Action figure vehicles

At this point I've printed a ton of custom/stock action figures. I figured they needed some vehicles.

Happy kid for scale.

Motorcycle Jet and Jeep

Parents action figures

Welp... Now he has 3d printed versions of his parents...

Hopefully he goes easy on us lol.

3D scanned action figure head

 I was testing some new AI models, and put together some tools that let me create 3d models from photos. This is "less accurate" than photogrammetry, but more realistic... basically it "fudges the details" in typical ai-slot fashion.

I'm using ReconViaGen Pixal3D and TRELLIS.2-4B along with Qwen3.8-27B as an agent with hermes-agent

Before we even had our son, I told my wife that I had one requirement before we had a kid... That before he was old enough to appreciate it, we had to get a 3d printer...

There are many reasons, but the biggest for me, was that I wanted to print custom action figures for "future child".

Being able to 3d scan his face, add compatible sockets to make it compatible with the other action figures I print for him so  I could make a "personalized action figure" the same scale as all his other Fortnite action figures... is amazing...

Can you imagine having an action figure of yourself to play and fight with all your other favorite super heroes and villains?

I can't wait for when he's old enough to understand how insane this is... lol for now its just normal, and that's how it should be, IMO.

Foniebox

We recently went to Africa (bucket list trip). And in trying to pack light, we didn't want to take our son's toniebox. Since he uses this every night to fall asleep, I wanted an alternative solution.

I created the "foniebox" lol... Using my local AI model (tuned on qwen3.6) I hacked together a quick android app that reads a folder for mp3 files, the shuffles them, and plays them for a set duration, with a configurable "fade out" time to give him time to fall asleep.



Here is the code: https://github.com/spiffomatic64/foniebox

It worked great! We had no issues with sleep the entire 2 weeks in Africa. Which I feel is pretty impressive for an 8 year old.

Locked down youtube player before bed

Our son is very persuasive. He wanted to watch a little youtube before bed, but knew we wouldn't let him just watch youtube-kids (most of what he watches there is minecraft/gaming/etc... not great before bed-time wind-down content)

So in order to convince us, he pitched that he only wants to watch Kurzgesagt an educational youtube channel that he knows we approve of him watching as "calm" content.

and... well... hes smart, because of course I want to let him watch those videos... but we also don't want him up all night... so I threw this fullscreen, kiosk'd android app together that only allows you to play videos from an approved playlist, and automatically shuts down after a specified time.

A parent can put in a special unlock pin to add more time as well.

Code here: https://github.com/spiffomatic64/bedtime-browser

No screenshot because its just a full screen youtube player with parental controls lol

Springtrap DIY Halloween costume

My Son wanted to make this own costume this year. He wanted to be springtrap from fnaf. So we bought some foam, let him pick the outside fabric, and I started "vibe-crafting" with no real plan.

Here is the reference material:

And here is what we ended up with:

Last minute (literally the night before Halloween) I threw together some Led glasses (I knew he wouldn't be able to wear the mask at school, they don't let you cover your face, so the glasses would let him have SOMETHING on his face)

The suit is held together with random wires I ripped out of electronics I salvaged, and everything velcros in the back so he was able to put this on himself at school.

All in all, Im pretty happy with how it turned out.

More custom action figures

 When your son wants an action figure that doesn't exist... You 3d print it!

Here is what it looks like in the game.

And here is what I made.

I intentionally didn't paint it all the way, I figured it'd be fun for him to weather it himself.