Margot Robbie ( @MargotRobbie@lemm.ee ) English28•9 months agoBut the good news is you just kinda learn quite a bit about every hobby you pick up, so people are always impressed with how much random stuff you know.
JoeBigelow ( @JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca ) English8•9 months agoCrap, I have ADHD
garden_boi ( @garden_boi@feddit.de ) English5•9 months agoThe story of this community 😂
PeWu ( @PeWu@lemmy.ml ) English4•9 months agoWith that I relate. I don’t have knowledge, but only surface information about a variety of topics, because I fricking jump from one thing and the other, and this maddens me.
nickwitha_k (he/him) ( @nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ) English2•9 months agoThis is true, though sometimes one may unintentionally come across as a “know it all” (I know this from experience). Having an unending number of hobbies and the philosophy of “there is no such thing as useless knowledge”, just leads to accruing knowledge on a wide breadth of topics and surprising depth on some of the more esoteric.
I can tell you about some of the practical efforts required to safely raise chickens in the PNW (free-range, in a yard, or chicken tractors), several forms of metal casting, basic garment construction, luthiery, gardening, archery, industrial microbiology, and a number of other things. My former boss would often ask if I knew anything about a given unusual topic that came up in conversation, just to see if he could find something that I didn’t have any knowledge or experience with (really old programming languages like COBOL were among the winners). Now, I’m currently really into digital electronics, so, I’m shopping around for an oscilloscope and other equipment that would allow me to reverse engineer some of the newer protocols.
Squirrel ( @Squirrel@thelemmy.club ) English16•9 months agoDoesn’t that just come with disposable income?
nickwitha_k (he/him) ( @nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ) English11•9 months agoI discovered a great way to reduce the financial burden: join a Makerspace.
Since joining a local one, I now know:
- How to use a CNC laser cutter
- How to use a thickness planer
- How to use a MIG welder (poorly)
- And, as of today, how to use a TIG welder (also poorly but, I did better than with the MIG)
Still to come:
- How to use a terrifyingly powerful, 2.5 ton milling machine
- How to use a similar size lathe
- How to use a plasma cutter
- How to use a fiber laser
- How to use a vintage oscilloscope
And a ton more. Seriously, its awesome.
oldGregg ( @oldGregg@lemm.ee ) English10•9 months agoSomeone start a community to trade hobby startup equipment once you’re bored with it
orca ( @orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts ) English8•9 months agoI have 4 RC cars because of this. They’re amazing and I still use them, but not like I did when the hobby first got injected into my veins.
agent_flounder ( @agent_flounder@lemmy.one ) English4•9 months agoGlances nervously between 3 dusty RC cars, 5 dusty RC planes and a dusty RC heli. Also quickly hides browser tab with a selection of RC crawlers to buy
Jay ( @Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca ) English4•9 months agoI bought a 1/6 scale pos off a friend years ago, just for shits and giggles to see how much power I could dump into it before it blew up. After a bit it got shelved, and sat in the garage for a couple of years. This spring I dumped another couple hundred dollars into it to get it running again… new esc, brushless motor, batteries, some lights, and a new steering servo. Used it twice and now it’s been sitting again collecting dust for the last 5 months.
orca ( @orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts ) English3•9 months agoI have a cheap Arrma Voltage I did this with. It was my first RC car and I had a blast with it. Then I got curious about improving it and pushing it to its limits. I put better wheels on it, some lights, and dropped a Spektrum Firma Motor in it with the Smart ESC. The thing wheelies everywhere and basically becomes a missile lmao. If you turn it upside down and go full speed, the wheels balloon like crazy.
Queen HawlSera ( @HawlSera@lemm.ee ) English6•9 months agoAnd that’s why I never made it as a writer
li10 ( @li10@feddit.uk ) English5•9 months agoSeriously tho, I’m gonna start using the George Foreman grill any day now.
Asymptote ( @Asymptote@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English5•9 months agoTotally unrelated, but I have a nearly new Dremel …
ArgentCorvid [Iowa] ( @argentcorvid@midwest.social ) English4•9 months agoYou got yours out of the box?
Squirrel ( @Squirrel@artemis.camp ) 3•9 months agoYou just reminded me that I own an expensive vitamix blender that I haven’t used or even thought of for over a year
Venutianxspring ( @Venutianxspring@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English3•9 months agoJust bought some blendjet blenders for my wife and I a few months ago, they got used for a bit then haven’t been touched lol.
cybermass ( @cybermass@lemmy.ca ) English3•9 months agoShit I was not ready for this personal attack