Small inventions, made with care.
Hi, I’m Michael Bigelow. I build little apps — some to make you laugh, some to make the day easier, a few made just for kids. Every one of them starts as a tinkering project at the kitchen table.
The apps
Looks like a normal camera — until they press the shutter. Then a fart or air horn blasts and the button jumps away.
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100+ loud, realistic prank sounds, one tap away. Works offline.
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Real, professionally recorded fart sounds with a fart timer. No sign-up, works offline. Smell not included.
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Realistic Big Ben chimes to bring a block tower to life. Made for little ones, no ads.
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Realistic elevator buttons and sounds to bring a pretend elevator to life. Made for little ones, no ads.
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A simple substitution cipher — the first program I ever wrote, at 16, now on Android.
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A free, offline electronics reference: pinouts, protocol cheat sheets and calculators that show their math.
Get it on Google PlayBuilt one at a time, since 2023
Bigelow Inventions is a one-person workshop. I share the making-of on YouTube — the ideas that worked, the ones that didn’t, and what I learned along the way. If an app made you smile or saved you a minute, I’d love to hear about it.