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Ask HN: What have you built? (not software related)
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Re: Ask HN: What have you built? (not software related)
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
You should write about the whole experience with pictures. I am getting more serious about building a house from the ground up. Two years is a great time frame. Share pictures if any.
Re: Ask HN: What have you built? (not software related)
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
You should write about the whole experience with pictures. I am getting more serious about building a house from the ground up. Two years is a great time frame. Share pictures if any.
I sent you mail.
Building a house is absolutely doable, fixing one up with a rich history in a way is more fun, but comes with more restrictions.
Re: Ask HN: What have you built? (not software related)
#44Full Size Airliner cockpit (Bombardier CRJ): 1 PC 1 Matrox TripleHead(3 monitors-View), 1 Matrox G200(3 monitors-Instruments) Built some electronic boards to control LEDs, Switches, Potentiometers for Throttle, Yoke, Overhead panel, Central console, etc... Nice project if you have the time....
> Full Size Airliner cockpit (Bombardier CRJ):
pictures, please?
So many amazing projects in this thread!
Re: Ask HN: What have you built? (not software related)
#45When I was (more) young and foolish, I rebuilt the turbodiesel engine in a 1983 Mercedes 300SD. The day after we got it all back together two friends and I drove it over a thousand miles to a wedding in Philadelphia. In hindsight, this was really stupid. It turned out fine, though.
Re: Ask HN: What have you built? (not software related)
#462 boats, a guitar, some furniture, and a race car. I'd like build another boat soon, it has been a while.
How did you learn about building the guitar? I'd love to see pics/see design plans. Electric or acoustic?
Re: Ask HN: What have you built? (not software related)
#47Re: Ask HN: What have you built? (not software related)
#48I built a 50-watt ham radio transmitter (copper chassis and all) with an 807 final. And an allied radio receiver kit. And later a VFO kit to drive the transmitter. And a Q-Multiplier and a BFO for the 1927 Zenith radio from my dad so I could hear tones in CW. Then, from scratch, when I got my General Class license, I built an AM modulator on a 14-inch steel chassis to get on AM. Going almost digital, I built a two-tube 12as7 W9TO keyer for morse code for the above rig. And an antenna system with two 45 foot poles about 180 feet apart to put up three dipoles. And I cannot count the number of antennas that I have built over the years at my various residences.
Later, I built one of the second wave of the Altair computers, and actually had one or two consulting gigs from that.
And, to brag a little, I pointed my daughter, to a QST article on a code practice oscillator, and she built it with almost no supervision when she was in high school.
I built, from a kit, one or three of the amateur packet radio kits, and ran a radio BBS for too long a time. (You see, the internet is just ham radio 2.0, but none of you get that fact, but i digress)
I built (strictly was architect for) a medical information system that gathered electrocardiograms from patients bedsides, transmitted them via telephone to a datacenter near Chicago, which returned an english-language report to the hosptial in ten minutes or less. (This one is cheating a bit, as a large component of this was software.)
But by far and away most of the stuff I have built is software.
Now, my gig is to break software, but that is off-topic. (Hint--you sometimes need to write software to break other software.)
Re: Ask HN: What have you built? (not software related)
#49I built a 50-watt ham radio transmitter (copper chassis and all) with an 807 final. And an allied radio receiver kit. And later a VFO kit to drive the transmitter. And a Q-Multiplier and a BFO for the 1927 Zenith radio from my dad so I could hear tones in CW. Then, from scratch, when I got my General Class license, I built an AM modulator on a 14-inch steel chassis to get on AM. Going almost digital, I built a two-tu…
Oh, yes--I built an accounting system in RPG-III. Many today do not consider this to be software.
Re: Ask HN: What have you built? (not software related)
#50A 6" Dobsonian reflector telescope. Highly recommend it