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What creative projects have you been working on?
This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on.
Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just ideas.
If you have any creative projects that you have been working on or want to eventually work on, this is a place for discussing those.
The Tildes Minecraft Server is shutting down today, so I've been making videos of the projects I worked on over the last year or so. The project I'm most proud of is the Tildestown Mall I built with the help of several other members as collaborators. The idea was to build a 90s era American shopping mall and to let others build shops inside. Here is the completed project with credits at the end showing who built what.
I also had several other large projects including my working volcano with minecart ride, a working haunted house, and Santa's Raceway Village featuring an iceboat racetrack.
what happened?
All things must come to an end. After a while server activity inevitably dies down and we take a break for a few months. The first iteration of the server lasted just over a year if I recall, and this time we went even longer. We're ready for some time off to recharge and think of new ideas for next time!
After picking up an OP-1, I needed to put in some practice. In the interest of completing something and refusing the search for perfection, I worked, completed and published a track in a couple of days.
I loved the fact that you can easily sample the radio for the OP-1. I did so in this track and the resulting stems are heavily modified throughout. It felt novel and powerful enough to push me towards the finish line, with a concrete and achievable idea in mind. 10/10 for effort, 5/10 for the track.
https://tee-tee.bandcamp.com/album/cuoreferito
Just 3D designed something based on an idea I had. It's a DIY version of the "Melodrip" water distributor for coffee brewing. It's basically an extremely simple design- a long handle + a loop and the loop is designed to hold the cap of an Aeropress (which you can buy standalone from Aeropress- or if you're into coffee like me, it might already be one of your brewers) so you can pour your kettle through it to distribute the water "gently" vs pouring directly into your pourover, which causes a different brew because the bed of coffee in the pourover is less agitated and becomes "its own filter" in a way inside your paper-filter. Less microscopic particles get forced through the paper, which changes the flavor parameters because the particulate makeup of the resulting drink is different.
While the initial couple of pieces I'm having done using an online on-demand service, a family member has found some really solid local deals near them on used budget 3D printers... so maybe as an early holiday gift I might be getting into printing things myself?! This is a new avenue I haven't yet gone down and seems it could be fun (I also think designing things in 3D software is something I somewhat feel naturally drawn to / I might have a latent talent for that I could develop into something? Who knows)