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Uncle Matt Makes _____

@unclemattmakes.com
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I like to make things, even when I have no clue what I'm doing. Game dev by day, mad scientist at night. The making-ofs live at unclemattmakes.com

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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 17h
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
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Odd_Jayy @oddjayy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Me before any physical activity: Eh, what could it hurt?   Me the next day:   Image Description:A meme featuring a person wrapped completely head-to-toe in a full-body white plaster cast, wearing a halo traction brace around their head. They are sitting in a wheelchair with both legs elevated and arms propped outward, located inside a living room next to a beige sofa with red throw pillows. In the bottom left corner, there is a faint script watermark that reads "@zebrawarriorprincess".
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 10/10/2026
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
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 10/10/2026
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
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The version I wanted to make
Faceted Flight left Early Access ten years after it went on Steam. It has multiplayer and a map editor now, runs in a browser and on phones, and I'm making it open source.
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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Game of the Year 2026.
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 09/10/2026
Bahahaha this is too accurate.
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 09/10/2026
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
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 07/10/2026
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
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I just wanted to see what it looked like
I wondered what a map of game influences would look like, and then almost twenty years went by with nothing happening, because I had the idea and no way to build it.
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 07/10/2026
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.
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 07/10/2026
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.
A black computer tower with its side panel off, lying open on a dark leather chair in a room full of houseplants. Inside, a Corsair liquid cooler and a large Gigabyte GeForce RTX graphics card sit above an empty lower bay, with a braided cable routed around the drive cage.
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 07/10/2026
I haven’t, and definitely not saying to learn on your monitor! Thats something to build up to. Just wanted to say it’s worth the plunge to learn soldering. I personally regret putting it off so long. It’s not nearly as big of a hurdle as it can seem, and it’s sooo satisfying when it works.
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 06/10/2026
soldering can be fun! it look intimidating, but it's not so tough and totally worth learning.
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 05/10/2026
love the clothespin mechanism, and of course how darn how cute this is!
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 05/10/2026
In Jimothy we trust.
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 05/10/2026
Time to convert an old breadboard project to a protoboard project. What shenanigans are you all up to today?
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 03/10/2026
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.
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Publishing it is shipping
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.
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 02/10/2026
Painted a turtle print to give my sister a smile. Found out afterward I should have painted the lines white, not black. Doh. #3dprinting
A small 3D-printed turtle held between finger and thumb: bright green head and legs, brown shell with dark lines painted into the grooves.
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 30/09/2026
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
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ME: Yeah, it’s a lifelong condition THEM: So temporary? ME: Listen here, you little shit
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 26/09/2026
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
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The barbecue kept getting filed as a rat
On one card, half of what the trail camera caught was furniture. The automatic filter finds some of it by watching what never moves, and I draw boxes around the rest by hand.
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 26/09/2026
What is this beautiful monstrosity??
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 25/09/2026
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
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 23/09/2026
Very cool work!
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 23/09/2026
Bahahaha so great!
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 23/09/2026
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
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The parts I still can't crack
An honest list of what's still broken or unsolved on Six Degrees. Three of them are engineering problems. The fourth one is me.
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 23/09/2026
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.
A raccoon sitting right up against the outside of a sliding glass door at night, seen from inside in close profile, with peanuts scattered across the paving stones behind it.
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
life with autoimmune disorders

[police officer [my immune system] tasing a guy running on the baseball field [me]
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 21/09/2026
I’ve been working on custom firmware so I can drive it exactly how I want using the esp32 + an IMU. It’s been a blast to work with!
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 19/09/2026
Most of the raccoons that I started the project with ended up being moms! Cutie had 4 kits, Stan 3, and Mama Pedro has 2.
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 19/09/2026
this is beautiful! i love how clean and "flowy" the lines are.
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 19/09/2026
Spent months trying to get software to tell my raccoons apart. Tail, face mask, the way they walk, body size, what time they turn up. Then I looked up how actual biologists do it, and the answer is they clip fur off the tail. I think I'll leave that to the pro's. #wildlife
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Biologists do this by clipping tail fur
We spent months looking for something on a raccoon that would hold still enough to identify it by. The tail, the mask, the walk, the size, the hour it shows up. Then I looked up how the professionals do it.
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 18/09/2026
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
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I*just*feel*embarrassed @hollyck83.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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
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MakeGood INC - Free 3D Printed Assistive Devices
A 501(c)(3) nonprofit using 3D printing to create free, custom assistive devices for people with disabilities worldwide.
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Dumpster Gang @playdumpstergang.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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...
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 15/09/2026
Awwww yeah, bub.
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 13/09/2026
Finally assembled a pcb with smd components thats actually working! Further proof third time’s the charm.
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 12/09/2026
Gorgeous! Wow. Almost like a fire-y fox.
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Puget Sound Whale Sightings @pugetsoundwhales.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🐬 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
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 12/09/2026
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
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Am I seeing the same critter or multiple ones?
I thought I caught a glimpse of Miss B going past the door, but she was so fast I was not sure I had seen anything. Being able to go and check is the thing this whole rig is for.
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 11/09/2026
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.
Extreme close-up of a small cream-coloured four-pin Qwiic connector soldered onto a green circuit board, its four solder joints bright against the copper pads, with the silkscreen label J6 beside it and a blue silicone work mat behind.
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 09/09/2026
I love this style. So cool!
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 09/09/2026
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
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Beer and zombies
PolyFish looks like a peaceful little ocean. It started as beer yeast that behaved unnervingly like the zombies from a game I'd worked on.
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Hackster.io @hacksterio.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Find your lost phone anywhere in the house with Gleb Shalimov’s handheld, offline ESP32-S3 signal tracker.
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Track Down Your Misplaced Phone Instantly with an ESP32
Find your lost phone anywhere in the house with Gleb Shalimov’s handheld, offline ESP32-S3 signal tracker.
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 08/09/2026
i think we're gonna need a smaller boat. heheheh
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Rach Rox @rachrox.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 08/09/2026
this is great! i love this method over the "melt and mash it all together in a mold" - awesome stuff!
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 08/09/2026
Thanks! The double bounce can cause it to get stuck in the valley but it was a fun experiment. The axel extends out a bit to support hand crank or the lil adapter for a spare hobby motor I had from a different project.
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 08/09/2026
i love how the supports look like a lil pile of bones.
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Uncle Matt Makes _____ @unclemattmakes.com · 08/09/2026
so cool!!
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