Cursed hacks, forcing proprietary software to do what you want through clever means, or just generally doing awful, beautiful things with technology?


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  • TootSweet@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    An only slightly “stupid” story.

    Washing machine broke while full of water. I partially disassembled the washer, found the pump, designed and 3d-printed an adapter for a cordless drill to drive the pump, and successfully manually drained the washer (as a first step toward fixing the washer.)

    It was printed out of PLA, so not really strong enough to do the job, but I printed with 100% infill for added strength and printed like 6 of them. Three or four of them broke before it was done draining, but that’s why I printed the extras.