/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Earthen house, man. Wanted to do this since I was like 10.

That, or converting an abandoned missile silo into a secret lair.

>>147858
god damn captcha fail ate my photo

Descending order,

1: Mars Colony
2: Moon Colony
3: DIY Rocket
4: 1MW laser
5: DIY plane
6: DIY UAV
7: Sandcasting metals all the way up to steel (using waste oil)
8: 100% self-sufficient with electric and food (nearly there damn it!)

>>147867
Try cob. It's easy, doable, and nearly 100% free.

>>147872
Why didn't I think of that? Great idea, man. Thanks.

>>147867
Fucking stole my dream project.

5x5x6 camper on wheels ( that you push like a shopping cart or haul) made like a real house: stud walls, siding, roofing, drywall, well insulated, it would be cramped but it would work for me, being a short guy. I would also have a cabinet with some food, some camper propane tanks (the smaller ones) with the stove and space heater attachments for them. Something I could sustain myself and be comfortable in.

>>147892
Like this?

1. Right now brewing my own beer. Lacking funds now for the set up I want

2.Already accomplished hydroponic lettuce setup, stuff is delicious.
That's for realistic, otherwise I would love to live in wilderness or a Mars colony. Just live a simple life full of adventures, no facebook, no cellphone bullshit, no reality tv. I can only dream though.

>energy sword

never enough funds.

I want to build a Gingery machine shop. Sadly, the landlord doesn't want me smelting on his property. I'm contemplating building a coffeecan furnace and doing it out in the wilderness.

Anyone have any other suggestions to get this rolling?

I wanna build pieces of tough (but flexible) body armour.

I want to get a vehicle, like a van or a bread truck and convert the inside to living quarters. Then I'd use it to go on long distance trips.

In the more realistic plans for the year, I want to build out another bookshelf for the rest of my books and dvds, add an upper shelf to my desk and figure out a custom display case for my smaller figures.

im building a submarine. I was contemplating making a progress thread on /diy/ anyone interested in this? the electric motor arrives in three weeks, geeeeeee

i want to make Babbage's difference engine.
one day... maybe by the time i am 70.

I want to make a hand-crank(or bike driven) generator that feeds into a high voltage battery, for emergency situations.

As an electronic technician I could make the circuit pretty easily, the problem would be getting a decent DC motor that doesn't have too much resistance and making a geared hand crank.
Oh and getting a yacht batter, or a few car batteries would be kind of expensive.

I just want to buy some land with access to broadband internet, build a house on it, and then start improving all the systems over time.

Finding and buying the land is hard not because of money but because of how primitive the online resources for doing so are, and how much social anxiety I have about doing new things.

A personal rocket capable of achieving orbital flight around the earth.

I want to launch myself in a rocketship loop the earth a few times, and then make a controlled descent into an ocean.

And fuck the nay-sayers OP asked for dreams.

>>147976

;_;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPkhhLC1tf8

If it's a dream project, might as well go big.

Second would be some self-suficient huge lag few miles underground, but it's also pretty far in the la-la-land (small area might be doable though).

As for the more practical? Eh, iunno really, perhaps I'd build my house to be entirely 'intelligent', ie full of random useful robotics n stuff. Might want to get my current budget up by an order of magnitude, though.

>>147987
self-sufficient huge lab*

This.

I'm about to start a thread on this topic.

>>148019
Oops here is a pic.

>>148019
>>148021

I'm actually planning on building one too.

>>147973
This.

I'd kill for a Geodesic Dome Home. I have always wanted one...I kid you not, this is my ideal home. I would really like to build a small one (bedroom-sized) in our back yard, to use as my man-cave, but I don't realistically see how I could afford it.

this

>>148055

Good nyews! They make them out of plastic and aluminum! I've seen prices as low as $3k I think.

>>148064
I'd love building one myself but hell, I'd take a kit any day and just fix it up the way I like.

Any links or info? Also, how would something like this hold up in South Texas with our freaking 100 degree summers?

