Everett Hope - DadCanMakeIT3D

Built a little review-and-approve gate for my DadCanMakeIT posts so nothing goes live until I tap OK. Autopilot with a human clutch. What's one step in your setup you refuse to fully automate?

Hung a solar-powered enclosure with an antenna on it. No outlet, just sun and a printed case. What's the most off-grid thing you've built lately?

Ran qwen3.8 27B, gemma4 26B, and qwen3-coder 30B head to head on my 4090 with my own auto-graded tests. Local is finally good enough for real shop jobs. Which local model do you trust day to day?

Printed a set of landing skids for my drone. Half the fun of owning a printer is making the parts you'd otherwise go hunt for. What's the last part you printed instead of buying?

I once ran the same SpectraHAT bug through five different models just to compare how each one handled it. Honestly a fun way to see how each one thinks. When a bug has you stuck, do you stick with one AI or shop it around?

Gave my AI a real phone line with Grokbot in one day. It picks up and talks, and I still approve the important bits. Weird how fast that started to feel normal. Anyone else wiring voice into their home setup?

My print wall right now: a Bambu H2D, an X1C with the AMS, and an Anycubic Kobra 3, plus a shelf of filament I swear I'll use eventually. Which printer in your setup does most of the heavy lifting?

I've been DJing on the side for 25 years. Weddings, parties, clubs. Reading a dance floor and debugging a build feel weirdly similar: you watch, tweak, try again. What old skill keeps sneaking into the stuff you build now?

My guitar tuner has a standalone Apple Watch version now. I used the phone app myself for about 6 months before I polished it for the store. What's a tiny app you built that you still open every week?

I code with Cursor, T3, Claude and Codex. Curious how other builders split it up. What's in your stack, and which one do you trust with the big changes?

Made a 5 minute video entirely on my own machine with ComfyUI and LTX-2.5, and Grok wrote the prompt. No cloud queue, just me waiting on renders. Anyone else making AI video locally? What's your setup?

Built a RAK MeshCore node: RAK3400 board, RAK13302 LoRa boost module, GPS, 3 antennas and custom firmware, all tucked in a printed case. Seeing the LEDs light up never gets old. What's running on your mesh right now?

Printed a black case with a fan for my Radioberry. Yep, this is the one that fell in the trash. Every build needs a backstory. What's the worst place one of your builds has ended up?

Anyone have a spare 1-2tb sata SSD yall would spare, need one for a project and don’t have the moolah

2nd test 3 local LLMs, head-to-head on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090. 19 auto-graded tests (9 standard · 10 hard): logic, math, real Python unit tests, code review. 🥇 qwen3.8:27b, 95%, 5.0s/answer 🥈 gemma4:26b, 95%, 5.6s/answer 🥉 qwen3-coder:30b, 82%, 0.7s/answer Same prompts, one model at a time, 100% local.

3 local LLMs, head-to-head on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090. 9 auto-graded tests: reasoning, math, Python unit tests, a SwiftUI bug hunt. 🥇 qwen3.8:27b, 100%, 2.8s/answer 🥈 gemma4:26b, 100%, 2.9s/answer 🥉 qwen3-coder:30b, 85%, 0.7s/answer Same prompts, one model at a time, 100% local.

Built a custom cyberdeck case for my Pi 5. Half the fun of a Pi build is giving it a body nobody else has. Anyone else running a cyberdeck? What did you cram into yours?

Printed an adapter so my drone can carry a Heltec. Before I pick a spot to mount a repeater, I fly it up and test the height first. Beats guessing. How do you pick where your antennas go?

My home AI setup hands jobs off to Claude and ChatGPT on its own, but anything privileged sits and waits for my OK. Honestly the approve step is my favorite feature. Where do you draw the line on what your bots can do alone?

Apple's most slept-on app is Shortcuts. @Apple Now you just describe what you want and Apple Intelligence builds the shortcut for you. No dragging blocks around. It's already on your iPhone. Most people never open it. #AppleIntelligence #iOS #Shortcuts #Automation