Maker's Dilema - To make or not to make? That is the Corona question

The Covid-19 worldwide lockdown has caused numerous changes to our habits, schedules and activities.

This poll asks the question:

Has the lockdown increased your maker activity or has it decreased your maker activity?

Please explain why in the comments below.

Top Comments

genebren over 5 years ago in reply to dougw +9

I think a lot of us (engineers) have been practicing social distancing for many years. I like people, but being an introvert, I also prefer to self isolate whenever possible.
DAB over 5 years ago +7

For me the virus has been a minimal event. The biggest impact is that the Senior Center is closed, so I am not getting as much exercise and I cannot do my monthly military history discussions. I have been…
michaelkellett over 5 years ago in reply to dougw +6

Parent board and child board, adult board and looked after board, primary board and secondary board, father board and son board - the solitary confinement is getting to me ! MK

dixonselvan over 5 years ago

I have some free time because of the lockdown but unfortunately with no access to my hardware! So exploring software projects for now. Learned and tried some new stuff!
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Fred27 over 5 years ago in reply to cstanton

I'd not heard of that. It looks interesting - a bit Heston Blumenthal.
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cstanton over 5 years ago in reply to Fred27

Have you checked out https://www.cookingforgeeks.com/ ?
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Fred27 over 5 years ago in reply to cstanton

We did homemade pizzas recently - in a proper wood-fired oven . They were not as good as usual because we couldn't get proper (double zero) pizza flour.
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cstanton over 5 years ago in reply to michaelkellett

> My son and I are forced to ration baking because we can't get flour !

'Pizza Flour' seems abundant almost everywhere, and makes for a reasonably good substitute, if that helps
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michaelkellett over 5 years ago in reply to cstanton

My son and I are forced to ration baking because we can't get flour !

We can get local eggs, hens or ducks.

I've noticed a huge (and welcome) reduction both junk mail and junk emails.

MK
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cstanton over 5 years ago

I'm being forced to bake more. That's been the main difference, buying bread has been pretty much impossible, along with eggs, fortunately not milk so much.

So a supply of flour, sodium bicarbonate, yeast and salt/sugar has meant that I've been baking more (I enjoy it anyway). It even made me start looking into owning my own work-top mill to use on wheat grain, surprisingly this is more of a thing in America than it is in England.

I've gained a little time back, I'm not driving to the office, fortunately we can work from home! but that also means I still have the routine of working so I haven't gained /that/ much time.

I did use it as an excuse to create a project or two though, which you've probably seen me post to the site. The electricity monitor project has helped me to claim the cost back from the UK government
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genebren over 5 years ago in reply to dougw

I think a lot of us (engineers) have been practicing social distancing for many years. I like people, but being an introvert, I also prefer to self isolate whenever possible.
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dougw over 5 years ago in reply to DAB

Good point.
Looking at it objectively, I have a tendency to "avoid" people too, because I find interaction to be stressful.
Now I have a convenient excuse.
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rstone over 5 years ago in reply to BigG

I've noticed some supplies being in shorter supply, or just taking longer to be shipped. Luckily, I had a couple old netbooks laying around from a dumpster dive, I fixed one of those up for my 6 yr old to use. the small keyboard fits her perfectly.

Rick
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