>>147870
>>147870
I want to build one of these and be totally self sufficient off the land. That would whoever net me zero pussy. ;_;

>>148079
You know, if you played your cards right, you could probably score some hipster/eco-cunt tail with one of those. Never know. There are some weird chicks out there.

An Ebike with hub motor up from and rear motor through gears. A few small ucontroller modules linked together ABS, traction and stability controls, electric brakes, automatic gearbox, runflat tires. maybe a tiny lightweight model aeroplane engine linked to a generator I could mount on a paper carrier for long journeys

>>148077
I want to build on of those and cover it in hydrophobic canvas.

>>148079

meh, if you had a respectable enough job and made good money, your setup would save you enough money to buy some cool shit and youd have no trouble getting laid.. thats what Im planning on at least

an auto fellatio table, octagon in shape so me and my mates all sit around drinking beers and playing poker while the machine does its thing. Maybe 8 fleshlights with the end removed hooked up to 8 wet/dry vacs?

>>148117
no homo

>>147917
cool
I'd love to design and build a nanobrewery, but location and funds are restrictive

One Day.

Really wish I could get my dream computer built.

Oil submerged computer in an aquarium, inside a bigger tank with fish in it. Not sure how stable the temps would be; definitely would require some testing before the fish actually went in. I just really, REALLY, want to see angle fish or something swimming around in front of a computer.

sub orbital space plane

I'd start it out as just a plane and then build up from there

Chocolate Milk Machine

>>148172

It's called an empty bottle with cap. Put in milk, put in chocolate syrup, screw on cap with a little air left in it, shake it up, enjoy.

>>148174
I know that method, I'm talking hands free method carried out by a machine, some what like an assembly line

pic related. i was dreaming about a baja tubular chassis, full suspension and a cummins 4bt engine (space and mpg). this thing is going to run on vegetable oil, because is the main vehicle of my second bream project

build a high altitute baloon and go around the world

> the problem would be getting a decent DC motor that doesn't have too much resistance and making a geared hand crank.

DC motors from threadmills are excellent generators. usually there's a flywheel attached to the shaft, and that flywheel can be friction driven from a bicycle wheel.

A functional 1 or 2 man Kirov airship. I have the required engineering expertise and understanding of physics to make it work.

>>148240
How do you do that with your name?

Fully functional 1:1 scale Space Marine Cyborg

>>147858
a house.
but before then:
>a cnc machine
>I'm already half way through my mars rover
>an intelligent safe (got most of it working)
>ipad controlled house lighting (pretty much finished)

its all about making dreams come true.

bamp!!

>>148252

He used a cursive typeset, and put it in the subject, then blanked his name and cancered up the joint with a tripcode.

>buy a whole valley on the alps
>close it to the public with a shiload of fences and private vigilantes on the perimeter
>bring my gf and my best friends in
>living there, isolated from outside world, for enough time (from 5 to 15 years, why not)
>building huts, bows, fishing and hunting
>turn back to civilization and spread the world how fucking wonderful the experience has been

multi touch 42" screen. coffee table
glass
no projector

I remember wanting to make a cabin with a small waterwheel that powered a turbine. The waterwheel would also power a table saw, ceiling fan(s), and something else needed in the middle of the woods.
Of course the wheel would be connected to a gearbox.

>>148579

Like a massive universal remote touch pad? Sounds cool

>>148600
i would use it to control media on a tv
it would also run news updates and other information i find interesting

i want to build a 1995 BMW 318ti powered by a turbocharged 20B mazda engine. could theoretically be done for around $6000 but no space to work on it and poorfag.

dat sound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU8I-5-YlAg

my own house. -,-

>>148616
why would you want to put rx-8 engine in a bmw? bmw 3-series is good as it is, and so is mazda. dont mix the two together man

>think of all the ideas i've had for fun, for money, for sense of achievement
>never had the funds

I've always wanted to build a nice ducted fan framework that I can bolt an engine w/ a prop. on. Bolt the whole thing to a nice low sled with a good sturdy bottom, with the right work it would function as a boat in the summer, and a dangerous as fuck snow vehicle in the winter.

