Projects

SES. The beginning?

Well. With this purchase:

You could say that I’ve officially started trying to save something that will eventually allow me to save a lot on my rent. There’s no talk of a green tariff, and it doesn’t really make sense right now (with these outages), but it would be nice to save money by not having to run the generator again and charging the existing batteries from the sun.

There are not so many batteries, but I also took 2 panels with a total capacity of about 1310 W. Theoretically, even in cloudy weather I will receive about 130 W, but that is in ideal conditions. The reality may be different, but this will allow me to cover, at least, the basic needs for providing the house. In general, I calculated that if I were to assemble such a system “from scratch”, it would cost somewhere around 1000 USD with a hybrid inverter, 2 panels, and a battery with a capacity of 3 kW/h. My system will be a little different, which I will share gradually.

The main problem will be to pull these two panels onto the roof by yourself (almost impossible?) or with someone and fix them. The rest is minor things. I wanted to get smaller panels, but these are a very good price per kW, plus they have Delivery, which is super critical for me right now.

Let’s see how it goes and what pitfalls will occur.

Jedi 2.0

In the meantime, I decided to finish my “Jedi” lighting for photos.

The project itself is old, but I still couldn’t bring it to a state where I could use it to the fullest. It is planned that I will have 4 lights (there are already 5) for each colour (yellow, green, blue, red) which will work separately. The colour of each is selected from the remote control, so there can be 2 red and 2 blue or some other composition. Each light consists of 1 meter of LED strip, aluminium profile. All this has a tripod mount, so I will choose the lighting angle myself. It will all be powered by a battery that I previously assembled, with a capacity of 240 Wh. So I will not be limited by sockets.

This is a more serious light than I used before and in the future it will give less noise in the photo. And that would be very good, considering the camera I am shooting with now.

P.S. pay attention to the second photo. How magically the light highlights the silhouette. I think I will use it. Especially if I do get more parts of the latex costume.

Attempt

Is an attempt a path to failure or skill? I don’t know…

Today I tried to weave kanekalon into a wig. Of course, trying to do it “my way”. From the side it still looks something, but I don’t really like it. It’s quite difficult to weave something with artificial hair. Although I think it’s the same with natural hair. So I postponed it until better times. I think a different approach to changing wigs is needed. This is firstly, and secondly, I still remember my desire to create my own “predator” style wig. So. This is not the end, this is just the first attempt.

I want unique images of characters that I will create myself.

Workplace update

Meanwhile, the workplace recently received an update, namely…

A couple of homemade shelves! I had some OSB left over from shelves…and a drawer under the battery…and a kitchen drawer…and a drawer for collecting money for the library (all of this was made from a couple of sheets), I decided that so that it wouldn’t lie in vain, I had to do something with it. And I always had tools lying around, no matter what. That’s how these two mini-shelves came about.

On one I have soldering equipment, which I use most often.

On the second one there are other devices like a spot welder, various connectors and tools. After I made the shelves, there was still some free space left. I didn’t decorate them especially, because.. “there is nothing more permanent than something temporary”. I am satisfied.

SPB (Simple Power Box)

My Simple Power Box is ready! ^_^

What is this?

Inside are 6 batteries, which give a total of 12 Volts and 10 Ah. That is, 120 Watt/hours of electricity (for your understanding, a standard Powerbank has 20 Watt/hours). What do I need it for? Well…with this device I can power my camera, an additional 7″ screen for the camera, as well as another device (if necessary) and shoot as much as I need.

Recently, SmallRig released a portable battery for similar purposes worth about $150. I assure you, my device costs about 1/5 of that price and…soon I will write a full post about it. As well as about another thing that I am still finalizing (I am waiting for the case). Somehow 🙂