What's your DIY hobby outside of skateboarding?

[sexualhelon]

I'm curious if any of you have an ongoing DIY project outside of skateboarding? Over the past year I've been super into making my own pomade, soap, lotion, candles, after shaves, and other "apothecary" type things. The lady and I are actually working on a web store aside from just using etsy. Brewed my own beer recently and I'd like to get more into that too.

So what about you guys?

[fulltechnicalskizzy]

I craft and distribute artisan slap posts from my dark lonely apartment

[essal]

I sew shit. I'm a backpack nerd.

[Eric ricks]

My wife makes soaps, balms etc.

I make fishing lures.

Its fun, and difficult. But I enjoy it

[brycickle]

I'm curious if any of you have an ongoing DIY project outside of skateboarding? Over the past year I've been super into making my own pomade, soap, lotion, candles, after shaves, and other "apothecary" type things. The lady and I are actually working on a web store aside from just using etsy. Brewed my own beer recently and I'd like to get more into that too.

So what about you guys?

That's my thing.

[Eric ricks]

I brew beer too. And make danedlion wine

[the snake]

i do chocolate myself, but it tastes like shit

[PC500]

I've been learning how to mod and restore old watches for a couple of years now. Mainly vintage Seiko's.

[Gray Imp Sausage Metal]

Ｉ don't know if cooking is a DIY hobby but I definitely want to get into DIY gardening in the next few years.
Wish I was mechanically minded so I could just get paid to play with motorbikes all day...

[Tufty]

 I have studied Electrical and Computer Engineering and since I dont want to go the software route, getting a job in electronics is kind of hard if you dont want to move in Asia. I am trying to set up a lab at home and I make lot of DIY electronics. I have made DIY effect pedals for a friend that plays guitar,  I have also been into microcontroller systems as I had a job on them before and now I am into FPGAs since I liked digital design a lot at school. Presently I have bought an FPGA board and paired with a good book I learn how to "code" digital hardware in Verilog HDL. I still get to know the Language and the board I bought but I also try to figure out how to do a digital synthesizer all on my fpga board, with buttons and a speaker.

[Iceman]

i do chocolate myself, but it tastes like shit

i do that every morning, but i don't eat it.

[JB]

I have made DIY effect pedals for a friend that plays guitar

i want to give this a try one day. im waiting until i get a little bit better at playing though. ive watched a few youtube videos and basic fuzz effects and that kind of stuff dont look that difficult. id like to make a little headphone amp too.

[givecigstosurfgroms]

 Weed.  Duct taping surfboards

[Blue Fescue]

I inherited all of my Grandmother's old leather working tools so have been doing that.  youtube makes it easier but it is still a learning process.  I have made and refined a wallet design 3 times.  made some axe sheaths and key chain tethers.  it is fun.

[doublesteveburger]

I slam pussy all throughout the day.


Just kidding, I'm really into art and people watching.

[iKobrakai]

I'm super busy with crafting my life back together. If we talk tangibles, I helped with renovation of my friend's sister's place last summer. Otherwise, no, I live in an appartment. There are no crafts to engage in, other than bursting cunts mouths. I would love to do some meth strungout hiatus era Pops furniture in the future.

[shark tits]

does building DIY skate spots count? i might be over that, i've grown veggies for the last 3 yrs and i've got a guy coming to till our yard out and make a bigger growing area today actually. we ordered 6 blueberry bushes, 3 yr olds so they're gonna produce fruit this yr. my strawberries thrive every june, my mother hates em like a weed but i love 'wild' food. put some garlic into the earth today and did some hoeing.
hopefully this wkend i'll finally have my bees, i've been really excited about them for a while now but they won't give em to us til they're sure mass is done frosting for the yr cause it's no refund if our girls freeze so..... i'm really looking forward to replenishing the bee population a little bit and the honey is a great ancillary benefit but not my main reason.
i've bought 4 mopeds since february [replacing one addiction w/ another perhaps?] so working on them is a new interest. there's a really unpopular guy i've bought 2 from and i'll go see him in a pinch for repairs too esoteric for my namby pamby ass but i'm trying to do most of it on my own.
learning how to edit videos on a computer is kind of neat. i only learned that last yr, before i was all the time pestering whoever 'can ya put my tricks up?'
i was lazy forever but i have finally realized it is better to do most everything on your own than be dependent on lousy people.