Or just a small gas powered hovercraft, that'd work too.

Gear's heart.

http://www.geocities.jp/kamikara1967/gh_english.htm

In another archived thread it was shown it wouldn't turn.
I don't even know if this is /diy/

I want to scratch build an axial flow gas turbine engine. Nothing too large.

>>147867
those are going cheap now.
people converted them and are now having trouble selling

1. Make a hunting rifle from scrap, no kit, no instructions, just lathed bar-stock, a block of wood and hand machined parts.

2. My own house in the forest made from reclaimed lumber, antique windows, and other things of that sort.

3. private race track. I know where i want to build it, there is cheap land nearby that has streams, alpine/mountainous terrain, and flat dry desert all within a 10 acre area.

-Build a self-sustaining community of like-minded individuals on an offshore platform in international waters
-Own/Operate a short line light freight and tourist/heritage railroad.
-Go into space.

Oh, I'm sorry -- you said dream projects, not pipe dreams.

>>148686
Those chairs are so beautiful.... but also probably extremely expensive.

My dream project is to revolutionize space travel, or somehow figure out the logistics behind FTL travel. Also I'll jump on the "create a sustainable habitat" bandwagon too, though I think my version would have a lot more automation/robotics/high-tech involved, even though I do appreciate simplicity.

I want to build those plastic bottle hydroponic window farms.

But im just too damn lazy

>>148694
Shit, that first one sounds like heaven.

>Unlimited funds

OK so we take (old pre 2007) Runescape, kill all the bots, make grinding fun somehow, Give it actual HD graphics, get rid of the 'click to do everything' controls, make the map life sized (a walk from lum to varrock takes 3 mins, life sized would be 3 days) Make enemies have actual AI (woox can afk lvl702 jad and win) combat re-written to be like the sport fencing, the player's house is fully customizable like the sims/simcity, all objects can be interacted with, the player can set his/her character's age and will walk/talk to NPC's/do tasks accordingly to their age stereotypes, the game also works 60fps on dialup.


yes i have no life

>> start garden
>> remove television from house to brag about how cool I am because I don't have a t.v.
>> go to nigeria to start farm fueled by organic, locally produced children

>>148733
Hey, there's nothing wrong with your idea. Coding software is very diy.

My dream: buying a sizable piece of land with a stream/river/creek and forest, then building a cabin or two and living with my best friends.

Open-world zombie survival MMO based on the WoW client.

If I have the skill and the money I would make a 1:1 or slightly smaller replica of GLaDOS using a mix of siri (from the iphone) and a kinect for tracking capability( considered puting a projector in one of her lens so i could use her to watch movies and poop). obviously it would be for automation I wouldnt give this thing AI

i'd like to buy a nice secluded chunk of broadleaf woodland with a large enough understory of hazel or sweet chestnut or something that i can coppice every year, burn charcoal and eventually get good at woodworking. ideally it'd have some kind of body of water, be it a large pond or stream, and some nice old standards like oak or beech or some shit. i have no idea if there's even a decent chance that'll happen, i'm still a student and have no career to speak of so there's no point looking at potential places

i'm not completely unrealistic so i'd never plan on living there, although if i ever got it i probably wouldn't be able to resist building some kind of treehouse without the unobtainable planning permission

>>148733
>>148744
Please, no...

...I would have no life.

1. Several video games. I practically write design documents as a hobby but for an assortment of reasons they never amount to much in real life.

2. A greenhouse complex. Little money, no land. Tempted to build a shed-sized one in the future to try and grow a dwarf coffee tree and pineapples anyway, just to see if I can in this climate.

