The 500 Pound Monster

Independent projects and experiments in fabrication, media, community, and storytelling.

Business plans and possible startup positions available for selected projects.

Personal 3D products
The Extrudery
theextrudery.io

A design flow the founder built for turning 3D scan data into custom pieces of a personal nature.

The plan: do for 3D what JCPenney did for portrait studios. Photographers capture the scan, we handle the modeling, and production happens down the line. A new revenue stream for photographers.

Forged urns and other funerary products are in the business plan.

Wish list: Miley Cyrus’s head. Other celebrities welcome. Short hair scans best.

Rideshare, reversed
Rebu
rebu.life

Hitchhiking for the brave, back on the map. Thumb out, phone up: free rides, couches, waystations and trail magic, plus a neighbor’s truck when you need one. Worst case, they’re out of your life by the next stop.

Private computing
Privacy Server

An open-source, privacy-first appliance for secure computing, private communications, and personal digital tools—built to put more control back in people’s hands.

Design specs exist; site TBD.

Local community map
Doof
doof.top

A food-first local map for discovering food, sharing what is available or needed, and finding community events.

Chosen family & integration
Up for Adoption (working name)

Family doesn’t call back? Put yourself up for adoption. A guided way for grown-ups to build family beyond blood: a couple, a small clan, a business that could use a hand, or a big loud household that just likes having you around.

More people are unmarried, child-free, or empty nesters whose kids moved three states away. People move on. This is a way to rebuild the safety net: Sunday dinners, holidays, a job lead, and someone to call at 2 a.m.

Name and site TBD.

Reforestation & seed marketplace
Seed by Mail
5PM.io/seeds

A nonprofit that mails native seed matched to your zip code, plus a marketplace where property owners sell acorns and seed that would otherwise rot. Funded mostly by a $10/mo subscription — about what one fast-food run costs.

Reuse & rural building
Backhaul Tires
5PM.io/tires

Get scrap tires out of the city on trucks already heading to rural areas, and into retaining walls, sheds, root cellars, and Earthship-style homes for homesteaders and off-grid builders.

Specimen lab
Dried Mushroom Specimens
5PM.io/mushroom

A lab-style catalog of dried mushrooms, sold by weight in standard forms from whole to powder. Every lot is sized, sealed and logged.

Brand and domain are still to come.

Not intended for food or any medicinal use.

Crickets & grasshoppers
Open Field Hopper Co.
5PM.io/insect

A cricket and grasshopper farm: live feeders, roasted crickets, cricket flour, chapulines, pet treats, and frass.

Alternative protein
Alternate Form Of Protein to Disrupt Beef

My cardiologist didn’t even know. Advertising methods planned to use could blow this up overnight.

Draft site available, but kept private: the plan is proprietary and not disclosed publicly.

Historic family craft
Moonshine (Historic Family Craft)
5PM.io/moonshine

The family story says our ancestors came to Detroit from West Virginia on a jailbreak involving moonshine. This is a return to our roots.

The goal is to sell it only for Monero (XMR) or blood.

The custom glass bottle cask is complete and sitting in Texas, made by a master glassworker friend. The vision ranges from one-off custom bottles to ceramic hooch jugs, XXXs and all.

The goal? Perhaps spike it with ginseng and bring an American Heritage story of Prohibition, jailbreaks, and the Detroit auto industry to Japan. The elegant domain name is still waiting for someone with about $30,000 to spare—it is very snug.

We need someone familiar with import/export and the spirits industry, plus a bottler or distillery partner to keep it all legal. I can learn it if I have to.

The old crew
Detroit Terror Team
detroitterrorteam.com

The old crew. We're still alive. Roots in Detroit not required.