Planning to replace the old TV coax cable with Ethernet cable so everybody in the house gets their own low-latency connection for gaming. The problem is that TV cable is installed in a daisy chain while Ethernet has a star topology, and there’s only room for one cable from the basement to upstairs. So at the moment I’m pondering whether to keep the daisy chain and place a switch in every room, use some sort of MoCA (Ethernet over coax) adapter or go all the way and install fiber.
Also, we should really replace the carpet in the master bedroom with hardwood soon.
I’ll go ahead and say that I’m using a MoCA connection to my main PC, and have no complaints about it at all. It’s the 2.5Gbps by ScreenBeam.
Not sure how exactly that works with the daisy chain, but brief reading seems to indicate that it should be fine to add a MoCA endpoint in each room, unless you wanna just rewire the upstairs with a single switch and Ethernet cables to each room up there, assuming you have room to run all the cables in the upstairs only.
I found an old table sitting by the dumpster so I went and bought some stain and paint and i’m going to clean it up and refinish it for an extra table in my office. I’m excited, It’s been a while since i’ve built/rebuilt a piece of furniture.
I’m hoping to get around to cad-ing up some replacements for paper pieces in one of my tabletop board games, get those 3D printed and painted, and switch over for next time I play.
I’m tuning up the sole of my #5 bench plane so I can use it for more reliable edge jointing while I continue my half-hearted search for a #7 plane.
When I’m done with that I am going to start work on a Morris chair using plans from Norm Abram’s New Yankee Workshop. I’ll use mahogany and plan to make my own leather cushions. It will be my winter project, I think. :)
Depends how many levels of recursion you’re interested in.
The most immediate project is to rewire all the ceiling lighting in the basement, to get it all on one circuit, while also eliminating a few dim spots and swapping some old flourescent fixtures for some nice dimmable LED panels I got on a sale, for the area that we eventually wanna turn into an entertainment center. I’ve got all the supplies ready, but I keep getting sidetracked by lawn work and issues with the car.
THAT whole project is in service of tearing down and rebuilding the drywall facade walls in the basement, and being able to have working lighting available for that project.
THAT project is in service of finishing waterpoofing the basement after we had a gutter and sump system professionally installed last fall. That eliminated all the issues we had with water seeping up from under the foundation, but there’s still a very small amount that leaks in from over the TOP of the foundation, when there’s heavy-enough rain. For that, we need to rip out the remainder of the walls, which were partially ripped out to install the gutter, and put up a liner directly on the foundation walls that will redirect all water down into the gutter.
THEN we can replace the carpet that we had to rip out after the record-setting rain storm we had last summer that soaked the entire basement.
THEN we can move everything in the garage back intonthe basement.
THEN I can being working on the car that grenaded itself when it threw a timing chain.
Also, does buying a new car count? Cause that was our entire 3-day weekend.
I’m trying to network some spare laptop motherboards together with a working laptop that remotes in, my Desktop named Theseus, my AWS VPS, and a raspberry pi running Home Assistant to make a mini supercomputer to run AI locally. Unfortunately I have a bad habit of "painting the Mona Lisa pixel by pixel’, so I’ve been stuck cutting holes, gluing things with ABS-acetone paste, and putting in heatset inserts (for maximum serviceability) for weeks to make cases for them while my ADHD ass keeps forgetting what I was doing and switching between tasks at random 🥲 One of them is done enough that I got the metal tape for grounding laid down so I only have maybe a few weeks left
The network’s name is Navi, as an homage to Serial Experiments Lain!
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.
I have my guest bath torn down to studs. A new cast iron tub went in. I had to replace a few termite-eaten studs from who knows when. The house is 60 years old. I’m working on putting it all back together now. New insulation, then drywall and backer board. Then, moving on to the shower tile. Also, I have to schedule a new stone top for the vanity and get a new sink and faucet. Then, texture and paint all the walls and finally replace all the floor tile in the area. I started a week ago, but it’s all moving quickly. If I can keep up the momentum, maybe I will be finished in a month.
I have a couple of air quality sensors I need to get wired up with wireless interfaces. I also have a book that I’m hollowing out to turn into a crystal radio-slash-diorama that I need to get back to work on.
Slowly gathering the tools and materials I need to make my own desktop. I’ll be trying to use pine sap resin to glue the boards together before sanding it down. I think I’ll be buying the rest of the desk from Ikea, I just don’t want to keep touching melamine when I’m studying (although it’s probably safe).
I replaced my brakes last weekend. Did the pads, realized I also needed to do the disks and brake fluid too. Ended up being a lot more work than I wanted, mostly because I was missing tools.
I destroyed an old, out of order chimney. I rebuilt a wooden formwork with an electric radiator which looks like a fireplace. Now, my SO and I are going to cover the formwork with mosaic tiles (she knows how to lay tiles, I’m going to learn to). After that, I’ll put wooden shelves on top, for books and geeky decorations.
Also, on the evening, I’m helping her sewing amigurimi toys, as she is a professional crochet craftswoman.
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