About me

Chris · Creator of I83X

Born in the good old '80s, I grew up right where the analog world was turning digital: mixtapes and burned CDs, a whole music collection shrinking onto an iPod, the screech of a 56k modem giving way to always being online. Somewhere in that shift, technology became my thing. Gaming sealed it: whole afternoons lost in pixelated worlds, all-night LAN parties, Doom and Monkey Island, and making new friends in the first MMOs, back when online worlds were something new.

Then came my first car and the wild, loud tuning scene of the early 2000s. But deep down I was still a nerd, and it wasn't long before that same energy moved from the garage to the desk: PC modding, coding, and DIY water cooling built from industrial radiators and pond pumps.
In the mid-2000s I turned it into a business, building custom PCs and water-cooling systems long before they went mainstream. It was more passion than business, until I chose the stability of a full-time job in IT.

For over 15 years now I've kept IT infrastructure running, but the creative side never disappeared. Web design, marketing and social media eventually led me to my first 3D printer in 2017, and it didn't take long to learn one thing: "With a 3D printer, you start discovering problems you never even knew existed."

People kept asking me the same thing: what is a 3D printer actually good for, and what can you even print with it? That's where ibex.gg comes in: I document projects whenever time allows, from the first idea to the finished part. It's not all about printing, though; expect a bit of everything, from cars to PC builds and whatever else I'm tinkering with. Lately that means getting into 3D modeling with Blender and Fusion 360, plus 3D scanning: new tools, new rabbit holes, and plenty of problems I haven't discovered yet.