I know about Tindie and Lectronz, but they're focused on just selling small DIY focused products. I'm thinking something like a crossover of that with meetup dot com or hacker spaces.
Just from the top of my head, the topics that I can come up with where making some specialized gear is a regular thing: music, gaming, coffee, FPV drones, paintball, cycling, camping…
Is there some sort of “group buy & build together & help each other” platform?
There are so many hobbies I know of where DIY electronics play a huge role, and so many people who would like to have the DIY'd things but don't want to tackle it themselves. Plus things like minimum PCB orders, required tools, skills&practice…
It would make perfect sense to organize this on some sort of open platform, right?
OH: Business-Motivations-Slop auf LinkedIn-Niveau
Surprisingly, the big benefits of CAD as code for me are that I think it is *much* easier to go back and change things after an iteration. Git is helping with that, sure, but also the format in general.
I also have an issue with many tutorials, they start with a fully designed part on paper that you then just rebuild in a software; that is not my approach at all. I want to design the thing in my software. Of course that requires lots of iterations.
I'm sure there are some people here who are in the same frustrating situation regarding CAD programs as myself:
SaaS stuff is straight out, Blender very much feels like the wrong tool for the job, FreeCAD is incredibly frustrating, OpenSCAD is just too much work.
Let me tell you: CascadeStudio is *by far* the best experience I've had so far.
I would love for it to blow up.
Yes, it's code, but it's so much easier than anything else I've tried.
https://zalo.github.io/CascadeStudio/
Cascade Studio
A Full Live-Scripted CAD Kernel in the Browser
I've recently started using the term “AI vegan” to illustrate my stance and I feel that it works very well.
Gero Takke created the Ottopot, a Teensy-powered MIDI controller with "nothing but 8 dials". But what dials they are! 14-bit MIDI CCs changes with a 1:1 mapping to physical movement provides an experience more akin to analog pots, but with continuous rotation
https://pjrc.com/ottopot-midi-controller/
Scratching an itch is such a weird impulse. Like “Ohhh, there's a problem! What a great opportunity to make things *much worse*”
Paul Stoffregen