What non automotive projects and repairs are you doing?

[abscate]

As a start you can project to a white wall and take an IPhone picture

I made some progress in my shed and got my Volvo parts sorted by function. Neil is coming down to catalogue them for me.

[volvolugnut]

I have been working off and on for months to make space to get cars into my home shop. I am getting really close. I need to take some stuff to my other building to clear some space around the edges.
Some of the stuff got trashed, some will be metal recycled, and much has been piled higher and deeper. Some new shelves will be added. I hang some things from the ceiling on cables so they can be raised out of the way and let down to use. It was good foresight to build 10 foot walls when I built about 1985.
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[matthew1]

Looks good Abscate.

The vacuum bot is hilariously effective. I haven't used an app, haven't connected it to anything (wifi) or anything to it. I'm interested to understand how effective it is in base form.

I also don't want to sign up for yet another service that will surely one day leak my login/address/credit card to every bad actor in the world. I want to avoid that.

It's hilarious to watch the cats' reactions to it, hilarious to watch it work (bump, turn, bump, turn). It's hilarious to notice it running over a sock under the bed, stopping, playing a little chime sound, then letting me know it's a victim of "Error number six." It's effective because, hey, it vacuums. If I pick up socks from under the bed, it vacuums under the bed. Shocker. I help it, it helps me.

It vacuums then returns to its base station and sleeps. It's the opposite of the housecat in the sense that it improves the house cleanliness, yet similar to the housecat in that it moves around, then sleeps.

I moved it to my room. Whenever I press the "Go Out And Vacuum, Son" button it vacuums my room and begins to poke around the rest of the house. I'm downstairs in my office much of the time, so I piece together much of its behavior via its trails in the carpet.

[abscate]

Dear Matt’s Roomba clone….

You have done “very good work”

[volvolugnut]

Do robo vacuums sleep at night or do they roam around in the dark and potentially under foot?
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[Sveedy]

Nighttime is when they all get together and plot on how they're going to take over the world.
" One day it will be you, human, that will be vacuuming MY floors ! "

[matthew1]

" One day it will be you, human, that will be vacuuming MY floors ! "

[lrock]

Nighttime is when they all get together and plot on how they're going to take over the world.
" One day it will be you, human, that will be vacuuming MY floors ! "

https://www.yahoo.com/news/watch-tiny-r ... ccounter=1

Learn to speak robot so they can't plot against you without you knowing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Int ... n_Language

unless of course they start talking in that hyperfast dialup modem sounding language i can't seem to find right now

[BlackBart]

“I’m sorry, Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.”

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[volvolugnut]

This afternoon I spent 2 hours putting side panels on my trailer to haul branches and bamboo cuttings. First get battery out of mower to move the truck in front of the shop door. Then prime the carb to start the truck and move the truck away from the shop. Then put battery back in mower. Connect the mower to the trailer. Move mower and trailer to front yard near side panels. Find trailer has one flat tire and others need air. Find I left the panel side stakes in the back yard and carry them to front yard. Get compressor from back yard shop and carry to front garage. Air all trailer tires and one leaking Mercedes tire. Install trailer sides and wire tie to stakes. Carry compressor back to shop. Back trailer and mower into back yard in position to load branches. Uncouple mower and put back in shop. Load a few branches in trailer so I can say I started.
I hope the tire is not flat again tomorrow.
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