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A lot of things came together over the last decade or two to enable ever-more-impressive 'maker'/hobbyist projects. Ubiquitous 3D printing, cheap PCBs, powerful
by bluescrn 3y ago
A lot of things came together over the last decade or two to enable ever-more-impressive 'maker'/hobbyist projects. Ubiquitous 3D printing, cheap PCBs, powerful CAD software available to hobbyists, YouTube's growth as an educational resource, excitement over FPGAs, super-affordable microcontrollers and single-board computers, and a big wave of 80s/90s nostalgia often giving it direction.
At the same time, modern 'mainstream' computing has become increasingly user-hostile, built to encourage spending, ad-views, and content consumption rather than experimenting and creating.