I love loomknitting, but I dont know if its niche enough π
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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Not sure if it's niche anymore but mechanical keyboard is a fun rabbit hole to dive into. There's so much variety and diversity in term of customization. You can really build a keyboard that fit your preference in term of looks, feels and sounds. The hobby has been booming after covid so now you can get some really nice starter stuff at affordable price.
-Making sprite art and turning it into perler/ the plastic bead things.
-Chiptune and synthesizers
-Tabletop RPGs
-Card games
Hey, another chiptuner! What's your setup? I use 2 DMGs with LSDj, looking to muck around with a C64 too.
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I revisited an old hobby, emulating niche systems. I got an Acorn emulator with Risc OS 5 and some development tools, and I wrote a snake game in BBC BASIC and a calculator in pure ARM assembly, both of which are new to me. It was a blast.
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Collecting & restoring mechanical calculators, slide rules and old electronic calcs. I sucked hard at math in school btw. Today I love it. Weird life, eh?
Various degrees of niche-ness:
- modern boardgames. I've been fascinate by them since before I could write. I would draw my own roll and move boards and my mom would write down my instructions of what space would do what. From there it only grew and now I have more games I can play.
- rpgs. The most recent addition. I had always dismissed them as a potential hobby because it was advertised to me with videos of actors basically doing 99% improv and 1% gameplay. Turns out it doesnβt have to be like this.
- I also collect gemstones. Started as a kid when we came across an old quarz find on a hike. I was hooked by the shiny and have been collecting on and off ever since.
Posting on Lemmy the pictures I take, the nice thing is that people have @ me saying how they like my pictures
I do clothing embroidery with a machine. It's a small business, but I basically break even. It's a great way for me to have a creative outlet, and share the geek and outdoorsy designs with others that appreciate it. What I unintentionally have done is locked in what everyone I know gets for every Christmas gift for the foreseeable future.