/diy/ - Do It Yourself

[Anonymous No.1361883]

what was your first /diy/ project

[Anonymous No.1361886]

Pic related, some benches when I was 17. If you look reeeeal carefully you can see the front legs on the first one (background) were 400 odd mm too short and I had to kludge some timber on to make up the difference. 20 years on and I still have no idea how I fucked that up. At least they were flimsy as fuck.

[Anonymous No.1361887]

>>1361886
> 20
Err, 15, I think I am starting to understand how I fucked up those measurements -_-

[Anonymous No.1361890]

My son

[Anonymous No.1361903]

Cutting a wirecoat hanger into a launcher/holder for match rockets (tightening aluminum foil around a matchhead making makeshift rockets).

I still have the first wirecutters I ever bought at age 12 and my first toolbox that I still use to this day.

[Anonymous No.1361906]

>>1361883
>u never finished your first project.

[Anonymous No.1361907]

>>1361890
this guy`s son

[Anonymous No.1361917]

Made a coffee table during Resistant Materials class in high school. Turned out well, but I never thought about how big it should be. It ended up being too big for the front room, worked alright for the patio though

[Anonymous No.1361920]

Getting the attention of my parents, I never did finish the project.

[Anonymous No.1362056]

A really crappy dog house I think

[Anonymous No.1362058]

3x3x3 LED Cube

[Anonymous No.1362067]

I made a switch network to swap between video inputs because my TV only had one, and I had multiple game systems that I played regularly. I think I was 12 at the time. It just did video because I used a stereo receiver for audio. I took it apart a few years ago and was amused that nothing was soldered and it was all just twisted wires wrapped with electrical tape. It worked perfectly for years until I got a better TV.

[Anonymous No.1362107]

>>1361883
some kind of electronic fart noise machine that modulated the fart sound through skin conductivity. it had two probes that made different fart noises depending on how you held it.

[Anonymous No.1362212]

>>1361883
I tried building a robot that leaped around like a frog when is was 12 but it didn't work because I didn't have a reliable way of snapping the legs back that wouldnt over power the motor's torque.
It was a retarded design but I didn't have cool shit like 3D-printers. I wouldve had a blast with a 3D printer as a kid.

[Anonymous No.1362222]

>>1361883
>1980s
>boyscouts
>12-feet tall, wooden ladder made from branches

I don't even remember my first one, but that is the first one I remember where no one helped or knew about it until it was done. I don't even remember what merit badge it was for, but I got it at least.

[Anonymous No.1362406]

I found a light socket in the trash. I put a bulb in it, stuck the two wires in an outlet, and the bulb lit up. I was 6 years old.

[Anonymous No.1362408]

>>1361883
How am I supposed to remember that?

[Anonymous No.1362410]

Ikea table

[Anonymous No.1362414]

>>1361886
I can't see it, have the back leg a solid 45 second look

[Anonymous No.1362417]

Green army man fort built from dirt. The power rangers didn't stand a chance

[Anonymous No.1362421]

My earliest memory has to be when I was 8 and a couple friends and I decided to make a sail boat out of stray board, some barrels and some sheet.

It sailed I tell you. But we had no way to trim the sails and the wind blows straight offshore. Luckily my whole family are salty dogs and were aware of what we were doing so my uncle rescued us on the maiden voyage. Slightly embarrassed but everyone was impressed with our attempt.

I am sure I DIY'd something before that. But I am not a comfortable first worlder who /DIY/ as a hobby.

[Anonymous No.1362427]

>>1361883
Made a sled for my stuffed animal with my dad when I was 3 or 4 so I could pull it around the house

[Anonymous No.1363350]

I made a squirrel trap out of chicken wire and plywood. I caught way more with it than the 100$ cage traps they sell.

[Anonymous No.1363376]

>>1361883
I made a birdhouse when I was a kid

[Anonymous No.1363379]

>>1362414

[Anonymous No.1363564]

FAP

[Anonymous No.1363960]

Used to build a ton of shit from wood scrap my dad would bring home from work. Earliest thing i remember (and most significant) is my computer desk. Built it when i was about 14, and still use it today. No pics unfortunately because shit lighting and my desk is a mess rn.

[Anonymous No.1364183]

>>1361883
Myself.

[Anonymous No.1364184]

>>1361883
>true story
>be me
>be 3 yrs old
>take apart the remote control
>almost put it back together
>mfw I ride my bike with no handlebars

[Anonymous No.1364191]

>>1364184
You authoritarian piece of shit.

