About me and this blog

About me

Hi, I'm Matt. For as long as I can remember, I have been interested with working with my hands and my mind. Solving problems. As Scott Adams would say, I have "the knack". 

I grew up working with wood (my father was a carpenter), and building electronic projects (my parents were very supportive of my nerdish tendencies). Before I graduated high school, I began an internship with a large manufacturing company in my home town. I immediately fell in love with metal.

I ended up staying with that company as a draftsman after graduation, and put myself through college at night. Now with my degree in Electro-Mechanical Engineering, I work there as an engineer in their R&D group.

About this blog

I intend for this blog to be a journal of my experiences building new things and repairing old ones.

My crystal ball is broken, so I don't know what the next project will be. I do know what interests me, so there's a very good chance that this blog will follow projects with the following themes:

Metal

• Machining
• Fabrication
• Metrology
• Machine Tools

Wood

• Furniture building
• Carpentry

Sparks

• Electrical
• Electronics
• Computers
• Programming

I have taken advantage of the endless sources of knowledge available on the internet - blogs, forums, YouTube, etc. I feel it is only right to contribute something in return.

So if you if you've never picked up a hammer, or have been a tool-and-die maker for decades, hopefully by sharing our experiences and knowledge, we can all learn new skills, and be inspired to go build!