Ah, the old challenge rises its head: “to do X I need tool Y and I don’t have it but I still have to do X.”
I remember when I was in graduate school having to make my own gadgets and equipment to collect specimens and data I needed to do my dissertation. Photo gadgets to record stream substrates and photograph specimens through microscopes, for example. Things you can now buy off the shelf (although still quite expensive) I had to make from wood, glue, cardboard rolls (like the ones inside toilet paper tools), lots of tape, and paint. I had fun inventing and building, but what a lot of time spent doing it! Perhaps the best part (in retrospect, because at the time it was frustrating) was learning how things worked. Figuring out creative pathways to the final desired products, and getting them after trials and errors.
I still have a few of those hand-made gadgets kept only for nostalgic reasons.
Thank you for a great article and the trip down memory lane.
You are right !! With Patience, Persistence and Experience you will succeed
Indeed!
Ah, the old challenge rises its head: “to do X I need tool Y and I don’t have it but I still have to do X.”
I remember when I was in graduate school having to make my own gadgets and equipment to collect specimens and data I needed to do my dissertation. Photo gadgets to record stream substrates and photograph specimens through microscopes, for example. Things you can now buy off the shelf (although still quite expensive) I had to make from wood, glue, cardboard rolls (like the ones inside toilet paper tools), lots of tape, and paint. I had fun inventing and building, but what a lot of time spent doing it! Perhaps the best part (in retrospect, because at the time it was frustrating) was learning how things worked. Figuring out creative pathways to the final desired products, and getting them after trials and errors.
I still have a few of those hand-made gadgets kept only for nostalgic reasons.
Thank you for a great article and the trip down memory lane.
Glad you enjoyed it, Carlos. Thanks for sharing your story.