Season 1 in progress: building the lab
The Lab

Tour the lab

One garage bay, built out as a Dutch furniture maker’s shop with an electronics lab inside it. Here’s what’s where, and how it’s coming along.

Maker Lab
16′ × 12′ garage bay
Bench height
32″ — every surface
Style
Dutch shop · Delft blue · Baltic birch
Disciplines
Wood · electronics · printing · flight
Shop tours

Walk through it

T-00coming

Before: the empty bay

The last look at the space before anything gets built — the “before” for every episode after it.

T-01coming

The plan for the lab

A tape-measure walk of the floor plan, zone by zone, with the layout taped out on the floor.

T-Mcoming

Monthly: what changed

The same route through the lab every month, so you can see it come together.

T-S3coming

Season 3: the garage, before

The two-car garage as it is today, before the makeover.

Zones

What’s where

  1. Z-01

    The bench

    The Roubo-style workbench in the middle of the room: planing, sawing, chopping and glue-ups.

    The build
  2. Z-02

    The tool wall

    Every hand tool in a fitted holder on French cleats, around a carved hanging cabinet.

    The build
  3. Z-03

    The work cockpit

    The wraparound desk, electronics station and soldering bench — computers on one side, bench pin on the other.

    The build
  4. Z-04

    Storage

    Drawer banks with flip-up lids and clean Euro-style Baltic birch cabinets.

    The build
  5. Z-05

    Printers & electronics

    The 3D printer, test gear and the network rack that runs the cameras.

    The build
  6. Z-06

    The main garage

    Power tools, CNC and dust collection next door — the Season 3 makeover.

    The build
Channels

Three benches, three channels

Hand and power-tool woodworking · from January 2027

Mortise & Motor

Joinery, benches, cabinets and the furniture line — from the first layout line to the last coat of finish. Every piece in the made-to-order catalog is built on this channel first.

  • YouTube · soon
  • Instagram · soon
  • TikTok · soon
The garage engineer · from January 2027

Nerdsquatch

Electronics, 3D printing, automation, code and aquaponics builds. Sensors, custom boards and the control panels that run the lab.

Tiny drones, big crashes · from February 2027

Crash Test Whoop

Tiny-whoop builds, tuning and flying — plus the fly-through tours of the lab that nobody else can shoot.

  • YouTube · soon
  • Instagram · soon