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Re: Ask HN: What are your hobbies?

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Post by gtroja »

mikewarot wrote: post #55

Photography - Specifically, Synthetic Aperture / Virtual Focus, Computational Photography. I used to commute via the South Shore Railroad to Chicago, and had about 50 minutes each way with my laptop. Most days, I'd be processing photos. Some are aligned in a focal plane, some are aligned other ways. Here's an old gallery on Flickr.[2] I got into this after seeing a demo of Marc Levoy's work at Stanford, where the dem…

I liked your technique in [0]. I have achived something similar by having a diaphragm with two holes in the lens [1]

[0] https://flickr.com/photos/---mike---/51018990043/in/album-72... [1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/troja_/33154974111/

Re: Ask HN: What are your hobbies?

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Post by qup »

robotguy wrote: post #59

I have moved beyond hobbies into METAHOBBIES. Specifically: Collecting Hobbies. I find that following my ADHD hyperfocus until the next shiny thing comes along has led to a massively diverse array of introductory knowledge and mediocre skills (as well as a garage stuffed full with bins of unfinished projects). Specifically in the last two years I have dabbled in: home automation (incl. Node Red, LoRa, MQTT on Raspber…

Me too. I only have two of your same hobbies, but I would be interested enough to dive into any of those items.

My life is a list of hobbies I used to have. Some of them I became quite excellent at before I abandoned them (temporarily!)

Re: Ask HN: What are your hobbies?

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Post by mikewarot »

gtroja wrote: post #61
mikewarot wrote: post #55

Photography - Specifically, Synthetic Aperture / Virtual Focus, Computational Photography. I used to commute via the South Shore Railroad to Chicago, and had about 50 minutes each way with my laptop. Most days, I'd be processing photos. Some are aligned in a focal plane, some are aligned other ways. Here's an old gallery on Flickr.[2] I got into this after seeing a demo of Marc Levoy's work at Stanford, where the dem…

I liked your technique in [0]. I have achived something similar by having a diaphragm with two holes in the lens [1] [0] https://flickr.com/photos/---mike---/51018990043/in/album-72... [1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/troja_/33154974111/

You can think of all of these as possible ways you could put a number of holes in front of a VERY large lens.

In [0], the distance was changed, but just shifting left/right a tiny bit gets you parallax, as seen in your photo[1]

Re: Ask HN: What are your hobbies?

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Post by NBJack »

phendrenad2 wrote: post #44
NBJack wrote: post #19

- Gaming (Planetside 2 for the social/challenge, Space Engineers for the chill builds) - Gamedev (same TD game project for like 10+ years, off and on) - Building random things with PIs and a 3d printer (remote controllable FPS robot, cat laser toy, etc.) - Photography - Hiking - Random home improvements (most notably a budget theatre setup) - Reading for self improvement

TD game means?

Sorry, Tower Defense. A fun way to experiment with pathfinder and map generation as well.

Re: Ask HN: What are your hobbies?

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Post by FumblingBear »

phendrenad2 wrote: post #44
NBJack wrote: post #19

- Gaming (Planetside 2 for the social/challenge, Space Engineers for the chill builds) - Gamedev (same TD game project for like 10+ years, off and on) - Building random things with PIs and a 3d printer (remote controllable FPS robot, cat laser toy, etc.) - Photography - Hiking - Random home improvements (most notably a budget theatre setup) - Reading for self improvement

TD game means?

Tower Defense—a subgenre of strategy games.

Re: Ask HN: What are your hobbies?

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Post by jbirer »

Hobby operating system development and dabbling in embedded / low level programming. Right now I am aiding an effort to port a DOS clone into RISC-V and ARM, we have to make 16 bit apps run on the 32 bit mode of a 64 bit ARM processor, it's a lot of fun.

Re: Ask HN: What are your hobbies?

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Post by tgittos »

robotguy wrote: post #59

I have moved beyond hobbies into METAHOBBIES. Specifically: Collecting Hobbies. I find that following my ADHD hyperfocus until the next shiny thing comes along has led to a massively diverse array of introductory knowledge and mediocre skills (as well as a garage stuffed full with bins of unfinished projects). Specifically in the last two years I have dabbled in: home automation (incl. Node Red, LoRa, MQTT on Raspber…

Also a metahobbyist.

I've tried everything you have (except weather stations and mechanical pencils) but also make/play guitars, hobbyist electronics, paper making, painting/illustration, fixing up old cars, and MtG among others.

I realized I was being a little ridiculous when I started planning a peltier powered hydroponic cabinet for growing fresh wasabi. Most of that was to do with the disappointing results with peltier cooling temperature deltas.

The garage full of specialist tools is what kills me. I can't imagine how I'll ever use the vacuum chamber I built for epoxy stabilization again, but I have one.

Re: Ask HN: What are your hobbies?

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Post by hotpotamus »

tgittos wrote: post #68
robotguy wrote: post #59

I have moved beyond hobbies into METAHOBBIES. Specifically: Collecting Hobbies. I find that following my ADHD hyperfocus until the next shiny thing comes along has led to a massively diverse array of introductory knowledge and mediocre skills (as well as a garage stuffed full with bins of unfinished projects). Specifically in the last two years I have dabbled in: home automation (incl. Node Red, LoRa, MQTT on Raspber…

Also a metahobbyist. I've tried everything you have (except weather stations and mechanical pencils) but also make/play guitars, hobbyist electronics, paper making, painting/illustration, fixing up old cars, and MtG among others. I realized I was being a little ridiculous when I started planning a peltier powered hydroponic cabinet for growing fresh wasabi. Most of that was to do with the disappointing results with p…

I reused a fermentation setup for the hydroponic wasabi idea. I had some success with lettuce as a test subject but the humidity was not well-controlled which I think would be a problem. The thought of how much energy I'd have to use for years to keep the whole thing running just made it seem a bit ridiculous. Also, I'm not sure if I could reliably source wasabi seeds. I stick with super-hot peppers mostly which don't need a lot in the way of temperature control.
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