Uncle Matt makes stuff
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.
Latest from the bench
Freshest posts first, across everything.
Projects
Everything on the bench, finished first. The chip says how done it is.
PolyFish
shipped 🏴☠️A whole underwater ecosystem running in your browser. Everything in it eats, poops and reproduces, and the poop is where the plants come from.
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Six Degrees of Play
shipped 🏴☠️Fifty years of video game history as a galaxy you fly through. Grab one game and everything connected to it comes drifting along behind.
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Oddball Creature Club
shipped 🏴☠️Made-up critters, drawn and then turned into stickers. More of a habit than a business.
Check it out build notes coming soon
Glint
in progressA lil LED toy you tilt, shake and double tap. I saw one at a Maker Faire, thought "I bet I can make that", and went and found out.
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Automata
in progressHand cranked machines that make a printed character dance. Animate the motion in Blender, turn the curve into a cam, print the cam, crank the handle.
Hoverbike
in progressA game about going much too fast, a few inches off the ground.
Lantern
in progressTwo paper festival lanterns, my first soldering iron, and a slow slide from nicer lights to designing a real circuit board.
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Numen
in progressA game I've been chewing on for a while. Not ready to show the guts yet.
The Backyard
in progressA camera on the back door and enough software to tell the raccoons apart. We know a few of them by name now.
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Motion Lab
researchingMeasuring servos, then printing custom horns and housings for them. Working out what it takes to make a motor act.
The Crossroads
researchingA story you walk around inside of. Still drawing the map.
Bench notes
Photos and clips from between the builds, plus the odd half-formed thought.
