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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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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On my list next. Considering buying cheapie iPhone microscope.https://www.amazon.com/Microscope-Magnification-Endoscope-Compatible-Smartphone/dp/B07XJBTNBM/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=iphone+microscope&qid=1598115358&sr=8-4 …
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I wonder how the world would look like if we had started with a revolution in other illegible fields instead of astronomy/physics.
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I can help with the astrophotography stuff, up to a point. Been a lifelong amateur astronomer, and my recent forays into night vision astronomy have led me into the same optical design space as what astrophotography requires.
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