Our WorkShop

Welcome to the heart of Freeky Geeky—the Workshop. To most, it's a simple 50-foot stroll from my house, a place where tools meet timber and metal. This space had a slow start, just a shell of a building, but over time, it's evolved, collecting a history of its own. It's now a living, breathing entity where my methodical Capricorn brain, fueled by an unhealthy amount of coffee, battles with the glorious chaos of my ADHD.

This isn’t just a place for building; it's a place for battling.

Glitch sees it as his personal playground, a high-octane theme park of possibilities where every tool is a new toy and every project is a chance for a new kind of mayhem. He'd probably describe it as "a turbocharged fun-factory where the bolts sing and the wires dance!"

Pandora, bless her logical little heart, sees it as a constant test of her sanity. To her, it's a series of unpredictable messes waiting to be cataloged and color-coded. Her internal monologue is likely a constant stream of sarcastic critiques and organizational solutions.

Phobos... well, Phobos sees the Workshop as a literal death trap. Every loose wire, every piece of scrap metal, every half-empty cup of coffee is a source of pure, unadulterated anxiety. He's the voice in my head warning me that the plasma cutter is going to achieve sentience and the laser is going to cut a hole in the space-time continuum.

And Mopes just wants to sweep. He sees every speck of sawdust as a philosophical dilemma, a tiny piece of the universe's inevitable decay that he is honor-bound to temporarily rectify.

This is the place where ideas—both brilliant and absurd—come to life. It’s a space where projects slowly evolve from simple sketches to complex creations. It’s where our personalities clash, collaborate, and create the kind of weird, wonderful things you’ve come to expect from the Freeky Geeky Crew.

And somewhere in all the beautiful, organized chaos, we make stuff.

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Before the chaos and the creativity, there was just this. The Workshop, an empty space waiting to be filled. No tools, no projects, just a blank canvas for the weird, wonderful things my imagination would one day build. This is the origin story of our chaotic little home.

October 28, 2012

While the first few months are lost to the digital void, a new truth has been born: the Workshop has become a home to glorious clutter. What started as a blank canvas has slowly evolved into a chaotic nest of tools, half-finished projects, and organized messes. The creative journey has officially begun.

December 31, 2012- Jan 29, 2013

Not much has changed in the grand scheme of things, but if you look closely, the mess is growing. The projects are piling up faster than I can organize them, and the workshop is slowly becoming a true home for disorganized chaos—a glorious mess of tools, parts, and ideas.

May 28, 2013

The workshop at this point is all about the XP gains. You can see the small changes in the layout, with projects scattered about as the space slowly figures out its purpose. It's a snapshot of a workshop in transition, still earning its experience points and trying to figure out how to evolve into the Freeky Geeky workshop it was meant to be.

September 8, 2013

Sometimes you just get a burst of motivation and get everything organized. The chaos has been tamed, and the shop is actually clean. When I look back at these photos, two things immediately come to mind. The first is the physical pain of moving the Ecto-1—even on car dollies, that thing is a beast to push around, and my back is feeling it just thinking about it. And the second? I had completely forgotten about that workstation I tried to design next to the car.

September 15-20, 2013

Alright, so yeah, it says 15-20, but that did not take me five days of straight work. I was multitasking on about a dozen other projects at the same time. These photos are all about the shelving, which I built to solve one of my biggest workshop pet peeves: those crossbar supports. While I get their purpose, they take up valuable space. So, it was only natural that I build some shelves right there that could be custom-made to fit around them.

Oct. 23- Nov. 9, 2013

Just like with everything else, other projects took the majority of my time, but I finally got back to it and finished the shelves. And as you can see, they almost immediately became a home for clutter that would stay that way for years to come... like, over 10 of them.

April 20-21, 2016

Just like with so many of our projects, the idea of a massive work table was a good one that just didn't work for my workflow. I got tired of walking all the way around it, so I finally broke it down and remixed it. I reused all the material to build a bunch of smaller, divided tables, and with a little rearranging, the shop started to feel a lot more open. It was a case of a good idea that just didn't work, and a case of a project that had to be remixed to fit the needs of a chaotic shop.

April 21, 2016

Ahh, yes, the dark. Just enough light to work, and the only reason for it was to project a movie on the large roll-up door. This was the start of my obsession with a projector in the shop. I did go back to a TV for a long time, but if you're gonna spend lots of nights in the workshop, what better way to do it than with a huge screen?

November 23, 2016

So, a lot of the time I take pictures of the shop, it's right after I've rearranged it. At this point in time, it was mostly "after" photos. Later on, you'll see the mess before and after, but these are a snapshot of the workshop's brief moments of sanity and organization.

October 30, 2017

There's so much in this photo that doesn't belong to me. My shop has become long-term storage for my mother's hoarding. I'm happy to say that over the years, we've made great progress on it, but my poor office is still packed to this day.

November 21, 2018 

And once again, a new layout for the shop. This one had a nice workflow to it, a brief moment of sanity in the ever-present chaos of the workshop.

May 16, 2019

A new addition to the shop can only mean one thing... a shop layout adjustment. It's a never-ending cycle of buying a new tool, rearranging the entire shop, and then taking a picture of the new, brief moment of sanity before the chaos takes over again.

jun 2, 2020

The time has come. After all these years, it's finally time to update the shop lights (well 1 row). When I first got this place, only eight of them worked. Over the years, I think I was down to two. We're talking new fixtures, LED bulbs, and—get this—they're all Wi-Fi controlled. It's like I'm finally moving into the future.

jun 18, 2020

And another row of shop lights updated. You know me, a new light means a brighter future.

July 11, 2020

I'm not going to lie, it's not a secret, and it's not a conspiracy. The cameras are there, and I know it. They view the shop, judging me, and I know it. But hey, at least I have a record of all the chaos, and that's what counts.

july 18, 2020

I'm not gonna lie; I hate doors on cabinets. For me, they're just a clutter-creator—I'll throw something in there and forget about it. Then there are the batarangs on my shop walls... and my questionable extension cord use. It always feels like there’s a voice in the back of my mind yelling at me about safty.

july 21, 2020

The real reason I keep everything on wheels is so I can easily move areas and clean under and behind them. And I rearrange my work area a lot—like, every few years it goes through a major overhaul. I guess it's a way for the shop to adapt to my chaos.

July 23, 2020

Just keep cleaning, just keep cleaning, what do we do, we clean, clean, clean. Some days it feels like a never-ending cycle, but a clean shop is a happy shop. At least until the next project starts.

July 28, 2020

A rare moment of pristine cleanliness, right here. Whatever you do, do not look at the back half of the shop. What's back there doesn't exist, and you should not acknowledge it.

Oct 13-27, 2021

We’re just going to call this a picture explosion. As always, my shop changes layouts very often, and it always happens right after there’s a new station to add.

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