Andrew Garman

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Andrew Garman — a generated illustration of the author as a css wizard with a mix of coding and dungeon master dice

Andrew Garman

Senior Front-End Developer

  • ⌨ Code
  • ⚔ D&D
  • 🖨 3D Print
  • 🎣 Fishing
  • 🤖 IoT
Senior Front-End DeveloperClass
15Level
Human (Caffeinated)Race
Chaotic GoodAlignment
Animator · Designer · MakerBackground
  • STR
    10
    +0
  • DEX
    14
    +2
  • CON
    13
    +1
  • INT
    16
    +3
  • WIS
    12
    +1
  • CHA
    15
    +2

Ability Scores

  • Web Components · Design Systems
  • TypeScript · React · Astro
  • Flash Animator (Retired) → Dev
  • 3D Printing — FDM + Resin
  • ESP32 · Arduino
  • D&D 5e — Dungeon Master
  • Fishing · Kayaking

Proficiencies & Skills

Started in Flash animation. Ended up in design systems. Will absolutely over-engineer a D&D prop at 2am.

Personality Traits

  • Bambu P2S
  • Elegoo Saturn 2
  • Breadboard & solder
  • Worn dice bag

Equipment

Latest Posts

[ spellbook ]

Root Meridian Part 7: Solving Problems That Do Not Exist Yet

Got a personal Fusion 360 license, opened the software, and immediately spent the session researching custom PCBs, panel-mount SD slots, and product viability for a prop I haven't printed yet.

[ spellbook ]

Root Meridian Part 6: The Cardboard Box Before Fusion 360

Measuring the confirmed electronics stack with calipers, sketching the housing footprint, and building a cardboard mockup — because it turns out a month of dreading Fusion 360 is easier to survive with scissors and painter's tape first.

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Root Meridian Part 5: First Solder, First Light

Learning to solder for the first time with a Pinecil V2, wiring the NeoPixel ring, and the moment all four gem quadrants lit up together — topaz, emerald, ruby, diamond — on a real bench for the first time.

[ spellbook ]

Root Meridian Part 4: The Compass Gets a Voice

Building Chronicler — the Discord bot that lets the DM control the Root Meridian from a slash command. Adding a WiFi web server to the ESP32. And the moment /compass east moved a physical stepper motor over WiFi from Discord.

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Root Meridian Part 3: The Needle Flies, the Speaker Speaks

Fixing the stepper motor speed bottleneck, wiring up a DFPlayer Mini with five CC-licensed sounds, and hearing the compass come alive for the first time — motor and audio running together on real hardware.

[ spellbook ]

The Stepper Motor Finally Moved: A Hardware Debugging Story

First real hardware session on the Root Meridian — flashing firmware to an actual ESP32, debugging a stepper motor that refused to move for two hours, and the moment it finally spun.