>>1255376
>I guess you could say that, in my imagination, I'm bringing the video store back from the dead.

At the age of 37, I see the appeal, especially for people who visited rental stores in their youth.

I left home when I was 19 in 2005. Even back then electronics had fascinated me, I started a project book where I listed devices and components and tools that I would need...but due to my studies, I never did any of it.

Then, in the middle of my so-called boredom-induced middle age crisis and corona shut-downs, I sought that book while visiting home while I remembered its existence. Then I ordered high-school level electronics books and tools and restarted the hobby I left behind in 2005 - over 15 years later.

There's just something about bringing back "dead" things from 20-30 years ago, whether it's a project or a device. It also connects my past and present, now there's Arduino, Raspberry Pi, coding tutorials etc. to work on.

I dunno. It's feels like completing a path. Being young was not always consistent and easy in early 2000s (and it wasn't, and isn't, supposed to be) and somewhere along the way, a part of the inspired young me got lost in adult life and never really crossed any finish line.

Connecting with the era and the present form of it finishes a lot of things for me. I feel at peace now, more ready to start new things too :)