Woodworking is a fantastic outlet for creativity, and seriously underrated/underappreciated. Great way to take a break from coding. Extremely rewarding, and not very difficult to learn the basics, either.
Since we're sharing, here's a couple things I've made around the house:
Nice looking pieces! Totally agree about creative outlet. I think it would be cool to have a place where all of us engineers could talk about woodworking, interested in joining an freenode IRC channel about it? #woodworking
Since we're sharing, here's a couple things I've made around the house:
https://scontent-b-lax.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/302582_2063...
https://scontent-a-lax.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/309672_1015...