Stuck? Get a Robot Duck.
Then I realized, it’s not really about Robot Ducky or the site that wasn’t…it’s about how you approach challenges, find solutions, spark creativity, and, most importantly, keep moving forward.
Embrace Your Inner Robot
I think I finally figured out who I want to be when I grow up…I love the idea of merging VR, and AR, and robotics, and high-performance networking, and cameras, and haptic feedback devices…
Book Recommendation: Things Come Apart, Todd McLellan
As a kid I used to get myself into trouble for taking my toys apart. I didn’t know how to communicate to Mum and Dad the true value I felt when I understood what was going on inside, and how exciting it was…
Mr. Credible
I have a super power. Well, two actually, but the first is most relevant to the recent turn in my career…
Perfection
Perfection is subjective and demanding and, also, doesn’t really exist. I know all this, but I’m also a chronic recovering perfectionist…
A World in a Grain of Sand
I have created whole worlds from nothing but my imagination. Building landscapes, giving them texture and form, shape and light. I peopled them with creatures fantastic and mundane. I gave them life and rules they were obliged to follow…
It's Bigger on the Inside: Thinking Inside an Infinite Box
The part where I’m overwhelmed by the ideas flooding my brain is the exciting bit - the part where I have to pick which one I actually want to pursue and develop is where the frustration comes in.
What Don't We Get?
…the urgency of money can be a stifling burden on the ability to create…
Get to the Garage
Where do you go to find the room to dream up impossible things and find a way to make them possible? How do you make space to work out problems without being bogged down in the small challenges and big problems of everyday life?
Because we can
Once more into the breach...be it ever so huge, or tiny, or just middle size and not really interesting to anyone at all…
Ultra Violet
Sometimes people ask, “Simon, why purple?”
“Why lasers?”
“Why purple lasers?”
Working on my "Or"
The thing about inventing, or creating anything really, is that it’s wonderful. Really wonderful...unless it’s absolute torture.
Go On, Do Some ARM
A long, long time ago, in a countryside far away, there was a young man playing with tech in his parents’ garage…
Planner 17.0
This is an experiment in trying to strike a balance because time is a precious resource around here, and I’d really like to make this idea come to life, mostly because I want to use it.
Zen Tense: Not all Dead, Which Means it's Slightly Alive
Then, we set about figuring out what we could do, what we felt we had to do, and what even could be done at all.
Zen-Tense: The Prevenge
Before I go on with the story of Zen Table – how it was finished, how I got to running a Kickstarter campaign, where we went from there – I’ve got to back up a bit and tell a little more about how we got to the point where any of that came next. I’ve got to tell you a bit about Lizzy.
Zen-Tense
It all began a long time ago, a bit more than 20 years actually, in the mid 90’s, at a party. I was working at Zono at the time, and I was having a bit to drink, chatting with Zono’s CEO, Ed Zobrist, and the Head of Software Engineering Jeff Fort, and their wives, in Jeff’s living room.
Just Buy a 3D Printer Already
Just stop – stop with the questioning and wondering what it’s for, just go buy a 3D printer.
What Drives You
Out of anything in my life, I’m most enthusiastic about creativity – which is why if anyone asks what I am, my first response is, Inventor.