Blog
2018
- Documenting learning
- Fab Academy: Graduated!
- Intentional Things
- Back to school
- Fake brands and free watches
- Dynamicland: physical computing in shared space
- Looking forward to 2018
2017
- Making the network work
- Frictionless copying
- Making trends, past and future
- Making a video walkthrough
2016
- Body Augmentation and Prosthetics at Make Shift
- Who is the digital revolution for?
- Talking at Make:Shift
- Is all technology authoritarian?
- Making a TAZ – Reformulating the question
- Does digital fabrication technology lower the barriers to making?
- Making a Temporary Autonomous Zone
- Platforms are the new gatekeepers
- Thinking in public – Liberatory technology
- Talking repair on Restart Radio
2015
- Maker Assembly #1: It’s a wrap
- Antiuniversity and Deinstitutionalisation
- Ruskin and the Maker Movement
- Joseph Wright – A Blacksmith’s Shop
- Loughborough Market Town
- My slides and notes from Made North
- Makers, come together
- Speaking at Made North
- Wevolver | Makermap
- Nesta Makerspaces research complete
- From Britain to British Guiana
- A life in British Guiana
- Story Making: a talk for the Sandberg @ Mediafund Masterclass
2014
- Researching makerspaces
- Brighton Strategy and Planning Meetup
- A Natural Fix for A.D.H.D.
- 99U Podcast: Gabe Weinberg on Getting Traction
- Matt Locke on side projects
- Somewhere to_ create
- Marketing != Advertising
- Playing by somebody else’s rules
- Your brand is not my [$friend_name$]
- What makes you come alive
- Looking Sideways Episode 11 – Mitch Altman
- Looking Sideways Episode 10 — Ross Atkin
- Looking Sideways Episode 9 — Christian Hambly
2013
- Looking Sideways Episode 8 — Sarah Angliss
- Looking Sideways Episode 7 — Emma Rose Metcalfe from How.Do
- Looking Sideways Episode 6 — Leila Johnston
- More project writeups
- Drawbots in the wild
- Looking Sideways Episode 5 — Ivan Pope
- Making stuff for Maker Faire
- Inventing the future at Lighthouse
- Jane ni Dhulchaointigh: the Sugru factory tour
- Lessons learned from Hardware Startup #1
- Fixperts: fixing is a way of thinking
- Chris Thorpe: 3D printing the industrial revolution
- Looking Sideways Episode 4 — Chris Thorpe
- Making a zine about making stuff
- Brendan Dawes: sharing your work
- Looking Sideways Episode 3 — Brendan Dawes
- My talk at Create Brighton
- Reflections on Google Glass
- Creating Innovators
- Looking Sideways Episode 2 — Jude Pullen
- Fab Lab Manchester
- Looking Sideways Episode 1 — Stuart Bannocks
- Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino: Making the Good Night Lamp
- Experimenting with video
- Future Everything 2013
- Alice Taylor: Inventing the Future of Toys
- Seb Lee-Delisle, the accidental programmer
- A conversation with Natalia Buckley
- Newspaper Club Sample
- How many uses are there for a shoe?
- Sketching, pens and a new DIY project
2012
- Siri as a transaction machine
- The economics of bicycle theft
- 13 ways of looking at Medium, the new blogging/sharing/discovery platform
- Open Source Cola
- Job-to-be-done
- Revisiting the Palm Pilot’s uncanny alphabet
- The Cheapest Commodity on Earth
- Wiki creator wants to rip it up and start again
- Web search is broken again
- Five years after the iPhone, carriers are the biggest threat to innovation
- The Power of Networks
- Reflections on hackdays
- Creative work
- How bypassing retailers helped GoLite cut costs and increase innovation
- Appliance computing
- An experiment in open hardware
- Is Facebook making us lonely?
- Caine’s Arcade
- Air quality egg
- Union event: User makers and distributed production
- Getting started with Arduino
2011
- Solargraphs
- Help me research the UK Maker community
- Anil Dash on the Maker Movement
- Looking back on Brighton Mini Maker Faire
- Meetup.com: a 9/11 baby
- An iCal understatement
- The calm before the storm
- Over the top
- Busy, busy, busy
- Experimenting with Instructables and Make Projects
- Analogue natives
- Maker Faire UK
- Bike stunts and the reframing power of stories
- Open Data Brighton and Hove
- Rekindling local production
- Lessons from Maker culture
2010
- Complexity, sustainability and social networks
- Consume less stuff (but please keep buying ours)
- More on brands and desire
- Design for desirability
- Sustainability and sacrifice, resilience and collapse
- Meme tracking: Is the manufacturing industry ripe for a renaissance?
- Small ways to be remarkable
- Vision, passion and realism
- Waste and nutrients
- Walking the talk: Levi’s vs. Etsy
- Beginnings