How It Works

Join the Community

The Discord server is where everything happens. Project channels are open to everyone — ask questions, share your own builds, or tell me I'm doing it wrong. All welcome.

The Process

  1. I build it live — design, prototype, and iterate on stream and in video
  2. I produce a limited run — no more than 100 units of any project, ever
  3. The community gets the first one — the very first completed unit is given away to someone in the Discord
  4. Units go on sale — available while they last
  5. You vote on what's next — patrons decide which ideas move from the backlog to the bench
  6. Designs go open source — 90 days after sale, everything is published for non-commercial use

Membership Tiers

Every project here is designed, prototyped, and built by one person. Your support keeps the components stocked, the PCB fabs running, and the caffeine levels dangerously high.

Breadboard

$2/mo

You're on the board.

  • Patron-only Discord channels
  • Eligible for project giveaways

Prototype

$3/mo

First revision.

  • Everything in Breadboard
  • Behind-the-scenes build logs
  • Early project announcements

Bodgewire

$5/mo

It works. Don't ask how.

  • Everything in Prototype
  • Vote on upcoming projects

Over Engineered

$8/mo

It definitely works. Ask me how.

  • Everything in Bodgewire
  • Work-in-progress design files

What's Next

$13/mo

You're shaping the roadmap.

  • Everything in Over Engineered
  • Priority access to limited-run units
  • Name in project credits
  • Exclusive Discord Q&A channel
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The First Build Giveaway

The very first completed unit of every project is given away to someone in the community. You don't need to be a patron — just be in the Discord and opt in. I'd rather a pinball light strip goes to someone who actually owns a pinball machine than someone who entered everything on autopilot.

One entry per person, everyone gets the same chance. One winner per project, drawn when the first unit is built and tested. Shipping is on me.

About Open Source

90 days after units go on sale, I publish everything — schematics, gerbers, firmware source, BOM, build notes — under a non-commercial license with attribution required. You can build your own, modify it, learn from it. You just can't sell copies. That's what keeps the limited runs viable and this whole thing funded.