MATTHEW
LIEPINS
Solo creator building rockets, robots
and software in Denver.
My goal is to understand as much as possible through creation.
That's why I build stuff—partially because it's fun, mostly because I have a burning desire to know more about everything.
I've been thinking a lot about the intersection of hardware and software lately. Building Stratum's flight computer forced me to understand how electrons become decisions — how a sensor reading turns into a motor command in microseconds. There's something deeply satisfying about closing that loop, seeing code physically move something in the real world. It's made me rethink how I approach software-only projects too. Every abstraction is hiding physics.
I'm also becoming more convinced that the best way to learn isn't reading or watching — it's building something slightly beyond your skill level and figuring it out as you go. Every project I ship teaches me ten things I didn't set out to learn. That's the real compound interest.