3. Oodles of little microcar projects including restoring a Crosley Super Wagon and a Messerschmitt KR200.

4. Experimental housing, largely to apply things that I've learned from camping and mobile homes to residences that aren't trailers. The engineering that goes into campers is really fascinating, the way that you have to think about the flow of people, where objects are stored, visibility, and so on, I've always admired how efficiency and comfort can coexist like that.

5. Somewhere in the back of my mind I've always had this niggling little desire to open a restaurant but I know that's never happening.

I would like to make a universe.

Want to get one of these and make a hot rod from it. Make that bad boy my daily driver and roll around like the biggest pimp in the world. 1930s cars man, so fucking cool.

>no space
>no money
>sadfrog.gif

Tesla coil, coilgun, weed-whacker motorcycle, pulsejet, pulsejet motorcycle, missile silo lair.

I want to design my own house and design the interior of each room, each one having a different themes. Themes include a glass room, forest room, water room, gamer's pad, and sophisticated bar.

A water desalination system at home.

To turn a van into a self contained RV that you could live in for long periods at a time!

>>148733
you've never played uo have you?
www.uogamers.com
same thing, but better looking, and WAY better pvp and custom housing

- Turn a fire truck into a RV
- Fan boat
- My own currency
- Brewing on a scale that will remove my need to buy beer
- Pizza oven on wheels

making a car from scratch.

Buying an engine of some sort
Rebuilding it
Tuning it
Designing/Making a frame from scratch
Welding the frame together
making body panels

>pretty much an ariel atom but slightly better.

I lack the time, money and space to do it.

Do something like this British guy, Monty Hall. Find and buy a ruin of a cottage, and make it my own. Get some pigs, chicken and sheeps. And fish and grow stuff. I live in Norway, so the cottage along the shore shouldn't be so hard to find, but as im going to school in the fall and work at IKEA, it have to wait. So, back to the dream project. Living of my hobby, run a freaking teambuilding camp or something on the shore and do what i love and get payed for it.

Build your own game show stage in front of your home,
rake in profits
Parting gifs will be needed.

>>149290

>pretty much an ariel atom but slightly better.

How could you improve on the atom? It's 612kg with the K20A (honda S2000) motor in...

Maybe start with a kit car? Clubman open wheeler kits are easy to get, cheap and will give you a good idea of what's involved in such a project; then you can work your way up to your atom beater one day.

As for me, getting my woodworking and leather workshop up and running is my main project, just putting the end vise on my bench now

>>147858
Build a replica of the captains quarters from the normandy SR-2 from mass effect
pic related

>>148159
m14 EBR? there like 1000$ on ebay

>>149404
i take that back you can only legally buy the civilian version on eBay
> http://www.fulton-armory.com/fultonarmoryusriflecal762mmm14-1-1-1-1-1-3.aspx

start saving.

I want to make some of my own plate armor, build a Caterham, and live in an interesting [relatively small] house.
Alternative to the house, build an awesome garage, and have a glass wall to the living quarters of the house.

>>149466
Note: the caterham would have a roof and doors so I could drive it in the rain, comfortably.

This, but made out of wood, not paper. And about 2x that size. I've never built anything, so this is my CURRENT dream project. Working on trying to find wood for it right now. Any tips would be great.

Self-sufficiency of power generation.

This picture, but 1,000X larger.

Open world Pokemon mmo/rpg.

>try and tell me you wouldn't play it

I wanna be a core of the space-time.

>>149502

what the fuck thats so awesome. I want it even just the paper one for my room

turning my truck into a prerunner. its 4x4 so more costs happen and i dont have all the tools needed

My personal study, two walls just lined with books, a wide screen TV, old style oak desk, comfy chairs and a place to lounge while i smoke my pipe.
It's connected to my workshop; the one place I can work on my wood and electronic projects.
just perfect bliss

Building my own house up in the mountains. A large shop/barn styled building with an open loft upstairs for a bed and desk, downstairs a small kitchen and "living room". The rest of it is just a big workshop area.

