Garrett Makes It is the independent engineering practice of Garrett Wilson, based in Orlando, FL. The studio takes on work across embedded systems, control, software, signal processing, and physical prototyping — the full stack from silicon to web app. Most engagements sit at the intersection of at least two of those disciplines, which is where the interesting problems live.

The work splits between two modes: technical advisory — architecture reviews, design feedback, hard-call second opinions — and end-to-end delivery, where the studio owns a working unit from requirements through validation. Teams come in with everything from “tell us if this is the right direction” to “we need an MVP in six weeks and don’t know where to start.” Both are fair game.

Garrett’s background spans safety-critical avionics, utility-scale energy controls, autonomous systems, signal processing for sensor networks, and platform engineering for government-grade software delivery — a career built on shipping production systems into environments where the cost of quiet failure is high. That depth is what informs studio work: not just the ability to write firmware or stand up a web app in isolation, but the judgment to see how the layers interact and where the system will fail before it does.

Engagements start at the bottleneck — wherever the project is stuck — and move forward until there is a working unit. That might mean PCBs out of the oven and code on silicon, or it might mean a React dashboard plugged into a Postgres database and a CI pipeline that lets the team ship without fear. The deliverable is something you can plug in and use, not a spec waiting on someone else to implement.

Current tooling in rotation: C/C++ and Rust for firmware on STM32, ESP32, ATmega, Raspberry Pi, and Zynq-7020 FPGAs; TypeScript with Next.js, React, and Node for web/full-stack; Python and Go for backend services, analysis, and ML pipelines; KiCad and Altium for boards; SolidWorks and OnShape for mechanical; Docker, Kubernetes, and GitHub Actions / Jenkins for the infrastructure underneath; and the standard bench setup of oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power supplies, and a small fleet of 3D printers.