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Six months deep now into analog computing. (I have a modular, hobbyist analog computer wrapping up—just writing the manual). Going to have to do something on the other end of the spectrum after this. Maybe RISO printing…
I got into designing my own knitting patterns. I enjoy that I can customize everything — the yarn material, color (including marling, helix knitting, double knitting), yarn weight, needle size (e.g., resulting in "airy" vs "packed" textures), knit textures (e.g., stockinette, linen, miss, etc.), construction process (e.g., can I figure out a way to knit in the round vs flat?), cables, gradual increases/decreases, sel…
These topics hit the HN first page quite often.
I got into designing my own knitting patterns. I enjoy that I can customize everything — the yarn material, color (including marling, helix knitting, double knitting), yarn weight, needle size (e.g., resulting in "airy" vs "packed" textures), knit textures (e.g., stockinette, linen, miss, etc.), construction process (e.g., can I figure out a way to knit in the round vs flat?), cables, gradual increases/decreases, sel…
A few years ago I helped the wife write her own Haskell software to help her generate her knitting patterns in LaTeX. Fun times. Should be much easier these days with all the AI help available.
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I build Tiki Tube Amps - hifi stereos inside carved tiki heads. The tikis are carved from solid logs and hollowed out before I wire up all the circuitry inside. It's all analog vacuum-tube-driven circuits soldered point-to-point. They're really difficult to make but super fun to listen to. When I'm carving I have to plan out how the circuit will be laid out, ensure there's enough space inside for the transformers, co…
I'm big into anti tech/work related activities. It reminds me that no matter how much I know, or think I know, that I have so much more to learn. I got into scuba diving while living in NC, and it just happens that there's a lot of it off the coast! The other problem is that it's deep. Diving down to 130 feet sounds cool until you experience hours on a boat only to get a few minutes at the bottom. Eventually I got bo…
GUE Fundies is on my bucket list. I don't think I'd be interested in cave diving or deep stuff where I need helium, but the level of skill that tech divers show is something I want to be able to do.
Some instructors have a saying: "Students pay for the training; the certification must be earned."
My niche hobby is exploring patterns in Islamic Geometry and trying to re create them. It is an art of creating pleasing and aesthetic geometric patterns (from intersecting circles mostly). The art form is very popular in decorating Mosques and other Islamic monuments as human/animal representation is forbidden. [Edit] The thing that I find the most fascinating is that all the complex design you see, are done with on…
I’m a paraglider pilot and powered paraglider recently. Totally recommended, you get to connect with nature in a meaningful way. Also people who practice this kind of sports are nice. From a tech perspective there are a lot of data generated on each flight you can create your own way to capture that data or use already existing apps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKx1VJsLsfk
I also want to get into hot air balloons, there's some near me ...
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I would love to talk to you if you're willing, email in my profile, I'm in SL right now and was thinking of trying something like this but it sounds like you've gone through this journey and are a lot more experienced than me Would love to get your perspective
Hello fellow Clojurist, I sent you an email.