I know a lot of us here love to DIY. I have made a lot of fun things over the years. Please tell me what you have made or are in the process of making.

1. Potato Gun
2.Drinking Fountain
3. Projector
4.Wiffle Ball Pitching Machine (for batting practice)
5. River Rafting Radio (basically speakers and car radio in a box)
6. Kids Stand Up Arcade (4' tall, Pacman and a few other classics)
7.

I know there are more just can think of them at the moment. The wife wants me to make a "Pedal Car" Tanning Bed and the most important one an automatic back scratcher.

I made a foam cutter out of a battery charger and some cb antennaes to cut wing cores for my model airplanes.

cool lets keep this stuff going I am sure I will find another project to work on to drive my wife bonkers

1. Diy projectors
2. Carputer
3. Snes portable
4. Genesis Radica portable
5. DIY woofer enclosures
6. Diy Sentra engine replacement (man was that fun )

Lot's of work and lots of fun

The Dreisycle

1: 85 6' box chevy mud truck
rebuilt engin, suspention, steering - sold
2: 85 mustang with 91 interior, and wiring harness front to back repined to run the 298cid - sold
3: automatic chevy blazer changed to stick
4: computers galor ( well any monkey can build a computer form parts, but i did it my self )
5: potato canon / frog launcher
6: PJ wip

Thats awesome I could never DIY a vehicle I am good jsut to get the spark plugs changed and oil

I did have to drop off some stuff to this guy for work and he said come on in to my garage it was an old stepside truck he was restoring it was nice and he was painting it lamborginhi orange it sure was nice but it was like he was talking to me in another language

This may take some time.

Can we add pictures?

I think we should I was going to but didnt want to add to much I think the only item I still have around is the "River Box"

My list was too hard to define, allot of these things blend together so it’s hard to separate them so here’s a brief list:

Lots of audio projects.
Robotics projects.
Automated Stage lighting and dimmer racks.
Programming
Computers
Projectors
Custom car restorations.
Chemical compounds that make loud noises
Lots of electronic projects
Renovations and building
More that I can’t think of at the moment.

DJ

"Chemical compounds that make loud noises"

this one sounds interesting, enlighten us.

well you take a 2 liter of soda, a small set of pluming - err - tubes and a couple caps. Put the customized pluming apporatice inside the 2 liter bottle tape with duct-tape and put the bottle in the refrigerator. run like hell and find a fox hole.

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Hey, at least it works...

What a great idea! Hay, if you bent the edge down at 3 spots with pliers, the butts would have something to sit in.

Are they menthols?
Yuk

Gee, I don't know DAZZ. Sounds a bit risky, how about giving us a ray trace?

Oh, they be regular shorts and nicely cultivated.

I liked DIY so much i opened an engineering firm and started doing stuff for others

a few in the shop atm
-tube bender
-router
-assorted car parts
and a few special purpose machines

on the drawing board
-boat
-PJ
-some more audio stuff (speaker boxes etc)

I am interested in your design for the pitching machine.
I would prefer to throw regular softballs though.
My daughter is in her first year of softball.

Actuall it was quite simple I used a leaf blower that I had and some pvc pipe with a T right after the blower part but it was only strong enough to shoot wiffle balls with softball it might be a little harder if its underhand slow pitch if its underhand fast pitch the the concept stays the same. Just take some PVC and adapt it to the leaf blower make sure you have the T so you can shove the balls in. Also the PVC needs to be big enough so the balls go thru it.
Hope that helps and post pics when you start on it.

1. Snow machine that made 4" an hour over a huge area for jumps in my backyard
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2. Projector
3. Potato Cannons
4. Phono Preamp for my record player
5. ethernet cables much cheaper once you get the crimper
6. rails, jumps, a tall drop in tower to get speed for the jumps
7. to be continued....

Ideas/in progress

1. Shifter cart with a 2 stroke 80 cc engine (dangerous but will be AWESOME)
2. coffee table for my projector is in progress and almost done
3. speakers potentially, i dunno, are pretty expensive to make even
4. give me ideas i need something to do

4" an hour is pretty impressive! However, I've seen enough snow. I don't want any more.

