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Finding where you left off…

DAEDALUS WORKS

Bring me the idea you cannot stop thinking about.

I turn hard-to-explain ideas into websites, digital tools, games, and interactive worlds—built in Wisconsin, available anywhere.

The first mechanism

Find the loose end.

Turn each plate until its bright cut meets the thread on the left.

Activate a plate to rotate it clockwise. The arrow keys rotate it in either direction.

The first fork

Choose what you notice first.

Line up the three plates above to open this fork. You can skip the puzzles from the index at any time.

The Workshop / table 01

Three parts make one project.

The table waits beyond the first fork. Open the atlas, the plant, and the notebook.

Nothing selected yet

Start anywhere.

Open all three to see how the project fits together.

Botanica USA state atlas with Wisconsin selected as the foundation collection.

Project found / map · plant · notebook

Botanica is still hidden.

Open all three objects to reveal it, or use the Works page to go there now.

Skip to all projects

Wild / Wisconsin

Home changes the line.

Wisconsin is the real landscape behind the work. Find the mark you saw at the first fork, now hidden in the trees.

Finish the room before this one to enter the forest.

Method / choose what holds up

The first answer is rarely enough.

Pick the only option that is safe, useful, verifiable, and simple enough to use again.

Finish the room before this one to use the table.

Pharmacy Land course picker showing pharmacy classes and loaded study-card banks.

Project found / courses · progress · offline study

The project is still hidden.

Finish this puzzle to reveal the project behind it.

Making / table 02

Dinner should not take four separate plans.

Put the cards in the order a real person would need them: choose, plan, shop, cook.

  1. 01
  2. 02
  3. 03
  4. 04

Finish both earlier paths to use this table.

Stirring Up a Little Happiness homepage with a creamy chicken orzo recommendation and meal-planning introduction.

Project found / recipe · plan · shop · cook

The project is still hidden.

Finish this puzzle to reveal the project behind it.

Archive / go as deep as you want

Every answer opens another drawer.

I keep the finished work, unfinished ideas, and strange experiments together. Open one drawer or all three. The site remembers how far you went.

A hand-built labyrinth relief joined by copper thread to the ribs of an unfinished wing

The Myth Room / where this started

A thread remembers. A maker risks. A creation leaves.

I grew up reading Greek myths. Ariadne found a way back. Daedalus made what should not have been possible. Icarus got close enough to make the danger feel worth it. I still think about all three when I make something.

  1. Ariadne A way in is only useful if you can find a way back.
  2. Daedalus If the thing does not exist, you can still try to make it.
  3. Icarus Getting closer can be thrilling enough to ignore the edge.

The person behind the workshop

I don’t know how to leave a question alone.

You looked for the living pattern first.

  1. Wisconsin

    Home: forests, weather, field guides, and long drives.

  2. Stories

    Reading came early, especially Greek mythology.

  3. Route change

    I started undergrad on a pre-med path. One conversation at a career fair turned me toward pharmacy.

  4. Now

    A pharmacy student still turning unanswered questions into things I can use—and hopefully other people can too.

“If I can’t find the thing, I start making it. If I don’t understand it, I keep pulling until the pieces connect.”

I keep getting close enough to see the next thing, and then there is more. I know I cannot humanly do all of it. I still want to make the next piece real enough that somebody else can use it.

This is what you noticed on the way here.

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The Moving Horizon / three calibrations

Every time I get closer, there is more.

Things can be good. People can tell me I am smart. It still feels like the real answer is one ring farther away. Myths made room for figures who crossed the limits the rest of us have to live with: Prometheus, Daedalus, Icarus.

Finish the room before this one to reach the horizon.

Flight / the last puzzle

The way out is made from what you carried in.

You have seen all six marks before. Turn them until their open edges make one rising path through the wing.

Your illuminated route through Daedalus WorksA map whose first branch and archive depth reflect the route explored on this device.