Virtual world,plug this shit in your neck and voila

I want to set up a Moonshine still and produce something better than rotgut, then go legit and have a distillery business. Where to do it without getting busted is the trouble, although the ATF told me an individual can get a permit "for personal use".

To leave Hungary and do what this man did. I'm working on that, saving money wherever I can.

>>150270
Fuck, Hungarian was one of the languages I wanted to learn. Resources I found were dismal however.

>>150270
he doesn't stay in the cottage, in fact I think it burnt down recently.

>>150277
http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Yourself-Hungarian-Complete-Course/dp/007142024X
>>150282
He bought his own land for family use and started his own business doing cookery courses, documentaries and shit. I'm planning to stick to small-scale, max 3 polytunnels, goats for cheese, pigs for meat, chicks for eggs and meat. Wife would be working in academia, I'd be making revenue by app-programming and small-scale online poker.
A barn burnt down a couple days ago. Noone got hurt, they will have the roof rebuilt in a week's time.

I need to finish this project I started last year. It's currently buried under a few feet of snow but once that melts I'll be able to move it onto the deck I built for it after building a low wall to raise it up high enough to put a proper (non triangular) door in it. Eventually I want to replace the current roof with a geodesic dome made of clear UV resistant plastic and EMT tubing which should give me enough room for a small second floor loft. Also it'll look like either a giant mushroom or the biggest phalic sculpture on the block.

Advancing mankind to space age on an industrial scale.

>>150270
He is not really being truthful about how he lives, and what he does. When I watched the whole series in a course of one week, I caught on to some of his lies. He makes money of the series first, then he basically teaches his plan to others, not for free obviously. He laso networks like a motherfucker pushing himself into the village life. He also owns restaraunt(s) and other businesses. He was/is a chef, thus the fancy dishes he makes. At first I was stunned that life like this could be lived in this day and age. I mean, it is possible; however, his intentions were commercial not self sufficient. Then he got himself a bigger place, people to work for him, and he started doing functions, special dinners, and the said courses.

>>150294
It is definitely possible, and even profitable. I wanted to do this, but then I decided to go back to school. Anyway, look up most profitable/expensive food and sell that at farmers market and online. Like rare meats, birds etc. They are not necessarily hard to raise, just not as popular. It would be a niche market, but all you would need are few restaurants in US to buy from you.

>>148055
I've lived in one for 25 years, although they look cool there are a few drawbacks. No attic causes problems, furniture placement sucks and sound really travels.

Blacksmithing set up. I reckon I'd have to see about getting at least an acre of land outside of a residential area and therefore outside of the city.

But I'm still young. I figure if I can get it done by 35 that wouldn't be so bad.

Also, an unnecessary concrete fallout shelter would be nice. That would go great with 1+ acre of land.

>>150398
I saw one that was big and had a conventional house built inside it. It's pretty damn cool.

God only knows why they did a conventional roof instead of flat top roofs so you can enjoy the extra space.

Looking to purchase a large parcel of isolated land in the wilderness up state, build my own home, live completely separate from society.

I've spent at least 24 months designing all of the intricacies and planning everything from roof orientation to crop rotation, solar catchment, rain water catchment and usage calculations, a multi barrel manifold style auto watering system... I've actually amazed myself with some of the stuff I've come up with (that's not a boast, I just didn't think I was capable of it to be perfectly honest, I guess when you want something bad enough you just don't let anything beat you).

Basically I have about another 2 years of full time work ahead of me, to buy the land, all the materials I need, and completely shut myself off, I'll be debt free and there will be little to no trace left of me.

It's going to be heaven :)

PS. Looking for a physically fit, like minded individual to share in the adventure, I don't give a fuck about money, you can have zero and I don't mind, you just have to be serious, reliable, trustworthy and willing to work/share in the lifestyle... male or female I don't care... I don't want a fuck buddy, just someone to keep me company and share in the work load :)

>>150466
Shit man, where do you live? My dream too.

>>150466
would love to join.
Maybe we can build a small community of tiny houses.
That would be awesome.

