Personally: Hiking, biking, photography, DnD, and fixing things.
It sounds like a lot (because it is lol) but with ADHD having a group of hobbies I can orbit around (especially if they can overlap (like these ones))can help me avoid diving into too many new hobbies.
I make music, primarily, but i also bounce a lot. I really love writing, which comes easier than music tho i do it less. Past that hiking is like an “as often as possible or my mind will break” thing. Even our tiny local park is nice for this purpose, but i try to get around as much as im able. I like corrupting the advertisements i get in the mail with sharpies and make them look more blinging. And satanic. Or perverted.
D&D, 3d printing, pen turning (making pens from wood and resin, not flipping them around on my fingers), MTG, and I dabble in woodworking and occasional metal working.
FYI: 3d printing pairs really well with D&D - minis, scenery, accessories, etc. Start with a cheap SLA resin printer to print minis on, then expand to filament when you’re ready to do scenery too. I have a resin printer and two filament printers.
3D printing is great and pairs well with all my hobbies. I’ve currently got 3 printers: 2 filament printers and 1 resin printer.
It’s been quite the struggle resisting getting a small CNC at this point but the biggest hurdle is space and thankfully I haven’t fixed that hurdle yet.
Ah, good to hear! I bought a tiny desktop cnc from microcenter for like $150 and apart from setting it up and doing a test cut, I haven’t used it once. Makes me a bit sad actually.
I think it was TwoTrees brand. Tbh, it’s pretty cheapass, and the slide bearings on the spoilboard mount suck, but it runs grbl and cut a dickbutt into a 2x4, so it works at least.
3d printing is useful for almost any hobby if you try hard enough!
We got really into making handmade dice for a while there, and used our resin printer to make custom master dice with our logo on. And I’ve used it to print out useful bits and bobs for cross stitch too. Someone I follow on Mastodon 3d printed a sock knitting machine, that was very cool.
It was honestly the second hardest thing I’ve ever done, the only thing that beats it in difficulty was beating my alcoholism
There were times where it felt all hope was lost but having even a small spark of hope was what made it possible to make it to the other side of those times
I make music - mostly black metal, I play a lot of Blood on the Clocktower, and I’m a software developer who likes contributing to open source outside of work.
Maker stuff in general: Woodworking, 3D Printing (including a bit of single-part CAD), laser engraving, even Cricut. Recent projects have been all about handwired keyboards, which combines several of those, and finally got me to learn just enough soldering to get by. Woodworking is currently in a lull, but it’s always the one I go back to and the one taking up the most space in the garage. I really do need to make that desk I’ve been planning for a decade, though. The Ikea trestle table has seen better days.
Oh, some light gaming (rocking an ebay RX580 on a second-gen Ryzen 5 which I massaged to be able to run Starfield enjoyably enough at 1080p), fountain pens, the aforementioned keyboards, fantasy/sci-fi media, and I’m possibly outside the usual Lemmy demographic a bit in following football (soccer) and football (gridiron) !cfb .
Lots of crafts like knitting, crochet, cross stitch, sewing, felting, origami, faffing about with clay, etc etc. And gamedev which I basically think of as the same sort of hobby because it’s just making a different sort of thing.
Making YouTube videos about all of the above, in defiance of the algorithm gods.
Reading any and all scifi I can get my hands on, plus the Discworld series just over and over again endlessly on a loop.
Also the amount of time I spend on Mastodon and Lemmy probably means it counts as a rather lame hobby at this point…
I start a lot of knit and crochet things but never finish anything. Excitedly start something, work on it diligently for the first half, begin to hate it, rip it, decide it was the yarn that i hated, buy more yarn, start over on another project. How do you avoid that cycle?
I think we all do that a bit, tbh. But when I get to the “rip it” stage I just put it in a timeout box instead, work on a new thing, then usually the desire to get back to the original thing will return eventually! If it really doesn’t I’ll also frog but that’s relatively rare.
Bonus of having so many craft hobbies I guess, there’s always some other WIP to switch focus to!
For years my main hobby was guitar but in the last year I started cross stitching and I am now hopelessly addicted to it lol! I never would have guessed that would be a hobby I’d take up but I saw a pattern I liked and decided to try it once and have been doing it ever since!
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