Central Florida · Maker · Librarian of Making

Hey, I'm ThantiK

Self-taught network admin, 3D printer repair specialist, and full-time maker. I fix the machines other people give up on, I keep a few game servers humming — and I keep the shelves at Maker Library.

3D Printer Repair Network Admin Hackerspace Regular Game Servers
16+ Years repairing 3D printers
5,203+ Printers serviced at 3D Print Orlando
7 Years founding a 3D printing community

What I Do

3D Printing

16 years of professional repair work. There's no "certification" for this trade; the printers don't care about paperwork. I manage 3D Print Orlando, Florida's 3D printing source and the area's only professional 3D printer repair service — 5,203+ machines serviced and counting. I also built out our 3D scanning and full-color mini-print studio, where we take scanning rigs to events, scan people on the spot, and print full-color miniature replicas of them.

I founded and ran Google+'s 3D Printing community for about 7 years. When G+ shut down, it migrated to Maker Forums, where it still lives today. I also run workshops and mentor other makers at local hackerspaces.

Networking & Servers

Self-taught network and systems admin, electronics designer, and product facilitator. I run Ark Aegis, a private ARK: Survival Ascended community built around "survival, for people with lives" — balanced progression instead of grind, on servers I've personally hosted for 3+ years.

To run it, I built Yaaass, a self-hosted server management suite for ARK: Survival Ascended — one-click deployment, clustering, automated backups, crash recovery, all through a browser instead of a command line. Zero to Island in three minutes. Port 7777 is my love language.

Why a Library

I've sat on makerlibrary.com for years without doing anything with it. Meanwhile, the same conversation kept happening behind the repair counter: "where do I start?" — and then me pointing at the same fifteen websites for the fifteenth time.

So the site is a library. It indexes the resources I actually trust, sorted by what you're trying to do rather than what they're called. You ask in plain language; the librarian works out which shelf you need and hands you a few books. Nothing is paid placement, and the books are the real ones.

It also runs on a real classifier — Jev, a typed decision model — rather than a keyword box. That's the part that makes it feel like a librarian instead of a search field.

Sponsor the Library

The library shows exactly one sponsored slot at a time, always labelled, never disguised as a book. House promotions (mine) fill it by default. If you make something a maker in Central Florida would genuinely want, that slot is for sale — no tracking pixels, no programmatic junk, no layout shift.

Recommendations are editorial and can't be bought. Sponsorship buys the labelled slot, not a shelf position.

Email me about the slot — or talk to me at the counter in Altamonte Springs.