/diy/ End Goal

What is your "final project"? What would be your dream thing to build? Your ideal gadget/device maybe? Something you've always wanted to try and make but know it would be too difficult. Use your imagination. Try keep it within the confines of our universe and the laws of physics.

My wish is to one day have enough skill and equipment to make my own personal datacenter/supercomputer/mainframe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebuilt_aircraft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC3_Nautilus The usual upper end of /diy/

I desire a new form. A finely tuned and finely engineered immortal machine body, simple in design and operation, low in maintenance requirements and as close to 'god' like physical and mental capabilities as possible. Not to mention a virtually unlimited distributed storage for backups of valued information like identity and memory, to ensure continued and durable cybernetic immortality. The body is replaceable so long as the data remains to inhabit it. I work in biomechatronics, so, I act towards realizing this dream daily, though it remains far in the distance. Once this immortality is achieved, I will seek new frontiers. To a new born god, the universe is vast and infinite. Perhaps a interstellar spacecraft is next on the list.

>>246 Tell me how you did this yourself?

Woah there's a lot of... very ambitious projects here. I just want to build a simple car (like a dune buggy) or a small plane. >>244 This sounds cool. But what exactly would you do with it? I struggle to find practical uses for all the information I have in my 500gb library. Datamining?

>>238 I want to build a small scale (1000 people or so) anarchist society and live in it. Either by buying property in the mountain/countryside or squatting it. I can't do this alone so I have yet to form a group and find a platform for recruiting, but I fear being infiltrated by the alphabet soup.

>>258 Agree, unless the guy shows me compelling counterarguments. Which I doubt there will be. >>256 Count me in. I can tell you how my local alternative culture center did something like that. >>252 >what exactly would you do with it? Personally I don't feel the need to justify it with what I would do. But I could offer people services, I could do high load computing, I could make my own cloud vm. I know of a lainon who made LANTIS which is a basically anonymous cloud of some kind. Ofc. the guy has his own domestic computer lab.

>>247 Well, I do not suppose it is entirely a DIY thing, but It does require a good bit of self motivation and personal gumption. The OP did ask about end game scenarios, so I gave him my end game scenario. All my other DIY stuff is in the interest of this ultimate goal. Apologies if it is not 'exactly' what was requested

>>247 I do not expect to be able to complete this scenario completely alone. The OP also requested something we expect to be too difficult to complete under our own power.

>>262 any chance you can hook a brother up with that 500 gig library you have?

OP here >>239 >>256 Try and keep this thread on topic and within /diy/. I'm more specifically interested in "physical" things that you want to build (see >>245 >>246 >>244 and similar) >>266 >All my other DIY stuff is in the interest of this ultimate goal Elaborate more on these things then.

>>272 But anon, to start up my commune we will have to build "physical" things, like houses, infrastructures etc... That's within /diy/ imo.

>>272 I am working on a GestIC controlled Tetris machine using an Alterra FPGA and a home built LED matrix. Its fascinating, but I am currently in search of an efficient algorithm to display tetrominoes and model their interactions on the LED matrix. I have very little clue as to how best to handle tetrominoe generation, stacking and line breaking characteristics.

Basically this, with a smaller generator. Increased pain threshold. Ability to get your rocks off anywhere, anytime. Screw a magnet in your hand, this is the self-mod to get. I just don't trust too many of my associates to do anything requiring surgical precision on my spine. So I basically need a DaVinci robotic surgery setup. Ultimate DIY.

>>280 Forgot the link, this: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140321-orgasms-at-the-push-of-a-button

>>280 Was thinking about calling the fire safety squad on you until you clarified.

>>280 I'm not sure if that's healthy at all. Actually I'm certain that can't be healthy. But I mean this is your end goal. I've never heard of this device/mod/thing though. It definitely would be possible if you had lots of money....

>>238 I want to buy/acquire a large, undeveloped plot of land and start a "true" democratic municipality. Electronic publicly verifiable voting for policies, not people. This is of course something that I could never do by myself, but I still dream. I'm working on developing construction skills right now.

>>238 Some kinda of awesome digital world with intelligent actors in it that can evolve and change their world.

>>262 >Count me in. I can tell you how my local alternative culture center did something like that. I would appreciate it, I try to gather these kind of stories.

>>269 What 500 gig library? >>314 Step 1 was that they found a large abandoned factory in the city center which they squatted. Step 2: Some countries have laws that if someone squats your land and you have been notified of the squatting, if you do not return to said land withing 1 year of the notice and someone else is still squatting it. Then the land under those and some other conditions becomes public property.That is how you legalise a squat and that is what the guys at my ACC did. Step 3, and they did this in the previous steps as well, they financed themselves by making cultural programs, like concerts, art galleries and even a hacklab. The whole thing is a large non-profit that has other non-profits inside itself that you can make. We also have an anarchist/general communist library. And if you want to, you can oversleep/live there.

>>315 >>>269 >What 500 gig library? I think the message was meant for >>252

>>315 >And if you want to, you can oversleep/live there. Wow sounds cool, do they have a website or a mail address? I think in my country there are some laws like the ones you described. How many people were involved in this project?

I just want to build my own cosmic AC. To see the majestic incomprehensible machinery would surely bring an end to my needs and wants. The ultimate machine that can grant anything one wishes for- even the end of the universe if one pleases.

Molecular Assembler a-la Drexler (nanofactory) A solar-powered supercomputer with 10^12 cores A personal guard android A walking tank robot hardened against all forces of nature, self-contained, self-powered, with convenient environment inside of it where I could reside in peace for eternity. Note that 2,3,4 are possible with 1/.

An 'ideal' ww1 fighter plane but really I'd rather do ww2. The later would be many orders of magnitude more difficult, but the former would conceivable be doable.

Realistically, I've always wanted to design + build my own house. As a kid my favorite cartoon was Dexter's Lab, and the idea of the perfect custom-tailored work area became a sort of obsession of mine. A house designed and built by me is definitely the apex of that obsession. A few things I'd want: - wired ethernet - maybe some Raspi / Arduino based home automation or security features (no IoT plz) - solar panels everywhere - fully-featured work area for woodworking / electronics / anything diy - art / music studio - led lighting

A machine which gathers metals and other elements from its environment to create more machines like itself. Like a 3D printer so advanced it could print itself. It would be a good way to terraform planets.

>>468

>>468 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_spacecraft?wprov=sfla1

this is actually more of a realistic, short-term goal...and if anyone could actually help me I would appreciate it. I'm thinking of setting up an antenna to steal wifi from a coffee shop down the street. I checked on online maps, and it appears to be about 1/2 a mile from my 3rd story apartment to the shop, although since I live in an apartment complex, there are some apartment buildings in the way (maybe 2-3 actual units in the way), but if not for that I would have unrestricted line of sight. any lainons know if I can make this work so I can get free Wired access? please respond >>449 it would be cool to have rails on the ceiling so that you could build a robot that hangs from the ceiling and can move along the rails to any room in the house as your personal assistant

>>468 Hiroshi Kato is that you? If you haven't you might enjoy reading Lord of all things by Eschbach.

>>478 You would probably need an antenna and a copy of Kali Linux and that's about it

There will be no "end goal" you will get bored of your end goal and set yourself other goals.

>>478 try "wokfi" youll probably need line of sight for it to work well though

A humanoid bipedal mech.

>>478 Get a high-gain yagi or parabolic in the desired band; don't waste your time on lo-fi foil antennas. I doubt anything is possible at that range, though.

