About

Starbase 430 is Sam and Brea’s independent-web workshop for maker projects shaped by curiosity, joyful fandom, and a fondness for optimistic futures.

Sam

Caricature of Sam wearing dark armor, glasses, and a green-tipped beard.
Caricature by Emily Moffat, 2017.

Computing, electronics, and robotics have been lifelong obsessions for Sam. He’s happiest getting deep into how something works, figuring out what else it could do, and making something weird along the way.

Brea

Caricature of Brea wearing glasses and a crown, with her arms folded.
Caricature by Emily Moffat, 2017.

Art, craft, and video games have been lifelong passions for Brea. She works in fabric as often as ink and paint, bringing the same creativity to miniature book nook worlds, cosplay, and blankets for a local dog rescue.

Our mission

Starbase 430 is a small outpost for exploring what we can make with the tools, materials, and curiosity we have. Our mission is to follow interesting questions, try unfamiliar techniques, and turn ideas into things we can use, share, or simply enjoy.

We’re drawn to optimistic futures where technology supports creativity and people share what they learn. Here, that takes shape in electronics, fabric, code, paint, and whatever else a project calls for. Some experiments solve practical problems. Others exist because we wanted to see whether something was possible.

This site is our record of those explorations. We document the revisions, wrong turns, and discoveries alongside the finished work, with enough detail to give someone else a useful starting point. An unfinished experiment can still have something worth sharing.