By day, I’m a teacher.
Not the quiet-chalk-and-textbooks kind — more digital dark arts, woodshop dust, tangled wires, and “what happens if we try this?”.

I specialise in digital media, fabrication, robotics, and hands-on problem solving. My classrooms tend to look more like workshops or studios than traditional learning spaces. If something can be built, broken, rebuilt, or learned the hard way, I’m probably into it.

Outside of school, I’m a watercolour artist, tinkerer, maker, and serial project-starter. I like working with my hands, experimenting with ideas, and letting curiosity do most of the driving. Wood, pixels, paint, code — the material matters less than the process.

I’m also a rugby coach and referee, which means I spend a lot of time thinking about systems, flow, decision-making under pressure, and how to keep things fair while moving forward. Turns out that overlaps nicely with teaching and making.

I’m originally from Waihi Beach, New Zealand — a small coastal town that quietly shapes everything I do. Recently, my family and I made the leap to America, bringing a shed-full of ideas, a Kiwi perspective, and a slightly unhealthy belief that most problems can be solved with time, patience, and the right tool.

This site is a collection of projects, field notes, experiments, and works-in-progress. Some are finished. Many aren’t. That’s kind of the point.

My name is Jeff Cochrane, and this is where I make stuff.