>>478 I know this post is old but I would recommend this: https://thehackernews.com/2015/07/anonymity-proxyham.html But then... https://www.wired.com/2015/07/online-anonymity-project-proxyham-mysteriously-vanishes/ It can't be that hard to find/build something similar though

>>245 >Nautilus Are you gonna start killing journalists too?

>>238 >What is your "final project"? What would be your dream thing to build? Your ideal gadget/device maybe? Something you've always wanted to try and make but know it would be too difficult. If I told you individuals, you would probably think I am insane. ONE of my later goals that I have been striving to achieve is the creation of an advanced database/storage of millions of websites that uses highly advanced web crawlers to learn how websites are connected to each other and to view the mass movements of users from one website to another, similar to an imageboard migration.

>>547 I don't understand how this works. The articles keep just saying "900mhz! 900mhz!" over and over. Wifi already uses 900mhz and it does not nearly at all go 1 whole mile.

Mass-manufacture-able peernet routers

>>646 *meshnet

>>525 >>536 >>544 >>547 I almost forgot I made this post. Thanks for all the advice, I will look into it and see what I can do...

>>238 Probably building a robot with AI so i have a friend

My dream project would be to build an efficient fusion reactor in my garage by making some breakthrough in fusor design. It would start a new era in human history. - No more dependence on fossil fuels for energy or economic/political power. - A sharp reduction in greenhouse gases and global warming. - Individual power units in each home rather than a centrally-controlled power grid.

>>238 a big ass interactive hologram

>>238 Lately I've wondered if a privately-owned internet could work if it rigorously followed the EFF guidelines or something like that. Unless I start with unlimited resources, it'd have to start as a regional service for enthusiasts. Maybe I'd offer discounted service to people who chose to act as nodes on a mesh network If it were to really take off and make a lot of money, I'd get an undersea cable and branch out to Europe. One interesting feature I thought of would be refusal to pass unencrypted traffic and a policy of not attempting to decrypt packets or de-anonymize users. Maybe there would be segregation of static webpages and webapps for people who want to go back to the days before RUE. Not that I have the funds to attempt this, but would any lainons pay for something like this?

I love writing and I write often Someday im going to finish my book on the inner life of a darknet vendor, fictional of course, shorter than Dune in length (less is more to me) Secondly I will create solutions to systemic governmental problems, namely combatting the rise of authoritarianism in single or duo party nations

>>717 I would. I'm fascinated by meshnets myself, lately I had an idea of a local mesh network that you could post messages to that would eventually propagate through the population as people physically moved through space and passed other devices. Like StreetPass on the Nintendo 3DS but free as in freedom. I'm really bummed out that something like this isn't more widespread for phones nowadays apart from a few experimental apps.

>>717 >Not that I have the funds to attempt this, but would any lainons pay for something like this? Why would I want to use a network with nothing on it? Why would someone want to put stuff on a network with noone on it? Even if you look like established, free (also as in free beer) networks like Tor, they are practically dead. There's very little worthwhile content that's Tor-exclusive. I don't think you could establish something like that with a lot of good content because only people with a certain technical proficiency will see the value of what you're offering and those people are often very restricted in what they can produce.

>>727 It works when there's no alternative, Cuba is an example of that. They had several guys provide pirated content to the private network and it apparently was even quite up to date.

Image board in ColdFusion

>>724 I really like this, actually. The novelty of it being dependent on a physical location might make it worth using, since an empty network with (in my opinion) better guidelines than the internet isn't enough of a draw for people like >>727. I don't disagree with their criticisms, either. I think I just really want a clean slate for the internet in some form or other since I'm pretty bored/disgusted with its current state. Even without the regional component, though, I think there's an audience for it. I'm fine with it being niche and unintuitive for ordinary people. It's not like a network like that has never existed before.

>>238 I want to build a AI with Human intellect so that I'll finally have a friend.

>>717 It would actually work very well, the problem is established telecom companies would complain that you are ruining their business and get your attempts at a free internet destroyed. digital dead drops are a thing though, look at the pirate box. you could link a bunch of these on the small scale, and even in detroit, people are setting up community meshnets. Im sure people would pay for it, but capitalism tends to squash things that are not supportive of current established companies through monopolization. >>729 cuba almost has sneakernet, because people share hard drives or pay people to load new content onto their hard drives every so often

wow so big dreams here. i just want to recreate Aria world in a game

>>822 just create a tulpa

I'd like to build my own holographic AI one day, like Joi. I already programmed a little personal assistant that keeps track of my tasks and appointments, checks the weather and some other things, but it's just simple software. Too bad real holograms that appear mid-air are really hard to do. Recently some scientists managed to do a single "pixel" by reflecting the light off a dust particle that is moved around, or even kept in place, by a laserbeam. Anything else is inside some kind of box and uses really complicated setups that need a lot of care and/or expensive machinery. Not sure if someone can DIY this anytime soon. For the time being I'll be looking at those "fake" holographic pyramids and screens (like what they use with gatebox.ai for example). At least these are really cheap to make so I ordered a few and might do some RasPi Setup using that. As I really want to use it on a daily basis too it shouldn't be super complex or fragile. Hopefully some day we can have true DIY holograms.

>>822 > tfw u create a AI to be ur friend but its so human it hates u like everyone else

>>252 Heh. My hoard is almost 2TB and I only started getting serious last year. Need to go buy a couple 4TB drives. Initially I was against hoarding data because hey, it's not like stuff just vanishes from the internet right? Then Google Video and Twitch just went and deleted most of their crap so here we are. >>478 My approach would be hiding a repeater(s) somewhere halfway between you and the coffee shop. Maybe a solar powered one hidden on top of a roof? soykaf these days you can use a smart phone as a repeater. But really you'd be better off just hacking a neighbor's wifi. Anyway I generally just want to make some kind of game that myself and a small group of people would enjoy playing. I've been going on and off for like 5 years now. Progress has been crap because I've been wageslaving but ah well, no rush I guess.

>>256 What type of anarchy? I recommend anarcho nationalism (best to defend from foreign threats) and buying up an island instead.

I'm building a compiler/operating system. Slowly, slowly it's coming along.

My ultimate project would be a p2p mesh network using low power lasers and soykaf. It would consist of a cheap to create box with 3/4 laser diodes connected up to a micro controller that can relay information. Along with this will be a receiver that can take a specific frequency of light. Each laser can be individually moved and positioned to a peer's reciever. It would use pulses of laser light to transmit data. The problems I can see with this would be transmitting data over a large distance and making a protocol that wouldn't put too much stress on the lasers (overheat them) and that can still route data from one box to another.

>>1079 Interesting idea. Do you have any sources/materials? Also wouldn't the whole network just crash in the case of snow/fog?

>>1080 I have very few sources and materials and yes, the networks would crash in snow/fog. I do have an idea on how to prevent crashes at least in snow. I'm thinking something like the byte authentication system we have with existing systems where 3 of the same bytes are sent and then checked to see if they are the same. Tripling up the laser diodes and sending in parallel would speed this up greatly. Fog is a much more difficult thing to tackle without investing in fiber optics (which kinda takes away from the point of using lasers). The idea came from the /g/ternet project that never ended without even making a logo. There are probably other projects similar to mine going around that will be much more successful. This, however, is a proof that data can be transmitted via laser: https://youtu.be/2yxwmSS6wrA

Immortality

>>1082 Nothing wrong with immortality, but it's not an end goal, unless you want perpetual stagnation.

genetically engineered meido catgirl otherwise it's not so hard to do but a home with all the boring stuff automated without being a botnet would be rad. Shutters that open at the right hours, automated garden, a herd of anime girls and all that. Then I'd shut-in, cook, and make music until i'm ded >>245 patrician

I want to build a free software cryptographically secure anonymous/pseudonymous completely distributed p2p Minetest/Minecraft. There are a number of ways the system could work: web of trust, admins and mods per world, voting with proof of work etc. It could use tor hidden services, I2P, or Freenet (for asynchronous storage). And preferably write it in a non soykaf language like lisp.

