I spent $1200 on a DJI Phantom and I got bored with it in two weeks.

[GRIFFIN1]

The Drone was $729 when I bought it. It's a refurbished Phantom 4. I then spent at least another $500 on two extra batteries, ND filter for the camera lens, and a Nvidia Shield tablet and a heavy duty case for everything.

It was a lot fun the first week. I would come home from work and fly it for almost an hour each day. I started skipping days on week two, and I'm pretty sure I haven't used it at all since week two. It's been sitting in the case for almost two months now.

10 years ago, I spent around 3-4k dollars on reloading equipment. I read books and websites about reloading. It took me months to get everything setup, but it was another hobby that I just didn't enjoy once the learning curve was finished.

I need to just stick with fishing. I never seem to get totally bored with fishing.

 

[IronWing]

Combine your reloading hobby with your drone hobby. Explosions never get old.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

The Drone was $729 when I bought it. It's a refurbished Phantom 4. I then spent at least another $500 on two extra batteries, ND filter for the camera lens, and a Nvidia Shield tablet and a heavy duty case for everything.

It was a lot fun the first week. I would come home from work and fly it for almost an hour each day. I started skipping days on week two, and I'm pretty sure I haven't used it at all since week two. It's been sitting in the case for almost two months now.

10 years ago, I spent around 3-4k dollars on reloading equipment. I read books and websites about reloading. It took me months to get everything setup, but it was another hobby that I just didn't enjoy once the learning curve was finished.

I need to just stick with fishing. I never seem to get totally bored with fishing.

You have the same problem I have. I enjoy the idea of new things but I get most of the joy out of creating the new thing, then I don't have as much fun with the thing that I thought I would.

1) 120 gallon fresh water planted fish tank. Fun for a few months but got sick of maintenance. Most of the fun for mye was building the stand and canopy and doing the plumbing and getting everything setup initially.
2) Arcade cabinet (MAME Cab). Several months later I was barely using it. Then the desktop it depended on fialed and I replaced it. Got it mostly up and running again but I basically ignore it these days. Most of the fun was building it and configuring the desktop.
3) Recently, bought a Denon x3300 receiver (refurb to save money). OK, I already have an awesome setup so this is used daily. The beauty of this upgrade is that it turns on with the TV so it is always in use! But I probably get a lesser model even though I am using the 7 amps in it and subwoofer outs.
4) Bought a few movies for my home entertainment center because "they would be awesome on it" and have yet to watch it. Hell, I even bought Logan already in 4K.
5) Oh, wanted (not needed) a $K blu ray player since I have a 4K TV. dedicated 4k blu ray players are $200 so I bought an Xbox One S that I barely use.
6) Oh, games. I buy games that I think I'll love and don't get to them. I probably play half of the games I buy. I have Prey sitting and waiting still. I've bought one game recently and played it for 5 minutes and decided that it is not for me. Hell, all I do is play friggin rocket league. I should just stop buying anything.
7) Buy books with every intent of reading them and rarely do.

I'm sure I have more examples. The thing is, I realize this about myself so over time this sickness has lessened.

 

[torpid]

My suggestion for next time is to actually try out your hobby for a while before investing over $1,000

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Take up golf, the learning curve never ends.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I almost bought a Phantom myself, decided I start with a cheap drone though. It's great but loses comm when you go too high and it drops, but it was enough for me to at least get my feet wet with the tech. Every now and then it also fails to record. Now I'd like something with higher range and probably FPV as once it's high up it's really hard to tell what direction it's facing. I may look into building one as it would make a fun project, though it's not all that much cheaper once you factor the cost of all the parts. A single ESC is like 20 bucks and you need one per motor, for example. The control pad alone goes for several hundred. So it adds up.

Some footage I took:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT9TAubP-ZQ

Downside is they recently past new drone laws here, making them illegal pretty much everywhere. Oddly the rules don't apply to RC aircraft, they specify them differently than quad copters. So I may have to go the RC aircraft route if I want to play with drones more.

 

[zinfamous]

Combine your reloading hobby with your drone hobby. Explosions never get old.

Well, fishing is the hobby he enjoys. I think it would be better to combine reloading with fishing, because it will just enhance the one hobby he actually enjoys. Combining two boring hobbies sounds like another losing formula.

 

[Red Squirrel]

How about all 3. Explosive fishing, with a drone!

 

[cbrunny]

what is reloading?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Based on context I'm going to guess it's making explosives. Or maybe repacking bullets with black powder.

 

[rh71]

That's like buying a $5k+ bicycle or DSLR and realizing you were never really serious about it. Don't go big, go home.

 

[clamum]

what is reloading?

I'm guessing reloading centerfire ammunition (like you'd shoot in an AR-15, bolt action rifle, etc).

I am kind like that, too, OP though I maybe haven't spent quite a much. But PC games, I have a bunch that have less than an hour or no play time at all on Steam. I also have a turret press and reloading equipment but since I moved to my current apartment in 09/2015 my reloading stuff is still boxed up, lol. I do have a lot of books, and audiobooks, but that's one thing I don't have a problem with consuming.

But I don't really see the problem with it if you're OK with it. Bah... it's just money. If you aren't spending money that you need to buy groceries or pay rent then who cares. It's not like you can bring your money along when you die, or you get rewarded for dying with more money than Joe Blow neighbor.

