🧰Share a DIY pic🧰 HSBI Giveaway

Last week, I proposed an HSBI giveaway for sharing dog photos. It's a subject I like, and there were some enriching and sometimes moving exchanges in the comments.

This week, I'm changing the subject to one that I also love: DIY, inventiveness, creativity and the detour of uses.

To participate, all you have to do is share a photo of your creation in the comments, with a few explanations if you wish.
If you take the opportunity to post about your creation, include the link so that I can visit, vote and share it.

There will be at least one winner of 1 HSBI, which I'll choose from among the projects I like best.
I'll post the results on Thursday, so you've got a few days.
I'm very curious and can't wait to see what you come up with.

To give an example of what I'm looking forward to, here are two of my most recent creations, nothing extraordinary, just little things that make life easier, without a high level of technology or great skill.

Image 1: an earring holder.

My partner has a lot of earrings, and it's partly my fault for offering her too many 😉 her jewelry rack is saturated and she needed a place to store them.
We have a small empty wall space in the bathroom, between the mirror above the sink and the shower cubicle, so I imagined using it.
My device is simple: I stretch a thin nylon cord (salvaged from a broken kite) between two self-adhesive hooks normally used to install small curtain rods on windows, and voilà.
(to prevent the knots from coming untied, I put a little glue on them)
She's very pleased with the result, and so am I, as I think it makes a lovely wall decoration.

Image 2: Modified power supply for light garland.

The batteries had leaked into the casing of this garland, after cleaning up the corrosion, and as I find batteries expensive and not environmentally friendly I made a modification.
Three 1.5V batteries (actually 1.65V when new, and 1.2V at the end of their life) can be replaced by the 5V of a USB power supply.
So I used an old USB cable, keeping only the side that plugs into the charger (or PC, or power bank) and connected the red wire to the + of the case and the black wire to the -.
I've got lots of these little power banks, and here's one that's found a useful replacement for batteries.
This adaptation can be used for various electrical appliances, but you just need to have one in advance, because it takes a long time to recharge, and when it's discharged, it stops suddenly.

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La semaine dernière, j'ai proposé un giveaway de HSBI pour le partage de photos de chiens, c'est un sujet que j'aime bien, et il y a eu des échanges enrichissants et parfois émouvants à travers les commentaires.

Cette semaine je change de sujet, pour un autre que j'aime aussi, le bricolage, l'inventivité, la créativité, le détournement d'usage, le DIY.

Pour participer, vous avez juste à partager en commentaire une photo de votre réalisation, avec si vous le souhaitez quelques explications.
Si vous en profitez pour faire un post sur votre création, mettez aussi le lien afin que je le visite, le vote et le partage.

Il y aura au minimum un gagnant de 1 HSBI que je choisirai parmi les projets qui me plaisent le plus.
Je ferai un post jeudi pour les résultats, vous avez donc quelques jours.
Je suis très curieux et impatient de découvrir vos réalisations.

Pour donner un exemple de ce que j'attends, voici deux de mes toutes récentes réalisations, rien d'extraordinaire, juste de petites choses qui facilitent la vie, sans haut niveau de technologie ni de grande habileté.

Image 1: un porte boucles d'oreilles.

Ma compagne a beaucoup de boucles d'oreilles, c'est un peu de ma faute, je lui en offre surement trop 😉, son présentoir à bijoux est saturé et elle avait besoin de pouvoir les ranger ailleurs.
On a un petit espace de mur vide dans la salle de bains, entre le miroir au dessus de lavabo et la cabine de douche, j'ai donc imaginé l'utiliser.
Mon dispositif est simple, j'ai tendu une fine corde de nylon (récupérée d'un cerf volant cassé) entre deux accroches auto collantes utilisées normalement pour installer des petites tringles à rideaux sur les fenêtres, et voilà.
(pour éviter que les nœuds se défassent, j'ai mis un peu de colle dessus)
Elle est très satisfaite du résultat, et moi aussi car je trouve que ça fait une belle décoration murale.

Image 2: Alimentation modifiée pour guirlande lumineuse.

