Hi, I’m Brinae Bain—a payments engineer turned maker, artist, and perpetual tinkerer. I’ve always lived at the intersection of creativity and technology: part hardware goblin, part storyteller, part engineer. If something lights up, connects to WiFi, holds a plant, or needs just a little bit of chaotic nerd energy, I want to build it.

By day, I work in tech solving hard problems for enterprise companies.
By night, I’m in my Chicago apartment surrounded by microcontrollers, 3D printers, tiny screens, LEDs, my cats, and way too many half-finished prototypes.

I make things because it brings me joy—and because there’s something special about turning a strange idea into a real, physical object. Sometimes it’s a moon-phase counter, sometimes it’s a plant buddy holder, sometimes it’s an NFC-powered mini record player, and sometimes it’s just whatever random thing my brain decides to hyperfocus on at 2 a.m.

Everything in my store is designed (unless otherwise attributed), printed, soldered, coded, packaged, and shipped by me. No mass production, no dropshipping—just one-off pieces made with intention, humor, curiosity, and a lot of trial and error.

I love:

• Micro-controller gadgets (ESP32s, Pi Picos, tiny TFTs—yes please)
• 3D printing (the stranger the filament, the better)
• Retro tech + modern magic
• Building cute things for the people I love
• Turning weird ideas into functional art

brinae.store is my little corner of the internet where all these projects live.
If you’re here, thank you for supporting handmade tech, art, and creativity.
I hope something I make brings you the same spark it brought me.