A DIY smart home gateway built from scratch in the backyard lab. Connects sensors, cameras, and actuators over MQTT — fully open source and self-hosted.
Projects
Hacked together a multi-printer farm and a DIY CNC router running custom firmware. Rapid prototyping hardware for internal projects and the local maker community.
An open-hardware drone swarm framework for hobbyists. Designed, soldered, and flight-tested entirely out of the backyard. Ships as a kit with full build docs.
What People Say
Aarav Kulkarni
Maker & Hardware Hacker
These folks ship real stuff out of a literal backyard. Their IoT gateway replaced a commercial solution that cost us 10x more. Pure garage energy.
Meera Joshi
Open Source Contributor
The drone swarm kit documentation is better than most funded startups. Backyard Builders proves you don't need a fancy office to build world-class hardware.
Vikram Rao
Indie Hacker & Founder
Got our first 50 prototypes printed on their garage farm. Fast turnaround, zero fuss. This is how building should work — scrappy, fast, and honest.
Nisha Gupta
Robotics Engineer
Collaborated with BBL on a custom sensor array. Their backyard setup has better tooling than most university labs I've worked in. Unreal.