Self-balancing electric vehicle gang! I have a VESC onewheel build and it’s the best waste of money ever.
whats your dumb purchases?
Submitted 6 months ago by QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
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FancyLad@lemmy.world 6 months ago
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
those are so much money, I’m so jealous lol
I just got mine for 350 off Facebook marketplaceFancyLad@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You can do a vesc conversion on the cheap, there are kits out there. I spent two years amassing parts for my build and it made me feel like Tony Stark putting it together (and it worked).
toeblast96@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
salty licorice😈
craigers@lemmy.world 6 months ago
A switch 2. No regrets on that fat PP tho love that thing.
Triumph@fedia.io 6 months ago
I bought an old pachislo machine from a garage sale because ... I'm not real sure, but I have one of those now.
Krudler@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Damn I’ve always wanted something like this! Jelly
Triumph@fedia.io 6 months ago
If you manage to find one, there's a modification you can do to it so that it will also take US quarters. Mine seems to have already had that modification before I got it, so I can't say how involved it is, but I don't think it's too hard.
nailingjello@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Looks fun. How much was it?
Triumph@fedia.io 6 months ago
$75, and it works. Well ... worked, it's being weird now, but I'm sure it's mechanical, I just haven't gotten to looking at it.
wjrii@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Despite the site screaming left and right that one should not count on a proper keyboard’s worth of keycaps at all, much LESS a matching set, and despite years of forum and reddit posts declaring their underwhelming nature, I still bought a 5-pound (2.27kg) sack of random keycaps from Signature Plastics in Washington state.
I just have to know, and I’m kind of unironically looking forward to sorting them like so many Lego bricks. I may even get a few that are useful for my projects.
batmaniam@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Surely there’s enough for a macro pad in there? It’s like the makers version of a scratch off lotto ticket lmfao
wjrii@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Most likely, yes. I think most people do end up finding one or two smaller boards’ worth of “unicorn barf,” which is to say everything is the right shape and 95-99% have the right thing written on them, but the colors are totally random and visually jarring. I also have a few ideas that might benefit from some of the weirder caps, (like a big square that uses four keybaord switches… people seem to end up with some of those) and occasionally you’ll land on something that someone in the hobby actually does need and you can help them out. A lot of it is simply indulging a certain need to examine and categorize.
BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I always dreamed of having a fast food pop machine in my house as a kid. It took me about a year of owning a SodaStream as an adult to realize that I do own a slower and smaller scale pop machine and I can make as much pop as I want.
saigot@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
jqubed@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Does it taste different than what you get in cans/bottles for home use?
BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
A little bit. The carbonation and syrup amount changes each time you make it. But overall it’s the same idea.
Taldan@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah, it tastes pretty different. It’s either the carbonation or the fact each SodaStream is haunted by the thousands of people killed and displaced for them to put a factory in the West Bank. 50/50 on which is a bigger factor
BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
If you want it to taste as close to identical as possible, you can usually find name brand bag in box syrups if you search around. So I guess in theory you should be able to get the same taste as real fountain soda. Idk how that compares to bottled though. I had a box of dr pepper syrup which made great tasting dr pepper.
knight_alva@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Espresso machine A nice double boiler one
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 6 months ago
I bought an entry level espresso machine and i thought that i want a really fancy one, if i keep using it and this one breaks. That was like 8 years ago and i use it almost daily and don’t really want another one.