Timasomo 2022: Roll Call
Posting in this thread is your official entry into Timasomo.
Let everyone know what your actual plans are -- what are you going to make?
Once the date turns over to October 1st wherever you are in the world, feel free to start creating!
FAQs
What is Timasomo really though?
Timasomo is a chance to create something/anything!
There are no restrictions on what you can choose to make.
The best way to get a feel for Timasomo is to check out the previous showcase threads:
2021 Showcase
2020 Showcase
2019 Showcase
These showcases are the culminating event of Timasomo -- a public gallery of participants' creations. Each item in the showcases was a project that community members chose to complete for the event.
In the weeks leading up to the showcase, discussion threads will be posted where people can share their progress.
Can I participate?
Yes! Timasomo is open to anyone on Tildes! Please make sure you are subscribed to ~creative.timasomo.
The greater Tildes community is also encouraged to participate in discussion threads even if you are not actively working towards a creative goal. This is meant to be an inclusive community event -- all are welcome!
If you are interested in participating but do not have a Tildes login, please e-mail the invite request address here for an invite to the community.
How do I sign up?
Make sure you are subscribed to ~creative.timasomo.
On October 1st, there will be a Roll Call thread. By posting your plans to participate in that thread, you have formally signed up for Timasomo!
Didn't it used to be in November?
Yes. Timasomo was originally inspired by NaNoWriMo, the National Novel Writing Month, which takes place in November.
Initially, I wanted people participating in NaNoWriMo to be able to share their work with Timasomo as well. Over the past three years, however, no participant has publicly submitted any work from NaNoWriMo to Timasomo. Instead, Timasomo has gained its own identity independent of NaNoWriMo.
Many participants from previous years have shared that October would be a better month for them personally, so we moved the event to October this year.
Also, the event was so fantastically popular that it regularly upstaged American Thanksgiving, thus we only felt it fair that Canadian Thanksgiving be targeted as well.
What are the rules?
Timasomo is self-driven and its goals are self-selected.
On October 1st, participants will commit to a creative project (or projects) that they plan to complete within the month of October.
There is no restriction on the methods/products of creativity: writing, painting, code, food, photos, crafts, songs -- if it's creative expression for you, it works for Timasomo!
Though most will be participating individually, collaborations are welcome too!
What is the schedule?
Timasomo begins October 1st and ends October 31st.
All creative output towards your goal(s) should be confined to this time.
This week prior to the start of October is for planning. There will be a few days at the beginning of November given to "finishing touches" before we have our final thread, which will be a showcase of all the completed works.
Below are the dates that I will be posting weekly threads:
Saturday, October 1, 2022: Roll Call Thread
Saturday, October 8, 2022: Update Thread #1
Saturday, October 15, 2022: Update Thread #2
Saturday, October 22, 2022: Update Thread #3
Saturday, October 29, 2022: Final Update Thread
Saturday, November 5, 2022: Timasomo Showcase Thread
Do I have to share my creation(s) publicly?
Tildes is a privacy-respecting site, and you are not obligated to share your creation here if you do not want to. We'd still love to hear about it though, if you're willing to share process and details!
Is it Timasomo or TiMaSoMo?
Either.
I personally use "Timasomo" because I think it looks cleaner and because too much time on the internet has made my brain incapable of reading "TiMaSoMo" as anything other than sarcasm, but go with whichever you prefer.
The best option, however, is βπ»π°π΄π¨πΊπΆπ΄πΆβ for reasons that are self-evident.
Hi, everyone. I'm returning to tildes with a new user account after almost 4 years, having lost access to the original account's password following total vision loss due to a severe traumatic head injury. Thanks, @deimos, for being kind enough to give me a fresh invitation when I reached out late last year.
This will be my first Timasomo. I'd typed out a fairly in-depth description of my intended project, but lost it when the browser hung. Rather than try to recreate it, I'll give a brief synopsis.