Les piles avaient coulé dans le boitier de cette guirlande, après avoir nettoyé la corrosion, et comme je trouve que les piles sont chères et pas écologiques j'ai fait une modification.
Trois piles 1.5V (en fait 1.65V quand elles sont neuves, et 1.2V en fin de vie) peuvent être remplacées par les 5V d'une alimentation USB.
J'ai donc utilisé un vieux cable USB en gardant seulement le côté qui se branche sur le chargeur (ou PC, ou power bank) et j'ai raccordé le fil rouge au + du boitier et le fil noir au -
J'ai plein de ces petits power bank, en voilà un qui a trouvé une utilité en remplaçant avantageusement des piles.
Cette adaptation peut se faire pour différents appareils électriques, il faut juste en avoir un d'avance car c'est long à recharger et quand c'est déchargé ça s'arrête d'un coup.

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Cool action again, Servelle! I like to share a robot I build a few years ago.

Sadly I have no pics of the completed robot and the robot is actually disassembled, but I explain a few photos/insights I found. A few photos from within the construction progress I found and I thought it is enough stuff to show my sickest/most mad DIY project. Maybe one day I will investigate my hard drives a little longer and will find some more photos - where the thing is even more assembled and report on my blog... I had a whole website for this project in the past, where I offered all plans, but somehow I got distracted and did not follow the path up to the point where I aimed to mount a gun in caliber .22lr on it... (Yes, I live in Paraguay, here you can do crazy stuff, if you like. I mean "why not?") However...

The robot (called DB-01) is a spider-like robot with 6 foldable legs (almost 190 cm wide, when all legs are opened as wide as possible. Yes, was/is no small thing...) I never finished the outer shell, but in theory, when all legs are folded in, this robot could be a perfect ball. I designed and constructed completely by myself. The electronic component arrangement, the code and the 3D printed stuff. Controlled by a few Arduinos Mega-2560, ESP-32 microcontrollers and a Raspberry 4. Plus a bunch of motors and all kind of elements like radio transmitter, lights, voltage controller... The origin was in a computer game from me and one day I thought "Hey Paul, why you don't build it IRL?" So I did...

On the first pic you see some parts which are needed to assemble a leg. All these parts are not needed for one leg. But yes... elements from the leg. You see the legs later again...

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The electronics was stacked on several plates which I stacked in the center of the robot. One plate had mostly several elements for a specific function. Here you see a element with converters to regulate the voltage for the different electro components:

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All these plates, are centered in the middle of the robot and positioned by shock absorbing springs. Around these center plates there is a ring. And on this ring there are the legs mounted. You can see this very good in the next pictures:

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And lastly a pic in a basic arrangement. The plates in the middle, the system behind, was designed to be modular. So when I needed a further plate for let's say space for the Raspberry (which is not included in the pic), I just needed to print a new plate, a few spacers and stake it up. The following plate combination looks more like a first basic setup in the times where I made first progress with the walking mechanism at the point where I regulated and distributed the power for the first leg motors, because I can see a few Arduinos, the voltage converters and the power splitter/distributor. And I can see the rod which holds a few radio/antenna components

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Maybe I could inspire you, dear reader. Don't dream about - build your dreams! You can do it! And this project is years old! Nowadays you can achieve moch more & better stuff/robotics at your home. You didn't learned/studied this? Don't care about! I didn't, too... You have to learn a little, but when I can do it, you can do, too. Have fun!

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(Damn... when I wouldn't have sufficient work with @CryptoCompany, I would revive this project... Maybe one day...)

[EDIT:] Oh I found a few more pics and I really like to share them...

Oh yes... now I remember the speech synthesizer... This thing was able to speak. Not comparable with todays AI, but I though this robot should be able to understand and output a few words/commands. (The top thing on the Arduino where all the cables are going thru is this speech output/recognition module.)

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And because I really like the legs, let me share two more leg pics:

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That's a huge project full of engineering and it deserves to be revived, thanks for sharing it !
It's great to invent things and make them.
I'm also having problems finishing some of my projects. I've got one in the back of my mind that I've never started because of lack of space and because it's meant to be installed in the country and I live in the city. I'll mention it in my next post.
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