Uncle Matt, a wild-haired maker wearing round welding goggles Uncle Matt makes

Uncle Matt makes

I build things and show you how I did it, including the ugly drafts and the parts that caught fire. I don't know what I'm doing most of the time, but I'm not gonna let that stop me. Pull up a stool.

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Freshest posts first, across everything.

  1. A small black vape shell held in fingers and cracked open, showing the green circuit board inside: a silver USB-C connector and a cross-head screw at the top, a black square chip in the middle, and a white disc wired with two fine leads at the bottom.

    Bench notes

    Adventures in disassembly

    I had a pile of dead vapes, a hot air station I barely knew how to use, and no components yet. One of them came apart into a practice board, a screw I did not see, and a microphone I probably killed.

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  3. Three raccoons on paving stones in front of a stone wall at night, their banded tails clearly visible.

    Critter Cam

    We thought Stan adopted a pup

    The adults had been visiting one at a time for weeks, and then they started bringing kids. Three mothers, nine kits, and we told the software not to put a name on any of them.

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Projects

Everything on the bench, finished first. The chip says how done it is.

Bench notes

Photos and clips from between the builds, plus the odd half-formed thought.

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