There's a lot of niche communities out there (cyberdecks, console miniaturisation, case mods, new-old-retrocomputing, custom mechanical keyboards, custom arcade

There's a lot of niche communities out there (cyberdecks, console miniaturisation, case mods, new-old-retrocomputing, custom mechanical keyboards, custom arcade cabinets) that basically do what these mock-ups do, but for real. It is however an expensive and difficult hobby to get into (and I would bet that 90% of the people doing it happened to pick up the skills in their day jobs), and when it goes wrong you're typically out hundreds of dollars in components. Tooling and prototyping-as-a-service have gotten a lot better in the last decade, but it's still something that requires a lot of trial and error. The AI revolution I want isn't chatbots and anime girls with mutilated fingers, it's one where it's as easy to make a real novelty piece of hardware as it is to make a mock-up in Photoshop.