Essentially, I'm going to create a reprise/evolution of a jewelry piece I made in my late teens, 20+ years ago: a phoenix made from ~16 ga. copper wire that was intended to be the focal piece of a "statement" necklace will be re-imagined and created as a solid sterling silver phoenix from art clay silver, with fire-in-place gemstones set in the phoenix, and a necklace made from ~24 ga. sterling silver wire and semi-precious stone beads. I'll also do some textural details with art clay copper and bronze.
This piece, when finished, will be given to a dear friend who has faced different struggles than I have over the last few years, but every bit as intense. He's also a longtime "a11y" to people with disabilities. He was absolutely thrilled when I told him I can spell his name in Braille, and told me he'd always wanted to know how to do so; because of that, I think I'll use tiny balls of the copper, brass and/or silver clay to use a granulation technique to include his name in Braille across the phoenix's wings and breast.
I guess, in a way, you could say this project is symbolic for my friend and me as being representative of not only "rebirth", but also regeneration, adaptation, aspiration, perseverance in the face of adversity, and the powerful potentialities of creativity, compassion, and solidarity.
Hope I didn't ramble too much when trying to explain my project and intentions for it. I'm also really looking forward to hearing about everyone's projects and their progress over the next weeks. **edit: corrected a grammatical mistake. Proofreading is a bit more difficult with a screenreader. :-/
I'm going to dive into gamedev!
And by dive in, I mean put on some floaties and very slowly wade into the shallow end of the pool.
I'm going to start with Godot's Step by Step and Your first 2D game tutorials and see where they take me. I have no idea what a full month plan for this would even look like as I'm stumbling around in the dark with the dimmest of flashlights at the moment, but I'm hoping that will become more clear as I start to gain greater understanding of the engine and just basic gamedev stuff in general.
Ultimately, I would like to be able to have some sort of 2D game prototype by the end of the month -- something that might resemble some of the tutorials I've followed, but also something that at least has some of my own ideas/fingerprints/implementation in it. I'm under no illusions that I'll actually be able to make a full-fat game by then -- much less a good one -- but if I can have some code I wrote run things on my screen, I'll be happy.
My yarn and crochet hook arrived, so π»π°π΄π¨πΊπΆπ΄πΆ πΊπΎπ¬π¨π»π¬πΉ is a go! Getting started on it this morning before a bike ride.
I am very excited to see the WIPs for your sweater!! What pattern do you have in mind or are you going to free hand it?
I am using this pattern since it seems pretty forgiving. Iβve got about half of the back panel done, so my stretch goal is to also make a matching sweater for my littlest dog. :)
Those are cute!! I especially love the lil doggy sweater. I wish you luck in all your crafting glory.
I'll build an automatic plant-watering system for indoor plants:
Ideally, it's all battery-powered [I've got some small LiPos lying around], but if I have to run some wires, so be it.
If everything turns out great, I'll give myself bonus points for setting up a 433MHz sender on the thing, with a Rasberry Pi receiver, that centrally monitors N potential watering stations throughout the house.
I have a friend who's teaching himself hydroponic farming in his bathtub. I bet he'd really like a humidity sensor. Are those off-the-rack, or are you designing one?
Off-the-shelf, I'm using one of the following, depending on what works better:
I'm actually not sure where exactly I got them from, but probably something like Pimoroni?
That's really fun! I'll send him these links and maybe they'll come in handy.
Glad I could help!
I've never managed to do one of these, and totally forgot it was happening. So... No idea if I'm going to manage to follow through with this, haha.
Most of my project ideas are already in their early stages of execution, so I guess they won't count. I'll aim small, then - I want to make a simple, single webpage that lists out where to find me online. I know platforms already exist for this, but I like the idea of practicing web dev and building my own.
I'll need to do three main things - create the page, learn basic Git, and set up either GitHub pages or GitHub + Netlify (with a custom domain). It'll be good practice for larger website projects!