 

[ctbaars]

Get a hobby that includes other people. People make the difference.
Model railroad club
Join a flying club
Bike club
Referee
Shooting club
Golf works if you have a gaggle
Gaggle of girls

 

[torpid]

Business idea: drone delivery of reloaded bait tins to fishermen.

 

[KMFJD]

I almost bought a Phantom myself, decided I start with a cheap drone though. It's great but loses comm when you go too high and it drops, but it was enough for me to at least get my feet wet with the tech. Every now and then it also fails to record. Now I'd like something with higher range and probably FPV as once it's high up it's really hard to tell what direction it's facing. I may look into building one as it would make a fun project, though it's not all that much cheaper once you factor the cost of all the parts. A single ESC is like 20 bucks and you need one per motor, for example. The control pad alone goes for several hundred. So it adds up.

Some footage I took:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT9TAubP-ZQ

Downside is they recently past new drone laws here, making them illegal pretty much everywhere. Oddly the rules don't apply to RC aircraft, they specify them differently than quad copters. So I may have to go the RC aircraft route if I want to play with drones more.

I think the new laws will be in place this summer sometime, hopefully a little clearer than this mess we currently have, in the US they just struck down the registration with faa ruling. DJI's been doing some sneaky shit with their firmware updates and the latest one requires you to "phone home" before you use it.

 

[Aikouka]

I tend to get that way, but it's usually when something with the new hobby doesn't go well. It gets even worse when I spend a ton of time researching the topic to miss something, which just makes it all not work out as well as expected. The latest of these snafus is probably 3D printing. Everyone -- and especially the companies selling the printers -- makes it sound so easy, but I can't get the damn things to ever be completely flat. At this point, I'm trying to install a device to determine bed height differences, but that requires a new logic board. That just opened a huge can of worms that's lead me to develop an entirely new control box built out of a 20" toolbox.

what is reloading?

You take shell casings (fired or new), reprime them, add gunpowder and put a new bullet on it. I'm not sure if I got it in the right order, but that's about it. My dad used to do it quite a bit as it was a good way to save some money given how often he went target shooting. (He did Sporterifle and stuff like that.) He actually got to the point where he'd cast his own bullets.

 

[bigrash]

I'll pay you $600 + shipping for everything.

 

[jtvang125]

I've got a few hobbies that come and go depending on my interests at the time.

1. Freshwater planted and saltwater aquariums
2. Photography
3. airsoft
4. plastic modelling

Don't even want to think about how much $ I dumped into each only to sell them off at a loss because I lost interest. I'm pretty sure I'll follow right in your footsteps if I was to get a drone too. Seems like lots of fun at the beginning but the novelty is going to wear off fast.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I think the new laws will be in place this summer sometime, hopefully a little clearer than this mess we currently have, in the US they just struck down the registration with faa ruling. DJI's been doing some sneaky shit with their firmware updates and the latest one requires you to "phone home" before you use it.

Yeah June is the official date I think, and yeah that DJI change sounds sketchy. Pisses me off how so much stuff wants to be tried to the cloud or some kind of service now. If that's the case I'm definitely going to build my own.

 

[KMFJD]

Yeah June is the official date I think, and yeah that DJI change sounds sketchy. Pisses me off how so much stuff wants to be tried to the cloud or some kind of service now. If that's the case I'm definitely going to build my own.

If you just want to fly around then building your own is definitely viable, dji has some damn nice features and is great for tacking pictures/videos. I'd purchased one of those 'toy' quads before at BestBuy and it was frustrating as all hell to fly, not so with the dji, it's very stable and amazingly easy to fly. They just released the DJI Spark today

 

[runzwithsizorz]

I really don't have any regrets for the things I bought for hobbies, for I can sell them for a good portion of what I paid for them. One regret was spending a few grand on a HUGE jacuzzi. Fun for the first couple of years, especially when friends would bring their wives, and girlfriends over, and we'd all get naked. At first we would use it 2,or 3 times a week, then maybe once a week, then maybe once a month. The novelty just wore off, and unlike a drone, you can't just store it in a closet, or shelf, nor can you sell it for anything even near half of what you paid for it.

 

[Red Squirrel]

If you just want to fly around then building your own is definitely viable, dji has some damn nice features and is great for tacking pictures/videos. I'd purchased one of those 'toy' quads before at BestBuy and it was frustrating as all hell to fly, not so with the dji, it's very stable and amazingly easy to fly. They just released the DJI Spark today

Yeah I'd probably get a FPV module for one I build, and then for taking actual video I could get a gopro. There is the Gopro session now that is like a small cube, really small and light, so I'd probably use that. Could go fancy with a controllable gimbal, but I'd probably just get some kind of setup where I can adjust it manually then go fly.

Really the thing with this new law is somebody has to enforce it. I doubt cops are really going to enforce it especially if I go in the middle of nowhere with it. suppose footage could be used against you though.

Think I'll have to wait and see how enforced it really is and decide if it's worth it. It might be like speed limits where they arn't really enforced, unless you're going way over.

 

[sdifox]

what is reloading?

hand loading bullets is my assumption. Reusing the casing?

 

[sdifox]

Op should try drone fishing.

 

[KMFJD]

Op should try drone fishing.