Inspirations

Here are some people doing amazing things who are very inspiring to me right now in what I am trying to do. Thank you to them for their work, as well as for writing publicly about it!

Niklas Roy • niklasroy.com

Through my work, I explore art, science and technology, often in the form of humorous installations and machines. I like to make as much as possible by myself, because engineering, constructing and coding is a nice way to keep learning new things. And furthermore, this hands-on DIY approach also constantly produces many ideas, which inspire projects yet to come.

Current favorite: Wasserorgel von Winnenden

Scott Garner • scottmadethis.net

I am a multidisciplinary artist working to unite technical, design and craft skills into a cohesive creative voice. Major areas of focus for me include alternative forms of engagement with technology, issues of beauty and creativity in the modern world and the future of storytelling through interactive media.

Current favorite: Reach

Ben Eater • eater.net

I’m currently creating educational videos for my YouTube channel and exploring other ways to maximize human potential through education online.

Current favorite: Build an 8-bit computer from scratch

Tim Alex Jacobs • mitxela.com

mitxela.com is a collection of projects, experiments, musings and half-baked inventions perpetrated by a person known in the real world as Tim Alex Jacobs.

Current favorite: StyloCard

Hundred Rabbits • 100r.co

Hundred Rabbits is exploring the planned failability of modern technology at the bounds of the hyper-connected world. We explore low-tech solutions and document our findings with the hope of building a more resilient future.

We live and work on a 10 meter vessel called pino, we have sailed around the Pacific Ocean and realized how fragile the modern-day computing stack was. Living in remote uninhabited parts of the world has offered us a playground to learn how technology degrades beyond the shores of the western world.

Current favorite: Left

Joey Castillo • Oddly Specific Objects

We create comprehensible open source designs that democratize the knowledge required to create useful technology.

Read: we make stuff, then we tell you how we did it so that you can do it too.

Current favorite: The Open Book

Alexander Obenauer • alexanderobenauer.com

Exploring new and renewed ideas for how personal computing and the interfaces with which we think can better serve people’s lives – expanding opportunity, agency, curiosity, and creativity.

Current favorite: the entire website presentation