linuxduck

If you don't mind a long-ish story:

I have always wanted to get into it. My dad was an RF engineer, but he never would teach me anything.

I moved to Seattle in 2010 (I was about 25yo) and I learned about maker spaces.

Well a guy at that maker space didn't mind showing me the basics. So he taught me briefly how solder works and then asked what I wanted to make. I said, "I want things to light up"

So he gave me a breadboard, LEDs, resistors, wire and a battery and said, "Figure it out". Pretty quick I got them lit up. So I went back to him and said, "I want them to change brightness when its dark or light out."

So he gave me a photo resistor (when there is no light it slows/stops the current of electricity), and he said, "Figure it out". So I learned how to use the photo resistor to make the lights brighter when the ambient light was brighter. Then I told him, "I want them to light up when it's dark out, not light".

So he gave me a transistor and said, "Figure it out". This took me 3 months, all alone, to read the schematic of that transistor. But EVENTUALLY I got it working.

Since then I have learned to create my own PCB's, programmed line followers and have built robots that move around and do image recognition!

I haven't done much as of late but I want to get back to that! (I have moved a lot in my life so the second to last move I did, I had to donate ALL my robotics so I am starting from scratch)

I would look up maker spaces in your area. You can use them to do more than just robotics. The one I went to also had engravers, 3D printers, and knitting machines (or crochet? can't remember)

I use servarica.com for both my lemmy and misskey instances. Search the summer sales!

• I play beat saber.
• watch TV
• draw
• play video games
• crochet
• build robots
• organize
• compose music on the piano

Whatever I can focus on, it helps me release the day

lemmy instances are not automatically connected at least one user must be following a community for others to search it

I found a tool to basically create a bot account to add servers. It uses the lemmy api. I took this idea and created one as well (not sharing it’s terrible) but it went through all of my approved instances and all of the communities and subscribed to all. I now have 2300+ communities. That I can see from my instance

Possibly ignorant on this but most of that is probably bots to appear busier than they are. I'm not saying they're aren't a lot of people but...

You're welcome self!

(I'm such a dork)

[resolved]

To all who come here with the same issue, I am op posting from my new instance.

• lemmy instances are not automatically connected
• at least one user must be following a community for others to search it
• to add your first community hosted by another instance, search for the full address in your lemmy search example: [!cats@lemmy.blahaj.zone](/c/cats@lemmy.blahaj.zone) after clicking search, wait 5-10 seconds and it will pull up
• click on the link and subscribe. Now when another user, uses your instance they can find that community!
• ok... Now you have 1 extra community... What about the thousands that exist?! Read through the comments. Someone provided a tool to basically create a bot account to add servers. I took this idea and created one as well (not sharing it's terrible) but it went through all of my approved instances and all of the communities and subscribed to all. I now have 2300+ communities.

I saw Esau kissing Kate.

The fact is we all three saw.

For I saw him and she saw me,

and he saw, I saw, Esau.

Manjaro friends unite!

Black beans are the mighty bean

Manjaro. It just worked on any device I installed it on. And wifi just worked with no fiddling.

Then I installed it on surface tablet. What didn't work, I found kernel fixes I could implement.

Of all the distros, for me, it was the easiest to use, install and manipulate!!

I love it and created my own instance!!