Field notes
Adventures
Tiny expeditions, museum days, creek walks, playground tests, and the moments that turn into family lore.
Est. age 5
Mechtacular
The official workshop, adventure log, and creature archive for Jack and Julian.
Workshop log
Builds
Robots, contraptions, cardboard machines, strange vehicles, repair attempts, and whatever comes off the bench next.
Specimen files
Creatures
Made-up beasts, friendly monsters, invented habitats, sketches, names, backstories, and the occasional battle plan.
Photos
The vault lives next door.
The Mechtacular site can stay focused on stories and projects, while family photos open in Immich at photos.mechtacular.com. That gives relatives a normal browser login without making the boys' pictures part of the open web.
Family-only photos live in Immich.
The main site stays small, durable, and easy to update.
Projects get remembered before the parts disappear back into bins.
Coming next
A homebase that can grow with them.
First, this can be a fast, simple family landing page. Then it can grow into a private journal with posts, tags, project pages, and a parent-only publishing flow from a phone.
The important part is keeping the story separate from the photo storage. Mechtacular gets the character; Immich keeps the full family album private and accessible.