What are you currently passionate about it interested in? What are some cool things about that thing, or interesting stuff that you’ve learned?
To start things off, I’ve recently gotten back into Legos for the first time since I was a child and dragged my SO in with me. We’ve been building sets together, posing them, and decorating my apartment with some of them like the autumn center piece and bonsai tree. I’m also starting to show them how you can mix things together or go off script, changing and customizing a set to fit your own needs or tastes. It’s been really fun and I’d recommend it if you are looking for something to do with someone else.
I’ve also gotten into professional wrestling for the first time and been having a blast. My SO used to watch WWE/WWF as a kid and I asked them to watch a pay per view with me and it was like they got ripped back in time, getting super hype and cheering on the people they wanted to win. We’ve now started watching AEW and it’s been really fun when they point out the people that they recognize from when they were a kid and what they think of them.
Designing and building mechanical keyboards. Over the pandemic I asked the dumb question to my group of friends who are engineers “Hey how do keyboards work? You think I can build one from scratch?” One of my friends is a electrical engineer and I’m a computer engineer so basically we had both skillsets needed to build and design everything from scratch. The only “out of the box” thing we used was the firmware but that was based on an open source firmware (QMK) but we had to contribute to the project to get our keyboards to work. The PCB was custom, the case was custom and 3d printed on my own 3d printer.
I’ve been using the keyboard we built for over two years and it’s worked flawlessly (unless I’m messing with the firmware). There’s things I would have done differently but that’s what this current rendition is but now kinda off the walls because why not.