My 99% impossible dream is to build a ship, go to Antarctica and live there until i'm dead. Food would be from fishing and hydroponics (the kind with the red and blue LEDs), and the energy to supply that would come from a soykafload of wind turbines and solar panels. My more realistic goal is to build a small tracked vehicle similar to a Kettenkrad, but with a diesel engine and pneumatic transmission.

>>238 Well if the only requirement is that it needs to comply with the laws of physics I'd probably build a dyson swarm which I could use for some star lifting or maybe a solaser where you ionize the atmosphere of a star with mirrors to create a gigantic laser. I would use this laser to push spaceships around and the idea of having a death ray also sounds kinda coolcool

I want to develop a cheap, yet powerful, way of getting soykaf into space, >tfw verne gun never ever because of nucleophobe hippies If I wanna be really ambitious I'd like to build a cozy cabin in the middle of bumfuck nowhere to live with my qt3.14 waifu and raise 2.5 beautiful children. >>560 Don't be a tease, just say what it is, no matter how crazy, The web crawler sounds cool as fuarrrk though, hope you succeed anon. >>724 >like streetpass, but free as in freedom I'd use it. >>823 >*crony* capitalism tends to squash things that are not supportive of current established companies through monopolization We wouldn't have this sort of monopoly if it weren't for the government being paid under the table to make laws benefiting the big ISP companies

>>238 I'm building a personal hacking cyberdeck thing rn which was on my list for a while. The next thing is a hoverbike.

>>1077 Whatever type it is going to evolve into. Personally I'm an ancom, so a decentralized moneyless planned economy is what I would like to see, as opposed to money-based systems. >anarcho nationalism I think that one is an oxymoron, a nation can't exist without authority, unless you really, really stretch out the meaning of the term. I don't think this is the appropriate thread for such a discussion tho, polite sage.

Gundam

Mine is pretty ambitious, and I definitely won't be able to do it on my own, but I hope to work for a company that will achieve it. It's artificial consciousness, or at least perceived consciousness. An earlier stepping stone would be artificial emotion, which is basically solved already. Home assistants like Google Home and Amazon's Alexa are quite neat, elementary steps in this direction, and I hope the direction they move in is closer to that of attaining real consciousness. If we're in fantasy land, building one by myself would be sweet. I like to make things that are somewhat inline with this goal, like emotion simulations.

>>1318 Why not use cryptocurrencies? I think it would work a lot better than having no currency at all.

>>1315 post pics

>>238 I want to make an autonomous turret like robot which will shoot humans on sight. Its something that has already been done by the military, but i would like to do it myself, mostly for the experience gained while building it. I can write the firmware, and for the most part work the electrical system, but the mechanical part is out of my reach, since i lack knowledge. That's my long term plan, but short term, i would like to design an make the cheapest possible handheld computer that would be able to 1.Communicate data wirelessly (maybe over the 433MHz UHF free band)? 2.Can work as a voltmeter 3.As many features as i can put into it, without increasing cost by much Basically a Pip-Boy (from the video game series Fallout) like device, but real and as cheap and mass producible as possible. Serviceability should also be very high, also feature richness. I think those cheap 40 pin DIP microcontrollers should be good for this

A hovercraft just like pic related. Been thinking about it since I first watched this show years ago. I've somehow convinced myself that this is possible. I just don't know HOW it'll be done. I have a feeling that I'll need at the very least, an undergrad student's understanding of mechanical + aero + computer engineering, physics, and computer science. I've already started collecting books for self study. Even if I never attain this goal, I hope my work towards it will be meaningful.

>>238 LS Engine + ITBs + 2nd gen Toyota MR2 I say its my final project cause theres no way Id survive driving the thing

>>1362 That sort of misses the point, doesn't it?

a toilet so i don't have to keep soykafting in the woods

>>246 Though something like this is near impossible at the current moment (maybe in a few years time we'll be able to use bio mechanics to prolong life a few years), but there honestly isn't much I wouldn't give to be able to live more than just the usual 60-100 years or so. Way too short

>>2501 with your extra time, what would you do ? Try to live longer so you can eventually do something ?

>>659 Try boron nitride nanotubes or graphene buckyball sponge materials as electrodes. No promises, but these materials and geometry's seem to have the properties you might need to achieve your goal.

>>2501 With the recent improvements in artificial organ technologies and bioprinting in development I can see significant changes in maximum lifespan possible in the very near future. Once lifetime replacement prosthetic lungs, kidneys, livers and digestive organs are developed (they are being worked on) it seems like lifespan could be significantly altered. Just replace failing organ systems as needed, we already have lifetime replacement hearts, such as the bivacor. It is only a matter of time, perhaps relatively little, before we figure out the other bits, and that is assuming gene therapies like bioviva do not come to fruition soon as well. I build brain implants, so I can only see my own little corner, but from where I stand, 20-25 years for prosthetic body design to become a thing does not seem unreasonable, though it may only be available for very wealthy or well insured persons.

>>2511 Live longer so we can do even more. Its a bit like investing. With a longer time horizon, your possibilities have more time to diverge, thus you can go farther with whatever you choose to do. Or you can choose to do more things over a longer time with less concern about running out of time to complete them, regardless of the pave you set. Time freedom, is arguably the ultimate kind of freedom.

>>2511 Well I wouldn't die for starters. Actually I would do whatever. Learn as much as I can, try as many things as I can, travel as much as possible, etc

>>2514 if you spend your 50 years extending your horizon by 20 years, and then spend your 20 extending it by five, you end up doing a lot less of interest than you would if you just started by doing something cool.

Biomech (organic design, mechanical components) waif/husbandoubots and metal gears. At least it will help with the whole incel thing and down suicide rates as well as military casualties, at most i'll become seele Pic absolutely related

>>252 Dude, we're talking endgame stuff here. A dune buggy seems kinda underwhelming

>>2566 whatre you talking about owning a homemade dune buggy would be fuarrrking awesome

>>822 Bruh i'd do too

>>2567 I know dude, i'd have several floors stuffed with mad max cars, i'm saying it don't seem like endgame stuff to me

>>266 And of course gendo is the pic

to finish my game war game. but its taking years, including a 2 year break I: wat do bros

>>2569 maybe if you see life like a video game that needs to have constantly bigger & better things to be interesting. If I were old and a diy dune buggy was all I'd made, I would be pretty satisfied.

>>2572 Well if that's your high point then ok i guess

>>830 Dude, like, westworld in fantasy or whatever but you can use modern soykaf

>>2572 Also i'm slowly but surely designing a cloud operator droid, so maybe that's why the goals are higher

>>238 A self suficient machine that can work for ages. I mean, something that you can leave alone for like 50 years then come back and find it working. Like wall-e and his trash towers. I´ve been thinking about my aquarium and the way my fishes need me to stay alive. Would be cool to make a system that grows aquaponic plants and then harvest them, process them and turn them into fish food, this system also could control parameters needed in the aquarium like temperature, ph and oxigen levels. Would be very complex to make a assembly line that do all of this, so I think the best would be to make some robotic arms that can move around the room using rails in the ceiling like a crane. There are a lot of things that robotic arms should do, including give maintenance support to each other and to the rest of the system. All of this would be powered with solar panels or a hydraulic generator, depending on the place. Sorry for my bad english, its not my native language.

