PROJECTTR-017STATUSRELEASED / V0.3DOCUMENTATIONSOURCE AVAILABLE
kotPrinter
A Python CLI for a cat-shaped Bluetooth printer whose official app was the least useful part of the package.
TIMBERROUGHINDEPENDENT MAKER LAB · UKRAINE
WOOD / WIRES / CODE / PERFECTLY REASONABLE COMPLEXITY
Objects that do
more than sit still.
Each project starts as a question and usually ends with custom firmware, sawdust and far too many prototypes.
Built with unreasonable curiosity.
MATERIALWood, veneer, plywood, resin, copper, brass, whatever survives.
FABRICATIONHand tools, CNC, laser, another prototype.
BEHAVIOURLight, sound, water, motion. Usually intentional.
INTERACTIONTouch, voice, gestures, cameras, sensors. Buttons still work.
LOGICFirmware, automation, control, undocumented features.
OUTPUTOpen code, schematics, build logs, proof it worked once.
VISUAL INPUT / 03 FEATURED BUILDSPOWER: OPEN SOURCE
WOODWORKING◆ELECTRONICS◆EMBEDDED◆LIGHT + MOTION◆SOFTWARE◆OPEN SOURCE
PROJECT ARCHIVE / 2019—NOW
Built, debugged,
eventually documented.
Woodworking, electronics and software—usually in the same object, occasionally on the first attempt.
PROJECTTR-016STATUSCOMPLETED / 2025DOCUMENTATIONPROJECT RECORD
Luminous Root
A twisted wooden root painted with invisible UV details and persuaded to glow by custom electronics.
PROJECTTR-015STATUSCOMPLETEDDOCUMENTATIONPROJECT RECORD
Dragon Jewelry Box
A small wooden jewellery box with a CNC-carved dragon on the lid and absolutely no interest in subtlety.
PROJECTTR-014STATUSCOMPLETEDDOCUMENTATIONSOURCE AVAILABLE
Big Oak Wooden Plate
A large engraved oak plate whose grain and cracks were promoted from defects to design department.
PROJECTTR-013STATUSCOMPLETEDDOCUMENTATIONSOURCE AVAILABLE
Big Floral Jewelry Box
A large jewellery box wrapped on five sides in layered floral panels, because one decorative lid was clearly insufficient.
PROJECTTR-012STATUSCOMPLETEDDOCUMENTATIONSOURCE AVAILABLE
Engraved Oak Compartment Plate
One oak plate, four carved compartments and four Trees of Life competing for the available engraving time.
PROJECTTR-011STATUSFEATURED BUILDDOCUMENTATIONSOURCE AVAILABLE
Animated Wooden Fountain
Twenty-four pumps borrow WLED animations and turn pixel brightness into programmable streams of water.
PROJECTTR-010STATUSDOCUMENTEDDOCUMENTATIONSOURCE AVAILABLE
Wooden Reactor Simulator
A wooden reactor simulator with animated light, optical fibres, sound and two entirely practical charging systems.
PROJECTTR-009STATUSDOCUMENTEDDOCUMENTATIONSOURCE AVAILABLE
Gesture-Controlled DNA Lamp
A wooden double helix controlled by hand gestures and illuminated through rows of tiny glass bottles.
PROJECTTR-008STATUSDOCUMENTEDDOCUMENTATIONSOURCE AVAILABLE
Levitating Dimmer Lamp
A slim wooden lamp whose magnetic control ring hangs in mid-air and makes buttons look unnecessarily grounded.
PROJECTTR-007STATUSDOCUMENTEDDOCUMENTATIONSOURCE AVAILABLE
Alchemy Spice Carousel
A vertical spice carousel of oak, alder and walnut, assembled in only fifty-seven perfectly reasonable steps.
PROJECTTR-006STATUSDOCUMENTEDDOCUMENTATIONSOURCE AVAILABLE
Mac mini Tambour Riser
A tambour-fronted wooden stand that gives a Mac mini somewhere dignified to hide the desk clutter beneath it.
PROJECTTR-005STATUSDOCUMENTEDDOCUMENTATIONSOURCE AVAILABLE
Gothic Sound-Reactive Lamp
A gothic wooden light box that reacts to music, accepts touch control and looks pleasantly suspicious when quiet.
PROJECTTR-004STATUSDOCUMENTEDDOCUMENTATIONSOURCE AVAILABLE
Steampunk Tambour Pencil Box
A pencil box with a rolling tambour lid, dense steampunk engraving and more mechanism than the pencils requested.
PROJECTTR-003STATUSDOCUMENTEDDOCUMENTATIONSOURCE AVAILABLE
Round Maya / Aztec Jewelry Box
A round walnut jewellery box carrying an Aztec calendar and a Maya/Aztec naming problem inherited from its first publication.
PROJECTTR-002STATUSDOCUMENTEDDOCUMENTATIONSOURCE AVAILABLE
Foldable Wooden Tripod
A folding wooden tripod made in phone and DSLR versions, because cameras deserve unnecessarily handsome support.
PROJECTTR-001STATUSDOCUMENTEDDOCUMENTATIONSOURCE AVAILABLE
Wooden MagSafe Tripod Mount
A one-day wooden MagSafe tripod mount that survived six months of real use and therefore earned documentation.
BUILD LOG / SPARSE UPDATES WELCOME
Long builds,
honest progress.
Projects can stay here for months. Each dated checkpoint records what changed, what worked and what still refuses to cooperate.
Retro Wooden Camera
Restoring a century-old lens before designing a new wooden camera body around its mechanics and character.
- RESTORATIONThe lens comes apart
The original optics and shutter are being cleaned and tested before the dimensions of the new wooden body are locked in.
Steampunk Wooden Glasses
Laser-cut wooden frames that hold interchangeable photographic filters in place of ordinary lenses.
- PROTOTYPEFour filter frames assembled
The wooden bodies and threaded camera filters work; the full build is waiting for the remaining components.
WORKSHOP NOTES / QUICK BUILDS + DETOURS
Not every object needs
a thirty-four step guide.
Small experiments, one-day builds and useful workshop distractions—kept as a visual notebook instead of disappearing into a social feed.
PCB, the unnecessarily difficult way
CNC drilling, laser-burned mask, acid etching and hand-applied tin on 0.3 mm traces—because ordering a board would be too easy.
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Organised laboratory madness
Small wooden racks bring test tubes and workshop tools under control—at least until the next experiment begins.
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A wooden comb, just for fun
A compact laser-cut comb with a Tree of Life engraving, made as a quick workshop detour.
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Wooden skin for an Apple keyboard
An old Apple keyboard fitted with individually cut wooden key caps—part material experiment, part unnecessary precision exercise.
View field noteTHE METHOD / FOUR-STAGE LOOP
“If it can be bought, it can probably be made much more complicated.”
01Imagine
Start with the object that does not quite exist yet.
02Prototype
Mix code, cardboard, modules and unreasonable optimism.
03Make
Cut, solder, sand, debug, repeat. Usually repeat again.
04Share
Publish the files, firmware and a path through the chaos.
ABOUT TIMBERROUGH / USEFUL THINGS, QUESTIONABLE METHODS
Useful objects are allowed to become needlessly complicated.
TimberRough is where wood is usually involved. So are sensors, firmware, magnets, pumps, ultraviolet paint and at least one prototype that deserved what happened to it.
Some builds take a weekend. Others remain “almost finished” for months. When something works, the photographs, files, code and mistakes stay here.