The Afternoon projects thread.

Tibia · **Posted:** Sat May 02, 2009 9:02 pm

I wasn't originally planning on posting this, as it is so pointless, but if we have a thread for it, why not? Someone did ask to see it. It's just a pink LED in an N64. My camera doesn't perceive the pink light very well, so I took the pic with a stock N64 to try and show the difference.

Click on the pic if you want to see the larger version, for whatever reason. lol

Anyway, the story behind it, if anyone cares. Last spring, May 31 to be exact, a good friend of mine was murdered. It's been a very rough year. They know who did it, and he's still walking around free, the trial keeps getting delayed. Her family has upgraded their game consoles, and decided to get rid of the older stuff, so this was part of a pile given to me. Because this is systems she'd have played on when she was younger, I really want to be damn sure I hang on to them. Her absolute favorite color was pink, and her family has had several large runs of pink gel bracelets manufactured for her friends/family to wear, so pink was the obvious choice, even if it's not my thing. So now I get faced and play it, and it's a bit like getting to play with her again.

themadhacker · **Posted:** Sat May 02, 2009 9:11 pm

I am sorry about your friend. And thanks for posting something in the thread. This doesn't seem pointless at all to me. Doing something, however small it may be, in honor of a passed friend is not pointless at all.

XCVG · **Posted:** Sat May 02, 2009 9:49 pm

Tibia wrote:

I wasn't originally planning on posting this, as it is so pointless, but if we have a thread for it, why not? Someone did ask to see it. It's just a pink LED in an N64. My camera doesn't perceive the pink light very well, so I took the pic with a stock N64 to try and show the difference.

Click on the pic if you want to see the larger version, for whatever reason. lol

Anyway, the story behind it, if anyone cares. Last spring, May 31 to be exact, a good friend of mine was murdered. It's been a very rough year. They know who did it, and he's still walking around free, the trial keeps getting delayed. Her family has upgraded their game consoles, and decided to get rid of the older stuff, so this was part of a pile given to me. Because this is systems she'd have played on when she was younger, I really want to be damn sure I hang on to them. Her absolute favorite color was pink, and her family has had several large runs of pink gel bracelets manufactured for her friends/family to wear, so pink was the obvious choice, even if it's not my thing. So now I get faced and play it, and it's a bit like getting to play with her again.

That's so sad :cry:

Arrow--> · **Posted:** Sun May 03, 2009 4:25 pm

why does the trial keep getting delayed?

themadhacker · **Posted:** Sun May 03, 2009 6:09 pm

Sweet. Now this is stickied!

bacteria · **Posted:** Tue May 05, 2009 3:45 pm

One "afternoon project" I made a few months ago was a home-made KVM type switch for computers - I made a build thread here, but the .PDF is on my Wordpress site.

ShockSlayer · **Posted:** Tue May 05, 2009 3:50 pm

Technically, I should be the most frequent poster in this thread! :lol:

SS

XCVG · **Posted:** Tue May 05, 2009 5:15 pm

I built a power supply.

samjc3 · **Posted:** Tue May 05, 2009 5:59 pm

ive built several ipod speakers, but i sold em all, and i dont have pics. one was actually a beautamus frankencase!

themadhacker · **Posted:** Thu May 07, 2009 12:53 pm

Umm. ok. It looks more like something that belongs in my afternoon projects thread, though.

Arrow--> · **Posted:** Thu May 07, 2009 2:05 pm

I can see on the screen you have world of goo
is it any good?

metalcookie · **Posted:** Sun May 10, 2009 8:03 pm

i was bored one day, had 15 bucks to spare, and went to lowes. those three things and me don't mix well.
i built a high pressure water rocket launcher :mrgreen:

unfortunately i made it too well and i can't fire it off again til i make it safer

samjc3 · **Posted:** Sun May 10, 2009 8:19 pm

metalcookie wrote:

i was bored one day, had 15 bucks to spare, and went to lowes. those three things and me don't mix well.
i built a high pressure water rocket launcher :mrgreen:

unfortunately i made it too well and i can't fire it off again til i make it safer

i did the same, but mine runs off compressed air. bazooka style, pump it up aim and pull the lever, laugh as foam ball hits target (a person) with oomphtastic force!

metalcookie · **Posted:** Sun May 10, 2009 8:26 pm

i wish my dad would let me run mine off compressed air, but he thinks i'm going to kill someone

themadhacker · **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2009 6:12 am

hey, cookie, why don't you post some pics of it?

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