I still have an inevitable need to do something tangible. Especially at spring. I am more than happy if I can repair something at home, car, do some gardening, etc. But nothing regular.
Wondering if you have any tangible hobby. Have you web or blog where you share you hobby-expertise? I'd like to read what other people are doing in their spare time.
Anyway, I keep all my electronics stuff at the local hackerspace and sometimes I go up there and pull my breadboard and parts box out and play around.
https://imgur.com/gallery/n53TnlT
I pickup broken granite from the granite shop and make plant stands with leather feet:
https://imgur.com/gallery/jsRNEhX -- these have the first vintage leather feet - the new ones have the plugs from the stamped leather on the mason jars.
I make custom lockpicks from spring-steel from Street Sweeper blades (dont seem to have any images though)
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I make custom lamps from random parts I find at antique stores...
https://imgur.com/gallery/NaSea
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I like to make things for my bike:
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I do it as therapy for depression and to express myself. Don't do any of it for profit - but I have had a lot of the bike parts stolen, or people admire them so I give them to them...
My next project is a leather hipster bartending apron, just because I want to make one - but I dont have the funds to quite do that at the moment.
And I am working on making my own leather based bike grips - but I am still working on the right jig for the die, as my parts are not coming out perfectly consistent when I do it by eye.
On the to-do, aside from the apron:
* Living wall
* Some planting boxes
* Get access to a laser cutter for some leather things
* Completely cover my bedroom floor in leather (I have a leather-piece throw covering in the center of my carpeted room, and its the most amazing feeling with bare feet walking on it - I want to see how much a whole room that way will cost.
I agree that having things to do away from the screen is important.