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So many cool technical projects here. But I am doing something completely different - masonry. Repairing walls in 3 rooms. It includes reinstalling dozens of falling off bricks, installing 30 or so power outlets, replacing old windows with bigger modern ones, fixing openings for the doors and plastering everything afterwards. On one hand it’s interesting, because it’s very different from the dayjob. But doing it by myself pays my newish car in cash immediately. However I wouldn’t do it for money somewhere else, it’s really really hard work.

Instead of masonry I would like to work on time of flight cameras. But the day has only 24 hours :-(



If you had a YouTube channel or a flickr feed of that project or something, I'd watch it :)


Thanks. It is not sexy. There also many YouTube building channels. They concentrate on nice content while I live in construction site and would love to finish it asap. It’s also not really interesting topic - nobody builds brick houses anymore. Mortar was replaced with glue and bricks with much bigger building blocks.


There is many "not sexy" projects that many people indeed find interesting and worth watching. And OP did not want to watch ANY youtube video.. he wanted to watch your work, as I do to since these other youtubers (AFAIK) are not on HN :)


Yeah I agree! He can get one of those tiny cameras that can be installed on the head and just record the whole thing.


Looks like, the topic is really interesting. I started talking pictures, so I can add them to Flickr and share next month.

The fine dust is really the thing that makes filming impossible. I can use some mask from Covid supply stash, but all electronics and even power tools have problems with dust. A drill and angle grinder died from particles getting into gearbox and motor already.




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