Taking things apart since long before I could put them back

I’m Mait. I write web software for a living, full stack, seven years of it. This is where I keep the other half: the builds that involve a soldering iron, a printer bed, and firmware that has to survive being left running unattended.

The electronics came first. I was the kid who took things apart to find out how they worked, and by gymnasium that had turned into three years in the robotics club, which I loved. After military service I started a mechanical engineering degree, expecting it to be the same thing with more theory. It wasn’t, and I left six months in. Then came five years cooking professionally, and only after that did I go and study software development.

So this is the long way round. Robotics found me too early, and it’s found me again now that I finally have the tools for it. A few years of 3D printing and Fusion 360 is a large part of that: whatever I can think up, I can print by the weekend and find out where I was wrong. Python is the newest piece, and robotics is what finally gave me a reason to learn it properly.

Everything in progress lives on the projects page. Multi-part builds get an index listing every part in order, and everything else is a standalone log or write-up, tagged by what it actually is: a build log, a firmware note, or a finished project write-up. All of it is a real record of what I tried, what broke, and what the wiring actually looked like once I stopped lying to myself about how many wires I needed.

By day I’m a developer at a company. On the side I run AlmightyTech, which is where the client work lives. If a build here is useful to you, or you want to ask about something, mail me at mait@almightytech.eu.