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This, again and again. There's probably a lot of disjoint hobbies that they could cater to, too. Radio-controlled, for instance, constantly needs lots of little

by clebio 12y ago

This, again and again. There's probably a lot of disjoint hobbies that they could cater to, too. Radio-controlled, for instance, constantly needs lots of little parts (repairs after flight crashes) as well as space and gear to make the repairs. HAM radio guys go gear-crazy, and often have to tune their sine waves and what-not. C.f. the various posts on HN about drones and UAVs, etc.

marktangotango 12y ago
++ We have a Hobby Town USA near by, I went in looking for arduinos and stepper motors for robotics projects. Big fat NOPE. I don't imagine the market for these is very large at the moment, there's a lot of STEM knowledge required to buy the components and build from scratch. Pre fabbed kits suffer the problem of high price tags making them a difficult or impossible purchase for most families of young children who would benefit. So we have Lego Mindstorms for the foreseeable future.