[shit_for_brains]

I've made a few guitars from scratch, but the costs to become really good without apprenticing kind of put me off it and now I just do repairs and modifications and stuff for people I know and people they know. Mostly switching out electronics and headstock repairs, but I love refrets because I get all zen-like.

[concerned_parent]

motorcycles and beer

[ChuckRamone]

playing guitar and sometimes other instruments

messing around with cubase

[Tufty]

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I have made DIY effect pedals for a friend that plays guitar

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i want to give this a try one day. im waiting until i get a little bit better at playing though. ive watched a few youtube videos and basic fuzz effects and that kind of stuff dont look that difficult. id like to make a little headphone amp too.

It's not actually engineering. It is just making a puzzle, the schematics floating around the net are very thorough. Good soldering skills are essential. After making two pedals, with my friend watching and asking questions, he figured out how to do them himself.

[Grampa]

For a while I was learning tube amp/vintage audio equipment repair, and at one point was about to build my tube first amp from scratch. I hadn't taken any circuits or electronics classes yet, so it was pretty DIY.

That's when I was working and going to school part time doing easy general ed classes, so I could actually do things I enjoyed. Now that I'm in school full time for mechanical engineering, all outside interests and hobbies have gone out the window entirely. It's completely sucked the soul out of me and now I'm a hollow shell of my former self, so even when I maybe get a free four hours on Sunday afternoon once a month, I'd rather just not think about anything and skate. I look forward to graduating so I can enjoy my hobbies again- that is, if I'm still capable of enjoying anything.

[Coenobita]

It's lame but I love baking, building PCs and water cooling them, restoring vintage road bikes and fixing up old stand mixers.

[augustmoon]

I have studied Electrical and Computer Engineering and since I dont want to go the software route, getting a job in electronics is kind of hard if you dont want to move in Asia. I am trying to set up a lab at home and I make lot of DIY electronics. I have made DIY effect pedals for a friend that plays guitar,  I have also been into microcontroller systems as I had a job on them before and now I am into FPGAs since I liked digital design a lot at school. Presently I have bought an FPGA board and paired with a good book I learn how to "code" digital hardware in Verilog HDL. I still get to know the Language and the board I bought but I also try to figure out how to do a digital synthesizer all on my fpga board, with buttons and a speaker.

have you tried designing modular/analog synths?  there's a pretty big scene around it these days.

[spliffMODE]

growing cannabis. everything from cloning, sprouting seeds, flower and veg cycles. Its a long patient process but I love it.

 heres a bruce banner plant I grew last year

[Tufty]

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I have studied Electrical and Computer Engineering and since I dont want to go the software route, getting a job in electronics is kind of hard if you dont want to move in Asia. I am trying to set up a lab at home and I make lot of DIY electronics. I have made DIY effect pedals for a friend that plays guitar,  I have also been into microcontroller systems as I had a job on them before and now I am into FPGAs since I liked digital design a lot at school. Presently I have bought an FPGA board and paired with a good book I learn how to "code" digital hardware in Verilog HDL. I still get to know the Language and the board I bought but I also try to figure out how to do a digital synthesizer all on my fpga board, with buttons and a speaker.

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have you tried designing modular/analog synths?  there's a pretty big scene around it these days.

 Not really. Complicated analog stuff require lab equipment that would worth at least 1000$ or euros. I dont have the money right now and we are talking about bulky equipment that I cant move around in case I move (which will happen soon as I am job hunting , for a job related on my DIY hobbies). I would love to mess with complicated analog stuff, but right now I want my hobby to help me get a proper job, Analog design is pretty much dead there are only R&D places doing it and require Phds most of the  times and I am not in the mood to go for one. For now I stick to digital stuff and embedded systems.

For a while I was learning tube amp/vintage audio equipment repair, and at one point was about to build my tube first amp from scratch. I hadn't taken any circuits or electronics classes yet, so it was pretty DIY.

