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MLE_online, 2 months ago to random

I got the mostly-salvaged-river-parts e-bike, aka E-xpand-o-bike, into enough shape this afternoon to take it on a ride around the block.

I still need to fabricate a mount for the battery and the controller and do all the cable routing, but it works!

And it looks peak mad scientist on meth right now, so I had to show a picture to the Fediverse.

MLE_online, 4 months ago to random

I've gathered up all the things I need to try making natto this weekend

MLE_online, 19 days ago to random

My local bike shop guy heard about my quixotic quest to adapt a 40 spoke Sturmey Archer hub to a 36 spoke rim with machined adapter plates, and give me another hub to play with.

It looked nice on the outside, but it did not make the expected ratcheting sound that a freewheeling hub should make when spun. It also did not work correctly.

I thought maybe it would just be full of gummed up grease inside so I poured a bunch of paint thinner in there and let it sit, but that did not fix it, so I disassembled it and found it to be extremely crusty, rusty, and gunky inside.

I'm going to try to make it work again, even though this hub still won't work on my bike because it's drilled for 28 spokes lol. It just seems fun to see if I can clean it up and fix it.

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MLE_online, 1 month ago to random

I attempted to help my brother with a confounding problem with his car this afternoon, and after a few hours of work, we were no closer to an answer than when we started.

Recently, his battery has been draining down overnight. He thought maybe he had a bad battery, so he got a new one. Same problem.

I went over there today and found that the car is drawing 1.6 amps from the battery even when turned off.

We started troubleshooting by pulling fuses. The car kept drawing 1.6 amps through all of them.

I pulled the main fuse, and the car still drew 1.6 amps.

For a while, we thought it was maybe the alternator rectifier, but that wasn't it.

We unwrapped the sheath from the main bundle of wires coming off the battery and found no shorts.

We disconnected the wiring to the starter and that wasn't it.

The car still draws 1.6 amps! We can't figure out what's doing it!

MLE_online, 2 months ago to random

Still no sign of my Hobie. My heart is breaking

MLE_online, 5 months ago to random

My sister has become station wagon-pilled

MLE_online, 3 months ago to random

Sayhi to the weird little clamp that I ran over with my bike on my way to work right now. If you ever wondered who would win in a battle between a weird little clamp and a bike tire, so the answer is the weird little clamp

MLE_online, 11 months ago to random

Owens Lake and rocks

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MLE_online, 3 months ago to random

I think it's time to try printing this now very complicated battery case for my drill

MLE_online, 4 months ago to random

Do I know anyone on here who has experience adapting a rotary phone to work over modern VOIP?

I know I will need both an adapter from rotary to touch tone and then a VOIP adapter, but there seems to be a variety of options and I can't tell what's good and what's lousy.

MLE_online, 2 months ago to random

Beginning my long journey from El Monte to Santa Clarita via public transit.

It has started off well with a guy at the bus station complimenting my DIY bicycle headlight system.

"You make this? I like this. Very smart. Not easy to think so smart."

MLE_online, 19 days ago to random

Someone in my neighborhood threw away a whole set of lockers, so I guess I have to own lockers now

MLE_online, 3 months ago to random

Time to start building a new battery pack for my drill out of this

MLE_online, 4 months ago to random

Little blob's big adventure

MLE_online, 2 months ago to random

Does anyone on here know a lot about analog telephones? I am trying to figure out how to wire this telephone up for a friend of mine and I am stumped because there are only three wires and I am used to phones having four wires.

Thoughts? Suggestions?

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MLE_online, 3 months ago to random

Does anyone know of a project for a point and shoot camera using a raspberry pi and a USB webcam (<-- this is an important detail)?

There are lots of projects like this that use the raspberry pi camera, but I can't do that in this case.

MLE_online, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

The items for my brother's pitch drop experiment birthday present arrived, so now I need to make a stand for the funnel. This brass ring is a good place to start

MLE_online, 3 months ago to random

I found this thing lying on the sidewalk yesterday. It is atrociously marketed as a disposable vape.

There's not much to it, but it has a usb-c port, so it must have a rechargeable battery. It also must have some kind of heating element, a reservoir for The vape juice, and some way of knowing to turn on the heating element when you're inhaling

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MLE_online, 14 days ago to random

A contraption is coming into existence

MLE_online, 7 months ago to random

The band saw is feeling feisty

MLE_online, 2 months ago to random

Why are there so many outlet timers for letting you set something like a lamp to come on a 7 pm every night, but there are almost no outlet timers that let you turn something on and have it automatically turn off after, say, an hour, or 25 minutes, or 77 minutes?

MLE_online, 2 months ago to random

Not the intended behavior but cool.

Warning: flashing

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MLE_online, 5 months ago to random

I wish I lived in the kind of cold, rainy climate that would give me reason to own and wear things like this

MLE_online, 2 months ago to random

Ceramics class!

I got my swirly mug back from firing and it looks great!

MLE_online, 4 months ago to random

It's a cold day, so I think I will bake some bread today