Well. I can’t say it was a good run. I don’t think I ever had a chance.
It seemed nice for a while… I guess it always does.
But Whatever. Moving on, slowly.
Tag: family
2019 Holiday 2020 New Years Cheer!
With the dawning of this New Christian Year 2020 as marked by the recent Gregorian/Italian New Year, as well as the various Holidays that have passed/are still happening/are coming soon, I hope you all are doing fantastic! Much joy and cheer to you!
Nothing much of an update really, things are plugging along at 4Crows and MakerCave, the steps on some days are bigger than others, but most days lately have been forward!
I’m trying out some jewellery on the 3D Printers today, just to see how it turns out and stuff like that. One is a Cosplay toy, which is also kinda fun. Pictures when they’re done added.
Thinking about land
I’ve been doing a lot of learning lately.
I think it started in earnest with Red Man Laughing. Which is rather sad really, since I’ve been surrounded by non-white voices since university. But Ryan’s show is the first one I can remember sitting with me, the stories. And how much similarity there was in some of the shittier aspects. How much colonization had just completely fucked everything up for, well, everyone.
Continue reading “Thinking about land”Nerf Hacking Notes
My kids asked me, yet again, to fix busted Nerf darts. There’s a few sitting here beside me waiting for cyanoacrylate as I type this in fact. One or two have a plastic tip that is starting to separate, another has double splits down it’s shaft. This would be less of a big deal if we had more, but looking at the stores just walking around and Nerf replacements aren’t cheap!
This led me online and down the rabbit hole of DIY foam ammo, gun mods (dart post / air restrictor removals) and inevitably looking at DIY guns (which are very similar to the water guns). I collected the kid’s 3 Nerf guns, and started researching their hackability, to see if I could get the owner’s permission to upgrade their gun.
[Pictures coming soon, will edit the post and add them when I post them]
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DIY Water Gun- V1
As promised in my DIY/Homemade Water Guns post, here are some pictures of the various stages of our build process following this Instructable: Easy-Peasy PVC Water Gun [All Steps].
We started with a collection of parts, and the kids and I cut the 10′ pvc pipes into 6 pieces. Each gun used:
- PVC: 1 1/4″, 20″ pipe
- PVC: 1 1/4″ End Cap
- PVC: 1″, 20″ pipe
- PVC: 1″ T
- PVC: 3/4″ (IIRC) Threaded Cap
- Rubber O-rings x2
- Teflon Thread Tape
- PVC primer and glue
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Weasley Clock
So, in case you haven’t read the Harry Potter series or seen the movies, the Weasley Clock is a magical clock that tracks the location of the various family members. This has been duplicated with technology in various ways already, and I thought it would be cool to try one myself.
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DIY/Homemade Water Guns – Collected Thoughts
The heat of this summer (2015, Vancouver, BC Area), along with something that happened to my youngest child, prompted me to look into how to DIY a good water gun.
My youngest was at an end-of-the-school year party at a local park. The kids were told it was OK to bring water guns, yay! So we went out and bought a couple of cheap water guns. Long story short, my kid had fun, but was severely outgunned…
So I thought maybe I’d see if the internet had a solution to that. 😉
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