Smartphone 3D hologram

So there's this video called Make your own 3d hologram projector using CD case & smartphone
(I know it was uploaded a year ago but... But I just found it only now)
Seems like a super easy and quick project to do, right. Right? HECK NO!!
1. The template wasn't the right size for printing, had to zoom in and out until it was big enough but not too big
2. Cutting a CD case is NOT easy at all!! I gave up after it broke right away so I asked my mother to try one (also broke but we were able to save it)
3.  Gluing it together with super glue is not possible!! It all fell apart all the time and eventually the glue got everywhere so the plastic wasn't even transparent anymore.

But yes, after replacing the super glue with a glue gun, we did finally get it all glued together and luckily it did work! And I have to admit, it does look cool!

Cat tree out of cable spools

I admit that I'm a crazy cat person. And it even rubbed off on my mother - there was some renovation going on at her workplace and when she saw some empty cable spools lying around, she immediately thought that we could make a cat tree out of them!

I actually had a store-bought cat tree which my cats loved. It cost about 200€. It lasted for about two years - then it got very wobbly, the fabric started ripping and the wooden parts were breaking.
Even after I tried to fix it, it looked like this:

Anyway... I took it apart and thought I could use some parts of it (like the rope) to make a new cat tree out of those cable spools. And then... I waited 7 months for inspiration :D
It took a while but finally it was ready:

Although cats like it (especially the long scratching part), I think it's not worth the effort. Doesn't look very nice and it was also very very wobbly so I had to screw it to the wall - which means I can't move it around.
I'll just save up money and buy a normal one when this one breaks.

Compost hole

A little while after we moved from an apartment to a house, it started feeling wrong when I would throw away biodegradable stuff (like potato peels and cat litter) in the regular trash bin. And since we have a large part of our yard that we don't use, I decided to make a compost hole there.
And it works pretty well!
The first one I made lasted for 7 months

So now I dug another one, just bigger. Took me a couple hours.

 

I was actually a little worried my neighbors would call the police... because it does look like a grave more than anything else :D