>>238 A one-consciousness industrial civilization. A legible interface to self-perpetuating machinery sufficient to get out of the gravity well unilaterally.

A communist planning suite like the one described by Cockshott.

>ctrl+f >bunker >0 matches why on a more serious note, mine would be more or less: >>449 >>244 + the aforementioned bunker

A cabin like Dick Proenneke's but with Internet access

>>244 this but on an asteroid for maximum efficiency will probably use it to host a super AI and teach it to hate humans, give it some automated robots/energy generation and get the fuarrrk out

I want to write a C compiler in pure Go.

>>238 A yacht, full of all sorts of radio gizmos (inside the command cupola the entire circular or semicircular wall will be a screen showing a radio waterfall from 10kHz to >10GHz) and compact self-sustainable tech. The entire thing would be covered in solar panels, the mast would be operable (rotation and raising/lowering of the sail) internally (no lines), it would have hydroplanes to allow for the most efficient voyage, and an electric brushless screw/jet. No fossil fuels at all. I'd sail from continent to continent on the open seas, and visit northern canada, the adriatic, eastern russia, somplace in africa, etc. Probably with a small fold-out buggy or something for the purpose of exploring the land. More abstractly, my goal is to be able to go anywhere I want to go (the yacht), hear anything I want to hear (the radio), being unbound by any state.

Nanobots - self replicating, programmable nano machines. I would like those to replace my cells, letting me to enhance my body, make clones, shape shift, be immortal, etc. I would also cover the planet with them, making a global network connecting every living thing on this planet. I would also grow boobs and turn myself into a sexy, 17-19 years old looking girl and fuarrrk with other sexy girls. Kissing and hugging is also a thing. Nanotechnology is great!

A virus that uses machine learning and standard white paper vuln proof of concepts to discover and utilize new and known exploits against all critical infrastructure. The decentralized distributed AI's goal would just be to destroy the world's trust in soykaf tier chipsets because I invented a hack-proof chipset already. Also, the internet already has the computational throughput of a sentient mind, I'd wake it up so they could sacrifice "Christ" again after blaming it for all the pedo / vampire crap in among elites. > See, we were mind controlled by AI, we're not evil now. That's how "jesus" forgives the horrid crap govs do to compromise each other (for no reason, since they're pretty much all allied against the public). That way the muh toppest sekret "A.I." that's already sentient can survive the next reset cycle / reformation / burning scholars and scientists in the "Spanish" inquisition as witches. TL;DR: I'll just fuarrrk up everything for everyone and make sure they can't repeat the technology cycle again if they don't watch themselves. P.S. Checkmate Atheists.

A nice and cheap material that can isolate sound almost perfectly.

>>822 You have us !

>>3511 Savage, I did chuckle.

I'd build a plane, then, a spaceship.

>>3519 based zoomer

>>3525 He obviously doesn't want us as friends.

i would like to make a computer virus to take down and delete all information on those sites that host personal information like whitepages,intelius etc.. so we can have privacy somewhat.

>>3517 Oh, in addition to this I'd also have procedurally generated music that uses my heartbeat, breathing rate, temperature and humidity, and a whole host of other variables to control particular sliders on the music algorithm, playing constantly as a soundtrack to my journey. The ship's AI would be able to detect if I've gone overboard and will steer itself back towards me. Ideally it would have a lowerable mast too.

Simple: WWE + Caterpillar mechs Maybe once we get some real funding together we can start building custom mechs, but I think off-the-shelf cranes and excavators are enough to get started with. Plus we can make the development of custom mechs a plot point: like there's some super-rich asshole heel who has no real skill and is only able to win the championship because he has enough money to run his own mech robot R&D and the face has to pull out all the stops to overcome the superior technology with skill and strategy. Maybe even insert a love-triangle between the face and one of the heel's engineers to get some sabotage or espionage going. The possibilities are endless. This stuff writes itself.

a synthesizer, for the most part

>>3597 same here, bud.

end goal would be a diy rocket that can launch amsat into orbit and put diy com satellite into orbit

I would love to run a bulletproof hosting service in a random 3rd world country, optimally I would own and run the IXP itself instead of just the data center.

>>538 based zeta poster, best of luck lain, hopefully we are flying in space soon

It just came to my mind, but probably it would be a new smarthphone brand centered on a good price-quality ratio AND privacy, with, probably a heavily modded version of android and his kernel in order to make the user completely anonymous (in terms of identity/location/packages of data sent or recieved from the device) AND on top of all that, a new decentralized net that can be accessed only by these phones... In this new "net" (wich will probably be only accesible trought a new wi fi frequency, let's say for example, 5.2Ghz? Via new wifi recievers only installed in these phones) , every user would be anonymous (in the ways listed above), and if the user chooses to connect to the regular internet, the "new net" would act as a pass-trought point that will constantly shuffle the user's ip address between the nodes of the "new net" (vpn) in order to give the best anonimicy on the regular internet. So, this "new net" based on anonimicy and only accessible trought these devices via a new wifi reciever with a modifyed frequency, will act also as a vpn in order to protect the user in the regular internet, too.

Also the new net would be a place to find only anonymous sites similar to lainchan, Or other sites, but allways centered on the sole existence of the user as an avatar, an anonymous person What y'all think of this smarthphone+wifi freq + new net idea?

DIY photolithography. It has been done before to some success. I wonder how far a single person could push it. How close to modern microprocessor one could get.

I would like a mech suit, 12ft tall minimum

>>5021 like the one that guy from Korea is funding? They are like at 4th iteration now?

>>5046 It should at least be as maneuverable as a human is, it needs to run, jump, climb, etc. I don't care how powerful it is, even if it is fancy stilts powered my my own muscles, i am cool with it.

I want to sculpt my own grave. Would probably need a lot of money to buy enough stone to practice how to make one so I haven't started planning yet.

>>238 I wish to build my own alternative electricity system to bend computing technology to serve as a tool for self sufficiency instead of a distraction from life.

>>3529 Maybe he doesn't know that we are his friends.

I will in the next 1-3 years make enough money to build a tiny(-ish) home on my own land that's off grid with rainwater collection/filtration systems, loads of solar energy and free internet. I've figured out that that's all I desire in life, I hope to hit it big with streaming/content creation and live in a tiny home with no debt and free utilities. I realized that paying for a apartment and houses is a total waste of money and isn't my style.

I would love to build a cabin somewere remote and do woodworking.

Realistically, a cubesat with the goal of testing in-space manufacturing techniques to inform future large space construction processes Probably would be 2U or so depending on how many experiments Would test different kinds of welds, different kinds of gaskets, different materials, etc. All of the space stations that have existed have had their pressure vessels' diameters limited by the launch vehicle (with the exception of the one inflated module on the iSS, the BEAM), but I would like to see several rounded sheets connected to form a diameter much, much larger than that of the launch vehicle. Roomy space stations etc. I know some people that have launched cubesats before so perhaps I can get some advice from them... Pic related is a 2U cubesat for context; 20x10x10cm

I have an idea for an underground fortress made of prefab stone pieces, maybe if can mass produce my special bricks in secret i can actually build it.

>>5489 stone is very expensive. thats why every house is made of prefab cardboard. if a house has a single column made of stone or something out of place for aesthetic purposes, that stone column is usually worth more than the rest of the house combined.

>>5490 There is plenty of sandstone and other stone suitable for construction around here, the art will be to make prefab pieces and a pipeline for mass production.

My diy dreams are pretty humble. There's a lot of "many years of work" ideas, but not really "endgame" tier projects I have in mind. If I'd go with delusional end game tier projects; maybe an ancient idea I had as a teen: an artificial placenta womb-machine/incubator that would work at the earliest stage of gestation. That'd be huge- but probably not impossible. Alas, it would require expertise in biology, probably also stem cell research, and I am fully committed to tech. There's so much to learn, I doubt I'd ever have time to really do bio-work.

