Mostly I get printers at the thrift store. For some reason people donate perfectly good working printers. They cost like $15 and all you need to do is find out what kind of ink they use and get some

I have internal curtains and blinds and this actually still works well, at least better than keeping them open. Maybe it would work better with externals but this is still worth doing if all you have is internal

I used to not have AC. I found the best strategy was to open up all the windows at night and let the cool night air in, and then as soon as I wake up I close all the windows, curtains and blinds to trap the cool air in and prevent the sun from heating it up through the windows. If you live in a house that has a basement and central heating, you could add some intake ducts down there and turn your furnace on to fan only mode to circulate the cool basement air into the rest of the house.

Not yet, but he’s been talking about it!

that’s what it looked like before the weed killer and fence drag right after we finished building it. Unfortunately I don’t have any videos, the host has an iPhone and I have an android so when he sent them to me they came through as potato quality to the point where it’s not even worth watching.

It’s a big oval/rectangle mostly, with an inner section we can add if we want to. Sometimes we have the whole race go through the inner, or sometimes we require a “joker lap” like rallycross

A combination of things, the first being weed and grass killer. The second, he’s got this rig with his riding lawnmower where he has a 4ft section of chain link fence. He weights the section of fence down with bricks, and then just keeps dragging it around the track using the lawnmower. That actually served multiple purposes - it turns over the dirt a little, pulls up the smaller grass blades that escaped the killer, flattens out most of the bumps, and kicks up any rocks so they are easy to find and toss aside.

Lol, he’s done a great job making the track look very legit

Thinking a lot smaller here… I’ve always wanted to build a custom pinball machine. I already possess most of the necessary skills, but the materials are expensive and I don’t really have the time or space to do it right

That’s interesting, I don’t have a 3d printer but always wondered if this was viable. What’s the durability like?

The Wydah Pirate Museum in Cape Cod MA - it’s a smaller museum but it’s packed full of artifacts recovered from the wreck of an actual golden age of piracy ship (the Wydah, Black Sam Belamy’s ship which wrecked in Cape Cod). They have multiple weapons, cannons, and the only confirmed pirate treasure ever recovered. All the artifacts were just super cool, very few recreations of things almost everything is really from the actual wreck. The excavation of the wreck site is ongoing too, the last room in the museum is dedicated to showing how they recover items that have been encased in “concretions” and has lots of items actively being recovered so you can see the process happening.

Idk, I’m a golden age of piracy nerd for sure so this was super cool to me.