The backflow starship incense burner took about 1 month to lick, from the concepts with forced air to the solving of the melting. Then it was back to a familiar pattern of struggling to find anything else meaningful to build. It takes infinitely less time to build structures than it did 25 years ago. Something like an incense burner or a mouse once entailed a very long period of testing materials, cutting wood, sanding wood. Now we're overflowing in crap in no time after the decision is made. There's also been a shift from toys that teach to toys that generate value. A big part of the old days was the learning from building toys that weren't valuable. Some of it was a lack of money. Old lion is going to buy a programmer instead of build one from scratch & buy 3D printer addons instead of fabricate them from scratch. Most of the knowledge is now commonly available, especially all the electronical stuff young lion had to fight to d...