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Dream Project

Anonymous Thu 01 Oct 2015 08:57:42 No.882619 View Reply Report Delete

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Hey /diy/, first ever post, be nice.
What's your dream project that you know you will never get to do?
I am from the north east of Scotland and always had a fascination with the peoples who came over and raped my ancestors, especially the vessels they used to get here.
My dream would be to make my own viking longboat. What is yours?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Oct 2015 10:01:47 No.882646 Report Delete

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>>882619
I want to go full off grid and build my own semi-underground home with earthen walls etc.

I could do it, but it would require abandoning everything in my life and moving back where I grew up. I like my income too much.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Oct 2015 10:24:11 No.882660 Report Delete

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I every year i think i'd like to make a coil gun just for the hell of it. My design is generally fun adapted into a NES Zapper, which contains the coils and the projectile feed. The cable would run to a NES on back which would contain the battery and the capacitor bank.

I'll probably complete it eventually just i keep putting it off.

Also bipedal robot is the other dream project.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 01 Oct 2015 17:57:28 No.882784 Report Delete

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>>882619
Never say never anon.

My dream project is to raise a barn like the amish.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 01 Oct 2015 20:19:26 No.882813 Report Delete

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sea farming and power generation on my sublimated sea-crete foundation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Millennial_Project:_Colonizing_the_Galaxy_in_Eight_Easy_Steps

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 02 Oct 2015 01:23:14 No.882885 Report Delete

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>>882619
Build a cabin innawoods and a robot.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 02 Oct 2015 05:38:47 No.882936 Report Delete

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A house. The chance of deciding everything, building all those smart solutions in from scratch and not having to adapt the house to them. A wired smart home system. A nice library with full wall solid oak bookshelves (not like the Frankensteined IKEA Billy I have going now).

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 02 Oct 2015 06:03:16 No.882939 Report Delete

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>>882936
seems a bit short sighted. my engineering block at university had this amazing design. it was just levels of straight long hallways with rooms coming off it. the rooms were modular, walls could be moved and rearranged. the hallways had a false ceiling that hid one big central crawspace. central air, all the electrical, plumbing, everything easily accessible by just openning the hatches that covered them. absolutely glorious. if i ever built a house, I would want the same thing. no bullshit cables and pipes snaking through walls so that a burst pipe or electrical fault means tearing down the wall.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 02 Oct 2015 12:20:46 No.883008 Report Delete

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>>882939
Well, I'm a bit old-fashioned in my thinking but you're opening my eyes to the possibilities here!

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Oct 2015 19:14:35 No.883541 Report Delete

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A space rocket

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Oct 2015 23:01:58 No.883607 Report Delete

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I want to build an underground Evil Genius facility under my house, with nobody ever knowing. Sharks are optional, but laser beams will be required.

What can I say. My ambitions are modest.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 04 Oct 2015 01:47:27 No.883657 Report Delete

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>>882619
I think it would be really awesome to make a full size old WWI style plane, like the Swordfish, or a Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter.

I can only imagine how fun they'd be to fly.

The biggest reason I won't do it though is it'd be stupid dangerous to diy them and then fly them.

I might wing up making a autogyro or personal solar blimp instead, should I get the time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 04 Oct 2015 02:32:42 No.883663 Report Delete

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If I had ~150 Million or so, I'd buy a rocket and send a probe to a different planet. Mars or Europa, most likely.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 04 Oct 2015 04:34:08 No.883682 Report Delete

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Wooden mech suit. Duh.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 04 Oct 2015 12:54:58 No.883769 Report Delete

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>>882619
Railguns I could sell part kits for.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 04 Oct 2015 13:05:48 No.883772 Report Delete

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>>883607
One step ahead of you.

Heaven

Heaven Mon 05 Oct 2015 17:23:31 No.884319 Report Delete

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>>882619
a giant dome to live on

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Oct 2015 17:50:30 No.884331 Report Delete

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Succesfully make a super awesome anime otaku cosplay costume that becomes any thing I want and looks normal

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Oct 2015 18:21:39 No.884355 Report Delete

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>>882619

A large and self-sustaining food garden with crops and animals the whole shabang

Too bad I'm too lazy to even empty the litterbox of my cats every day, or clear the weeds off my driveway, let alone set up a self-sufficient garden

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Oct 2015 18:42:11 No.884364 Report Delete

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I've always wanted to make my own house from scratch, the lobby being a big circular library, or have one or a study on the second floor, observatory style. Adding to that, a mini skydome would be dope, Lilo and Stitch style.

Talking about things closer to what I could do when I'm skilled enough, I want to make that tail fin from How To Train Your Dragon. Looks simple enough + I can hang it on my wall.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 07 Oct 2015 00:57:53 No.885085 Report Delete

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I've always thought that if I were rich I would make it my hobby to buy cars that the manufacturer didn't quite "get right" and modify them to what I think should've originally rolled off the production line.
Example: This generation Toyota Celica should've been AWD and turbo ch>>882619
arged, basically a competitor to contemporary Subaru WRX STI' and Mitsubishi Evos.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Oct 2015 08:03:14 No.885167 Report Delete

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>>882619
I'd love to send a robot to the moon that could dig into it and have it dig a big pictures that was visible from earth, but I'll probably never do it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Oct 2015 10:43:35 No.885190 Report Delete

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>>885167
yeah but NASA already drew a penis on mars... so... maybe you should go join them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 09 Oct 2015 23:24:18 No.886227 Report Delete

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>>884355
Don't let the this society of capitalistic crud steer you towards a life of complacency not following your dreams!