That's when I was working and going to school part time doing easy general ed classes, so I could actually do things I enjoyed. Now that I'm in school full time for mechanical engineering, all outside interests and hobbies have gone out the window entirely. It's completely sucked the soul out of me and now I'm a hollow shell of my former self, so even when I maybe get a free four hours on Sunday afternoon once a month, I'd rather just not think about anything and skate. I look forward to graduating so I can enjoy my hobbies again- that is, if I'm still capable of enjoying anything.

I feel you man. It was exactly the same for me. Engineering school is tough and there are a lot of hard classes that you hate and just absorb your energy. Not to mention professor politics non sense beraucratic assignements and projects... I hated most of the CS stuff from my EE&CS degree and even though I wanted to do DIY electronics then I just psychologically couldnt. I d rather skate and party in my free time. Dont worry you will find yourself after graduating and start having hobbies, however you will always have the love/hate memories for your school time. Love because it actually gave you the basis to do things that you otherwise couldnt and hate because some things there were a complete waste of time and not in lazy way but rather in a hard working for nothing manner.

[busey]

yelling at birds.

[zephyrpatio]

I build modular synthesizers. My most recent was the TTSH, which is an ARP 2600 clone.

[iKobrakai]

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I have studied Electrical and Computer Engineering and since I dont want to go the software route, getting a job in electronics is kind of hard if you dont want to move in Asia. I am trying to set up a lab at home and I make lot of DIY electronics. I have made DIY effect pedals for a friend that plays guitar,  I have also been into microcontroller systems as I had a job on them before and now I am into FPGAs since I liked digital design a lot at school. Presently I have bought an FPGA board and paired with a good book I learn how to "code" digital hardware in Verilog HDL. I still get to know the Language and the board I bought but I also try to figure out how to do a digital synthesizer all on my fpga board, with buttons and a speaker.

[close]

have you tried designing modular/analog synths?  there's a pretty big scene around it these days.

[close]

 Not really. Complicated analog stuff require lab equipment that would worth at least 1000$ or euros. I dont have the money right now and we are talking about bulky equipment that I cant move around in case I move (which will happen soon as I am job hunting , for a job related on my DIY hobbies). I would love to mess with complicated analog stuff, but right now I want my hobby to help me get a proper job, Analog design is pretty much dead there are only R&D places doing it and require Phds most of the  times and I am not in the mood to go for one. For now I stick to digital stuff and embedded systems.

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For a while I was learning tube amp/vintage audio equipment repair, and at one point was about to build my tube first amp from scratch. I hadn't taken any circuits or electronics classes yet, so it was pretty DIY.

That's when I was working and going to school part time doing easy general ed classes, so I could actually do things I enjoyed. Now that I'm in school full time for mechanical engineering, all outside interests and hobbies have gone out the window entirely. It's completely sucked the soul out of me and now I'm a hollow shell of my former self, so even when I maybe get a free four hours on Sunday afternoon once a month, I'd rather just not think about anything and skate. I look forward to graduating so I can enjoy my hobbies again- that is, if I'm still capable of enjoying anything.

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I feel you man. It was exactly the same for me. Engineering school is tough and there are a lot of hard classes that you hate and just absorb your energy. Not to mention professor politics non sense beraucratic assignements and projects... I hated most of the CS stuff from my EE&CS degree and even though I wanted to do DIY electronics then I just psychologically couldnt. I d rather skate and party in my free time. Dont worry you will find yourself after graduating and start having hobbies, however you will always have the love/hate memories for your school time. Love because it actually gave you the basis to do things that you otherwise couldnt and hate because some things there were a complete waste of time and not in lazy way but rather in a hard working for nothing manner.

Accounting Masters here. I know that my bitch-ass classes barely qualify as an "education" compared with you guys. Still, they take a whole bunch of time and are even more depressing, nobody choses this field. I mean, how many kids wanted to become CPA's? If any, they must have been super weird and probably engage Dexter-esque activities by night.

Anyway, when I got out of my last rehabilitation center, I thought that I'd lose the passion for my former hobbies. Not true at all, accounting did that for me.

[MintySandwhich]

Recently got into building DIY spots with cement.

It's really fun and since I'm kinda a perfectionist, it's therapeutic. Building around where I live is somewhat demotivating though because the city always ends up tearing it down within a month. Makes me wanna build more stuff, not necessarily spots, but furniture, seating, campfire pits etc. I'm going to try and build a shelf and see how I like that.