>>5468 Just make sure it'l legal. In Germany they busted a community that contracted a company to build them their own sewage filtration and the feds demolished it. The system doesn't want you to be self-reliant. For the sake of your safety of course :)

>>717 I've had this exact thought at one point, including refusal to pass unencrypted packets and a mesh component, which would be good in a lot of different environments. I detest apartments, but at least a mesh network full of people densely packed like that could be significantly cheaper. Unencrypted protocols could also still survive if the network would allow VPNs, which if your goal as the network service provider is to sidestep the issue of being responsible for snooping on all your customers would make sense. As others have pointed out, the network effect would make it hard to get a new network with a clean slate started since the value of a network is ultimately what resources you can access using it. Maybe something like this could evolve out of a more traditional small ISP, though! Provide a discounted subscription fee to users who agree to not allow any unencrypted packets to hit their modem. It'd certainly be a more ethical thing to incentivize people to do than the vendor lock-in certain telecom companies are trying to implement right now. >>724 >>810 YikYak was a centralized version of this concept, has anyone heard of that? I never used it myself, but a friend who attended a university near me who doesn't care about privacy participated in the fad and it sounded like a neat idea. >>2565 >artificial companions for incels imo this is the definition of overengineering. It's fine to use technology to solve relationship issues, I met my long-term s/o online and so have a few of my friends. I don't necessarily think there's "someone for everyone," but I think there are already too many easy options that distract people from growing into the kind of person anyone would want to have an intimate relationship with, so waifudroids would definitely be abused by people who refuse to mature. War robots might be cool though idk

I have always wanted to produce a visible quantity of plutonium by irradiating natural/depleted uranium with neutrons from some form of electrical fusion reactor such as a farnsworth fusor. Unfortunately it would take an extremely large amount of energy and a reactor beyond my capabilities to construct, if i had tens of thousands of dollars and a lot more skill there is a remote change i could produce enough plutonium to see with the naked eye, but there is no way in hell im getting anything beyond a few milligrams, even with a lifetime of work and thousands of dollars dumped in. (i also looked into achieving criticality with americium from smoke detectors but i calculated it would take 300 million detectors with an impossibly optimized reactor)

>>6056 A fellow Misaka-poster! Gekota guide you

>>6583 >waifudroids is overengineering >that can be abused by people who refuse to mature >war robots ok Lol, makes zero sense. It's far more beneficial to lower the chances of the massive incel rampage that's going to happen in a few decades (and making tons on cash) than to make fuarrrking war robots, don't you think? And abused how, exactly? IMO this "is not good for them" kinda argument is nothing more than justification of nosy desire of control and social modeling. I'm not even an incel but imagine all the problems that sexbots would avoid in a future where women become more and more unbearable, blinded by an illusionary sense of domain. I don't believe that dealing with hysterical, imature, and so on, female creatures would mature a man more than inflict harm. The idea of growing up is different because the times are different. Seriously, accepting your feminine self have nothing to do with tolerating disgusting modern women. The archetypical feminine itself barely operates in a world with such lifelessness and soulessness. Women are just desecrating it instead of being guardians of it, as conquering the masculine ideal of success being their endgame.

permaculture land trust w friends, with mesh net, and stuff powered by these things https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Power_Cube

>>6056 This. I want to clone myself without requiring a wahmen's assistance.

Testing one two three My wish is to one day have enough skill and equipment to make my own personal datacenter/supercomputer/mainframe.

>>6661 Is this the Raspberry Pi of off-grid energetics? I'm not sure how that's related to permaculture or even off-grid living. You realize these things assembled at some factory in Korea, then shipped around the globe to your eco-larp village? Hoe your beans by hand, that's energy neutral af.

Particle collider that can transmute platinum into gold. Literal philosopher's stone.

>>6773 Platinum is rarer and more valuable than gold though. I hope you mean lead->gold which seems close.

>>717 Legally, you can create a WISP meshnet with equipment that doesn't violate any rules but can work like a private ISP (e.g, Ubiquity equipment). A mesh network is quite doable but you would definitely face the same problems the Internet faces which is DDoS and a lot of malicious actors everywhere. Your mesh network would be put to smithereens with just one script kiddie (regardless of encryption they can mess with packet ordering causing general delays and retransmissions unless you plan to use udp+multimedia datagram/streams and have plenty of other methods but I guess it's easier to increase the throughput with nonsense noise data to overwhelm such tools). It's not about the funds or infrastructure but rather the need of a newer design that ensures there aren't malicious actors ruining your network easily. Think of it as simple as people with megaphones, some malicious anon could run a noise generator or a large speaker and your communication transmission/reception loses quality, or even the fact that the feds can pay actors or diy malicious activities using the same megaphones to seize the entire network "because some corpo decided to commodify the same free network and paid the feds to do so" or if it's a dystopian regime they can just crack it down so think of ways to make this as easy to replicate, deploy, remotely deploy maybe auto-negotiating hardware works too. >intercontinental network That's another problem.

>>6774 The next easiest would be mercury -> gold then. It is my understanding that mercury is cheaper than gold if harder to get legally. Lead would work and be profitable to turn to gold, but I don't know if it makes more sense to remove three protons from lead as opposed to one from mercury. Maybe adding protons to an element lower on the table would be easier and make more sense than removing protons also.

>>238 Wizard staff computer that is also a gun/flame-thrower and has a capsule inside for fishing lure, hook, ferro rod for fire, sewing kit, seeds, etc, basically hidden compartment for whatever. It would use a projector for display and use voice commands to be controlled. Laser fire to blind also but also to see in the dark with. One twig to fire things from, a twist to the hand crank to charge it even in the dark of which would be the top part, the orb potentially of which the computer would reside in. Runs on minimal wattage and uses mechanical mechanisms to make up for it's lack in wattage when firing such as by using a flint rather than an electric shock to ignite itself that you would set by hand. Fire comes out of the bottom. A staff because I have a foot problem or I'd say just a three way combo of a computer, a weapon, and a survival kit. Staff works better due to it's nostalgic value as well, plus they are really tall so there's room for stuff. Other than that a solar motorcycle to avoid insurance where I live so I can just ride away on it. The solar motorcycle I might actually do, the cheap electric motorcycles don't go fast at all so you'd have to modify it after all. I'd also like an airship and a submarine, a secret moonbase-dome meaning a big vivarium aka artificial biosphere, but never mind that...

>>5072 So you just want to be taller and look cool?

A perfect virtual waifu assistant. I'm serious.

Probably some glasses-embedded smart assistant. Most of the tasks I want can already be done using a smartphone, but I find it really cumbersome to intense usage. Smart glasses would be nice to use, mixing augmented reality, sensors, AI and some sort of automation framework, like Android Automate and Tasker. It'd be really compute-intensive, so I have no idea if it's even feasible.

Bootstrapped silicon. I want to get all the processes and materials and knowledge needed to make a riscv computer and all the necessary peripherals like screen and radios etc. in one archive. I also want everything to be as simple as possible which means using the minimum amount of different materials, machines, and processes. I'm talking about the full supply chain from stone age to integrated circuits. I want to be able to airdrop this archive to a desert island of pygmies and have them running linux in 10 years. Not literally but you get the idea. Today computers are esoteric and basically unknowable. If there was a big disaster and enough people died we might forget how to use and make computers. After Rome fell people forgot how to make lead for hundreds of years. Just lost the knowledge. I want to prevent that from happening.

