It's amazing how much pleasure this gives me, compared to buying something. It's made out of a scavenged old hair-cutting cape, some additional thicker fabric for durability, and 2 bamboo poles.
Here's some photos that are hopefully self-explanatory.
This is what it looks like, in use https://m.stacker.news/32586
Rolled up for storage https://m.stacker.news/32582
Laid out so you can see the structure. There's a folded over pocket that the bamboo poles go into. The poles are tied together loosely, to make it easier to assemble. https://m.stacker.news/32583
The poles are in the pocket, and crossed. Now you sit on the non-pole end, and lift up the poles behind you. It's not difficult. https://m.stacker.news/32584
It's awesome how stuff like this -- that you made yourself -- anchor you into the world. It's like you have more of a stake in it. Something so deep in that.
Yep. So many possessions, things you don't even remember. But the things you make yourself, your own project, your own ideas - they stick with you.
In my work, the things I remember with by far the most pleasure, are the projects that I created, that I thought up. Not what I was asked to do, no matter how much I was paid.
That's be far the simplest and most convenient thing I've seen. Ingenuity.
Being able to make things yourself is a very good skill. It just gives you so much pleasure, too.
One thing I forgot to mention - the red pieces are little bits of rounded rubbery plastic (maybe it's silicone?) that I gleaned from old packaging. You want to have something like that on top of the bamboo poles, so they don't poke a hole into the fabric.
You could also use a fitted cork, or basically anything that makes the end of the bamboo smoother.
Love when I see ingenuity!