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Mike Perina

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From prosthetic arms to operating systems.

Warner Bros. DiscoveryUniversal PicturesParamountSony MusicAtlantic RecordsRed BullIBMABBARRISyscoSorelCitizenPat McGrath LabsBattleBotsDiscovery ChannelVicarious Surgical
14
Years turning digital intent into physical and operational reality
250+
Projects catalogued across objects, systems, activations & products
41
Media appearances, national & local
NYC
Based in New York. Available worldwide.
01 Selected Case Studies

Things Made Real

The finished 3D-printed prosthetic arm
000%Plans

Prosthetic Arms

I started printing prosthetic arms and giving them away. No charge and no medical camouflage—if a kid wanted an upgrade, we designed an upgrade.

Open the build →
01
Warner Bros Television2018

Gotham City

Modeling, printing, finishing, and deadline sequencing

02
Sorel2019

Mile Long Runway

Rapid-production miniature architecture for Sorel's High Line runway

03
Community response2020

One Sleepless Night

A community PPE production network, built from a shop full of idle machines

04
Vertical Group · Pat McGrath Labs2019

Pat McGrath Labs

Design, modeling, prototyping, and production

02 Selected Evidence

More Things Made Real

Retro Boombox — Original design
Physical

Retro Boombox

Original design · 2019

Every grille, slider, and panel modeled from scratch.
— open project detail
Desert Pearl — Emma Stern
Physical

Desert Pearl

Emma Stern · 2022

A gallery-scale mermaid, fabricated for the artist—and covered in Vogue.
— open project detail
Harlem 1:50 — Architectural model
Physical

Harlem 1:50

Architectural model · 2018

A city block held together by cumulative precision.
— open project detail
Pokémon Go Scavenger Hunt — Public event
Physical

Pokémon Go Scavenger Hunt

Public event · 2016

Five hundred printed figures hidden across Staten Island.
— open project detail
Red Bull Culture Clash — Red Bull
Physical

Red Bull Culture Clash

Red Bull · 2018

Laser-cut and printed components built for the stage.
— open project detail
03 Current Systems

Building Now

Software is the shop's
next material.

Loombuild orchestration OSActive
Titan Capital Managerclient financial infrastructureShipped · in daily use
PrintMatrixprint-farm operating systemIn development

Built and run at tangent.build (opens in a new tab)

HybridPrintMatrix · systems lineage 2014–2026
With: Jonathan Y — 55 printers, 1,000-unit runs · 2022–24
The print farm in production55 machines
PrintMatrix production operating system interfaceone system

From 55 Printers to One Operating System

— open project detail
04 Off the clock

Reprogramming Reality

A book of paradoxes.
Made solo.

With: no one — wrote, designed & illustrated solo

Every chapter is built on a paradox—two ideas that can't both be true, held until they turn into something you can use.

Same trick as this site: two channels disagreeing until they make depth.

Chapter 8 — The Luck Paradox: why success is just a system
Reprogramming Reality book cover, with red and blue 3D glasses
Chapter 4 — The Paradox of Reality: from 3D to 2D to one profound truth
05 Chronology

Fourteen Years
of Making

The medium changes.
The discipline doesn't.

20123D Factory founded. Building RepRaps. $100K in year one.
2014Assembyl 3D opens. Printer kits. Own farm begins.
2018Arms hit national news. Gotham gets built.
2020The shop becomes a PPE line.
2021Main Street goes up in Times Square.
2022–24Jonathan Y farm: 55 machines. 1,000-unit runs.
NowThe system becomes software—and whatever you bring next.
06 Selected Coverage

What They Said

41 appearances across national
and local press since 2014.

07 About

I've been building with 3D printers since 2012—back when you had to build the printer first. That work grew from objects into systems: prosthetic arms, Gotham City, a Times Square installation, manufacturing software, client portals, and the operating infrastructure behind them.

I work where design has to become operational—an object surviving a public plaza, or software surviving real users. Understand the constraint, build the thing end to end, leave evidence that it works.

Let's build
something.