My name is Matt Bradshaw and I’m a maker from Oxford, England. A “maker” is a broad term for people who design and/or build physical objects. In my case, I combine my skills in programming, electronics, and other fields to create musical instruments.

I quit full-time employment in 2018 with a vague aim of becoming a professional maker in some capacity. Since then, I have…

• exhibited my synth guitar at Maker Faire UK
• won the DesignSpark Summer of Sound competition
• published seven articles in Hackspace magazine
• reached the semi-final of the Hackaday Prize 2018
• reached the final of the Hackaday Prize 2019
• and designed my first commercial product, a drum machine called DrumKid which was launched in 2020

I aim to make all of my designs “open source”, meaning that the schematics and source code are available free for anyone to view, use, and adapt. I host a lot of my projects on my GitHub page, as well as publishing tutorials and other content in Hackspace magazine and on my Hackaday.io page.

You can contact me by email at matthewloydbradshaw@gmail.com