What skill would you like to learn?

Okay, so, technically, “Technomancy” isn’t real, but I thought it an amusing name to describe something that used to be limited to the imaginative worlds of science fiction.

You know those scenes in movies or shows where some hacker can take a bunch of seemingly random junk, like motherboards and other hardware, and create some kind of tool to solve their problem? That’s what I’m talking about. To know that I can take random parts, understand them enough at a glance and cobble something together.

I already have some of that kind of knowledge, or at least the way of thinking and processing, to make it down this path. I’ve patched together some scripting and automated flows to get the end results I want for reports. I just wish I could do the same with physical hardware. Thankfully, a lot of that is much more possible today than it ever has been. There are plenty of educational resources to learn the programming aspect on top of the electrical component pieces like a Raspberry Pi or Arduino board. It’s just a matter of taking the time to do it. Of course, it would also help to have a specific project in mind to motivate me down that path.

Sadly, I have so many other hobbies that I’ll likely just leave Technomancy in the “desired” category for a while longer.