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I make small gametes, and I found someone who makes large gametes. We put them together and made mutated replicas of ourselves. The first experiment has been running over 3,500 days. The second experiment has been running almost 1,400 days, but it's currently significantly louder and more prone to violence. We're very proud of them both.
Rather more modestly - made a esp32 PWM fan controller that hooks into home assistant. Nothing wild, but it did open my eyes to the fact that I can duplicate most IoT stuff on my own terms despite being an amateur. And that in turn has takes it from "IoT - not in my house" to "yes lets do more IoT".
I'll brag for a minute I created what I think is a novel painting technique that I have now made significant iterative improvement on over the last 4 or so years. I now have a large portfolio of medium-large scale paintings using this technique. https://www.instagram.com/kemendoart/ The technique is a variation of a "fresco" which is applying watercolor to fresh plaster. This is a very old method that tends to surviv…
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Built a two-seat, single engine airplane. Took 6.5 years to build and I've been flying it for close to a year now. The U.S. and several other countries have fairly liberal rules allowing for home-built aircraft, so there are actually tens of thousands of home-built planes flying around today. Yes, it's built from a kit (mostly sheet aluminum and rivets, some fiberglass) but I'm OK with calling it cool.
Do you have a link to where you got the kit? And how much do you estimate you spend in total to get to fly your own plane (including getting a license). (Srry if thats rude to ask)
Built a two-seat, single engine airplane. Took 6.5 years to build and I've been flying it for close to a year now. The U.S. and several other countries have fairly liberal rules allowing for home-built aircraft, so there are actually tens of thousands of home-built planes flying around today. Yes, it's built from a kit (mostly sheet aluminum and rivets, some fiberglass) but I'm OK with calling it cool.
Damn, that's well beyond just "cool"! Can you share some more details on this? It sounds fascinating
The virus was specifically missing the ability to replicate, but it did have the ability to infect cells in a dish. That means it was just BSL-2 stuff. Our lab studied cancer, so we'd mostly infect them with cancer-causing things like a mutated PI3K that would fluoresce so we could track it in the cell with a microscope. If people are curious, we'd mostly work with lentivirus.
It's a dream of mind to make some of the cool sorts of mechanical things people are posting here. I have multiple drawers with arduinos and components, but so far my projects hit a wall because of my lack of skill hehe. Practice makes perfect!
The fun thing about wood projects is you can cover up mistakes pretty easily and for big mistakes just make the project smaller.
I wish I had the patience to do something like that today, but there are so many other distractions.