PS The rules section still references November, just fyi~
You and @Bauke are eagle-eyed! Thanks for finding my errors. I was certain I had fixed all of them, but clearly that wasnβt the case. π
For ππππΈππππ ππππ, I'll be making a WebExtension I've wanted to make for a couple months now. If you've seen my other extensions, they're all about fixing a specific problem. And the one I'm going to make this month is no different.
On occasion, I'll click on a Twitter link to see whatever is there. But without fail, after a few seconds of being on the page, there's always this "Sign In" modal that prevents me from scrolling and I also can't click away. Now, what I want to do is not an extension that can remove that modal (that's easy enough to do with uBlock Origin). What I want to do is make an extension that intercepts my navigation request to Twitter.com and redirects it to somewhere like Nitter.net. You know, a website that doesn't actively hate me. Furthermore, I don't just want to do this for this one case, I want to make it so you can setup these redirects yourself and make it pretty powerful at that (I have some ideas). So, Re-Nav is born.
To make this happen, I've pretty much already figured out the lion's share of it in my head. To intercept only navigation requests, there is the
webNavigationAPI and from there redirecting is as simple as using thetabsAPI. Both APIs I also used to make Fangs work. The bulk of the work will likely be in the UI design and the different ways of setting up redirects.As a start I'd like to be able to redirect host names, so when it sees a URL with
twitter.com, it changes only that tonitter.net. Without touching any of the rest of the URL. Then, maybe comes a way to add/edit/remove query parameters. Maybe something else with regular expressions. I'm not sure, but I've got a whole month to figure it out, so no rush yet.I've looked around for other extensions that can do this, but haven't really found anything like it. There's a few that redirect all requests, but I only want the navigation ones to count. There are a few that do this for specific sites, like Old Reddit Redirect. But none I've found that do this for anything you want.
So that will be my submission, Re-Nav! Hopefully I can pull it off.
Hello from the future! Here is a handy link to the first update.
Oh, please do make this. I love this idea. I can't stand Twitter, in large part because of it's godawful UX - but people still send me links to tweets.
Very cool idea. Whenever I need to go to reddit, I use r.nf which is a libreddit instance. I originally used it not because it was private but because I simply liked the interface better. Itβs especially good on mobile, where new reddit is awful unless you install an app, and old reddit isnβt that great.
If Iβm understanding your extensions correctly, it sounds like I could just have a rule to redirect reddit.com to r.nf all the time? And any reddit links that get clicked auto open on r.nf? If so, that sounds awesome.
Yep, that's the plan. :D
This year I am going to be making a Viking round shield! I am basing it off of a book I read as well as instructions I find online. My hope is to finish construction with enough time to paint some kind of crest on it, featuring a boar and a lion. These represent my current pets, some adorable guinea pigs, as well as the pets I hope to have in the near future, kittens.
This first week will likely be dedicated to the most thrilling aspects of all: sourcing and budgeting. I am probably going to make the shield out of plywood rather than the much more traditional boards, as that simplifies construction and reduces the number of tools required immensely. That said, I don't really see a way around buying some tools, in all likelihood a jigsaw compatible with my current cordless tool batteries, and a probably some kind of wood chisel(s?) for shaping the handle. In an effort to make sure that I don't spend too much, or run around like a chicken with my head cut off trying to get everything, I am going to make a plan.
I am also running a parallel Make Something Month over on Beehaw, if you would like to take a look.
Ooh, this sounds like a good one! Looking forward to seeing it.
I'm happy to offer my moderate amount of woodworking experience in advice/support if required, although I always think half the fun of these things is figuring it out and blundering around along the way.
If you wouldn't mind me picking your brain I do have a question that I have been mulling over:
On the jigsaw, if I get one that is compatible with my current cordless drill batteries, it's going to be something like $180-$200, far and away the most expensive part of the project. However, it seems like it's possible to get an inexpensive corded tool and some decent blades to replace what comes with for ~$50. I am a bit torn between the buy it for life concept and the buy cheap tools and replace what you actually use concept. What do you think?