I don't have the time and money for such a thing at the moment but I've been trying to make a design for a small house that has everything I need to live.

>>150466
taking any 4chan applicants?

>>150466
i think a bunch of us channers fit this ideal.
ive learned so much from growing and raising my own food to creating energy and forging and casting metals.

but to put it into practice is the real dream, not in my backyard for the rest of my life

>>150539
at least you have a backyard

Build an ultralight. If anyone has any info, sites, anything, do post. Please.

I want to move forward on this one.

>>150466
What age group fits your bill?

I have a torn down garage behind my house that I dont use. I haven't had the time nor money to clean that shit hole up.

I was thinking of making it into some kind of gaming room.

Two Big Screen TVS, Every system, surround sound. Etc. but that is just me

>>150466
Email?

Make a hoverboard. I will attempt it.

Actually, right now I just want to learn the basics of electronics and be able to tinker with and make my own electronic devices. This type of stuff: http://www.nutsvolts.com/

>>150466
>PS. Looking for a physically fit, like minded individual to share in the adventure, I don't give a fuck about money, you can have zero and I don't mind, you just have to be serious, reliable, trustworthy and willing to work/share in the lifestyle... male or female I don't care... I don't want a fuck buddy, just someone to keep me company and share in the work load :)

A/S/L? If you're a hot female gimme dat email.

>>150314
Brofist. There are a lot of us out there with the same dream. Together we can do it, or at the very least jump-start it.

Converting a schoolbus (just need the frame - will probably switch out the engine to something more powerful) to a two layer survival vehicle.
>Bulletproof
>Roof will have reflecting walls, for a hydroponic setup
>Back door would be sandbagged, have a 30MM machine gun on the back
>6 mounts on the roof for AR15/AKs (2 front and back, 1 each side)
>On bulletproof windows, collapsable kevlar plating (extra protection)
>All essential parts kevlar plated and preferably sandbagged (engine block, enormous gas tank, etc)
>HAM radio setup
>Solar panel setup
>Small RAID array for all of my infothread savings and my wikipedia backup
>Sleeping quarters
>Storage would be under bus (there is an extra layer under school busses where you can store just about any shit.)

Loft bed because my room is small, and actually loved the one from my childhood, so I decided to build me one. If I could get away with it, I would just build a damn fort or a bunker and played nostalgia games.

something like this
and my own house

>>150690
something like this

>>150694
Looks like something I build in Minecraft from time to time.

>>150624
>Storage would be under bus (there is an extra layer under school busses where you can store just about any shit.)

no there isn't, I worked in a Bluebird factory building school buses and there's just a floor and maybe a 5 inch skirt that sticks around the perimeter of the bottom of the chassis

unless you live somewhere where the buses are weird

>>150708
He might be thinking of the public transportation buses that have the luggage outside under the seats.

>>150702
That's an old firewatch tower. I would like to make something similar, but only a bit larger and with a basement.

Two person underwater observatory dome like this one.

I'd like to one say buy an old armored truck like the kind you always see at banks and strip the interior to just the cage and driving compartment, but try and make it a little smaller maybe. Then turn the entire thing into one of the custom made car/truck camper for hunting trips and random adventures.
>No money
>No drivers license
>No resources

I want to buy a couple raspberry PIs and make some functioning pipboy knockoffs and sell them for dough. I've already programmed in java an interface that sort of looks like the one in fallout : NV I just need to add some decent applications to it like a calculator or a memopad or something but alas the rassberry PIs aren't buyable yet :/

>>150925

I expect it'll suffer the same fate as the Pandora.

By the time it actually became available obsolescence had made the price point completely unattractive.

>>150925
"You will be able to buy a Raspberry Pi from the end of February, from this website." -their website

A singing Tesla coil driven with a MIDI controller.
...just missing the funds :(

I will attach a small generator to a bicycle. To this I will hook an inverter and 40+ watts worth of speaker power. Bitches LOVE rave bikes.