I’ve been a fan of DIY projects myself since I can have shit without actually spending a dime on boojee shit but now it appears capitalism is ruining it from PC’s, to reducing parts available to be used, to fake DIY vids to keep money, and good old copyfraud.
What do ya’ll think?
I agree about companies making things harder to repair. But things are going in the right direction in Europe at least.
For the skills I understand it’s hard, especially because it also is about two communities that don’t understand eachother well : software and hardware engineers.
There are a lot of resources to learn programming for DIY communities though if you look at the robotics or domotic stuff. Arduino and raspberry pi are among those.
The opensource community is the next step. A lot of free softwares are being developed. For obscure stuff it may not be easy, but if you understand electronic and programming, you can do a lot.
And this is the direction for modern stuff. Somehow it’s reviving the renaissance man spirit.
Agree with all that. The more companies do to stop consumers repairing their products or using their parts/software to build new things, the more it will force ordinary people to look for solutions and to work together. I can’t wait to be able to build my own printer. So far as I know you can get quite close but the tech for the finer, inkier end of things is all closed off. Hopefully somebody works out a solution to that soon. As you say, a renaissance spirit might open that up.