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I turned a ring “box” on a lathe and my fiancée said “yes!”

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I believe congratulations are in order. Getting a good surface finish on a lathe can be really hard, but you did it!

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Thank you! The surfacing part was actually done mostly by hand because if a chicken and egg situation of making the inside components and adding the hinge, without throwing things off balance on the lathe. But after four prototypes, I definitely learned a lot!

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That’s amazing!

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Thank you!

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Congratulations! 😃🎉

We celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary yesterday, easy peasy 👍 The trick is simple, don’t marry someone who is an asshole. I certainly didn’t, and hope my wife feels the same way 😅

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13 points

Myself, mostly.

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Me too, bruh.

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🫂

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I bought a used 125 gallon aquarium 6 months ago that I need to reseal and build a new stand for. Got the sealant, lumber, and tools last month. Right now I’m working on procrastinating the actual DIY part.

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Is there an aquarium / fishkeeping community on lemmy? I know it’s kinda niche.

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Just got all the supplies I need for making a Dopp bag.

Just finished a crochet blanket with hood for my little one. Still have to put a ridge of dragon scales down the back for him.

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Just got a bunch of stuff delivered to build my own hyperhdr tv backlight. Its a relatively small project, but im hoping itll have a huge impact on my viewing experience 😊

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Ooo is there a guide you are following for this? I tried setting this up a few years back during covid and never could get it working right. I still think it was faulty hardware but I went through at least a half-dozen grabbers.

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Yeah, there is a guide for the raspberry https://www.raspberrypi.com/tutorials/raspberry-pi-tv-ambient-lighting/ I donk know if hyperhdr would run on weaker, more readily available hardware than the pi 3. ive seen some YouTuber (dont remember who) use Hyperion with a Pico, but here was noticable delay. Since hyperhdr is a more optimised fork of hyperion intended for 4k content, the pico may be able to to run hyperhdr for 1080p content, but im not willing to take that risk. Also check what kind of power supplies you can even get. 5v 15a power supplies apparently don’t exist in Germany, so i had to use 30 led/meter strips instead of 60

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Awesome, thanks! I may dive back into this project again since I would still really like to do it. I think I actually have a spare Pi 4 around here somewhere that I got for my 3d printers but ended up swapping that to a thin client. Appreciate it!

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