Remember in 1976 computers were relegated to the hobbyist market and few people believed they computers would be household items.
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Apple was on the brink of approving a serial cable for iOS that they would let Redpark sell into the hobbyist market.
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Anyone now has the opportunity to monetize their skills, from the full-time worker looking for additional income to the once hobbyist building their very own business.
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It is easy to dismiss this enthusiasm as the irrelevant obsession of a rich hobbyist or the harmless utopianism of a capitalist who has made his pile.
Now, just four years after making the transition from hobbyist to professional, MacEntee has gone from seeking out mentors to being a highly sought-after mentor himself.
This revolutionary technology fills the gap between low-end hobbyist machines with limited resolution and high-end printers that cost tens of thousands of dollars.
Stitt isn't quite in those ranks yet, but he's a good example of how a hobbyist can thrive part-time in the stock photo market.
Detroit is a city of contrasts, but no one has captured the good and bad as vividly as an unidentified hobbyist armed with a cheap helicopter-like flying robot and a YouTube account.
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It may all look like hobbyist fun now, but O'Reilly and Dougherty predict that the "maker culture" will spawn new technologies, ideas for companies and ultimately a new industry.
In May 2010, an unsung numbers hobbyist named Ed Weiland wrote a long-term forecast of Jeremy Lin for the basketball website Hoops Analyst.
It's no hobbyist effort, either, with a Leica designer and a former Polaroid factory both involved in making the Lab a reality.
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