I am a developer for a free open source game inspired by Minecraft called VoxeLibre, I have also made one of the more popular mods for it.

Development is a collaborative effort between many people so I cant call the game mine. I didn’t create it. But ive been contributing on and off for a few years trying to do what I can to improve the project. So in a way it feels like I’m at least part of the legacy at this point. I am proud of how far the project as a whole have come and proud of the talented people I have the pleasure to collaborate with.

It started almost three years ago with simple typo bugfixes. I did not know anything about coding or pixel art making or git commits but liked it enough to learn through hard work and effort. Its been quite the ride ever since!

I furnitured!

I built this planter box, along with one three times as long as this one, out of cedar

This little table for my porch out of some lovely local white oak. It’s a humble little thing but I’m rather proud of it because it’s the first project I made with genuine mortise and tenon joints, some chopped by hand with a chisel.

A plant stand, also out of white oak. This one has slanted and tapered legs, and Avril Lavigne wrote a song about it. Why DID I have to make things so complicated?

And two bookcases from birch plywood and white pine. I was particularly careful planning this one, and managed to get the carcass and shelves of each bookcase out of a single sheet of 3/4" plywood, though it does mean the grain direction on the fixed bottom shelf doesn’t make sense.

I’m developing my first vidyagame, an RTS Clicker survival where you have to grow to be the largest organism on the planet, called Infinitree. Steampage going up in February, prototype is going out to F&F this month. Check out The Infinitree website for more info :-)

Latest terrarium, work in progress, used from thrift, front doors open.

PIC

Excepting the center-rear plants and two epiphytes (Lowes), everything sourced or created locally.

Substrate: rock (found and cleaned), charcoal & dirt (made myself)

Contents: Mosses, dead and alive, green onions, tiny pine trees, purple hearts (swiped from the gas station trimmings), driftwood (found hiking and canoeing, power washed), reindeer moss (not quite visible)

Lighting: Thrift store light with various grow bulbs, still painting and assembling. Not thrilled with the color, can’t get the high color-fidelity (CRI) grow bulbs I’ve used before, had to mix it up best I could.

Animals: Nothing so far, but I want to pack it with detritivores like millipedes, springtails and roly polys. Wife is getting me a chameleon, probably tonight! Not sure how to keep the bug population going with him in there. Ideas? Rocks to hide under? I may also get a Pac Man frog.

It’ll be way cooler and different in a year. Just put the round, green moss in, hasn’t settled naturally, stuff like that. The pines will be worked over as bonsais, some stuff may die or turn out inappropriate, wood may move around, etc.

EDIT: Got the chameleon! “Doctor Lector”. Still working on insect populations, but we got 20 crickets to start him off.

Around a year and a half ago I started making my own keyboards. Like, I still use normal switches, normal keycaps, and off-the-shelf microcontrollers & firmware, but the layout and the structure are my own design, mostly fabricated at home. After a few experiments (one ortho, one ergo, one macropad, and one gutting of a broken off-the-shelf to try something larger) , I had three keyboards’ worth of aluminum plates made. One was pretty basic but has remained a favorite and another really hit my retro intent for the design, but the second was sort of an ignored middle-child because it wasn’t as refined as the third, or as earnest and satisfying as the first. I fixed it by designing a wrap-around case for it, changing the keycaps, and adding a little solenoid so it sounds like a telegraph machine whenever I flip a little switch. I’m really pleased that I was able to retrofit it to make it stupidly fun to type on. My boards are not exactly the perfectly-finished CNC aluminum showpieces some enjoy, but it’s deeply satisfying to go from a pile of electronic bits, some sheet goods, and a reel of printer filament, to a functioning piece of daily-use equipment.

I make music, including putting it to video every once and awhile. So technically “music videos,” I guess. I don’t share them all that much, but here’s a weird one I’m kind of proud of.