trinitie sample in a large/elaborate Giger counter and then slyly kicked it into test mode while recounting what Trinitite was. “Oh… wait, that’s not supposed to be radioactive…”
My nVidia-branded plastic “sculpture” with a laser-etched 3D Eiffel tower and an actual pre-production GeForce 3 GPU embedded.
In the early 2000s I worked for a small game studio and got the attention from Nvidia for how we used their graphics cards. They wanted us to adapt our game to their new secret GeForce 3 project which was the first programmable GPU (as in shaders).
It was a crazy time with a lot of stories to tell. We got invited to the press conference for the new card, which was held in the Eiffel tower. Yeah, they actually rented the Eiffel tower.
As a thank-you for the work we’d done their developer relations representative had these made for all of the external game developers involved.
I would bring a bunch of fossil rocks & Petoskey stones!
Or my enormous collection of rare (not gonna say the brand) plushies! I’m one of the handful of people who have a special “good community citizen” plush from them!
Or my dumb lizard who was born without scales. I like to educate folks on why they should never get one.
Never get a lizard or a lizard without scales?
A lizard without scales! At least this particular lizard. It makes their natural instincts vs. their physical sensitivities a nightmare to balance.
I have a jar of tar sand from the BP oil spill
What’s the story behind how you got that?
I went out there as medical support when the event horizon caught fire. Spent some time in the skimming fleet, and found a better role supporting beach cleanup. My brother asked for a jar, so one night I gathered several from one of the tar sand piles.
It was quite an experience, BP was throwing money at the problem and the Cajuns were sucking that teat as hard as they could. The shrimp boats stopped running, not because of the spill, but because the recovery paid double and was easy money.
Wild story thanks for sharing!
Let’s not give BP any credit there. I’m pretty sure they didn’t pay any taxes while they were doing that cleanup.