[Anonymous No.1364271]

>>1361883
I was building an 18-wheel tanker truck in my dads basement out of 2x4 planks. I got far enough to nail one plank to the floor.

To my defense, I was 4.

[Anonymous No.1364840]

Made a fire pit out of an old giant propane tank cap. It's at my parents house, can get pics if you guys want.

[Anonymous No.1365013]

>>1364184
Thx nostalganon

[Anonymous No.1365033]

>>1361883
modding my ps2, didn't work out. :/

[Anonymous No.1365058]

>>1361883
A birthday card with blinking LEDs for my friend. I didn't have time to design the 555 circuits, so I did it using an arduino pro mini.

[Anonymous No.1365073]

>>1361883
I made a male masturbator out of Lego when I was 12

[Anonymous No.1365290]

Baseball bat in junior high shop class. I still have it.

[Anonymous No.1365331]

In 1977 at the age of 16 I rebuilt the trans. in my car

[Anonymous No.1365351]

>>1365331
When I was 16 I lost a Crayola in my ass

[Anonymous No.1365356]

>>1365351
>When I was 16 I lost a Crayola in my ass
was it black?

[Anonymous No.1365360]

>>1365331

I imagine a lot more stuff like this was common before the internet. Granted television was a thing but I wonder how many more hobbies people had before the internet. I know its easy for me to sit on my ass in leiu of getting around to the work I gotta do.

Do you see yourself doing that kind of work again? how come?

[Anonymous No.1365366]

>>1362222
Pioneering

[Anonymous No.1365405]

Foreskin stretching device. Following forums on foreskin restoration, where people who've been circumsized try and stretch their remnants back into the semblance of a foreskin.
I'm not circumsized, I find no sexual angle out of it, but I do enjoy the idea of stretching my foreskin to comical lengths

[Anonymous No.1365408]

>>1365331
why pay someone to do shit?
just do it yourself, saves money and it is rewarding. I can fix anything and have.

[Anonymous No.1365424]

>>1365405
>I do enjoy the idea of stretching my foreskin to comical lengths
with a black crayon in your turd cutter

[Anonymous No.1365430]

Long board nailed to the underside of a potato box. Big pram wheels nailed to the box with u nails, small pram wheels nailed to a piece of wood with u nails. Single nail to attach the front wood to the long piece for steering. Single nail through a piece of wood beside the rear wheel for brakes.

Was probably about 5

[Anonymous No.1365515]

>>1365430
>Was probably about 5
5 years only and still fucking around with turntable steering? pathetic!

[Anonymous No.1365676]

>>1361883
A simple cage for my rabbits....my dad and i used old wood, fences and bricks

[Anonymous No.1365728]

>>1361883
Very first?
I guess when I was 12 or so I set out to make a tiny submarine out of a coke can.
Actually worked too, had it's own motor and everything. Then my dumb ass "test drove" it in the creekby our house. With no way to retrieve it.

[Anonymous No.1365733]

>>1362421
If you're still around anon that's actually cool as fuck

[Anonymous No.1365734]

A fridge trailer

[Anonymous No.1366018]

>>1365356
Orange.

[Anonymous No.1366222]

a shitty shelf with 19" rack mount

[Anonymous No.1366573]

>>1361883
I was maybe 7-8 when I made my first wooden sword.
The first real project I still have, which I made when I was 13 and saw Alien 2 for the first time, really wanted Hudsons pulse rifle.

[Anonymous No.1366585]

>>1366222
That looks pretty sweet but why do you exist sideways?

[Anonymous No.1367316]

Soda can stove for innawoods purposes. I think half of the shit I've done for /diy/ stuff was for /k/ stuff. Like my current mess kit.

[Anonymous No.1367474]

>Wooden sword for a GoT Halloween costume.
Simple, but it was really the first thing I made myself. I named it Broken Long Boy on account for it looking "eh" but my prop making has gotten much better.
>pic related of in progress swordboy
I now do /diy/ projects whenever I can.

[Anonymous No.1367481]

>>1364184
Half the shit we did as kids was bike related. Playing card noise maker on spokes, ramp for getting airborne, carving out trails innawoods. ...

[Anonymous No.1367535]

>>1361883
Tree forts. Lots of tree forts. They were little more than platforms 10' off the ground made of scraps but we never had one collapse on us.