Mentioning “knitting” and etc. is interesting, and reminds me of a variation on this theme:
Browsing BoingBoing in the 2010s, the maker-themed posts that gained traction were projects that were essentially structured as: An over complicated _______ but it’s actually a simple ________. For example, ‘a 3d printed diy wrist mounted display that actually only shows yesterdays’ tweets”.
In some ways today’s pattern of projects being either very complicated or very simple is a distillation/separation of the earlier pattern.
Browsing BoingBoing in the 2010s, the maker-themed posts that gained traction were projects that were essentially structured as: An over complicated _______ but it’s actually a simple ________. For example, ‘a 3d printed diy wrist mounted display that actually only shows yesterdays’ tweets”.
In some ways today’s pattern of projects being either very complicated or very simple is a distillation/separation of the earlier pattern.