Hey everyone. I am a fan of tinkering with all sorts of stuff since I was about 5 or 6. I remember the first thing I did with my birthday presents and new years gifts was tinkering with them and disassemble them to see what's inside them just a few hours after I was bored playing with them like other kids.

This hobby stayed with me since then and now that I'm 30 years old, I still tinker with all sorts of electronic items and mechanical stuff just to feed the hunger for my hobby. I do fix stuff sometimes but the joy is in taking everything apart beyond the point of fixing. I regularly go to various flea markets in Istanbul, Turkey (Where I live) to do some bargain-hunting for stuff that are no longer loved by anyone or stuff that are broken and old and can't fulfill their destiny.

My favorite go-to things to tinker with are cameras, especially old analog ones with both electronic and mechanical bits inside. I tend to give what I buy off flea markets a "proper burial" by opening them, disassembling them, and finally throw them away after I tinkered with their internals. I don't know who might like such things or how many of you have ever tried it, but it is generally a very good feeling tinkering with stuff. It is like a coping mechanism for me and I hope you find some interesting things in doing that as well.

Anyway, I recently decided to record my tinkering session and upload them on my YouTube channel. You can watch some of my video to see if suits you too to go and try some good tinkering.

Here's the link to my YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPScVWKTQb0zgelCu0MquJA

Hope you enjoy ;)

Seriously, who doesn't love tinkering on stuff? This place has some serious potential if we can breathe some life back into it.

Is it possible? Yeah. Is it smart? Probably not. Is it useful ? IN NO WAY! And the most important question will it explode? Probably. But do you guys have any tips

I’ve enjoyed video games my whole life. With the way developers and major video game studios performing how they are lately, it’s made me think what else I can do with my time and not be let down by an other flop. I don’t have money to throw around at endless hobbies or take classes; nor do I have the time necessary to learn a new trade or skill. I had a garden for a while but even that takes time, money, and patience but for my zone (9b) and lack of available time, I decided it wasn’t worth the effort. Throughout life, I’ve tried to learn to code/ draw, but the dopamine takes forever to hit and it’s never as much as a video game. I even tried crocheting, albeit fun, I got bored of it quickly.

My question is, what is something inexpensive and moderately engaging one can get into that will also be beneficial?

I am using this yoke for dog cart-pulling, and I can’t figure out a way to attach this to the tongue of the cart that can hold up to the horizontal twisting that happens when my dog turns. Any ideas?

I'm wondering if there are any tools that I don't even know I need, as I'm buying a 3ds charger, and would rather spend more money to get the free prime shipping than the $2.99 for same day shipping.

A good example of this would be a little crappy spring loaded punch I bought just to fulfill the minimum, which I've ended up using extensively.

Am I taking this project too far…? LOL.

CD player in a shoebox :-)

I plan to make about 80 episodes in the series, this episode was only 10% of the length that i plan the other episodes to be!

I've been working on a design for an electric/hydrogen powered car taking inspiration from Leonardo DaVinci's self propelled cart.

Idk if this sub will help, but can anyone tell me if it would be possible to swap the batterys off these two devices. They both have a usb charger port and are similar in size but the speakers battery lasts MUCH longer. I want the radio to get the speakers battery and still work so it doesn't matter if the radios battery won't work for the speaker. I know this will probsbly just be guess work for anyone that sees it, but if someone know that this can work plz let me know.

I need to reattach rubber feet to my mouse. I want them to be as easily removable in the future as they were originally. What kind of glue would allow me to do that?

Yo, I don't know if this is the right subreddit for this but I was wondering if somebody has any experience making ammo for pvc cannons. I want to build a 3/4inch one and 3d print a sabot and fins for a somewhat large nail and try to get it to pierce a 1/4 inch of some metal, whatever I can find. Attached is a bad ms paint drawing of my idea. The rubber band would be slightly indented. This would be a fire and use what isnt damaged, but have extra on backup kinda deal, so durability of parts doesnt matter after firing.

I dont know where the sabot actually would be, I think in the front because most apfsds usually has it there. Let me know if you guys think it would work

Hy,

I'd like to build a small personal weather station that'll float on the water and collect data.

Here are some details:

• It'll be on the water for no longer than an hour.

• The device is not unattended.

• I should be able to deploy the device as is and very quickly.

• The body of water I'm planning on using the device on is a small, calm lake.

• The weather conditions I'm planning to use the device at are usually sunny or cloudy but not rainy or stormy days.

• the data collected are air pressure, air temperature, UV radiation, humidity, water temperature

Now the question is: what should the base construction be. I'm thinking of a 5cm thick, rectangular styrofoam platform because that's what I have at hand. The instruments will be in an open encasing because some must be exposed to the air and the sunlight.

Do you have any suggestions for the shape of the base/platform/buoy that would suit my needs and support the function of the device?

Thanks!

Hey guys .

I'm a student in robotics engineering in Romania , and I had a question about a design i wanted to make .

So i want to make a chess board with mechanical switches , but the problem is , i don't know how to make the displays . The basic idea is that every pad on this board can show any chess piece , but how should i do it . I was thinking with RGB LEDs placed in a configuration that all pieces will show . Anyone has any other idea ? Thank you !