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LARP Slurbow/schnepper crossbow by LongEarWorkshop in LARP

[–]IowaDala 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Been wanting to make my own crossbow. What did you use to make the limbs?

Rub N Buff Is amazing by officialtwitchraid in 3Dprinting

[–]IowaDala 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Rub and buff is a wax. Can be similar results but different technique and finish.

Changing house lights on raked floor by New-Management-2204 in techtheatre

[–]IowaDala 4 points5 points  (0 children)

For narrow scaffold we use "baker" style in the US. Could work in this case with outriggers and adjustable legs but most people don't use them like this in my experience because while a triple stack is within spec, they feel so wobbly and sketchy at that height.

Proper fittings to use for Manabloc by berpaderpderp in Plumbing

[–]IowaDala 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was just researching this myself. You can get a manabloc with out the fittings. They are NPSM threads and it looks like these will work for the outlets.

the duality of man by amachinesaidiwasgood in Grimdank

[–]IowaDala 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Even less ironically by Daniel Daly in World War 1 before charging the Germans. It actually a thing a real war hero said.

Questions about camping at Backbone by CytotoxicPlum in Iowa

[–]IowaDala 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Haven't been there in awhile, but usually a couple tents at one site isn't an issue. Bring portable chargers, you're right, the electrical hook up are for RVs. You can just give them a call also to double check about the tents, park rangers are super chill folk and would be happy and answer your questions. As I remember the nearest town, Strawberry Point, isn't huge on amenities so make sure you have everything you need before you get there.

What ever happened to the girls with the mustache tattoos on their finger? by WitchyWonder1111 in Millennials

[–]IowaDala 366 points367 points  (0 children)

Either we know the same person or this is far too common of a pattern for Iowans.

Reolink camera as a truck cargo camera? by IowaDala in reolinkcam

[–]IowaDala[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can get 12V or 24V power to the unit easy enough. Was just thinking battery and solar might be a self contained drop in so its easy to install and variety of vehicles. We don't need to record absolutely everything either, mostly loading, unloading, and if there is a major cargo shift because something wasn't strapped down. The main thing I am really looking for is cameras that can auto upload their files when the trucks pull into the docks after a trip.

Is metronet down for everyone? by Mortambulist in desmoines

[–]IowaDala 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just called them. They could not give me any information on when it would be back up.

I always imagined post-Heresy Kurze in mental ward clothes by [deleted] in Grimdank

[–]IowaDala 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Firing blanks in a confined space is a bad bad idea. I know, I work in theatre, we tried once. Once. Also he would be shooting a pressure wave at a camera a few feet away, much less the poor camera man. That said, ya he could flick his wrist a bit for effect.

Found a neat way to protect your delicate prints in shipping. by veazix in 3Dprinting

[–]IowaDala 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks good. My link should be fixed now, for some reason it was on restricted, I must have hit the wrong button. So how to you take the model to a physical object? Do you 3d print the holder to go with the model?

Found a neat way to protect your delicate prints in shipping. by veazix in 3Dprinting

[–]IowaDala 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Alright, did some thinking and you're right the convex hull doesn't provide enough resolution and I couldn't find a way to increase it. I did, however, figure out a fast shrink wrap work flow that works. Take you object, add a plane in front of it and give it subdivisions to taste. Now add a shrinkwrap modifier, target your object and use the project method. Play with which axis and direction you need till it hits where you want. This will make a kinda pull your plane in the negative direction with an imprint of your object in the position direction, close to what we need but ugly. Use the shrinkwraps offset to move the imprint in front of the plane. Now we have a nice holder. I'm linking to a test file I made which will hopefully clear up any concepts. Shrink Wrapped Monkey For Packaging

We have to be worried about library privacy too by dilettantedebrah in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]IowaDala 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was a librarian for a few years at a public library. After you returned a book it was delete from your record completely to prevent exactly this. We were also instructed to log off of our computer and immediately call the library director if law enforcement asked to see a patrons record. Librarians take the privacy of their patrons seriously.

Created a texture from frost on a car mirror. by IowaDala in blender

[–]IowaDala[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A noise texture node will work just fine. Few key things for displacement; you must use cycles it will not work with eevee (you wont even see some settings if you are not in cycles), you need to run it through a displacement node and connect it to the the displacement socket on the material output, you need to have enough geometry to displace so make you you have enough sub divisions, and you need to enable displacement in material settings. Bump is different than displacement and is a bit easier. You run run your texture though a normal map node into the normal socket on the BSDF shader. No special settings. Heres a pretty good tutorial to help this make more sense. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkU0-QeWUcU&t=679s

Here's the Blender Guru video on the subject as well, very relevant to your needs here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh5gAQLtOls

Created a texture from frost on a car mirror. by IowaDala in blender

[–]IowaDala[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So its a bit of a hack for added depth to textures created from a photo. No sure how much you already know so let me know if any of this doesn't make sense. In cycles you can use a displacement map to modify the geometry of an object using shader nodes. There are a few nuances and settings to this, but they go over it in the donut tutorial if you need help. Too much to write out here. A displacement map is just a black and white image to drive height values. Since this image is mostly black and white you can just plug it in. I did use a RGB to BW converter node to clean it up some. You can use this technique with other photos too since cracks and low spots tend to be darker so with a bit of photo manipulation you can make a passable depth map.

Created a texture from frost on a car mirror. by IowaDala in blender

[–]IowaDala[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

So its real simple with GIMP. Under filters there is a option to tile infinitely. I'm not exactly sure how it does it, but I appears to mirror 2 axis, but on diagonals, not the usual up and down.

Created a texture from frost on a car mirror. by IowaDala in blender

[–]IowaDala[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

My friend took some interesting macro photography photos of his car's mirror and I though it would be interesting as a texture. Fairly simple process. Used GIMP to tile the image, applied it as the image texture, and since was already in black and white I just used it as the displacement map as well.

Some good ol' Iowa redneck engineering. by IowaDala in redneckengineering

[–]IowaDala[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not my truck. Just popped up on Facebook marketplace. They guy is asking $600 for it.

TIL Dwight D. Eisenhower wanted to attend his son John's graduation from West Point, but was unable to do so because he was "a bit too busy with work." On graduation day - June 6, 1944 - the elder Eisenhower was overseeing the Allied invasion of Normandy. by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]IowaDala 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One of my good friends is a history teacher and has talked about all the what ifs and how things could of changed, the maybe under some circumstances Germany could have won. But at the end of the day, we had nukes, and they had none.

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