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> but are actually achievable by a suitably motivated _and minted_ individual.

Unfortunately, in my country something like this is impossible for most people, simply because they don't have space and money to do anything.

I had some many projects in mind when I was younger, but my parents were poor and I had a tiny room. We had no garage, no garden. I still saved money to buy soldering iron and electronic components to experiment with, but I was damaging them at such a rate I spent all my savings on components and had to abandon this for many years.

I still cannot afford to rent a place where I could do something that interests me and I have a good job. Things also have become much more expensive, so it takes forever. Like I can only afford to order one iteration of project per month and it's frustrating I have so many ideas I just don't have anywhere to make them.

I came up with a system, so that I can store everything in boxes and have stacks of them from the floor to ceiling and a spreadsheet where everything is located, but it takes so much time to take something from the bottom or when I put breadboards in and accidentally disconnect something.

Sometimes I get so depressed by this I can't even do anything for weeks.

parent varispeed 3 years ago

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