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Man, her blog is full of awesomeness. All kinds of cool little projects on there.

nitrogen 14y ago
Indeed. This is my new favorite blog. I wish I knew more people locally with this kind of curiosity and ability.
jared314 14y ago
I wonder what her lead time on each post is. Is she really productive, or does she have a lot of projects in a pipeline and we see the built up list of results? Either way, I feel unproductive just reading it.
rwg 14y ago
I get a seriously bittersweet feeling reading her blog since some of the things she's doing are eerily similar to little "just for the hell of it" projects I did in college many, many moons ago. (Transmitting data with IR LEDs driven by my sound card, using audio tapes to store data, playing with signal processing using audio from FM radio stations captured with my WinTV card, writing everything in Perl [5.005], ...) I wish I still had the desire to just play around with such things again... :-\
- eksith 14y ago
  Getting back into a hobby to get away from another frustration doesn't always work, cause then your heart's not in it. That's just escapism. Sometimes the desire is just a matter of achieving momentum. I've let my hobby desk collect dust (figuratively speaking; my OCD wouldn't allow it) until I come across something that piques my interest and I plug in Ye Olde soldering iron and fiddle around. Might do that a few days, fall into a lull and then suddenly pick up and follow through.
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- reeses 14y ago
  You may want to look in other areas. I was "collecting" watches[1] for years before I realized that I wanted to make watches. Because there was a 'purpose', I found myself with a desire to do more electronics projects to support my hobby. My knowledge in that area (and software) gives me the leverage to make cheap-but-adequate tools that would cost $15-50k or more from watchmaker tooling companies. [1] Basically, using my annual watch "budget" to buy a watch that had some unique or unusual attribute, not really collecting in the traditional sense.
kybernetyk 14y ago
Yeah, added it to my RSS feed. (And it has been a while since I added something.)
iuguy 14y ago
I've been trying to get her to submit to 44CON[1] for over a month. I get the impression she might not feel like she can fill 45 minutes from the comments but I'd still want to try and get her over. Her blog is absolutely amazing though, one of the best I've seen in a long time. [1] - http://44con.com http://44con.com

Indeed. This is my new favorite blog. I wish I knew more people locally with this kind of curiosity and ability.

I wonder what her lead time on each post is. Is she really productive, or does she have a lot of projects in a pipeline and we see the built up list of results? Either way, I feel unproductive just reading it.

rwg 14y ago

I get a seriously bittersweet feeling reading her blog since some of the things she's doing are eerily similar to little "just for the hell of it" projects I did in college many, many moons ago. (Transmitting data with IR LEDs driven by my sound card, using audio tapes to store data, playing with signal processing using audio from FM radio stations captured with my WinTV card, writing everything in Perl [5.005], ...) I wish I still had the desire to just play around with such things again... :-\

eksith 14y ago
Getting back into a hobby to get away from another frustration doesn't always work, cause then your heart's not in it. That's just escapism. Sometimes the desire is just a matter of achieving momentum. I've let my hobby desk collect dust (figuratively speaking; my OCD wouldn't allow it) until I come across something that piques my interest and I plug in Ye Olde soldering iron and fiddle around. Might do that a few days, fall into a lull and then suddenly pick up and follow through.
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reeses 14y ago
You may want to look in other areas. I was "collecting" watches[1] for years before I realized that I wanted to make watches. Because there was a 'purpose', I found myself with a desire to do more electronics projects to support my hobby. My knowledge in that area (and software) gives me the leverage to make cheap-but-adequate tools that would cost $15-50k or more from watchmaker tooling companies. [1] Basically, using my annual watch "budget" to buy a watch that had some unique or unusual attribute, not really collecting in the traditional sense.

kybernetyk 14y ago

Yeah, added it to my RSS feed. (And it has been a while since I added something.)

iuguy 14y ago

I've been trying to get her to submit to 44CON[1] for over a month. I get the impression she might not feel like she can fill 45 minutes from the comments but I'd still want to try and get her over. Her blog is absolutely amazing though, one of the best I've seen in a long time. [1] - http://44con.com http://44con.com