I feel the same with any project with "physical" results, from electronics to woodwork to fixing a leaking pipe. Don't know why but I get a fuzzy satisfaction t

I feel the same with any project with "physical" results, from electronics to woodwork to fixing a leaking pipe. Don't know why but I get a fuzzy satisfaction that I never do with software. My previous job involved lots of lab work, soldering, debugging PCB issues, working with optical fibres, et al. Current job pays better and is complex enough, but it's just me sitting behind a screen all day remotely controlling a piece of hardware we just bought from someone else. I highly recommend everyone who's into software or design but never did anything with hardware to spend some time this week building a simple blinking LED project with the Arduino I second that. These days it's very easy to get some hobby projects going in no time and with a very low budget. Arduinos, FPGAs, simple PCB design, it will give you satisfaction and you'll definitely learn lots useful stuff in the process that's not necessarily tangentially related to software