If you want to build your own keyboard, now there are a billion parts easily available and tons of instructional videos on it. When I was a kid, model aircraft

If you want to build your own keyboard, now there are a billion parts easily available and tons of instructional videos on it. When I was a kid, model aircraft were fun, but you’d either go to the local hobby store or look through the Tower Hobby catalog. People built kits or sometimes made things themselves, and a lot of really interesting techniques were passed down through clubs and mailing lists. Now with the drone scene, there are many many more parts to choose from, all kinds of simulators and flight assist technology to almost completely avoid the expensive and time-consuming build-fly-crash loop, tons of resources in forums, videos, discord servers (I guess we did have IRC back in the day which is part of how I learned programming). The long tail has been growing since the 90s, but consumerism has been growing even faster.