A windmill, a house, a car, a 3D mill / plasmacutter.
Any photos of the windmill? That sounds pretty cool.
lots of photos in here:
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Re: Ask HN: What have you built? (not software related)
#32I built two CNC machines. The first one essentially from scratch components: bearings, plates and beams. And a second higher performance machine by converting a manual machine to servo control. Hardware is fun.
Pictures?
One of my babies :) :
http://pics.ww.com/v/jacques/renewables/windmill/17_sep_bill...
Re: Ask HN: What have you built? (not software related)
#33A root cellar, 8'×8'
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/album.php?aid=204054&...
Re: Ask HN: What have you built? (not software related)
#34My Self-Esteem
I've also built his self-esteem
Re: Ask HN: What have you built? (not software related)
#35About a year ago, I spent a weekend building a letterpress. It's turned into a fun hobby. Printmaking is much more difficult than I'd have expected. One of the biggest challenges is maintaining a clean, inkless field. It's so easy to get ink on your hands, at which point it's nearly impossible to pick up a sheet of paper without smudging it before you're within three feet of the press itself. Registration (proper ali…
I work for a printing company during the day. I must say, this is quite impressive.
Re: Ask HN: What have you built? (not software related)
#36A windmill, a house, a car, a 3D mill / plasmacutter.
Did you build the house from ground up? How long did that take you?...Lately I have been reading up about building a small house using shipping containers.
Re: Ask HN: What have you built? (not software related)
#37A windmill, a house, a car, a 3D mill / plasmacutter.
Did you build the house from ground up? How long did that take you?...Lately I have been reading up about building a small house using shipping containers.
Actually, it's two houses, one in Canada and one in NL.
The latter was a rebuild, an old farm house, the one in Canada was from 7' in the ground to two and a half storeys.
The one here in NL was a major project, mostly because I did it all by myself and it's a brick building. It's a beautiful little house in a very quiet spot of the country, with a fair bit of ground around it.
It took me two years to get it all done.
Re: Ask HN: What have you built? (not software related)
#38My Self-Esteem
"That's beautiful, man." - Snowball
Re: Ask HN: What have you built? (not software related)
#39a human sized hamster wheel
it's a long story, to do with a church funding something, but i was the eventual designer of it despite being an intern, then went and built it in my own time one weekend. was fucking heavy and never used it, just donated my time to that client
Re: Ask HN: What have you built? (not software related)
#40I helped build a house out of spare wood for a family friend. It was really exciting to see it come together and to think that this wasn't just a random side project, but something that would be lived in and greatly appreciated.