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A GREEN SHOE GARAGE HUMAN NETWORK + SECURITY WORKBENCH

Build your bench.
Share your work. Patch in.

A place for people who make, repair, and investigate. Share an unfinished project, find your people, or follow the latest security news.

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Registration is open. Choose what you share and who can see it.

THREAT NEWS / FROM CISA

Recent known exploited vulnerabilities

See recent KEV additions

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FROM GREEN SHOE GARAGE

Try something made here

Browse Projects

Tools from the Green Shoe Garage catalog. These open their own sites; they are not yet PATCHBAY Projects.

Design & fabrication

BENCHCAD (opens in a new tab)

A local-first CAD workbench for building with primitives, Boolean operations, and an editable feature timeline.

What small part would you model first, and which step should feel easier?

Electronics

LIGHTTABLE (opens in a new tab)

A browser workbench for inspecting PCB manufacturing files, measuring in 2D, and reviewing a board in 3D.

What do you check first when opening a board someone else designed?

Measurement & repair

KEYGAUGE (opens in a new tab)

A local measurement aid for estimating key bitting from a calibrated screen or photograph, for keys you own or are authorized to service.

How could calibration and uncertainty be explained more clearly?

BENCH NOTES

Small signals from real people

Read Bench Notes

No public Bench Notes yet. Share something you tried, something that failed, or a question you are working through.

TWO CORES / ONE NETWORK

Share the human work. Protect the sensitive work.

HUMAN NETWORK

Make a place for your work

Build your Personal Bench, trade notes, and work on Projects with people who share your curiosity.

Explore the community
SECURITY WORKBENCH

Investigate with care

Keep authorized research in scoped Labs, with System Dossiers, evidence, review, and deliberate sharing.

Open the Security Workbench

GREEN SHOE GARAGE / ON THE BENCH

A soundtrack for making things.

Patch in, press play, and get into your next project.

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PEOPLE OVER METRICS

Your work does not need to be finished to belong.

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