Hey, Ask Lemmy, we all know that people love to talk about themselves, and I’d love to hear about some of your pleasant experiences. So, please, no matter how big; no matter how small, tell me something that you are proud to have made :)

  • cRazi_man@europe.pub
    2·
    2 days ago

    Keyboards (home and work)

    Macro-pad (for me and the Mrs)

    Hitbox controllers (for playing Street Fighter 6)

    My last two PCs

    Turned a broken laptop into an emulation console

    A bunch of “Ikea hack” furniture pieces around the house that I don’t have pictures of currently.

      • cRazi_man@europe.pub
        2·
        20 hours ago

        Thanks. They’re custom keyboard layouts. The backspace is split into 2 buttons and so it the right shift. The row to the right of spacebars is also not standard. I wanted to make the keyboards as small as possible while having as many buttons on it as possible. All buttons are programmable and you can make them do whatever you want so it’s handy to have more buttons. e.g. I’ve got a single button shortcut for copy/paste. Can also make it do things like: if I hold right shift it acts as a shift key but if I tap right shift then it acts as an up arrow key. There’s one key that inputs my full email signature and one for an abbreviated signature.

        • aloofPenguin@piefed.worldEnglish
          1·
          19 hours ago

          even cooler now tbh! i didn’t even notice the other keys didn’t have the labels that they usually would. it is kinda cool to see what people do with custom keyboards and the like!

      • cRazi_man@europe.pub
        2·
        1 day ago

        Thanks.

        1. I cut a bunch of Pax wardrobes down to size to be full length fitted wardrobes in the bedrooms.

        2. A room has a nook with an awkward sized gap next to a wardrobe. I got a narrow CD shelf unit from Ikea and attached 3 of them together to make a narrow and deep shelving unit that fits perfectly to fill up this nook.

        3. Our bathroom had little space and little storage. The Ikea over sink medicine cabinet had the correct depth to fit, so I got 2, cut and modified them and fixed one on top of the other to make a narrow stnading bathroom storage cupboard.

        4. Got an Ikea oak kitchen counter top and cut it to fit alongside a wardrobe to make a long double computer station for the Mrs and me to be able to do computer work from home.