Asklemmy

I want to get into a little machining and welding.

Unfortunately I have a smallish townhome that doesn't leave me much room for a workshop, and even if I had the space, I'd probably have to go in to the tune of a few hundred if not thousands of dollars worth of machines, tooling, equipment, and materials pretty quickly, and I have other things to blow my money on.

I generally just like working with my hands, making things, figuring out problems, etc. and having some machining projects to figure out seems like a good way to fill in the gaps left by a pretty shitty math curriculum in my high school (I've probably learned more trig from watching some machining videos and only half paying attention than I did taking an actual trig class)

Does anyone know those tony boxes for kids? It's a box with a speaker, and if you put a little figure (a bit like a playmobile character) on it, it plays an audio book as long as the little figure stands on it.

I really want to build it myself, but I have done 0 research yet. But every now and then a thought plopps up, like 'I could use NFC tags to trigger the box start playing', 'I have an old raspberryPi somewhere', 'is it even possible to build a good sounding speaker in this size?',..

But no time to follow up on those thoughts.

I used to be a big reader of books and comics so I have a lot of story ideas and then sometimes I wish I lived in some start trek utopia and could just work on opensource things or do my initial thing which is molecular biology.

Cloud native desktop Or Cluster desktop computing

I want to get the Linux desktop experience but capable as highly available set of services and jobs that can run on the machines around my house.