My name is Michael,

and I've been obsessed with how mechanical things work for as long as I can remember. As a kid I was sketching gears and mechanisms in notebooks — I couldn't stop. When I took my first Mechanical Engineering class in high school and saw that I could design and manipulate parts on a computer, everything clicked. 3D printing wasn't a thing back then like it is now, but years of designing in CAD built a deep passion that was waiting for the right tool to bring it to life.

When 3D printers first became available, I couldn't afford a fully assembled one — so I bought a ~$130 kit and built it myself. I loved the assembly process, but everything about that printer was manual and tedious to maintain. Eventually I upgraded to a fully built machine, and that's when I thought the real fun would start. But when I tried printing my own mechanical ideas, they wouldn't come together. Tolerances were off, parts didn't fit, and designs that looked perfect on screen failed in real life. So I did what most people do — I started downloading other people's files from online repositories. It was easier, but it felt like I was just pressing a button on someone else's work.

But I refused to stay a button presser. I went back to my CAD roots, took more mechanical engineering classes, and started studying what actually makes printed parts work together — tolerances, clearances, fit types, print orientation. I failed a lot. I wasted filament. But slowly, I cracked the code. I started designing and printing my own mechanical assemblies that actually moved, actually fit together, and actually worked. The moment I held something I designed from scratch in my hands and it functioned exactly how I imagined it — that was the moment I felt like a real engineer.

And I knew I had to help other people experience that same feeling.

And guess what the number one thing I learned throughout this entire journey is? You don't need an engineering degree, expensive software, or years of CAD experience to design and print mechanical devices that actually work. Once you understand how tolerances, clearances, and assembly thinking come together — and you follow a clear step-by-step process — you can go from printing novelties to engineering your own working mechanisms faster than you ever thought possible. That realization is exactly why I created 3-Week Mechanism Builder.

But I get it, you don't really care about my journey — you care about whether this can work for you. Here's the truth. I built this course for people exactly like you — people who are tired of printing other people's files and ready to engineer something real. Right now I'm opening the doors to a small group of early adopters who will get the course at half price, shape the content with their feedback, and get every future project path I add at no extra cost. You'll never have this kind of access or this price again. I'd love to build this alongside you.