Uncle Matt Makes _____

Powering the panel up. The magic smoke stayed inside and the lights came on, which is all I was hoping for. #electronics

Something I love about original production drawings is how often you can see eraser marks. If even the best artists don’t get it exactly right on the first try, then I don’t have to, either.

Getting visits from these lil ones is a highlight of my day. I have learned so much about raccoons and their behavior over the past few months, they’re the coolest of the critters.

Glint is a little LED toy you tilt and shake, and this was my first SMD session. They worked! Only to be murdered at a later date. I plugged the battery in backwards and killed the FET, twice. The fix was a black sharpie mark on the ground side of the board, to match the black wire. #esp32 #ai

The bug collector - well, at least she likes looking at bugs and drawing bugs, but isn't too keen on actually catching any - so she just waves her net around in the air in case anyone's watching.... #automata #thebugcollector #woodenart

Tilt-maze mode is working! Almost feels like making my own handheld console. #gamedev #esp32

I had the whole monetization fantasy queued up before my map of video game history even worked. Picturing the paywall is what killed it. #gamedev

This is Notch. Chillest of dudes. His paw was injured, and decided to rest on the patio for a bit. #raccoon

Five circuit boards for my paper festival lanterns came back from the factory, and all five work. It's the first PCB I've ever designed and ordered, and I couldn't have done it without my AI buddy. #electronics

Third time's the charm! No stencil this time. I squeezed paste on each pad, put it on the hot plate, then ended up re-touching most joints with the iron during the testing process. Ain't pretty, but it sure is fun. #electronics

I had a fun idea recently after watching witch hat atelier of a pencil that could blow bubbles, just to make art a little more fun. Here is my prototype #maker #art #whimsy

10 years ago this week, I released a lil VR game. Now it's playable in or out of VR - right in your browser. You can race your friends, make your own courses, or kick back and watch others in FF-TV. It's open-source now too! facetedflight.net

Faceted Flight went on Steam ten years ago this week. The definitive edition has multiplayer and a map editor, runs in a browser and on phones, and I'm making it open source. #gamedev #VR

Game of the Year 2026.

Slapped together a "stop backing up" sensor for my partner, using an esp32, an old ultrasonic sensor, and spare neopixel strip. Anything within a certain distance of the sensor makes the rainbow light party. #esp32

It started as one feeling I wanted: grab a game, drag it, watch everything connected come drifting along behind. That sat in my head for almost twenty years before I could build it. #gamedev

Stayed up a lil too late playing Galactic Racer. It’s tough, and you’ve gotta jump through hoops just to race, but oooh those races.

Thought my old computer had a bad power supply, so I replaced the PSU. My first time swapping one. Turned out the older machine just didn't like all of its cores getting slammed.for species id.....oops.

Time to convert an old breadboard project to a protoboard project. What shenanigans are you all up to today?

Putting the backyard code on GitHub meant taking my own name out of it first, and my first attempt at that looked like it had worked and hadn't. Force-pushing a rewritten history does not clear the refs GitHub keeps from old pull requests.

Painted a turtle print to give my sister a smile. Found out afterward I should have painted the lines white, not black. Doh. #3dprinting

Stan has been bringing her kids around almost every day! So far we've named Peaches, and Poe (short for poe-tay-toe). Still haven't quite worked out what the last of the triplets should be named. #raccoons

ME: Yeah, it’s a lifelong condition THEM: So temporary? ME: Listen here, you little shit

For a stretch there, every card I pulled off the trail camera came back full of the barbecue. The classifier had a species picked out for it too: brown rat. You can read the Weber logo on the lid of the crops it saved. #computervision

Making physics core to the six degrees of play experience means that you can tug on a game to see how its influences pull its neighbors. #gamedev

I keep hearing Indiana Jones in my head about the games map: this belongs in a museum. That's the one problem on the list I can't code my way out of. #gamedev

Meet The Dude. I put my hand on the glass and so did he! Then he curled up at the door and laid down. I think it's safe to say I found my spirit animal...or he found me...something like that. Either way, snacks are involved.

my 2nd attempt at assembly for my glint revE board, so i thought i'd do a lil stop-motion experiment using one shot per assembly step for the glint board. kinda sorta works, but i should really do per-part next time... #animation #stopmotion

My husband helps 3d print wheelchairs for toddlers. If you need one, please sign up on Make Good. They have more makers than children to make for because not enough people know about them. makegood.design

You're a raccoon causing mischief. Need I say more? Wishlist on Steam or the Microsoft Store! 🦝 Dumpster Gang launches on PC this December! Steam ► store.steampowered.com/app/2870790/... Microsoft Store ► www.microsoft.com/store/produc...

Finally assembled a pcb with smd components thats actually working! Further proof third time’s the charm.

🐬 ORCA - Central Puget Sound 08:44 - Single orca reported as veiwed from Dash Point Park Beach. Exact location of the orca and direction of travel were not included. [WA app] #psws

Thought I caught a glimpse of Miss B going past the door one night, but she was so fast I wasn't sure I'd seen anything at all. Went to the site, pulled up the footage, and there she was. #wildlife

these lil buggers like to go all melty when soldered on with an iron. feels good to finally get one on that isn't all toasty.

PolyFish looks like a calm little ocean. It started as beer yeast that behaved way too much like the zombies from a game I worked on. #gamedev

Find your lost phone anywhere in the house with Gleb Shalimov’s handheld, offline ESP32-S3 signal tracker.

Hi all! I wanted to share a piece I made from recycled 3D printing filament that I couldn’t use, I hope you all like it and are having a lovely day! #recycled #reused #artist #art #3DPrinting

Debugging pics sometimes hit like artwork. Also: goddamn I f’d this up.

I’ve been going to #PAX on and off since the start in Bellevue. I love going, but holy crap there’s just too many people to enjoy the booths and get a good look at games, let alone try and play them. That said, it’s great to see so many of us nerds, geeking out over everything. End of old man rant

A bare LED panel showing a picture still reads as bright dots arranged like a picture. The fix was a 3D printed grid, walls around every LED so none of them bleed into each other, with a white layer over the top. No code in it at all, purely an optical trick. #electronics

I wanted to warm a dead vape on the hot plate to soften the glue and get it open. Claude pointed out that would hold a lithium cell straight through the temperature where it catches fire on its own. So I opened it by hand, and found a screw hiding under the foam pad. #maker

The tile in its dev enclosure, fully hooked up and working from a battery for the first time!! No cord, just the thing sitting in my hand. #electronics

The commit history on this one goes: one commit, nothing, nothing, then three dozen in an afternoon. Built around a job and a long stretch of being sick, so I picked tools that could survive me vanishing for two weeks. #gamedev