Amazing how much of learning any hobby or diy skill in the US is about learning what to buy and googling and reading forum posts. And how far you can get with zero conceptual understanding of what you’re doing, based purely in such shopping/forum knowledge and trial-and-error.
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And the thing is, the practical knowledge keeps going far past the point where your conceptual knowledge fails you. You’d have to be a deep expert in several different fields to actually conceptually understand everything that goes into a great 3D print or astro photograph.
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For anything you do, you have to be satisfied with only understanding a few pieces all the way. The rest, you do stuff based essentially your n=1 trial and error logs against the backdrop of shopping catalog lore and subreddit wisdom.
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Of the 3 things I’m messing around with rn, 1. making a pendulum clock, 2. taking astro photographs, and 3. 3D printing, the conceptual legibility is 1>>2>>3. No wonder clocks and telescopes are where Galileo started the scientific revolution. They are exceptionally legible.
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I basically get clocks. Transparent kinematics Astro-photography is 40% science, 30% art, 20% mystery atm 3D printing is 5% kinematics which I grok, 10% adhesion+thermal physics, which I grok less, 15% CAD stack which I half-ass remember from college, 70% chemistry black magic
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The only person I know who does all this shit and lots more and actually understands it all conceptually down to bare metal is
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Note my standard isn’t trying to understand every mystery in the stack of an artifact. Just everything that is presently understood by *some* group of specialists somewhere and written up in some textbook you could in principle study and get through.
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Reddit and Aliexpress eat all hobbies. All hobbies are actually about learning reddit and China.
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Gonna take a serious stab at pivoting ribbonfarm into a maker-ish blog. Got a few posts outlined on these adventures.
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“You’re not a hobbyist, you’re a redditor studying Chinese suppliers as a business anthropologist. Your hobby is an anthropological research method”
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