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Today, I would like to bring you another edition of Otaku Project.  With only a few days away from Anime Central, I have been preparing my Dollfie Dream daughters so they would be ready for their first Anime Convention.  I have picked out the dresses they are going to wear, got the Volks SD carrying bag ready, almost everything but a dollfie stand that could be mounted on top of a tripod so I can take pictures on the go and easily.  I know what you are thinking, you are talking about the Dollfie World stand!  It is true that the Dollfie World stand has brought forth a very unique feature to the world of DD photography, very useful indeed!  While I would love to have one of those stand myself  but it’s been out of stock for the past month or so (as of writing of this post, it is already back in stock but it is too late to meet my Anime Central schedule!).  So, with only so little time left, I figure I got to take matters into my own hand and try to retrofit one of my existing Volks wooden base stand with the same feature.

I thought about what I could do with the materials I have on hand, then I figured all I needed to do is to press fit a 1/4-20 hex nut on the bottom side of the base so that it could be mounted to a tripod adapter!

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So the first thing I got to do is the find the approximate center point of the base so that the base would be somewhat balanced.

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Oh my, how long has it been since I had last filmed any Dollfie Dream Theater episode? Ehhhh, too long…. I actually have something planned but haven’t been able to pull myself together to film the next story, which is to introduce Natsuki into the team.  Anyway, I have got a little side story prepared for you all to have a little chuckle with, hope you would enjoy it!  It all started a week ago when I came up with a secret project that involve using using a site call Snapfish.  I am sure a lot of you are already familiar with the name if you have a flickr account, here is a little story that I came up with.  Hope you will enjoy it =D  Hopefully this will serve as the warm up I needed to film the next Dollfie Dream Theater.

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More under the cut

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It seems I haven’t been posting much lately, part of the reason has to do with the fact that my room is kind of in a disarray right now because I have been in the process of building my first multimedia file server.  Why do I need a file server?  Good question, with the ever increasing storage requirement for a modern day Otaku, may it be MP3 files, DVD images, etc, and the need to keep my data safe from potential hard drive crashes, I need to have a dedicated storage solution capable of storing and retrieving multiple terabytes of data with some level of redundancy in mind.

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My first home server, which I named him Mazinger Z

Over the years, I have gone through difference phases of backing up my valuable data.  I have tried burning CD-R when they were first introduced, I have gone the DVD writable routes for a short time (that didn’t last very long because I soon find it very difficult to organize my data) , at the end of the day, removable media is just not my kind of storage system; and on top of all that, consumer grade writable optical disc is just don’t seem reliable enough for me to consider it as a viable backup solution (and I am too lazy to search through stacks of DVD to find what I want :P ).

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Tonight I would like to interrupt your regular programming with another special edition of Otaku Project, this time we going to make a DIY Dollfie Dream saddle stand.  Why do I want to make my own Dollfie Dream stand when I can just buy one off the shelf?  For one, good quality doll stand cost a bomb!  For the budget conscious dollfie papa or mama, it’s a huge burden.  Secondly, the good stand is always out of stock!  So even if you want to buy one, it’s easier said than done!

For far too long, the bended type C saddle stand that I wanted is constantly out of stock!

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And for far too many times, poor Nanoha has fallen on her face.

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Exactly a month ago on the Memorial Day weekend, I started that Ikea Detolf Dioder Project in which I have finally managed to install the much needed lighting system to my Ikea Detolf, however, I left a vital part of the project unfinished on that day – to manage the exit wiring harness.

I really didn’t know what to do at that time, first each of the Dioder has the exact length power cable toward the transformer, meaning by the time the I finish routing the cables inside the Detolf, the exit wire length would be different for each of the cable.  See the power adapter hanging in the middle of the air?  Just bloody awful looking >.>;

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Today, I would like to bring you another edition of Otaku Project, which is more or less a continuation of the last project Ikea Dioder Cable Management.  During the last project, I decided to finally clean up the wiring mess that has been hiding behind my entertainment center for better part of one year; and by the end of the project, I was able to clean up that whole mess and organized it into a manageable form, mission accomplished!  However, the victory was short lived, I soon realized that I really wanted more than 6 outlets to be controlled by one outlet strip so I decided to stop by HomeDepot to shop for a new outlet strip.  As I was browsing through the whole selection of outlet strips, big and small, something really caught my attention.  The Belkin Conserve Surge Protector with Remote Switch.

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It’s been some time since I have done a review on the site stat, now that my computer has been fixed, all dollfie dream standing pretty in their new home; allow me to take a moment to share the visitors statistic of this relatively new blog site, coincidentially, today also marked the 4th month since I began this site when I wrote this post “The Beginning“.  A lot of things has happened in the past 4 months, I had no idea what I wanted to write about when I started this site, slowly but surely, I am getting used to this blogging habit.

Where do I begin, ah let me post the visitor count:

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There weren’t very many visitor during the first month, since I didn’t have much content then.  Approximately 7464 unique visitors have visited this site since the last time I did a review of this blog site statistic at the 2 months review mark, all together I have just managed to break the 10000 visitors mark with a little room to spare, total pageviews have grew from 7571 to 26273 at the time of this review.  I would say the site is still growing at a healthy rate after 4 months ^^;  Thank you for all your support!

Over the last 2 months, I have done many feature upgrade to this site.  I have upgraded my static blogroll to a live blogroll to help me keep track of my blogging friends’ sites so it can remind me when I should go visit, added a feature content gallery to highlight some of my most unique work like the Eroge game heroine story summaries, and I have kept my promise to introduce my own blend of Otaku Project, such as the Asuka Langley Soryu 造形補完計画, My Ikea Detolf Dioder Project and My dust shield +1.  In the future, I hope to introduce more of my own Otaku Projects to share with everyone.

Once again, thank you for all your support.  The objective of this blog is to share information and for me to make new friends who share the same interest as I do, Japanese Anime, figure collecting and now Dollfie Dream Collecting!

Feel free to drop me a line here if you would like to be a part of my blogroll, I will be sure to come visit :)

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