Each time I reconsider doing a self-directed hardware project again after my last hiatus from those things, the available technology seems to get substantially more powerful & accessible. "Making" may no longer be trendy, but you can do more things more easily than when it was.
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ie. seeing ESP32 boards with WiFi and cameras included for well under $10 each. I remember how confusing/expensive it was to try and get all of those features to run off of an Arduino at once.
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The project I'd like to do would be reviving this idea again: twitter.com/chenoehart/sta
(It became harder for me to work on it when the pandemic arrived, and now I have a better space in which to set projects like that up.)
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I’m pointing a camera over a small patch of carpet in my room. Will see if anything interesting happens there during the next couple of days.
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This is cool. I’m planning to put a carpet camera on my rover so it can explore microscopic carpet world like it’s Mars.
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Thanks. I think I’m starting to realize some nuances to how concrete/physical self-directed projects may have certain advantages in terms of legibility (over say purely written ones) which I didn’t always fully understand or appreciate in the past.

