All hail Wimblebot!

I’m a product designer based in London. I work mainly on projects aimed at making life easier for disabled people, either in assistive technology or accessibility. I think it is really important that kids get to experience being creative with technology, and I’m horrified by how this is disappearing from our education system. Because of this, I started The Crafty Robot, a small business that makes robot kits with lots of creative possibilities.

Our latest robot kit is called Smartibot and we’re running a campaign on Kickstarter, so we can put it into production. I used the Smartibot circuit board, battery box, and motors, combined with some tennis balls and the tube they came in, to build this Wimblebot. I controlled it using the app we’ve created for Smartibot.