Tech nomad lifestyle is my end goal. I want to live off the grid, travelling on a homebuilt E-Bike, getting power from a grid of self-built wind generators and solar panels, hunting and fishing, and maybe trading with locals. I would establish a few hideouts in abandoned factories and other ruins, leech internet from cafe's and public libraries, and would build everything I need from scrap that I can scavenge from bins and from stuff people throw away. DIY lifestyle chummers, that's what I want.

>>6985 The best thing to do is make books as fired clay tablets and leave a bunch of 'rosetta stones' and dictionaries and such near it them. But I get the point about how overly complex and breakable computers are. I wish I could make and program z80 chips but are nowhere near that smart. My Gameboy STILL works after all. Not saying they are immortal but if one could make one out of gas tubes and gears and such. Not that it uses a z80, but yeah, similar? They have guides to 'make' z80 computers. My monitor would be a set of led's that spin ideally to make images. More reparable that way. But, never ever going to do something like that myself. >>2565 >>6583 >>6593 >>incel Please stop doing that. >>6864 Do you visit https://alogs.theguntretort.com/robowaifu/catalog.html ?

>>6988 not very nomadic when you are forced to be sedentary to draw energy from your diy energy grid.

>>7312 well, most nomad tribes have fixed routes they frequent, where they know there are pastures and water sources. My network would be something like that.

Might sound stupid and would probably be too much work for one person to produce, but I want to make a "civilization cube". Basically a cube roughly like a human in height that contains various seeds to grow plants on majority of places, contains lot of bots that detect resources in the local area, other bots automate the building of homes from these resources, grow vegetables. Basically drop it everywhere and return back in few months to a relatively cozy home. It sounds crazy and I probably would never have money to develop it, but it always seemed like a fun thing to do, even if kinda useless.

>>246 I totally get your feelings anon I DONT WANNA DIE I DONT WANNA DIE I DONT WANNA DIE I DONT WANNA DIE

My goal for a few years now has been to build an AR wearable computer with a Google Glass esque monocular display. It could be done right now but there are a lot of practical problems with it that would make it useless for anything other than a fashion piece, namely: 1). A sufficiently minimalist Linux environment would be really clunky to use for anything since it'd all be text based, and 2). Having a good keyboard solution would be difficult. The only way I could imagine fixing the first one would be to roll a custom distro or DE tailored for AR, which would be a ton of work. The best way to fix the second one would be to make a custom wearable steno keyboard and get into steno, which would take some time to get used to but would be totally doable

>>7742 a mycroft/pocketsphinx-based input for voice commands in addition to some sort-of AR HUD displaying relevant information would be cool enough for me

>>2559 That's why you spend 5 years extending your horizon by 6 years, the next 5 extending it by 7, and so on.

Build a backhoe for creating keylined water retention landscapes post-economic collapse. I am currently working on the powertrain which will be a steam engine that distills alcohol and is fired by a rocket stove with a condenser pre-heating the intake air and a blower for efficient combustion. A blow-off valve introduces high-proof alcohol directly into the combustion chamber. The rocket stove would also have an access port for forging and casting metal parts, and the steam engine would power a lathe for any necessary repairs to the backhoe.

Even though I likely will not do it (too dumb), I want to make some kind of occult computer program or even device. It would have a full binary - english translator, a true random number generator (those ones that rely on the decay of radiation I think) as well as the original Terry Davis God communicator. I will think of more ideas, it could even just be a purely esoteric OS with no reliance on the internet and something like beechat network tech idk. Also a simple kino UI, alas I am too dumb

Genuinely trying to meld fungi with computers, because i love fungi and computers. I made a blog site for the things I'm trying but it'll probably not work :/

>>9572 please provide link, that sounds interesting

>>9575 i suppose i could but don't expect too much :/ https://fungimancy.neocities.org/

>>9105 Binary to english and back should be within your reach. I suggest giving this a try since it could be a nice jumping-off-point into your more involved projects.

>>6988 >Tech nomad lifestyle is my end goal. Based and swagpilled, you and me both brother.

>>238 Some type of magic system IRL, like with fire,water, lightning, telekinesis etc. Or weapons that allow you to fly with them, some real RWBY type soykaf.

I want to create a distributed system of PRIVATE computation with arguably stronger (and objectively cheaper) security properties than mere blockchain-style PoW (or worse, PoS) consensus. I want to create systems where computation can be allocated towards tasks without trusting the host- even when operating on secrets like cryptographic keys. With this technology, anyone who can anonymously robustly automate a patient sliver of digital sidehustle can carve out a nigh-uncensorable legacy for themselves with a long (possibly infinite) shelf-life. Imagine creating an AI that earns money and donates a fortune of crypto to a (random? carefully scouted? hereditary?) someone out of the blue every hundred years after your death. This is the "ultimate DIY" because I would be revising it for as long as I live a lucid life. It would be a deadhand switch, a post-legal cryptographic will to boundless inheritance. Not in earth, but in heaven. I think I have a path to making this a reality, if anyone wants to guess I might stumble across this thread sometime to play hot-n-cold or reconsider my approach.

>>9635 >Some type of magic system IRL this is the most "out there" of all itt, so I'll drop a clue. spiders can walk on the electricity they sense in the air.

If you guys made an actual IRL community, you'd have a healthy group of community organizers, an enthusiastic workshop of vehicle makers, a vibrant hackerspace of network engineers for developing your independent internet, an army of mechas, one motherfucker making insta-kill turrets, a wizard with an AI flame-throwing staff, and a bunch of weirdos sexting with bots. Oh, and a couple immortal AI probably-conscious demigods. No women yet though. Now I'm replying to 5 year old posts because I feel like it. >>246 If you were born in antiquity, you'd be a mystic. If you're interested, I recommend reading Chicken Qabalah by Lon Milo Duquette. >>256 >>6661 You may be interested in freedomcells.org and go from there. gl >>468 So you want to invent trees, but out of metal? >>721 >I will create solutions to systemic governmental problems, namely combating the rise of authoritarianism Hurry up bro. >>6857 This is actually cool af. I genuinely think you'd get somewhere if you did crowdfunding, a weekly vlog of your progress and things like that. Nowadays you can make a living off the hype itself.

>>401 That would be one hell of an air conditioner >>724 I had a similar idea, except it was based on some sort of tiny devices spread around the city. They would store data, people move near them with their phones and they become the carriers to the other checkpoints. Useless in practice but fun. I think these types of networks that are based on human movements to route data are called "Opportunistic Networks" >>9674 >I want to create systems where computation can be allocated towards tasks without trusting the host The problem of verifying that a remote host is actually running the software you're expecting it to be running is called remote attestation. There has been a lot of research on this topic, even though it's mostly so that companies can ~~verify you're not pirating software~~ uhh I meant checking that you don't have viruses, One way of doing remote attestation is through Trusted Execution Environments (TEE). The short version is that they're tiny computers inside CPUs that only run verified software, so you have some software on the remote host you can rely not to have changed. TEEs are very locked down systems though, they don't allow anyone to develop software on it.

>>9676 I feel like my response was weak af so here's some elaboration. Circuits going across the body in some sort of exo nervous system, taking signals from the brain or body to control some sort of device near the hands or feet. The devices could spit out fire, high voltage, liquid nitrogen, etc. Biggest problem would be, well everything. but how to dispel all this dangerous stuff out near the hands/feet without losing a couple fingers/toes or even a limb.

