I’ll start. I have recently gotten into 3D printing, and, while incredibly frustrating sometimes, there’s nothing more rewarding than getting a perfect print.
Model trains! Something about physically creating my own little world is nice
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Role-playing games. It might hit close to mainstream now - those tv series and movies where they appear directly or indirectly, certainly made the hobby more famous - but as an actual hobby, it’s still a niche thing.
I think they should be part of educational program, globally.
Like DnD? Or what role-playing games?
Tabletop role-playing games in general. D&D and Pathfinder are now the most widely recognized and played ones, but there’s whole library of alternatives. Thousands of games out there, catering to different needs, offering different experience, set in different worlds and offering different choices.
For example, there’s BLUE PLANET in production - a SF/cyberpunk/environmentalist game in production, taking place on a distant planet covered mostly by water. In terms of the setting, it’s antithesis to DUNE, or very old, but stil amazing DARKSUN but the undertones are similar - people fighting against greed that ruins their world.
Whatever idea you have, zombie apocalypse, kids saving the world, people investigating Lovecraftian horror, spaceships, weird west world, clash of fantasy kingdoms - there’s a game for that.
I second with Vampire: The Masquerade, The Dark Eye, Shadowrun and StarWars RPG in my family. Teach your kids to play and they will never have time or money to waste on drugs. ;)
A man after my own heart!
By the way, do you know “Star Wars: REUP” edition?
No, sorry. We are playing Age of Rebellion rules during the Old Republic, because the children wanted to be Jedi.
I have a fascination with VFDs/VVVFs/frequency inverters. They are the controllers that gives of a specific hum/whine from electric trains/cars and from other 3 phase electric motors.
I’m making my own sudo-vvvf at home. I just think they sound awesome and are Hella cool
https://youtu.be/-SDYdHzT7Qw (sound starts at 0:13)
That’s really dope!! I’ve heard about this a few times. So you have a good video or site you could recommend that explains for layman why they do that?
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/-SDYdHzT7Qw
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
Oh neat!
Home server take an old pc setup with a load of old harddrives noodle about with all the self hosting apps.
I am a geologist that also has a lifelong interest in anomalous natural phenomena and paranormal claims. So I do a website called Spooky Geology. I think I can count the number of people who can do this on one hand. Like me and one other person I know of. So, that seems very niche. I also have a community here for weird news. [email protected]
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Gliding. There’s something remarkable about being able to fly hundreds of kilometres without an engine, just relying on the forces of nature.
I’m a big fan of amateur radio, specifically portable operation, and Parks on the Air.
I’ll take my radio out to a remote location, throw an antenna up into some trees, and talk to people all over the US.
Currently I need mains power, but I’m looking to buy a battery soon, and I already have some solar panels gifted from a club member.
I live in Michigan, and last time I was out, my most distant contacts were in Dallas, Texas, around 1100 miles away, while I was sitting at a picnic table at my local state park campground.
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I like buying LEGO minifigures and then designing/building biomes for them to inhabit. I use BrickLink Studio to design the builds and then upload my parts list to BrickLink to get used bricks to build them. I also post them on Rebrickable for free, but I’ve fallen behind and need to post more on there.
Here are a few that I’ve built.
Hey that’s pretty sweet man. Has some diorama feel to it.
Rubik’s cubes or speed cubing. I’m not great with my best time being somewhere around 45 seconds (which really is slow compared to some of the best), but it’s fun to do, feels better to do than mindlessly scrolling through Lemmy and it’s something I juet always carry around in my backpack. So whenever I have a few minutes to kill, I whip out my cube and just practice my algorithms for a bit.
Also, it’s really fun the looks you’ll get when you casually and quickly solve a cube while on the bus or something.
I find it pretty relaxing to practise too. I’ve also known full CFOP for a while and I’m not learning any new algs so it’s something I can do pretty easily while listening to a Youtube video which is less visuals-focussed or a podcast or something
I got into 3D printing this year also. I wanted it to feed into my other hobbies and general tinkering. Aside from getting the printer to run well, it’s really satisfying to design something functional. I was so proud when I replaced my broken washer knob with 10 min of CAD.
@GeeRad @_cerpin_taxt_ what software do you use for modeling? I’ve had my printer for awhile but still struggle with quick/efficient modeling (blender for me but I’m not great at it),
Blender terrible for cad. It’s an art tool, not an engineering tool. There is at least one plugin to make it a parametric modeler like cad programs, but I’ve never used it.
Blender does have its place in manipulating/repairing STL files though. You just can’t get the same vertex-level control out of any other program.
I use fusion 360 personally. I like the 2d sketch to 3d aspect. There’s a free version for personal use, you just have to look for it since they tend to hide it on their website
I do pyrography and make amplifiers, guitar pedals. I sometimes fix them, too :) It makes me happy to fix sound systems and crave for more!
Lockpicking is nice. You won’t believe how many friends ask for help after they know your hobby. Most of the time it’s just “my keys are still inside, so it’s not locked”. It’s the easiest, but you don’t need to pick the lock to open those.
I play mandolin, which I think is niche? This summer I’ve been learning ableton live with the goal of combining edm influences and small, odd instruments.
I’m a fellow mandolin player! Couldn’t believe what I just read haha. There isn’t typically too many of us making ourselves known in places like this
Me three! I wish there was a mandolin community here
No kidding! Maybe I will look into starting one…
Please do!
Okay I did it! I honestly don’t know the right way to link to communities so I hope this works. Let’s get it going: [email protected]
@[email protected] and @[email protected] you’re invited too!
Awesome, thanks! Just joined.
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Me too!
When my wife offered it to me for my birthday, I hadn’t seen a real one in my life. I already had been playing the guitar and the ukulele (on top of other non-string instruments) for a while, and I said: “I hope it’s not yet another tuning to learn chords from scratch on, a friend tried to teach me the cello’s tuning once and I found it so needlessly confusing”.
Oops… 😂
But it’s all good, I got over it. 🙂
The ability to identify practically any bird or reptile in North America. I get friends asking me what things are all the time… then trying to extend my knowledge to fungi and plants (which I’m getting better with, but not at the same level). It doesn’t feel too niche until I interact with my friends outside of biology.
Hi there! There are a bunch of active nature-centred communities on mander.xyz you might enjoy :)
I have an account for that instance too, hah. I might make that my main. Definitely my people!
One of us! One of us!
I’ve never really enjoyed playing online games. (I don’t like being harassed by strangers. I have enough problems with my self-esteem, thank you.) But now I’ve gotten into several niche games I’d prefer to play with people and I have no skills or energy to make that happen. The most niche one is the Armada 3 mod for Sins of a Solar Empire. I love that game and I’d love to play with my friends, but my friends have very little trek fandom/rts enthusiast crossover.
