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Astro-Photography… quality of yoyr pictures is:
10% skill 90% how much you spend on equipment.
$12k for a pier-mounted SB mount? Sure, why not
Did you know that the LD2410 can be wired directly into an ESP32 or equivalent because it operates at the 3V3 level and has an RTC GPIO that can be used as a wakeup pin? This is a huge upgrade from the LTR5-series of light sensing chips which all use the I2C protocol, because those need a UART chip on the device to handle the clock signal with a 5V open drain, despite being an easier 2-wire implementation. The send protocol of I2C slave devices are much simpler than the 1-wire or Dallas protocol used for multiplexing sensors, and relies on sending information bits in 60microsecond intervals when the clock bit is high, this ensures…
(don’t drink coffee on the train)
$15.99 for two LD2410 is a bargain considering I’ve been looking a presence sensors for HA and they easily cost $60+ each. This is legitimately useful information!
Do you only need the ESP and presence sensor or is extra circuitry needed? I can probably print out some type of enclosure.
You can get them much cheaper than that on AliExpress hehe, though you might pay twice for quality. And yep you can wire them straight into each other, no pull-ups or nothing!
Caveats:
- I got the LD2410s variant because I think it’s the only one that actually operates at 3v3, but unfortunately it’s not quite supported by ESPhome yet so I’ve been having issues getting it to do anything with HA. Methinks stick with 5V versions for now and use a voltage regulator for the GPIO since the ESP32 is not 5v tolerant for GPIO inputs (or: use a Raspberry Pi which can handle anything).
- Do not use the brand new spanking ESP32C6 for that sweet sweet BLE and Zigbee functionality, because despite the arduino framework saying they support it in practice you’ll have to default to using the idf-esp framework, which isn’t a huge issue but does seem to throw me stranger errors.
I got into target shooting. I really enjoy it, so much so that I actually felt like joining some competitions. My brain goes to research mode and I find out how much just booking time to train on active movement courses costs.
Yeah, I’ll stick to plain ol lane shooting at the range, that’s expensive enough.
Yeah, $50 per session is on the low end
I really need to buy a new lens for my camera. This meme explains it all for anyone who would like to ask me why I haven’t bought one yet.
Do you or is it just gas?
I have a 50mm lens that came with the camera itself. However, it’s not great for long distance shot. I need better and wider lens for that purpose.
Fair. Something tighter though, no? Secondhand is always the way to go for keeping cost down.
The plastic crack beckons…
Submit to the allure of Gee Dubs.
For a trifling a thing as a soul, you too can have a pile of shame in the corner of your basement.
Activism and community organizing is a great affordable hobby. Can’t say it’s easy on the calendar though.
Try having multiple expensive, time consuming hobbies. Gazes at unfinished minis and drawer filled with whips and sex toys
Looks at unfinished server, armor, and rpg terrain
Glances out across growing 3D print farm, Lego collection, and media server at project truck sitting in the driveway
I have no idea what you mean…
Quality sex accessories of any kind are stupid expensive
Or 3D-printing!
i don’t find it to be that expensive tbh.
That depends on what you’re printing!
FPV drones!
RC cars
Magic: the Gathering
Psh! Unless you’re constantly buying the newest machine every year, 3d printing isn’t that expensive of a hobby. Not compared to shit like golfing or being a car guy or ATV/snowmobiling
it is when you factor in the amount of time you use it, just to let it collect dust afterwards.
3D-printing Warhammer figurines ? (No, that sounds like heresy)
Here’s why bread making is the best hobby:
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Minimal equipment and ingredients to get started
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Amount of time is up to you. You can select a recipe that suits your needs. Plus you can go and do other things while the dough proofs and cooks, so if you make a 3 hour loaf, you still get some of that time back.
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Most of bread making is working on your skills and knowledge and is highly rewarding as a result
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You make tasty bread that will either contribute to your weekly pantry or makes a great gift for others.
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Store bought bread sucks ass. Once you start making your own, you’ll never go back.
I went back because I wasn’t getting good enough results
I want to try again. but I did start making my own and then go back
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Cooking is a cheap, easy to start hobby with endless possibilities for development.
“Cooking is a cheap” how costly is groceries at your place?
Cheaper than any other way of eating. Single McDonald’s for me and my partner costs the same as 4 to 5 home cooked meals.
On the assumption that you need to feed yourself regardless, cooking as a hobby can be really cheap, since worst-case you only spend whatever you’d have spent on food anyway. You might even end up saving money!
Assuming that you can cook well enough that your meals are guaranteed to be edible, which is assuming a lot for novices.
The biggest factor to success when starting out is your ability to follow instructions.
Pick a recipe, read through it, buy all the ingredients, and follow the instructions.
It’s not that hard. The reason people struggle is because they ignore the instructions like a dad in the 80’s
Good point. Some meals are pretty hard to mess up, though. Beans, rice, stews.
I do understand the bit of needing to feed myself and all, but just randomly going up and cooking is sadly not something I can afford Which is quite f-ed, I like to knead bread loaf
Can you explain? Is it cheaper to eat out / eat processed foods than buy groceries to cook? I’ve never lived in a place with that situation, but I understand it’s a possibility.
Being more relative to itself from a few years ago doesn’t mean groceries are objectively expensive. Especially if you’re buying ingredients and not premade shit- that’s where most of the increase has gone
My hobbies are distrohopping and reading books
What’s on your bedside table?
All sorts of things, books, parfume, candies, calculator, printer and laptop
>printer
That’s no bedside table that’s straight up a table.
What is your current distro?
Debian 13
Time to stop distro hopping
True, but I am kinda interested to try devuan just to test it but Debian 13 with KDE plasma works great
I love distrohopping, then I decided to try CachyOS for a few days and it’s been months.
For some cheaper options drawing, writing, reading, used guitars have been much cheaper the last couple of years, chess, fishing, meditating, retro gaming, learn a new language, hiking, try to visit all the parks in your city/county/state, discussing hobbies online, etc.
I think the people I feel for the most when it comes to hobbies are the ones who are into computers/games, guns, and Lego all at once. Those guys could make six figures and would still be fucking broke.
Video games are not that expensive IMO, unless you really want it to be. It’s my main hobby, I certainly don’t have a crazy income, but I still have enough games for several lifetimes. My bank account is not the limit here, my time is.
Sure, hardware cost might be a bit steep once in a while, but you don’t really need to go for the cutting edge, and there is no point having everything on release either.
You can buy one game and put thousands and thousands of hours into it.
But pretty much all of us have games that we bought and have put exactly 0 hours into…
I have those too.
Those are not the game I spent the most on though, they’re the bundle extras, the games I’ve found dirt cheap and thought “yeah, I might play that sometimes”… And I am trying to limit those, I had a phase like that but I don’t care much about the bundles/big sales craze anymore.
Well down the rabbit hole I now go. At least it’s not expensive. 😅
Flight sim, motorcycles, self hosting, legos, 3D printing.
Help I don’t make enough
