I’ll go ahead and answer this one…Sleep…I love to sleep! lol That and playing with my laser. I am an avid list maker…following through with the list is a whole other hobby that I haven’t mastered yet but making one…well, I’m your man! Photography is another hobby I enjoy greatly!!
I like to play computer games and did a lot of horseback riding. And obviously a bit of woodworking on the side. 
Right now, sitting in my recliner, waiting for civil temps to come back so I can go outside! BRRR
Motorcycling, camping, family time
Parodying Ghostbusters (and I’m not serious )
“I collect fungus molds and spores”
Hiking the isolated parts of the Colorado front range.
Helping makers with learning to do their projects.
Back yard gardening.
Building interplanetary spacecraft. (They pay me for that one.)
My main other hobby is playing guitar. I mostly play at church which I’ve done most Sundays for the past 15 or so years. I mostly play my acoustic. There’s just something about the sound of an acoustic guitar that I love. But, I also have an electric, bass guitar, and ukulele which each almost counts as its own hobby.
Just this past week, I got my electric guitar and pedalboard back out for the first time in awhile. I just don’t have time for all my hobbies so I tend to cycle through them.
I customize my bike with car wrap periodically and ride hundreds or thousands of miles per year. And watercolor paint sometimes (#letsmakeart). Oh and waterski: slalom, kneeboard, wakeboard, or surf.
Summer - Stand up jetski, old school.
Winter - Snowboarding, but might try skiing this year.
Snowboarding has always been a dream of mine, but for now, it remains just that—a dream. On another note, electronic music is a huge part of my life; I not only enjoy listening to it but also playing it. Admittedly, it’s been a while since I last played. I’m hoping to revisit my equipment soon and reignite my passion for creating music.
Let’s see…
I like to work with cars. I rebuilt my Supra engine. Stripped it down to a bare block, got it cleaned up at the machine shop and built it up for a bit over double the factory power. Did up the suspension, set up for road course, but still streetable. Racing clutch (almost not streetable, kind of bad in stop-and-go traffic) and some other driveline bits.
Audio systems, including automotive. I build amplifiers, signal processors (analogue domain) as well as speaker setups. I have various systems from desktop computer speakers to a very nice stereo system (currently in mothballs) and a few subwoofer systems that were lots of fun.
I used to be very active on a DIY projector forum, but it went defunct. I have built 3 DIY video projectors of varying sizes and capabilities. They’re fun, but the economics have shifted and there are better units available for cheaper. It was still fun to do though.
I write a bit, and read a lot. I am one of the submissions editors for a speculative fiction magazine, where I read the submissions from writers, and decide if I want to pass it up the chain, or write the “Sorry, this story does not meet our current needs” letter.
And I do martial arts. I got my black belt in karate in the 80s, but retired from competition in the 90s, due to a wrecked knee. I have ranks in Iaido and Kendo from the Canadian Kendo Federation (and by extension, the International Kendo Federation) and I am the main kendo instructor at my club. (Though not the head instructor.) So most classes it’s me up front, but when the head instructor comes out, I shut up and listen. Kendo is something that I can still manage well even with the bad knee, though it does in fact slow me down.
Too many hobbies, not enough time (or money.)
Indoor rock climbing for me, mostly bouldering these days as my friends have become flakey but started with top rope/lead and would like to go back to it.
Home automation stuff. Temperature/humidity measurement in each room, lighting control, appliance control. We have on-site water supply from our roof and on-site waste treatment so I have monitoring and control on that for tracking performance of water/air pumps and filters etc, weather station, A/C control, and just this last weekend I finally got around to installing and plumbing in the irrigation controller I built. I tend to prefer the parts of it where I’m designing/building electronic widgets rather than buying/integrating stuff.
Gardening. We have quite the selection of plants, ranging from indoors to pots/planters on our deck to a hydroponics system to raised garden beds outside to hardier things direct-planted, as well as 10 acres of native forest. Indoors we have a couple of coffee trees, banana palms, a bunch of 3-4m long rhipsalis, ~20 orchids of various kinds, all sorts of stuff. The hydroponics is an NFT setup that’s mostly used for lettuces, basil, pak choi but I’ve recently added some thyme, spring onions, strawberries and other stuff into it as a muck around. The deck is a mix of full-size and dwarf citrus (Tahitian lime, Bearrs lime, 4 different lemon species), camelias, jasmine, a ginkgo, a blue eucalyptus and a bunch of flowering ornamentals. Long term garden beds are asparagus, 5 varieties of raspberries/boysenberries and a bunch of long lived herbs. Annual garden beds are currently tomatoes (~16 plants, enough for a year’s worth of pasta sauce), eggplant, zucchini, peppers, broccoli, corn, beans, carrots, rocket/arugula all interplanted with flowers like sunflowers, cosmos, zinnias, petunias, celosias, etc. We have planters with 6 different types of bougainvillea in front of the house and a retaining wall with 4 avocado trees, figs and feijoas. We have a beehive out the back, too, although I don’t do any of the management of that.
We roast our own coffee and have a nice espresso machine that I spend a bit of time tinkering with.
On top of that, I’m one of the admins for the 2 largest electric vehicle facebook groups in NZ so spend a decent chunk of time alternately dealing with trolls and helping people make the transition to electric transport.
Edit: Oh, and online gaming with friends. ~30k kills and 2.0 k/d in Apex Legends but mostly playing Helldivers 2 with friends currently.
Various aspects of music: Guitar, Hammered Dulcimer (I also build them), Mountain Dulcimer too.
