Just joined last week, so I thought I should say hi!

Hi Steemit! I've been poking around the site, writing a couple blog posts/comments and such for about a week now and I figured I should probably take some time to actually introduce myself.

Let's start with the easy part, my real (first) name is Tim! Here's what I look like in case you're curious:

By day I work as a software developer and I love (almost) every minute of it. Programming is kind of my forte, I started learning it on my own in high school (my inspiration was a graphing calculator that included some basic programming functions) and that continued into college where I learned all about software development and what I needed to make it into a full-blown career.

But I have some other interests too! Lately I've been primarily getting into 3d printing the past couple months and I'm also picking music production back up, and they're both a lot of fun. Here are some examples of what I've produced so far!

This is a version of Marvin that I painted myself. You may have already noticed him in my profile picture ;) It might not be the best paint job in the world, but hey I'm learning! Here's another iteration of him that I made (I neglected to do sanding on this one though so that's why you see the print lines):

In case you're wondering where Marvin comes from, he's a pretty well known model in the 3d printing community made by 3DHubs: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:215703. Of course I print plenty of other things, such as a marble machine which I posted about previously. I've also done things like this partially translucent vase:

Or this set of parts for a build-system ufo (more details on this Github page):

And then there's music! Here are a couple short examples I've made. Keep in mind this is fairly amateur stuff - it's not professionally mixed or anything.

Throwdown
Intrigue and Magic

I've made a few other songs as well (both longer and shorter), some better than others. I'm hoping to be able to post some more of them in the near future!

So that's a little bit about me and my interests! It may not sound like it from the tone of this post, but I'm actually very shy in real life and I see Steemit as an opportunity right now to branch out further from my comfort zone and try some new things. I like being able to discuss interesting topics and connect with others, and I'm hoping to do some of that here so thanks to everyone here for creating such a great community! I hope I can find my own small way to contribute here. Thanks for reading :)

Edit: I copied my blue marvin as the first image since my original thumbnail was cropped weirdly.