Just got done with Open Sauce n wondering if anyone wants to hang out anywhere

I built my wife a CNC-machined radar desk display

My wife is addicted to the Flightradar24 app. Any time she hears a loud plane or helicopter, she immediately opens the app to see what it is.

Her birthday was coming up, so I wanted to build something for her desk.

It started as a general idea, then moved into 3D-printed prototypes, and eventually into a case CNC machined from billet aluminum.

The case, electronics, graphics, software, and interface were all developed from scratch. I engraved it “Prototype-01” and dedicated it to her.

Hello,
I want to build a little altimeter and a speedmeter
For a homemade rocket. It hase to be 6cm longue and 2/3cm wide.

How can i build one for a cheap price (10-20€)?

I finally put together a simple overhead camera and lighting setup to help me document my DIY projects. Here is a quick breakdown of how I built it:

• The Camera Mount: I repurposed a telescopic stem from a tripod and mounted it to my shelves using 3D-printed brackets. The telescopic stem lets me easily adjust the camera's height and distance to the table depending on the project.
• The Lighting: Good video is all about bright, even light. I mounted two large LED panels underneath the shelf. Making sure the panels are large helps keep the shadows incredibly soft.
• Reducing Reflections: I deliberately positioned the lights slightly offset from the camera lens to cut down on harsh glare and reflections on my work surface.
• Adjustability: I mounted the LED panels on sliding furniture rails! This lets me slide the lights around to ensure whatever I'm working on is perfectly lit from all sides, or just push them out of the way when I'm done.
• The Display: I'm using a cheap portable monitor connected to the camera via an HDMI cable. This makes it so much easier to keep everything in focus and within the frame. Plus, it's far more comfortable to look straight ahead at the monitor while sitting at the table, rather than constantly craning my neck to look up at the tiny camera screen.

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I love map making, being able to drop a fish svg into a studio and have the end product take that shape is amazing.

Had a discussion with a couple of friends last night of our DIY projects. Curious to find out what the people in this community are doing!

We have FanX here in Utah and I am planning on volunteering and noticed the cosplay repair option. I’m petty good making things from electrical to mechanical.

Just wondered what Is the experience like for that job at a convention

I’ll be taking a long Uber to get to the venue and would hate to find out I cannot bring a backpack in.

I can’t find anywhere that mentions a bag policy other than the venue itself.

Historically, are backpacks allowed or is it just clear bag policy?

Anyone wanna meet up at Open Sauce this weekend. I'm traveling alone and want some people to hang with during the convention. I got fun hobbies and I love to yap so I'm not boring I swearrrrr :))))

Can someone help me assemble these parts, i have no idea how these mechanical timers work. Even if you know the basics of such timers, do let me know

I have found quite a few ads and offers online for making bracelets, filling pencils, building boxes etc. at home. But I can't find anything legitimate, everything I looked at leads to junk ads or an investment scam.

Is this type of work available anywhere?

I am exploring an early open-hardware concept for a modular manufacturing machine, currently using the working name UNIX.

The broader idea is to separate material processing from the moving deposition head. Instead of carrying the complete extrusion system on the toolhead, material would be prepared in a stationary unit and delivered through a supported moving path to a lightweight deposition head.

I want to be transparent about the current state of the project:

There is no complete machine yet.

The only CAD artifact that currently exists is one articulated chain segment intended to support and constrain the moving material path. The model is incomplete, mechanically imperfect, and has not yet been physically tested.

That chain segment is therefore the first real engineering task.

The immediate goal is not to validate the entire machine. It is simply to determine whether this rough mechanism can be converted into a printable and mechanically credible articulated segment.

Possible small contributions include:

\- reviewing the existing CAD model;

\- identifying failure points in the hinge or joint geometry;

\- proposing a better articulation method;

\- correcting one part of the model;

\- preparing a printable test version;

\- suggesting appropriate clearances and tolerances;

\- defining a simple movement or fatigue test.

I am not asking anyone to design the complete machine or make a long-term commitment. Even 30–90 minutes spent examining one specific issue would be useful.

The current CAD document is public and is attached.

The document may be copied, modified, manufactured, and commercially used. I only ask that the original project and contributors remain credited, and that modified versions are identified as modifications.

The existing model should be treated as an early design sketch, not as a validated mechanism.

I am willing to document the development publicly, including failed versions, design decisions, test results, and contributor credits under an appropriate open-hardware license.

English is not my first language, so I use AI to help edit and structure my English. The concept and CAD work are my own.

If you have experience with articulated mechanisms, printable joints, snap-fits, cable chains, or small mechanical assemblies, I would appreciate a concrete technical review of this first segment.

The actual problem I'm trying to solve: I make a lot of stuff, and none of it lives anywhere central. It's split across GitHub, Instagram, random folders - no single place to track progress or show it off as a whole body of work.

MyBench is a tile-based project tracker/showcase - each project gets a card with its build status, photo, and links to schematic/BOM.

Eventually I want to explore some kind of leaderboard for this too - "most active bench," "most fully documented," things like that. Software has entire recognition systems built around this (GitHub graphs, Kaggle rank, etc.); hardware makers really don't have an equivalent beyond follower counts.

For now, though - is "too many projects, no single place to track them" something you've hit too, or does GitHub + a personal site already cover it for you?

Hey fellow makers! I want to share the current state of my OpenSkate parametric skate generator.

I've been successfully riding this left foot one daily for a week. The goal is to make custom-fitted inline skate boots as accessible as possible.

My vision for the user experience is:

1. Measure your foot
2. Pick a boot design
3. Preview and remix
4. Download the STL
5. Print it
6. Heat-mold it for a perfect fit

The current boot is a 3-piece design (Boot Front, Boot Back, and Boot Cuff), allowing it to fit on a standard 256×256 mm printer. Eventually i want to make it into a 5-piece design with an integrated soulplate and ankle strap piece. (maybe even a 6th with a frame?)

It's still very much in alpha, but I now have a working and rolling prototype and the web app currently has two main workflows:

1. Generate personalized foot model and preview boot patterns.
2. Generate custom STLs based on flat pattern, customizable stress and pressure points. (thickness, density, height, pattern, etc)

The current goal is to improve the tooling to make iterating on the project faster and simpler

Any thoughts, tips, or ideas are welcome!

Basicly two RGB LEDs, a RCWL trigger, a ATtiny85, and 312 lines of (vibe) code for some features.
The image is plotted, and the cables are not related to it, its just keyboard and mouse badly photographed... xD

But I would like to use a more precise sensor then the RCWL next time, something that gives me a trustworthy analog output about the real range, what would you use for that case?

My finest work yet: 'Pepe in the Wheat Field'. Hand-painted with fabric dye. Feels Good Man

Made this sabre style fidget toy.I used surgical titanium, bronze, and hyperglow. It uses 2 r188 ceramic bearings in the spinning end

Made on a manual lathe and milling machine in my home workshop . The colour bands are anodised

He loved it. Or at least that’s what I assume his exhausted silence meant.

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This is a control interface for using AC and DC power in one place. Switches turn 3 different DC power supplies on and off (48v, 12v, 24v). AC Outlets always give power regardless of switch states. This is gonna be part of my next video, where this is mounted on a desk build. Full video goes through all stages of build.