I recently started tinkering in my garage, building little things out of wood. My tools were limited to a rotary tool, a jigsaw, and a drill -- extremely basic stuff when it comes to woodworking. Given what I was working with, I was never extremely satisfied with the quality of what I building. Despite that, I decided to show off one of my creations (a laptop stand) to my coworkers, and to my surprise they were all very impressed with what I had built.

Several of them were interested in a stand of their own, and someone suggested that I should sell them online. Well, I really like doing stuff with my hands -- building stuff, fixing things. So I started thinking about it, and after hearing Jeremy talk about his business (we're coworkers) and how well it was doing, I thought why not?

There was one problem, my shitty excuse for a woodshop.

I didn't have the money to go out and but a bunch of nice tools. Hell, I didn't have the money to buy a bunch of cheap tools. I had all these ideas for other tech/gadget-related accessories to build, but no means to do so. I thought, how could I make this happen?

I tried setting up something through kickstarter.com, but unless you're making an indie film or back-to-the-future shoes that tie themselves, they're not interested. I found another site that wasn't so picky (gofundme.com) and set up a donation site there. I just launched it earlier today and I've already gotten a handful of donations.

http://bit.ly/wouldworks

Check it out. If you like what you see, make a donation and I'll send you something cool and hand-made in return. If you don't like what you see, but you think there's something I can do to change that, then let me know.