A Utah maker collective for people who'd rather build than talk about it.

Fire, light, sound, bio, mechanical — no gatekeeping about which side of the art/engineering line you're allowed to stand on.

Why this exists

Engineering and art are the same coin.

Somewhere along the way, a line got drawn. Engineers on one side, artists on the other. That line is fiction. A fireball cannon is a pressure vessel and a piece of theater.

We care about people who build — not people who debate the right way to build.

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A coin split between art and engineering — paint and brushstroke on one side, gears and circuits on the other
From the shop

The work, not the pitch deck.

Real builds from the backyard, the desert, and everywhere in between.

Long-exposure light painting, concentric circles
Light · long exposure

Spinning light trails

LED hoop work captured in long exposure, dozens of overlapping passes building into one image.

Symmetrical glowing light trails on black background
Light · long exposure

Symmetry studies

Mirrored light trails exploring symmetry and color layering — the same instinct that drives the harmonograph build, played out by hand first.

Field of woven human effigy sculptures in a desert lake bed
Installation · long exposure

The Burning Army

A field of woven human effigies in the dry lake bed — built to stand, then built to burn.

Looping infinity-shaped light trail patterns
Light · motion

Light sculpture / harmonograph

4-DOF articulated arm with closed-loop control — a machine for drawing light.

Large bonfire at night under a full moon with a crowd gathered
Fire · gathering

Night burn

Same energy that drives the effigy field — fire, a crowd, and a full moon to match.

No single lane

What gets built here is wide open.

The collective isn't limited to any one medium. These are the directions that show up most — driven by where the leadership's interest runs hottest, open to wherever a collaborator wants to take it.

Fire & effects

Pyrotechnics, propane art, practical effects built to spec — and to code.

Light & LED

Addressable LEDs, kinetic light, anything that needs to glow, pulse, or chase.

Sound & sensing

Reactive audio, sensors, anything that listens to a room and answers back.

Bio & living systems

Algae, fermentation, anything where the material is alive and has opinions.

Mechanical & fab

Welding, CAD, CNC, 3D printing — the load-bearing skills under everything else.

Build, share, grow together

If you're already building something in your garage, we want to hear about it.

No membership fee, no application essay. Show up with something you're making — or something you want help making — and we'll figure out the rest.