You mentioned stuff built in the shop so…
Programming is a winter activity for me. Summer is for being on the water and in the shop. I used to use my boat trailer as a general cargo hauler, so I needed a way to get the boat on and off the trailer. To that end, I built a platform at trailer height that I could use to store the boat.
Now I have a proper pickup truck, so I’ve converted that boat stand to a cutting station. The large surface area is good for sheet goods. I installed a lowered platform for my mitre saw. It works like a charm and keeps the worst of the dust out of my shop. Now the only indoor power tools are my bandsaw and drill press, which are trivial to collect dust from. Next up are cabinet stands for those tools and a new workbench.
Back to programming, my winter plans are to finally figure out a workflow to keep Charm up to date so I can play with it (I’m new to git). Then start tracking down free or inexpensive resources to study programming language theory.
I started down the path of creating a gear library for Full Control, a 3D printing system. I got sidetracked by a couple of problems:
I’m apparently not smart enough to create something from scratch.
Existing libraries are either beyond my ability to use directly or, like OpenSCAD, generating fully realized models intended for traditional slicers.
I was hoping to be able to do a variety of gear types, but I think I’m going to have to be satisfied with just spur gears.
In any case, I’ve set it aside until next winter. Spring is coming, so I need to finish my website work before my other hobbies take over my life.
(Actually, Full Control might be better described as a 3D plotting system, since the Z axis is as continuously variable as the X and Y axes.)