What's everyone up to outside of gaming?

I got a 2D LIDAR, I might make something with it.

That's about it. Work and being tired is all I'm doing.

It's basically a 2D 360 degree laser distance scanner. They are used in Roombas to scan the room.

But putting one on a motorised rig, I can get a 3D laser scanner similar to this thing:

The LIDAR part is the spinning blue bit on the side.

I mainly just wanted to play with one, they are only around $100 on Aliexpress and look cool. 🙂

The SDK was really good for the one I got too (YDLIDAR X4), I had it running in my C++ game engine within an hour of the package arriving.

Just recently graduated high school, got a custom PC fully built and working with a bit of help from my dad, slowly making progress on assembling a Prusa Mini+ 3D printer I got for my 20th birthday (in a sense sticking my toes into the water when it comes to the world of 3D printing, which my dad got me into as well after I became fascinated with watching his much larger 3D printer that’s also a laser engraver and a CNC machine at work), other than that nothing much to report on. I would like to get into PCVR now that I have the Oculus Quest 2 at my disposal, but that’s proving to be difficult due to the Oculus Link desktop software not letting me sign into it with my existing Facebook account, although the installation went off without a hitch.

Music, I guess....

https://soundcloud.com/jacob-luttio

I spend all my spare time playing games like D4... That makes me happy.

I personally spend the majority of my time building Gunplas! I recently got myself an RX-78 Full Armor Gundam (Thunderbolt ver.) Ver. Ka. and a bunch of other kits but the Thunderbolt one I am beyond excited to start the most!

I haven't been able to try custom airbrushing but I think I'll treat myself,  come Christmas. :). The Thunderbolt is a behemoth of a model with switchable armor and weapons. So I would love to fully custom paint it and give it the love it deserves!

I've gotten the hang of sanding, panel lining and doing the water slide decals. Surprisingly it's a whole lot easier than a lot of people who build models make it out to be. Definitely sucked at the start of this journey lol. But this is definitely something that I never knew I'd get hooked on and now it's become my favorite little hobby. I would have never tried it if my friend didn't buy me one years ago!

Always be willing to try new things, I suppose lol!

Lotta surfing, Hiking, Boxing, lol 😂

Black Desert is both gaming, and my life...

On a serious note, I'm hoping to finally do some traveling to other countries after having some money saved up. Either Japan or Sweden would be my first destination, I haven't decided yet but ultimately it'll be whichever ends up being the cheapest option.

Japan is on my bucket list. I’ve been to Sweden and like most Scandinavian countries, nearly everyone speaks super good English! It almost makes it seem like I hadn’t travelled far away at all! Japan though seems almost like another planet.

Outside of gaming? - Oh man I recently bought an apple watch and I love seeing the circles go round when I'm walking or doing some exercise. So I'm just doing that for a good minute.

Also bought some air pod pro's so that I can listen to my music since the watch doesn't do that.