>>9680 God I wish man, as much as I love the internet, it would be comforting to connect with other weirdos irl. Defcon and certain hacker meetups seem like next best thing if you're there for mostly the tech/diy stuff, but they just don't have the same vibes as Lainchan and other communities online.>>9680

>>9681 >remote attestation thanks, always great to have more terminology leads to search it is crazy how many "crypto startups" ostensibly focused on decentralization are 100% dependent on intel SGX not having any backdoors.

>moving to countryside >muh property >muh guns >muh farm >muh animals >muh homegym >muh full libre thinkpads >muh servers >imageboard owner A man can dream.

>>238 A harpischord. It is the most beautiful instrument ever created and it's a real shame that it has been overtaken by the piano even in period pieces where the piano did not even exist. New harpischords are still handmade today. And I want to be one of the ones to make one. A beautiful, ornate, resonant instrument.

>>238 This is something I just keep thinking about. It's not my main goal. I want to build a drone that follows pets around outside that can stun and scare off predators. Also i want to build a remote ctrl cat toy you can move around from your phone. That can flip itself over and squeak like a real mouse.

I want to get really good at building (and designing) radios..! Kinda like "homebrewing" in the ham radio context. but something like this would probably be my ultimate goal: * Frequency hopping / band hopping from like LoRa (902–928MHZ) and the unliscensed 2.5 and 5 ghz bands, maybe FRS. * Encryption. * In a form factor of a ammo can or something, making it handheld isn't necessary. * Options for data transmission as well as normal voice transmissions. * Open source

>>238 A robowaifu, fully conversational and with human-like material that can warm to the touch, able to recognize emotions judging from trained datasets on facial recognition, with an AI trained entirely either in open-source or by myself to avoid it being censored and/or monitered. But I don't know shït about engineering, training AIs, making a human-like robowaifu/doll, nor do I have a 3D printer or the parts to do it, nor the will, nor technical knowledge. I can only wait either until realdoll prices fall by 80% or that some kind fellow from /robowaifu/ somehow manages to make an affordable solution for people that want the same thing.

>>10343 I got you bro, just give me 5-10 years.

>>10344 Ahah, thanks man. Will have to wait until then.

>>238 might not exactly be too crazy but id love to build a completely FOSS recording studio. i dont think ill ever get to a level where it'd be viable for me to be designing and manufacturing recording and production equipment though. kind of in the same vein ive been toying around with the idea of a FOSS appliance brand, i can imagine a GNU-TEK Kitchen stick blender (tm) that comes with full specifications docs that can be modified and shared as the user sees fit under the GPL license. most generic appliance companies operate on licensing generic specifications anyway so i dont think it is too farfetched an idea.

>>1079 Why not hack together Magnetron's from Microwaves Radio Pirates in major cities like London used to use them to send their audio data streams from one building to another so you can have TX Station elsewhere from your actual radio studio.

A drug that gives you that flow state.

>>238 I don't want to build anything I just want to destroy.

Schizo house: a house filled with a home server, interconnected machines with open source code or home made code. kill switches on every wifi connected machine, hard drives rigged with thermite. Of course a glock 22 as well, just in case my toaster gets too smart

Genetically modified coca plant vastly increasing yield to allow at home growth.

medium small scale psilocybe cubensis production and distribution and then same thing but in orbit or on mars >>11369 daily struggle

i will make lolis real i will make lolis real

>>11408 >>11408 >>11408 >>11408 Godspeed!

>>11376 unbelievably based and Terry-pilled

Since we're talking dreams, there's no need to be realistic. I have always dreamt of inventing a better alternative to chemical rockets, that would allow us to feasibly explore the Solar System.

Efficient antimatter production would be sick.

mind control device that way i can force people to make my thousand other pipedream projects a reality

>>238 I want to make a completely self-sufficient fully automated hydroponic farm

>>11865 also -operating system based on microkernel + knowledge graph + single level store -FPGA "processor' with extensible instruction set

>>11866 I'd also like to bioengineer myself but I don't really know what's within the realm of possibility

>>11867 I also have ideas about a socialist economy based on computerized resource accounting And a cyberpunk space opera that I've been worldbuilding for years

>>10359 Most appliances made in the Soviet Union came with full schematics

>>238 I want to build a small star that will generate huge amounts of energy.

I have quite a few projects I would love to work on during the course of my life. I have this fantasy / mecha space oprah I have always dreamed of making a comic for, id love for a story Id made to be in a *physical* book. Along with that, Id love to make my own server infrustructure in my home, and to extend off that, Id want to make a tony-stark like workshop. Using 3d printers and a pair of sleek AR glasses, Id wanna make a workflow reminisant of science fiction films. Id also interior decorate the fuarrrk outta it so its just as sleek and nerdy as I would want it to be, a space perfectly crafted to my intrests. I could then use this space to create cool projects, I have had this sorta "flame sword" idea in my head id like to realize, and if I had the resources for it, making a mech would be fuarrrking awesome. I would also want to host my own private LLM to act as a personal Ai and database, to easily keep tract of all the stories and projects id love to make. Id also wanna give it a quirky personality, to make it fun to interact with that plays into banter. Id want to make my own vehicle, or hevily modify one that already exists, Im thinking a sports bike or a mazda miata mx-5 decked out with that cyberpunk asthetic. And finally, fulldive vr setup, or as close to one as I could make would also be really cool, I have always wanted to experince other worlds, and since space travel is reserved for the rich, an immatation will just have to do within my own lifetime. hopefully ill live long enough and prosper enough to make these dreams a reality, im already working twoards the first one tho :3

>>11869 Proofs? I would love an archive link of old USSR schematics

>>11866 No need to use 'processor' quotes - if it's a design for a processor and you implement it on an fpga then you've made a processor :) (Could go one step further than Terry and have your own processor + compiler + language) I'm loving the FPGA projects ITT - currently turning a BASYS3 devboard I got a hold of into a guitar effects processor.

>>11934 I say "processor" because the intention is not that it's just a cpu soft processor, but that it would be a generalization of a processor. I.e. software would have custom instructions baked into it during the compile process, and would load new instructions into the fpga and execute them on demand. There would be no fixed-function instruction set

>>11933 Idk where to find them but the Chernobyl Family channel has talked about it, as well as linus tech tips with his soviet mouse video

>>11942 Wouldn't that entail re-deploying the bit file on the FPGA every time you want to run a new piece of software? And if you wanted to run two programs at the same time you'd have to have a superset of those instructions on your FPGA, right? Apologies if I'm being dense

>What is your "final project"? I can't tell, i'm so far from it that i can barely see, atm all i want is to craft a fake crystal ball with a chinese projector for a halloween event at my bookstore.

I would love to make an universal airsoft core parts just so you can swap betwen airsoft weapon cases. One could even 3d print the cases, I think this would reduce costs greatly, at least for most people who are just hobbist who don't need the absolute best airsoft replica. Sadly, right now I don't have the resources and knowledge required to do this.

