My other hobby

Something I haven’t spoken about before on this blog is my love for sim racing. It’s the single biggest hobby I have when I'm not creating. It's my "consume" hobby. My "seat rot" hobby. A hobby where I've built a sanctuary of-sorts out of extruded aluminum, and high tech electronics. It's such a big part of my life that I regularly geek-out sometimes to IRL friends or coworkers to looks of confusion. To say that sim racing makes up a substantial part of my life would be completely fair. 

So why am I bringing this up?

Because over the past 4 days, I’ve been working on some projects for our sim racing group, Ten10 Motorsports. The first big reveal is a brand-new website, www.ten10motorsports.com! Using Blogger (the same web program I use for this website,) I developed a “front page” for our sim racing group. Up until now, we’ve used Discord to communicate race results. While that has served us over the years, race results tended to get buried and we never had a web presence beyond a link to our Discord.

The future of making... has arrived

The BambuLabs P2S 3D Printer is a new addition to my shop and I'm in love.

I’ve been designing and building things for as long as I can remember. Give kid‑me a pencil, a pad of paper, and a piece of cardboard, and I’d disappear for hours making… something. Didn’t matter what. If it could be sketched, folded, taped, or Frankensteined together, I was in. Eventually I moved on to Lego and Erector sets, then fell in love with woodworking as I got older. I guess you could call it the natural evolution of a kid who never quite outgrew the thrill of making stuff exist.

But 3D printing? That’s brand new territory for me. You mean that I can make whatever I want magically appear on a plate in a couple hours? Something I can hold and look at IRL? I think I’ve found the the ultimate tool for making whatever I want  

And to be completely honest with you… it’s so easy that it feels like cheating.