Are you good enough?
Prior to this new hobby, piecing together boards from IKEA was pretty much the extent of my "building physical things" experience.
Now, I've kitted out the garage with a chop saw, circular saw, jigsaw, orbital sander, and a bunch of other bits and bobs.
Some of the creators I've found who, inarguably, produce beautiful things with seemingly minimal effort frustrate the hell out of me.
It was a beginners workshop on building a simple web app with Ruby on Rails (a web framework), and about 10-ish people attended.
He couldn't figure out how to install Ruby on his MacBook. He didn't know where to start. He wasn't sure what a "command prompt" was. And on, and on, and on.
It'd been so long since I'd been in the position where I had to start totally from scratch that I absolutely couldn't relate to what he was going through, and I was quickly running out of patience.
Now, this wasn't his fault. I should have made it clearer from the get-go who the workshop was for, or at least had some sort of guide to send everyone in advance.