Oh, cheap-ish power tools for a first purchase, every time (cheap hand tools are almost always a waste of money though). Use it until it breaks or until you need more features/accuracy or whatever, then upgrade to the nice tool later. With corded stuff you can still get a fairly decent tool as well, I had a mains powered Ryobi jigsaw for years and it worked just fine. I think it was Β£25 or something ridiculous - albeit that was at 2005 prices. I used the hell out of that thing.
You're right that it's worth spending a bit on blades, I mostly buy Bosch and they're generally well worth the extra few ££/$$.
Just as a matter of interest, whose batteries are you using that a body-only jigsaw is $200?
Okay, I'll definitely go with the $30 or whatever store brand corded jigsaw then, plus Bosch blades since I've been seeing a lot about them. The batteries I have for my drill are the DeWalt 20V Max system. That was purchased on recommendation from my SO's grandpa, who is big into woodworking and classic car restoration, so I am not surprised that he may have overestimated both our needs and budget.
I've had a bunch of different projects on the backburner for a while and a feature that I've wanted to add to many of them is full text search of the contents.
So, my project is going to be putting together a full text search service/library that I can use in my various projects.
To test it out, I'll implement two use cases.
First, I'll import all fimfiction.net (a my little pony fanfiction website) stories from fimfarchive (a user created archive of all stories that gets updated quarterly) and have a page that searches by metadata and contents.
Second, I'll make a basic wiki and keep the search index updated as pages are created and modified.
There will be a search bar on each page that will work similarly to the search on Wikipedia; if there's a good match to a title, it'll go to that page, if not, it'll go to a results page with articles with matching contents.
I'm hoping this will be a small enough/focused enough project that I won't get distracted and that it'll be a useful addition to many of my other projects without much work on integration.
After a little thought I am going to make a camping hammer. I have most of a design, some of a process and enough unknowns along the way to make it fun - and hopefully not enough to make it annoying!
Still taking suggestions for what to do with the non-striking head. My first thought was axe but when I camp 99%+ of the time it's on managed campsites who supply pre-cut wood (if they even allow fires at all) and there are always lots of kids around so probably not axe. Other ideas pitched by my friends included bottle opener and "thing to take stones out of horses's hooves" which might be of even more limited use than the axe..
If in some sort of miracle occurs and I have spare time, I have been meaning to make an awl for a while, because the one I have is cheap and plastic and slightly bent. But it's incredibly useful and I'd like a nice one.
I'd think that a semi-sharp pick would be the thing that'd be useful on the other side of the head. Something to loosen soil, adjust logs in a fire, or scatter the embers to extinguish it.
Fire related stuff is probably out because the handle is going to be wood and more relevantly the striking face is nylon. Might maybe make a mini mattock though, that could be useful. Useful for moving soil around, small digging tasks, scraping.. ...things.
Ah, fair enough. I'd seen your metalworking videos and made an assumption about the overall materials.
Timasomo 2022 is my ultimate WIP finish month! I have a lot going on and am not certain I'd be able to pick up something new but I've got plenty knit and crochet WIPs around. I'll be sure to take a picture of what the current state of affairs is and where I end up after Timasomo!
I'm going to make a dice box! My D&D sorcerer/paladin needs a bunch of d6s for Fireball and d8s for Divine Smite, so I'm going to make a dice box that will hold just the dice I need.
The lid will be a dice-rolling surface with some sort of fabric inlay--my wife recently got me some fancy dice that I want to take good care of.
I've made an initial design in OpenSCAD and I'm printing it now. I think I may have already found my first bug--there's a 90-degree corner that probably won't print correctly (overhang) and will need to be chamfered. I also need to decide on and source a fabric for the dice-rolling surface.
I'm in. I was waffling on whether to join or not since I have a lot of stuff going on and didn't know if I would have time to do much this month, but I decided "why not".
