Made in Chicago · free & open

Research you can walk through. Objects you can hold.

Custom is a workshop of made things: field tools researched until the answer is obvious, histories you can step inside, and objects designed in code and printed in layers. Free, open, and built to actually get used.

168houses ranked 91bands rated ten ways 14printable objects 60judges researched 74hosta varieties weighed 636sourced building records 158scenes, 225 people 9days run-sheeted
01 · Field tools

Planned to the hour, ranked to the room.

Decision tools built for one real outing at a time — researched until the answer is obvious, then made fast enough to use standing in a parking lot.

Zion + Bryce Field Guide

Two parks · one canyon loop

An offline-ready road-trip companion: researched daily run sheets, shuttle clocks, a forecast-aware Narrows day swap, trail comparisons, driving buffers, time-zone cues and calendar export.

9days, run-sheeted

Stay Finder

Tampa Bay to the Nature Coast

Houses, estates and inn buyouts ranked for nine people who want five or six rooms and three king beds — mapped on a real coastline and linked to each listing with the dates filled in.

168places ranked

Chicago Voter

Nov 3, 2026 · every race

About ten scenario questions, and a whole Ward 30 ballot fills in as you answer — Senate to the water district, six public questions, sixty judges — each pick showing why.

60judges researched

Porchfest Planner

Uptown · one afternoon

Every band rated ten ways. Ask for "loud and fast" or "quiet enough for a stroller" and get a walking route solved over the real street grid.

91bands rated

Vehicle Finder

Exact trim · exact colour

Nationwide searches for two specific 2026 builds, ranked by value — with photos, window stickers, VINs, prices and dealer contacts side by side.

VINlevel detail

Hosta Gangway Guide

95 feet of deep shade

Six designed plans for a Chicago gangway: photoreal renders, measured plans, a searchable plant finder, soil and slug strategy, and a full build budget.

74varieties reasoned

Joliet: Midnight Infiltration

A browser game · Old Joliet Prison, 1858

A first-person walk through Boyington & Wheelock's limestone castle in its present decayed state. No weapons, no enemies — a headlamp, a finite battery, the dark, and whatever is under the east block.

Playruns in the browser
02 · Chicago research

One city, layer by layer.

An ongoing study of early Chicago: a building atlas from the first recorded structures to Prairie Avenue, and a reconstruction you can walk. Every record carries its citation; every gap stays visible.

4D Chicago

Walk the town as the record describes it.

Fort Dearborn in 1812, the river town of 1835 and Prairie Avenue in 1904, walkable in the browser. Click any building for its record — who lived there, its sources, and how sure the evidence is.

Three summers, one film each.

Longer walks through each year, filmed frame by frame in the app.

03 · Printed objects

Designed in code. Printed in layers.

Parametric generators in Python, OpenSCAD and Blender — so a vase can be sized to its plant and an insert to its tube. Every source file is open.

FDM · PLA / PETG / ASA-CF
01

Tomorrowland Alligators

A six-piece chess set from one faceted, mid-century alligator bust. Support-free.

Python → STL
Source
02

Wave-Ring Bamboo Vase

A squat fluted vessel sized around a real bunch of lucky bamboo. Six variants and a centering collar.

Python
Source
03

Chicago Star

The flag's six-pointed star as coasters and lattice mesh pieces.

Blender
Source
04

Ordovician Sandstone Lamp

Lamp shades that swell and pinch like Illinois sandstone strata, regenerated at any size.

Python + OpenSCAD
Source
05

Geometric Sandstone Lamp

The same strata, cut into straight, jagged facets. Seats on the standard 80 mm base.

Python
Source
06

Peachtree City Bowl

A wavy-rim bowl with tunable scallops, shimmer texture and a concave dish.

OpenSCAD
Source
07

Delaney Bowl

A turned-look bowl, generated as one clean polyhedron.

Python → SCAD
Source
08

Wave Snake Planter

A squat bowl planter whose ribs split and rejoin as smooth ribbons. 180 mm mouth.

Python
Source
09

Gridfinity × Rationell

Lets Gridfinity bins sit square inside IKEA Rationell drawer trays.

10

Cutting-Board Rack

A diamond-trellis panel and drain stand, split to print flat with no overhangs.

Python
Source
11

Three-Rail Stand

Three identical rails on one removable axle, locked by pins. Holds 1 kg.

OpenSCAD
Source
12

AC Screen Support

Carbon-fibre ASA inserts for 20 mm aluminium tube, with fit gauges to dial in the size.

ASA-CF
Source
13

Garage Header Trim

Multi-part trim that finishes the exposed framing above a garage door.

Blender
Source
14

Hurricane Strut Cover

A chamfered plate and rail that close over a hurricane strut bracket.

04 · Method

Fewer guesses. More receipts.

01

Sourced, not invented

Every building, candidate and band traces back to a record. Where the record runs out, the gap stays on screen — confidence is part of the interface, not a footnote.

02

Built for a real day

Each tool answers one question someone actually had: a walk, a vote, a trip, a gift. They load fast, work on a phone, and ask for no account.

03

Made in the open

Objects come from parametric scripts, not one-off meshes, so they can be resized and reprinted. Code, data and CAD source all live in public repos.

Made to be used.

Free, open, and no account. Pick something and go.

4D Chicago · 1812, 1835 and 1904
Recorded in the browser — no game engine, no install. Walk it yourself