Build Journal
Eight months of gearboxes, failures, and the clutch that won.
The unfiltered story of building TiltForge — reconstructed from seventy dated folders of iterations, one brutally honest spreadsheet, and what survived of a YouTube history.
July 9, 2026
The Gear Safari
Planetary gears, a $19.27 machine-shop reality check, and the sixteen-day harmonic-drive rabbit hole. November and December in the workshop.
July 2, 2026
The Wife Test
How a public smart-home failure and a $5 Amazon part turned into an eight-month engineering education.
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