1. Headphone amps
2. The obligatory Potato cannons.
3. Converted a car to fuel injection with MegaSquirt
4. Currently in the process of Converting my AC into a ice-AC
5. PCs tons and tons of PCs
6. I have made DIY solid rocket fuel
7. My grandfather's Rear projection set just went out. I got the remains. So next on the docket is to shove my epson 77c in the back of it.

Basically, anything that looks interesting or dangerous.

- Two LL projectors

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- Flexi-rack for CDs and DVDs
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- PVC Loft Bed for my son
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- CarPC
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- Various PCs from spare parts

Upcoming Projects:

- Sportcycle Reverse Trike
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The PVC loft bed looks awesome. I wonder what my wife would think of that...

I do a lot of DIY stuff, I'm naturally interested in stuff like that.

• DIY audio amplifiers
• DIY speakers
• DIY projectors

All stuff that goes hand-in-hand with LL I suppose...

• DIY Car speaker/amp rack
• Furniture

Nothing spectacular...

For future consideration:

• CnC machine. RoGR/MicRo? Probably used for other DIY projects.

I know there are a bunch of other things that I could probably list, but can't think of any at the moment.

Made:
As of today, a projector .
A 4 channel disco light block
A 4 channel lighting dimmer pack
Adapted an old DIY petrol gokart to be longer, new seat and new engine.
A headphone/small speaker amp
A headphone splitter
A digital volume meter

In progress:
A second 4 channel disco light block.
A lighting desk with chaser unit
Thermite
Loads of DIN (lighting control type) cable
Colour organ

Want to make:
Parallel port to DMX lighting controller
T- bar stand for lights

Just some stuff in chronological order:

As a kid I did an endless number of diy projects. Here is some of them.

1. Lots of tree houses.
2. Very amateur rockets (most blew up rather than went up).
3. Amplifyer (first time I electricuted myself).
4. 2 way tricked out radio (we used to walk over the local taxi cab company).
5. Potato guns (if you haven't done one, then you're not a true DIYer).
6. A variety of spy gadgets (audio and video).
7. Go carts,
8. Smoke bombs and stink bombs ( Non destructive, but a great way to clear a school bus).

As an adult the list continues.

1. More potato guns (teaching the next generation).
2. Battle bot (made with one of my sons as a school project).
3. Projector (works but a work in progress),
4. Castle for my kids (and me),
5. Dozens of PCs (many of them overclocked)
6. Altar-rail and pews for my church,
7. 4' high 8' wide 1/2 pipe (made with my youngest),
8. Endless home remodeling jobs.

Future Plans

1. Finish building my new workshop.
2. More home remodeling jobs.
3. Install a cistern in my current house.
4. Build an electric biycle.
5. Mess around with solar energy.
6. Build more potato guns (for the grand children).
7. Build a CNC router setup.
8. Build a small boat.
9. Build an off-grid cottage somewhere.
10. Die old and happy surrounded by loved ones and many unfinished projects.

I've been DIY for about forever now, or 18 years. But here's the list:

1. Various instruments/gadgets when I was real young.

2. Trebuchet Iteration 1 | worked alright

3. Swords of various shapes, sizes and quality

4. Sail for an inflatable boat. It almost worked.

5. Trebuchet Iteration 2 | with an old V8 engine block as a counterweight, it worked good!

6. Pontoons for a canoe | I got tired of flipping over.

7. Ballistae

8. Tesla Coil

9. My Bedroom

I bought some pumpkins for the kids from a large pumpkin patch. Talking to the farmer, I suggested he set up some sort of pumpkin toss competition for the left over pumpkins (a couple of thousand) this lead to a discussion of catapults, trebuchets, and over-sized potato guns. He might try it next year just for a laugh. If he does I might try building a compressed air pumpkin launcher.

Ive done quite a few things.

---DONE---
*Home Theater Install
*Security Camera System
*Home Networking with custom NAS
*Remote control relay system to kill golf carts
*Pneumatic door control system with remote control and timing system
*Various small robotic/RC vehicles
*Hot wire foam cutting system
*Custom Computers
*Go Kart custom siren/light control system
*XM Radio installed on a Go Kart
And many other things that I have probably forgot about...

---In Progress---
*Automating windows to open automatically based on inside/outside temperature difference and weather
*RFID Door Opener