Reply To: [unofficial weekender] Did you notice? January is over!

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What is it that keeps us abandoning/postponing projects?

For me, it seems that I’m more interested how to get something done, rather than actually getting it done. I’ll start a project, in order to find out how something works. Once I’ve sussed it out, though, it feels less like fun and more like “repetitive factory work”. That’s when my stuff gets abandoned.

Have you ever invested a lot of time, effort, blood and money in a hobby related project of any description only to can it at some point.

All the time – sometimes deliberately in fact. “I wonder if this will work?” then shortly after “nope”. Though more often it’s a case of “I wonder if this is a better way of doing that thing I already worked out how to do…..”

I abort lots of projects after investing massive amounts of time (and, don’t tell my wife, sometimes money) to them. I give a *lot* of stuff away. For me, it really is like that cool meme your auntie keeps sharing on Facebook to stay in touch with the kids – it’s the journey, not the destination.

If your answer to the last question was yes: what was it and why?

The last one was an electronic card reader that could detect multiple NFC chips, embedded into playing cards. It’s to make it easier for players to play cards from their personalised deck either against each other, remotely, or against a computer AI. I got hold of four different types of NFC reader and after comparing them to each other, compared the best way of reading an array of three identical detectors (in the end I went with “multi-plexing” – not necessarily the simplest or more efficient, but the method with the lowest part count).

Oh, and I painted some Ninja Turtles then gave them away because I couldn’t be bothered to paint their weapons. For the first time in ages, I actually finished the bases for them (that was what I wanted to learn about that little project – does basing before completing a mini make it easier to get motivated to see it finished? I guess the answer is no).

Here’s your music. It’s that dude from the Hanoi Rocks. But – like many of us – it seems he got old but nobody noticed, since nobody was looking.