MAKE // TEST // ITERATE // SHARE

Make things.
Break assumptions.
Share what worked.

Practical 3D designs, personalised generators, honest build logs, AI experiments and the occasional song that escaped the lab.

maker.log
> CURRENT_PROJECTS
[01] Modular HueForge Frames
[02] Parametric Bag Tags
[03] Cubicle Shelving System
[04] Hybrid Openers

> PRINCIPLE
"If it can be parameterised,
 it probably should be."

3D DESIGN LIBRARY

Designed to be used, tested and improved.

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D4 CUSTOM LAB

Make it yours without touching CAD.

Personalise a print-tested soccer bag tag in seconds. Enter a name, choose the name colour and download ready-to-print files without editing CAD.

  • One personalised name per generation
  • Ready-to-print STL + multipart 3MF
  • No account required
Soccer Bag Tag CustomiserPRINT VALIDATED
Example output from the Soccer Bag Tag Customiser

Choose a name and colour, generate the files, then take them straight into your slicer.

BUILD LOG / BLOG

The useful bits between “idea” and “finished”.

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BUILD LOG

When a Better Design Makes a Worse Prototype

Five minutes, four escaped clips, and one very clear redesign brief.

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PRINT TUNING

Tiny Text, Big Problems

The settings that finally made small text readable on a 0.4 mm nozzle.

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HUEFORGE

The Dog Turned Black

A gift print, a disappearing face, and a lesson in trusting the preview.

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JOURNEYS // THE HUMAN BITS

Some builds happen in your head before they happen on the bench.

Personal stories about creativity, ADHD and learning how my own brain works — because not every useful lesson has a layer height.

FEATURED JOURNEY

Finding ADHD at Nearly 40

ADHD can feel like a secret weapon and a curse. Discovering it at nearly 40 gave me a better map for the idea factory, the spiderweb and the creative energy in between.

Companion trackLighthouse ↗

AI MUSIC

Soundtracks from the same overclocked idea factory.

Some songs start as jokes, some as frustration, and some are written for people who matter. Where a song grew out of a project or story, I link the two together.

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The D4N63RM0U53 Maker Mouse mascot wearing engineering goggles

BRAND SIDEKICK // MAKER MOUSE

Nerdy enough to measure twice. Stubborn enough to print it again.

Part workshop gremlin, part engineer, all curiosity. The Maker Mouse is the less-serious side of D4N63RM0U53: goggles on, tools nearby, and probably halfway through pulling something apart to work out why it does that.

CURIOUSRESOURCEFULBUILDS STUFFLEARNS BY BREAKING THINGS

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BUILDBOOK

Project memory for things that refuse to stay simple.

Schemas capture the shape of a project. BuildBooks preserve the intent, failures, decisions and evidence that stop the next version from relearning everything the expensive way.

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ELSEWHERE

Models, links and ways to reach me.

ABOUT D4N63RM0U53

A handle for whatever I’m building next.

I’m the maker behind D4N63RM0U53. I like practical design, 3D printing, parametric tools, AI-assisted creative projects and documenting the messy middle between an idea and something that actually works.

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