FLY, FLY, FLY in my self-launch glider.
Computer stuff (16 years at Intel, in the glory days), 3D trinkets for grandkids, I’m just getting into VR for my simulator.
Too much fun!!
Mike
Hey, I’ve been playing those, too. But I suck at Apex. 
Of all the things, that was not what I was expecting. But your garden looks stunning. 
I putter around with fiber arts stuff in addition to my home fab lab. I’ve got 3 CNC machines (MPCNC Burly, Eggbot, and a Phlatprinter that I need to just harvest the parts from and let go), a K40 laser, and two 3D printers.
I find computer embroidery machines fascinating, and have my mom’s old Viking sewing/embroidery machine. Ink/Stitch is an Inkscape plugin that generate the stich version of gcode, and I then have to convert to the Viking file type and transfer to the machine on PCMCIA cards because that’s what the machine supports…
My current rabbit hole is knitting machines. Years ago I bought a Studio 500 machine because it was electronically controlled and I thought it might be fun to work up an Arduino controller and manage patterning from a PC rather than the optical scanned patterns (replacement for punch cards). Then I found a project where that was already done, so I found a Brother 910 to put an All Yarns Are Beautiful board into.
Most recently, I’ve printed this circular sock machine and have been trying to get it to work reliably. Apparently I had way too wimpy a spring holding the cam that controls the stitch size, so hopefully I’m about to turn the corner on that issue. Then I can (literally) crank out some socks as gifts for my daughter and her room mate.
Sorry for posting this here, but can someone help me to diagnose why I do not see the “New Topic” button (and therefore cannot post anything but answers)??
Thanks ahead (and apologize again, but not sure what to do).
Hmm, I wonder if you could use that to make actual gcode. That might be a cool style for a pen plotter.
There are several gcode extensions for Inkscape.
The set I’m most familiar with runs the line of EggBot machines from Evil Mad Scientist using a controller (EiBotBoard, also from Evil Mad Scientist) that’s run by a set of EggBot extensions that convert a 2-d picture to 2-axis gcode (rotation for X, swing for Y, servo to lift the pen/engraver) for drawing on a spherical/cylindrical object. There are a number of alternative controller and firmware stacks I’ve seen based (more directly) on Arduino boards and 3-d printable sphere-bot/eggduino type machines on Thingiverse and Printables
Here’s a youtube video I found in a quick search for using Inscape to drive a plotter.
As long as you aren’t in a current thread you should see a red button at the lower right corner that is a plus. That is the new topic button. You can get it to inside of any of the sections or from the latest page. Just make sure you are posting it in the correct section
I am not a person with too few hobbies, and this is not a CV, so I’ll only expand if anyone wants to know.
Gardening, Photography, Painting, Sculpture and other “girly” pursuits 
Travel, Sailing, Motor Boating
Boat Building, House Renovations, Making, Repairing Stuff
Club admin and (believe it or not) basic computer support for specific apps.
Design generally, and of course 3D printing.
Which leads me to ask whether anyone has an idea what I can push aside to get started on the LR4 some time soon!
Like you, I had a hard time completing tasks on my “list”. I started using the Todoist app and it’s very easy to add and complete tasks/items and it helped me keep on track.
I’ve had a ton of hobbies over the years, but have mastered none. I focused so much time and energy at work over the years, I’m making up for it now.
I rode dirt bikes, mountain bikes, BMX, and swam when I was a teen. Then I took up hunting and freshwater fishing. All of this in beautiful Idaho.
I got real big into guns for awhile and took up reloading and building a few pew pews. I’m a Bradley Fighting Vehicle Master Gunner (basically I was a subject matter expert on the M2A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle).
I love to travel and have been full time in my 5th wheel 2 of the past 5 years. Before I got the RV I visited Amsterdam, Odnse, Prague, Berlin, Munich, the Zugspitze, and Fussen.
I took up paragliding right after COVID And am only a couple of lessons away from my beginner certification.
I also am a music lover, and have listened to what everyone would call EDM/Techno since the early 90s. I went to Burning Man in 2022…and let me tell you, LAST YEAR WAS BETTER!
I finally got started 3D printing about 2 years ago and fell in love madly! I started out with an X1C, but yearned for modding after I bought an SV06 plus and klipperized it. I have helped with a few SV06 and Creality K1 Max community projects, one of them being creating a guide on how to swap out the K1 series controller boards with a Manta M5P but still keeping the USB toolhead by using a RS232 usb dongle. I also built a different “mostly printed 3DP” called “The 100”. That was a pretty fun build.
After trying and failing in finding employment/training in the AM industry, I figured I’d learn machining and CAD/CAM to improve my chances at finding something similar to do for work. I’m loving it so far, especially the extreme depth of rabbit holes within any one of those professions. Hopefully I’ll find employment after some school and more learning from my mistakes here.
You all impress me with the variety of hobbies and skills that you possess. This one has been the most enjoyable for me though.
Nice. As a slightly oddball hobby for someone in NZ relative to the US, I used to be low-key into competitive IPSC shooting. Standard division with a double-stack Kimber 1911. Had an XL650 for .45 ACP and 9mm with a 3D printed bullet feeder I designed and a bunch of other 3D printed mods. Was working on a full automation setup before giving it all up. Also used to cast my own bullets for 9mm and .45 magnum, had a brief foray into designing a wildcat cartridge for converting old .303s to be safely suppressable, had a .300 blackout AR with a monster suppressor on it, now I’m just down to a couple of .22s, but one of them is a Ruger AR-style one that I use with an EOTech red-dot or ATN thermal scope…
