lmao - I'm not at all proud of what you called an accomplishment. I literally said it _is_ amateur hour, it's hacked together, not safe, not stylish, not well engineered. But it does work. And despite your assumption about me learning anything - I had _no idea_ how generators worked. The realization that spinning an electric motor would result in electricity being produced blew my mind and got me asking claude things related to that, then I wanted to interface a wheel against my wheel to spin a stepper motor to get a charge and had the hair brain idea to just make the whole thing the generator instead. None of this was stuff I knew.

Despite this thing I made being rather useless in the grand scheme of things it was _wildly_ illuminating in terms of my understanding of electricity and the various objects around me and how they function. Which has spurred another rabbit hole that is having _real measurable effect_ for a host of feral cats to live a more comfortable life. (Not the wheel generator thing)

> a machine told you what to do and you did it, like coloring by numbers - it doesn't make you an artist.

I never claimed to be an artist ;) And, maybe it's different for you, but someone or something showing me how to do something is quite literally the best way for me to learn. /shrug

> I have to doubt that. If you were all those things, you would have been able to complete that project with very little effort, and without a machine telling you what to do.

I love that for you.