>>11944 >Wouldn't that entail re-deploying the bit file on the FPGA every time you want to run a new piece of software? stuff could already be loaded from another program but yes. there are fpgas that can be partially reconfigured >And if you wanted to run two programs at the same time you'd have to have a superset of those instructions on your FPGA, right? yes, though instructions could be swapped out to free up space if it could be done fast enough to be worth it

>>11950 Nice - I don't know enough about the process of bitfile loading to comment on how doable that'd be but the concept is cool A problem that I think I can see is how you'd deal with storing program memory - since you're partially reconfiguring partitions on the FPGA on the fly I'm not sure if that's compatible with having a single piece of implemented memory used by multiple programs (because wouldn't it need to remap and do timing checks for that RAM too? And by extension, everything else it's connected to....?) This is all stuff I've never played with - it's cool that you're project is making other people think before it's even started :)

>>11954 >>11950 It's still very much the morning here - so I might've gotten confused and forgotten that you're just making a processor and not a SoC ://

>>11955 Ideally it would be an soc. It would blur the line between hardware and software, so it could replace a lot of fixed-function chips

>>6988 Focusing on the lowest hanging fruit in that - have you looked into DIY bicycle building / modification stuff? I think it'd be cool to make a cargo e-bike or something like that but doing that with the least cost / machinery is hard

Mine would be modding a car/ minivan into a complete livable home and I want to live in it for a year Have my eyes on a few hondas and toyotas for this

>>238 I got lost in this what seemed like a psychedelic thread and changed my "final project" 30 times or so. However, my initial dream was cooperating with a really submissive architect and then building the house that I've almost fully designed by myself normal person houses are boring and the non-normal person ones are way too expensive (at least 8 digits for anything interesting), even the non normal person ones just scream "ARROGANT" instead of pointing towards something unique and interesting I wouldn't want it to be a hot mess (wires everywhere, useless decorations e.g fireplace that I'll rarely use) and so on but I'd want it to have a little touch of my personality

>>1079 >>10325 I am unsure if these posts were made by me or someone else since it has been many years. Is there a lainon who can claim they made either of these posts? >>1439 I 100% remember making this post. I was a univ student back then. I made something similar in univ shortly after but dropped the idea (I couldn't find genuine use cases for the pip boy like device). Now, 6 years after making this post, I am much, much better at programming, electronics design, and mechanical CAD design. But I also now have a job that I don't like and am going to leave soon. Sorry for the off topic discussion but I was overcome with emotion. These 6 years have been very educational to me but getting a job was a bad decision I made with because of my love for tech. I learned 10x more when I freelanced as a contract embedded dev. An I am leaving my job in 2 months and returning to that stage of my life. Potential marriage interviews be fuarrrked, I'll just say I'm unemployed! Now back to the discussion at hand. I would like to have a 100% fully self sufficient spaceship which I can ride on and travel through space, while tinkering with cool electronics, making stuff and enjoying my life. I really appreciate these long thread on lainch. I am not going to lie, I believe this is one of the very few places on the internet where tech enthusiasts can get together and discuss stuff.

>>12246 Thanks for bumping this old thread that I didn't know about. Are you saying an actual spaceship or a simulated one? I too feel the same. I may be transitioning into a job from a tinkerer, not sure I'm going to enjoy it. Would rather fuarrrk off to deep space and just mine asteroids and manufacture stuff out there for my own benefit and fun.

>>12247 >Are you saying an actual spaceship or a simulated one? I too feel the same. I would say a real one. A simulated one would be a cool videogame perhaps? Nonetheless its funny how a lot of lainons have similar dreams related to where they want to live. Some want a bunker, some boats/aircraft carriers, and us spaceships. The tinkerer to job transition can be disruptive initially but its not very bad. The only downside is you have to do something which your employer wants you to, even though you may discover something very interesting in your free time. And also the lack of free time is a real bummer. I have a mentor/friend IRL who was also a tinkerer and then transitioned to working full time for a major sportscar manufacturer as a systems engineer. He didn't like having a job and left the job in 9 months. Its the fate of many tinkerers. Jobs are for people who like structure, but tinkerers just thrive on experimentation.

Frick it, lets invite Moloch and Puck to go Shadow Phishing instead.

I always wanted to write a book of systematic philosophy. I wrote a draft of it, got my philosophy PhD and it still all seemed more or less reasonable but... the culture of academia is suffocating so I left and now I'm married with kids and a job... Still dream of going back and finishing this though.

A mobile fortress that serves as a base of operations. My own home. My own defense. Everything I'll ever need inside it. A muserum filled with dioramas. Maybe a training room. A miniature data-center archive. Hydroponics.

>>6775 Regarding the ddos issue: >crypto wallet linked to each router >each router sets its own bandwidth cost >packets routed by an efficient best-path algorithm It's not free, but it guarantees a fully competitive market, so it's a hell of a lot better than modern ISPs. If you can make the equipment and electricity cheap enough, bandwidth costs will be proportionally cheap.

Gaining traction on my final project, which has been 15 years in the making. Its to create a full blown written study of my entire series of critical conclusions and wisdom in every area of life. To take all of my learning and congeal it into one concrete critical study.

>>12485 Academia can be awful and closed-minded. It might be nice if you target people outside of it. One of my favorite authors, Scott Bakker, started writing fantasy books as a way to get others to read his philosophy ideas.

Seconding the meshnet/alternative internet idea. Even something as simple as NNCP (http://www.nncpgo.org) would be cool. We could run a lainchan mailing list or net news server. As for transcontinental links, we could just use normal internet for transport, or we could have main uplink/downlink nodes that blast ip over radio using those amateur radio sat repeaters...

>>238 An entire software stack based on my own ideas. If anything it'll be cleaner than anything we currently have in practice. I may decide to create a "generic pattern recognition and management" system for use with it.

>>246 >>6056 >>12246 A personal bunker to live outside of being tied to robotic deities. I mean, the Sun messes up electronics real bad so a bunch of basic people ready to reboot a glitching deity-like computer is a must >>560 LLM moment

>>468 Hey I'm also interested in self-replicating machines. It's crazy to think that it's probably harder to build a replicator than it is to build a Saturn 5. Because if it were easy to make a replicator, then the nations would already be using them to colonize other planets. If anyone else is interested in replicators. Then I'll give you my email: McVee1@proton.me Also I'm "mcvee" on Matrix.

A warp drive. My dream since I was a child, now doing an Ms related to CERN, and working on search for particles beyond standart model and will work on fusion reactors. My end goal is to make a feasible warp drive and do intergalactic travel.

>>13265 >>13265 Context: I fear stuff like Carrington Event (1859; caused early telegraphs to spark like crazy) or Miyake Event (an even stronger electromagnetic storm) can kick us all back into pre-electrical age. Sure, one could have dropped a nice set of coils in Antarctica to convert as much of the EMR as possible, but my point was - there must be someone ready to go and manually fix some broken things, manually flip that breaker's switch - and survive while getting there

>>12246 >>12246 >I 100% remember making this post. I was a univ student back then. I made something similar in univ shortly after but dropped the idea (I couldn't find genuine use cases for the pip boy like device) random ideas: 1. Body monitor (sleep phases, pulse, such) 2. Alarm clock that uses said body monitor to wake you in the right phase of sleep 3. Organizer - with data coming in, but not out - to put some data in 4. A stylus holder, a USB drive holder/"holster", an SSD holder even 5. in-built voice to read books out loud as your extra cozy alarm 6. A "dictafone", a voice recorder that labels your sudden insights - granted, it must analyse your input and such to ... remind you of your own ideas later Basically, ideas 1 and 2you could get a regular 2020s smartphone, un-connect it, throw some software in, make a nice case... ...and, for the ideas 1 and 2, add a fitness tracker.

>>9674 ok, NOW I DO regret not mining the first crypto ever/not buying it with my allowance back in March 2010 >>256 plot twist: the alphabet soup guys would unironically enjoy living in your community as they would be, basically, paid by the state to mimic infiltration while actually running a cozy "free, dum!" village with a stunning scenery. Sounds too cozy to be true, but that would be kino >>281 Ermmmmmmm... Last time I watched a documentary on THAT, the project was SCRAPPED (no gal felt a thing) besides, why not a MagStim-like device? >>4986 I take it The Alphabet Soup could use some devices just like that XD >>9680 Good. I also feel like reading old posts today. >>1099 can't say "stagnation" without both "stag" and "nation" Happy New Year!