Whats your hobby?

[CoolLick]

Hi,

Would anyone like to share their hobbies?

Mine is microcontroller programming and circuit design
Just a few of my personal projects:

• WiFi Hot Tub temperature monitor. ESP8266 with a temperature probe and using Adafruit.io for the data and triggers. Will be adding water quality sensors later.
• Remote car starter interface over the internet + Android App. An arduino device with a cellular IoT SIM card that communicates with my remote car starter, with my Android app, I can securely remote start and lock/unlock doors from anywhere on the planet. I use Park-and-Ride so when its too cold or freezing rain, I can get my car warmed up while on my bus ride back home. It's just like every dealer now offers remote connection services or Viper Smart Start but without any monthly service fees. Using a free IoT cellular SIM service (Hologram.io) for this.
• Mage staff that does various light effects and smoke, with hidden buttons so no one knows how to use it but me.
• Just for fun box, interactive fake bomb / locked box.
• A useless box, don't wake me up button.

Feel free to ask a some questions, but I will not go into the technical details of these. I like to learn & play but I am not interested in teaching.

Cheers

[darlicious]

@AdamLove    I only started to appreciate the lyrical skills of hip hop artists in the last year or so... I've done a little poetic writing....of I always liked the rhyming of words and put it down to the book of the month club as a kid and getting a new Dr Seuss book for a year. Im a big Webby fan. A poet of the new century....a lyrical genius! The microphone killer...

[yanzhiqiang]

growing food in your garden in a good hobby during stay at home.

[Luddite]

OMG Being here, and one other carrier's forum, is my hobby! 🤔  But then since I no longer work, just "being" must be a hobby, eh?

[Korth]

@CoolLick

That hologram.io service is most interesting. I ordered a couple of their IoT SIM cards. Gonna see how well they can cheaply run encrypted voice over data between a pair of devices (a pair of Starfleet commbadges, if you must know, lol).

A look at their data rates for USA (big carriers) vs USA (other carriers) vs Global (excluding Canada) vs Canada is very telling.

Canadians pay higher rates for mobile data than mobile data users in some third-world countries.

[AdamLove]

My composition skills are off the wall...  I like to write lyrics hip hop started this all for me.... Looking back on my first rap was a sweet deal in fact like a trap can't stop.... Photographs double triple I got a Mack for the world... To sing dance photographs the whole world to me....

Ha ha messing around with my freestyle skills. Sharpening my freestyle skills is my true hobby. And writing down what I need...

[darlicious]

@JoyLuck 

   I bought it used from a photographer friend who was upgrading his equipment so I got a pretty good deal. I had intended to take a course at Emily Carr to force me into learning how to operate the camera with the respect it deserves and really take advantage of its features and produce a professional body of quality work. I'm a little intimidated  by it to tell the truth.

You've certainly have a natural eye for good composition and that's not something that's easily taught. That's innate ability.

[JoyLuck]

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@darlicious wrote:

@JoyLuck 

   That's a pretty awesome shot. What kind of camera do you have? I have a Canon mark 5 DSLR (and a swath of SLRs and lenses ) but it's just easier to use my phone as its always with me. The Canon requires planning and "baggage" so I haven't really used it let alone actually learning how to use it. How steep was your learning curve?

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Wow, that is a a beautiful camera you have. Mine is just a T6i. I'm a newbie so I've been watching lots of youtube videos on what the settings are. 

[darlicious]

@JoyLuck 

   That's a pretty awesome shot. What kind of camera do you have? I have a Canon mark 5 DSLR (and a swath of SLRs and lenses ) but it's just easier to use my phone as its always with me. The Canon requires planning and "baggage" so I haven't really used it let alone actually learning how to use it. How steep was your learning curve?

[dabr]

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@JoyLuck wrote:

 I have various hobbies I enjoy including gardening, cycling and fitness. For a number of years I coached softball for my daughters team.  Recently, I was able to save up for a DSLR camera so I’m still learning about all the settings. Here is an attempt at astrophotography.

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Very nice!

[JoyLuck]

 I have various hobbies I enjoy including gardening, cycling and fitness. For a number of years I coached softball for my daughters team.  Recently, I was able to save up for a DSLR camera so I’m still learning about all the settings. Here is an attempt at astrophotography.

[Korth]

I've recently been playing around with ESP8266 parts (and Pineapple code on Black Arch) - wireless packet hardening, pentesting, eavesdropping, interference, and general hacky-attacky sorts of stuff, lol. Haven't really played around with any IoT yet (except something I once built on a cheap Pi clone which failed). And I never seem to have time to learn Arduino, I'm mainly an ARM and FPGA kinda guy ... and so many other programmable logics seem to push Arduino back down to the bottom of my endless stuff-to-learn list.

The most "hobby project" things I've built were a 6502 computer, a "space cadet" keyboard full of overkill and overclocked Propeller chips, and some pranky little novelty gizmos I found in various Evil Genius books. I used to build/refurb scopes and amps and audio/radio gear for a living, so lots of "lab spec" homebuilt analog bench gear just accumulated over time.