The "Look What I Did / Made" Thread

[marurun]

This is such a bizarre experiment and I am SO on-board for it.

[Anapan]

More mottled than I had hoped but I'm not unsatisfied with the result. I had some braided "weave" - long glow-in-the-dark plastic hair that I bought at the same time and I threw some of that inside with the polyfill - That's the green you can see, otherwise it'd be totally sky blue until powered off. It gets quite hot, tho I don't think it'll start on fire before the LI-Ion battery dies.



This was all my mom's hard work. I just bought the ingredients and asked her to make it. She said it was a lot of work and kept asking what I'd do with it.
I never thought of doing something... It sits in the basement and the kids might play with it.
https://anapan.ca/Anapan/plushpile.jpg
I've been buying recordable plush noise makers. So-far I've only done one - I recorded Dinkle's chiptune and now he can sing it IRL. I've been meaning to tether him to a record player with some elastic thread and make a meme video.

[Ziggy]

That's awesome, Anapan! Thanks for sharing. I'm trying to think of something else that you could make from the material, but I think you nailed it with a plush toy.

On a completely unrelated note, do you happen to have a Geiger meter?

[Anapan]

Thanks!
I don't, but the one I planned to buy is still in my Amazon wishlist. It was between the Geiger Counter and the Pulse Oximeter, and the awesome display resolution and refesh rate on the Oximeter won. I wish I knew what happened to my collection of Uranium marbles. I could borrow one from a friend.

[marurun]

I wonder if there’s some way to insulate or even vent the LED strips. Like wrap them in some soft, clear plastic tubing and have a little mesh vent near the tail so are can flow more easily in and out. You know, if you want to make this even more needlessly complicated.

[Anapan]

Hot farting plush toy with realistic bowels.
I was tempted to double the output by sticking the tape-underside of the strip to another strip. That would definitely make it self immolate. The USB battery doesn't seem to have any regulation or cutoff.
Clearly I should put an inline switch and potentiometer. The hot spots are the feed-USB cable and the small USB battery's output circuit, tho the heat is eventually throughout. I consider it a scary feature, not a flaw. They made a similar Kirby plush.
https://p-bandai.com/us/item/N2566807001002
I bought that thing too, but never unboxed it; Too dangerous!

[marurun]

And you thought Flamin' Hot Cheetos were hot...

[Anapan]

I only got one picture because of time restraints (this was one of the projects that delayed the start-date of the auction - the others that weren't completed are secret), but just before this year's charity auction went live I modded my NES Top-Loader with a V4 Tim Worthington RGB mod that had been shelved for far too long.

I had nearly finished it, but couldn't bring myself to install the mini-din port - too jank with the external audio and all. I instead ordered from several vendors some Nintendo Multi-Out connectors with 3D printed replacement brackets to replace the analog panel in the back. I don't remember ordering a Voultar QSB FFC kit (or even that they existed), but it was sure nice to find in the pile of parts on-hand when finishing this long overdue project.

This was by-far the most involved mod I've ever done, only because of the amount of through-hole desoldering and resoldering with the multi-board mounting piggyback PPU IC.

I'm glad to say that upon completion, it all worked perfectly first boot. There were definitely some ambiguous steps regarding the handling of expansion audio volume, with no consensus on the right resistor to install, but because of that same ambiguousness, my flash-cart has expansion volume leveling, so it's a moot point.

Link to Voultar doing this mod.

[Ziggy]

Nice work!

Is that the extra board for component video I see on there?

[Anapan]

I'm sure I would've destroyed something if I didn't have a vacuum desoldering gun.

I have another NESRGB board as well. I got it a while back to make an every-mod Toaster NES including ENIO EXP board and a Famicom controller port.

Yeah, that's the Component video daughterboard. I figured "Why not?"

Glad you're enjoying the AV Famicom.