I'm in a simalar boot but I'm thawing out. becoming my true self and not looking back at what society wants from me.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 10 Oct 2015 20:51:12 No.886559 Report Delete

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My dream is to one day Design and build my own yacht, which i would coast hop down through the Mediterranean and back.
I've got a few boat building qualifications and I'm doing a degree in yacht design atm, so could probably be achieved.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 10 Oct 2015 21:07:25 No.886567 Report Delete

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>>883541

This. A spaceship is the only real answer.

I want a Calvin and Hobbes "Spaceman Spiff" saucer.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 11 Oct 2015 02:52:52 No.886678 Report Delete

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>>883772
So jealous.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 11 Oct 2015 04:44:09 No.886708 Report Delete

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>>883772
Afternoon, Bruce

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 00:53:15 No.887953 Report Delete

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>>882619
>always had a fascination with the peoples who came over and raped my ancestors
wut?

my dream project, a one man compact glider plane with a (small) propulsion system for takeoff, that doubles as a small go-cart like vehicle but streeeeeet legal.

or building a teleportation, that'd be nice too.

ro finding the cure to death.....that, or discovering magic......

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 00:54:15 No.887955 Report Delete

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>>885190
draw a va-jai

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 01:02:13 No.887958 Report Delete

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>>884319
lol to live ON? The absolute madman!

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 02:13:50 No.887974 Report Delete

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>dream project that you know you will never get to do
If you really want it, you'll find a way to make it happen.

I think it would be fun to build and fly an ultralight aircraft. All I need is a hang glider, a lawnmower engine, and a shop fan. So, a trip to Wally World. But I don't know if I really want to trust my life to the Briggs & Stratton.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 16:58:41 No.888193 Report Delete

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>>887953
he likes vikings, anon

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Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 18:31:39 No.888260 Report Delete

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>>882619
Build a house with a waterwheel for hydroelectric power

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 22:53:04 No.888352 Report Delete

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This migjt sound dumb but im obsessed with building a sphere space pod made out of 1/2 circular plywood cutouts. I need a cnc machine and the cheapest plywood cnc ive seen is a shop bot. I dont have that kind of money.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 17 Oct 2015 17:08:24 No.889602 Report Delete

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>>888352
No. No you do not need a CNC machine. CNC is for ridiculously complicated large cutouts that need to be perfect, like bas relief carvings, or for when you need 200 of something. Anything you can cut with a CNC you can do yourself with time and patience. you'll just fuck up.
all the pictures I can find are of a bent plywood lamination. You need a tablesaw. I got a busted one (just the plastic sides were broken. and the safety switch pin was missing) from craigslist for $20 (I bought a pressure washer and tablesaw for $30, so $15, and then $5 for a new switch and wood to fix the busted plastic sides)
Cut many thin strips of cheap pine, carefully glue a few together in an arc. Use the first arc as a mold to glue up all the side members. Then use those to glue more strips around the sides. use a jigsaw or keyhole saw to cut out the door and add hinges to it.
Paint and you have your damn saiyan space pod.
Orrr you need to post a picture or no one knows what you're talking about.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 16:45:02 No.890523 Report Delete

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>>885085
Building on this, I'd pick up a '93 Mazda MX-3 (my first car) and do a full restore. In addition the car's already phenomenal handling would probably benefit loads from AWD, and if I'm already going that far I'd think a swap and turbo are implied. I wouldnt want to rice it though I love how they look stock

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 18:03:46 No.890558 Report Delete

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>>883772
i love you bunkeranon

monotreeme

monotreeme Fri 23 Oct 2015 11:50:59 No.892114 Report Delete

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>>882619
a house. a dream home (for me) to be me inside of

decent size, maybe ~2,000 ft^2
3 bedroom, 2 bath
a wall of book-shelving in a spacious living-room
a good coat of nice dark green paint.
a hobby-room/FUNgeon for my projects that can be done indoors as well as seeing to my fetishes
a proper kitchen
a home-based server on a rack in the closet with the water-heater to serve as a system's backup/home controller
10 foot ceilings
a patio with a big fire-ring and my trusty barbecue pit
a small out-door workshop building
a gazebo for eating out in on good days, and playing TTRPGs in on days I feel like being ironic.
and an 8' privacy fence around a medium-sized back yard

half of the satisfaction in having such a place would be in having built(or overseen the construction at least) it from the ground up.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 13:23:49 No.892153 Report Delete

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i just want to restore one of there, my all time classic car

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 23:08:36 No.892765 Report Delete

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I basically want to be Iron Man.
How lame...

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 23:23:34 No.892771 Report Delete

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>>890523
Just drop an LS1 in it.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 23:37:37 No.892777 Report Delete

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I wanna build a badass guitar/instrument amplifier/cab. It doesn't have to be the most perfectly tuned and engineered thing, I just want it to be unique. Walnut and steel construction. I just don't have good enough electronics skills or carpentry skills to make anything world-class.

OH also I want to make a dodecahedron loudspeaker... more reasonable but same problems.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 00:47:40 No.892806 Report Delete

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I have always wanted to build a aircraft of any sort.
>project that you know you will never get to do
not with that attitude

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 08:21:14 No.892906 Report Delete

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I would buy my favorite car, a 89 RX-7 hatch and convert it to an electric as something fun to ride to places in town

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 08:28:57 No.892910 Report Delete

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>>883541
this
>>886567
Well it's more like a lifting body/quad copter mutt. But I could draw them on the hull.

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