I'm going to be working on a screenplay. I don't feel like making anything physical, and a bunch of my other ideas require me to be more skilled in other areas before I go on with them. It's probably not going to be huge, thought-provoking, or unique; I mentioned the general idea to some friends and one jokingly responded with "So... Harry Potter and the Plaza of Nakatomi?", which is closer to the idea than I'd want to admit. I'm not aiming for any particular length, since I want this to be casual, especially with NaNoWriMo next month.
Oh, I desperately need to finish a short story. Every time I start writing something "simple", it gets progressively complicated and then I get super anxious and super insecure, and then I have to take a break and the break never ends.
It started as a version of a Ray Bradbury story where a kid has an alien "imaginary friend" and in the end the alien was real and kinda scary. That was it. Then I had to create an alien that communicates with mind control, meaning I had to describe something that is basically indescribable. Then it kinda got a Ted Chiang/Ken Liu vibe and now I have to come up with a twist, and the story got super heavy and there is also symbolism, of course. There are also two narrative timelines (present and flashback) that must meet for a great emotional apotheosis. So I guess that is what I am doing for Timasomo? Also, you guys won't be able to read it because it is not in English, but I can translate the introduction just so I can share something.
I'm taking this as a sign.
I've always been a Start Often, Finish Rarely kind of person. Last year I started a novel. This story was/is very important to me, and by some miracle I actually got 50% through it before losing steam.
This month is the one year mark since I started that book and this feels like the perfect time to make that big push to the finish line.
I've got about thirty thousand words left to finish the rough draft, and that's my goal this month. I want to finish the rough draft of this novel.
Weβre more or less settled in the house and the various landscaping and garden projects should be finished in the next week or two (400 spring bulbs still to be plantedβ¦).
That means I have no more excuses and will get my lapidary/jewelry workbench set up for this winter. The spouse has asked me to teach him how to use precious metal clay. So if the enameling kiln and lapidary grinder survived all the moves, I should have at least one collaborative project and some personal stonework (previous examples) to show by the end of the month.
I'm in with my 4-track techno EP idea. A track a week for a 4-track EP by the end of the month. I'm not doing anything too crazy, it's just Renoise with drum machine samples and some virtual analog VSTs to keep it in a familiar environment. I've been playing with some ideas anyway to get used to the new VSTs, but the goal will be to try to come up with something original each week and possibly some album art at the end.
Edit: I'm going to add a rule: 5 minutes each, minimum. Techno tends to run longer and in the spirit of force-stretching my creativity, I want ro conform to my intended genre on this point.
I am going to make a game! I think I want to make either some interactive fiction, maybe in Twine, or a walking simulator. Something story-based, because I just did a Ludum Dare where I made a game that was basically only mechanics driven. And I'd also like to have some cool ambient drone-y music for it too. I am not a good writer but I am excited to write something.
It's probably going to be quite a quick project, but I'd like to give it at least 2 days minimum too :).
I'm in, just so I have a deadline to finish something I've been toying with for a while now. I've been putting all the time I used to put into finding music for bestofs back into my own cratedigging. It's been a relief not to have to listen to music for other people and instead focus on my own tastes for a change, specifically new music in old styles. It's been bothering me that I've been releasing less than one setlist a year when there's so much good stuff out there in that vein. One of the finest qualities of this particular unifying theme is that if I wait a mere ten years, entirely new genres become 'vintage' and wind up on my menu. I've been spending a lot of time with 80s and 90s throwbacks lately and loving it. It's honestly hard to keep up with it all.
I've got five 82 minute setlists cooking. I'm going to get them done, create the covers, and then share them here for Timasomo. It'll also come with four playlists of full albums for 2019-2022 with the most interesting records I've dug up while making these, currently sitting at 309 hours and counting. I've still got a backlog of 246 more artists to review, all in a Sunday's listening. Once that's done it's time to finalize the cut and get them up on mixcloud.
I'll share the first track from each of the sets below to whet your whistle. :)