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If you're looking for an outlet, why not project shop with the aim of making something?
This gives you the opportunity geek out on the gadgets you'll need to pull off whatever you want to make. More importantly, the journey will continue post purchase as chase the thing you want to make.
You can make both digital and physical stuff. With things like CAD, Arduino/Raspberry PI, and IoT you can also blend the two pretty easily.
A very low key example might be a small garden. I've put a bit of time/effort into my seed stating setup, including designing and printing parts for my lighting rig. It seems like the setup iterates a bit every year. In addition, every year I spend a decent amount of time thinking about what I want to grow this year and then diving seed catalogues to find some new-to-me verity of something I've grown before.
You can also design from-scratch speakers and go as far down that rabbit hole as you want to - buy vs build (kit) vs design the amplifier, ditto for the actual speaker, etc.
/a person who likes making things
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Haha, the one where I make a bunch of things and fail numerous times along the way or the one where I keep a running list of "this would be a neat thing to try at some point in the future"?
Yes
It looks like I might have a good place to do that, so yay. I'll try to get something up in a day or three.
Good suggestion! Unfortunately I have a Mountain of Shame of unbuilt and unpainted Warhammer models. I need to process those first before picking up another hobby I'll neglect.