Has anyone else felt this way and How did you get out of it?
Yes, just like that. Buying exciting new stuff - hasn't helped; Giving it a rest for a while and going back to it - hasn't helped; Getting into a new hobby - worse - got bored with that too.
I look at the stuff, I sit in my workshop and think about stuff, I read forums like ETO, appreciate and am inspired by what others are doing but for the last 24 months or so I just can't do - it's frustrating and depressing.
If you figure it out please share
Boredom is nature's way of telling you that you need a new challenge; either physical or intellectual. What grabs your fancy?
This is true. Maybe instead of "thinking" its "done", I should actually do itNew and more exciting projects, I must challenge yourself to get a feeling of satisfaction out of it.
Maybe you are taking your hobby as an obligation. Had that feeling many years ago. I stopped for some time (hectic work helped on that) and then I restarted with renewd interest.
True is that the amount of uncompleted `projects has increased at a higher rate.
Boredom is nature's way of telling you that you need a new challenge; either physical or intellectual. What grabs your fancy?
I tend to do the hobby switch up every now and then as well. I find it to be a healthy way to cross train myself in different disciplines.
Electrical and electronics.
Hydraulics and Pneumatics.
Welding and metal fabrication.
Repair of antique equipment.
Home design and construction.
Earth moving.
Scuba diving.
Collecting old junk.
Wind and other AE power/fuel research.
and my personal favorite just being a PITA know it all online!
For example: Code Wont work. Why? After many iterations of just messing around, it still wont work. Mentally this is defeating. This has happened with a Custom Charger board I tried to make to Charge LiFePO4 batteries (There was a thread on getting the ADC to work in C-Which was interesting and fun!). It still doesnt work correctly and I dont know why. the source code should make sense, but doesn't.
Has Anyone else gotten bored with Hobbies?
I have picked up model engineering as a hobby now as well. Ive built a few small engines to run on air, and would like for them to run on steam, but this requires a great expense (Copper is expensive!). I find myself bored with Electronics, even though there’s things I *should* do. For example, I wanted to build a whole house energy monitor. Ive worked out all the details in my head, and Im pretty confident it will work. I have some of the physical hardware ready, and have done measurements with out using any type of Micro Controller. Im also sure the code will work, but yet I havent done the actual work. Its almost as if the design process is what I like to do, but the actual physical hardware is "meh"..........
Has anyone else felt this way and How did you get out of it?
For all the scrap metal you want just stop by the local salvage yard and ask to buy some. They are generally not a one way dealer.
Granted they make a bit of profit off of you though. Around here figure a 30 - 50% markup on what they would buy it from you for depending on the type and quality of the metal you want.
Still pretty cheap though.
You break your program into pieces and observe what they're doing and see if what you get from the execution is what you wanted to get. If you don't, you correct or re-write. You keep doing that over and over again until it works, or until you find a design flaw which forces you to rewrite everything. With today's debuggers and simulators shouldn't be very hard.
Yes, many times. But for me is more than I get overwhelmed by the actual construction. Design goes well (at least on paper and breadboarding). But when it comes to actually built whatever I design , it might be to much for me to resolved. I recognize that I am not to much into precision measurements and work, therefore mistakes will surface when I built. This weekend I almost finished my latest project: a synthetizer/melodica controller and the construction of the housing/box was a nightmare.
Many projects are unfinished because of this.
Take up gardening. Always useful, always productive, always something to do, always something to learn, it doesn't care if you don't do it (well, you just have more to do when you DO get round to it), other people genuinely appreciate the results (TBH, no matter how clever the electronics you design, how many lay-persons really appreciate it if it's not for home entertainment?) and it's good for the soul, helps you think, clears the head, makes you nice and calm, and if the weathers bad, it really makes you appreciate the nice cosy indoors. You get to nurture living things, shape them according to your hearts desire, you get that nice lovely earthy smell on your fingers, watch the spiders, play with beetles, enjoy the birds, have nice sunshine, feel satisfyingly knackered if you put in a hard day at it. OK so those are the major benefits. The more boring ones are: If you do lots of it, it can help keep you fit, also, you can grow things you can eat. Oh and you get to dig. Digging's great
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