Hi, I'm Maarten

Dad built it. That's the whole brand.

A dad with a printer and two small QA testers. I can print anything from a file. Designing, wiring and coding my own things was the wall. AI knocked the coding part out of it. Now I build things my kids use and write down every step, including the ones that went wrong.

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photo: me at the bench, printer running; kids' hands only, at the edge of frame
the actual desk · no staging
The kid rule

My kids appear as hands and voices. Never faces, never names.

They didn't choose to be on the internet.

Collabs and parts for testingOne line to hello@dadbuilt.it. If it goes in a build, it goes on the parts list at the price it cost, or marked as sent to me.

On the bench
  • Printer Bambu Lab H2S Combo with the AMS, so figures come out in colour without paint.
  • Boards ESP32, mostly. Storybox runs on a stock Sonocotta Louder-ESP32-S3.
  • Code PlatformIO and ESP-IDF, with [AI assistant] doing most of the typing.
  • Tools A multimeter before every plug-in, and a soldering iron I’m still getting better with. [models]