Back from OC2

Oculus Connect 2 was pretty amazing, great people, great demos, great food and great free drinks. The day before wasn’t the best time to pick up a 48 flu infection, but I struggled through. Now I’m back in the UK and about to move into a state of the art...

A spot of crowdfunding anyone?

As some of you know we applied to HAXLR8R in November, had several interviews in December and the first 2015 program started last week in Shenzhen, China. They had over 400 applications and had to whittle this number down to just 15 hardware devices. A lot of...

Chasing Laser cutting companies.

I just emailed 16 laser cutting companies in the UK. I really hope I can just find one place who could do the whole job but this might not be possible. The lead time for the quote I received today was 4 weeks, which means I get the uncut plates, send them to the laser...

State of UK business

Time to reassess the quest for my panels. I’ve emailed 86 companies in the UK. After 10 days or so only 35 replied. 4 bounced back as ‘I’m on holiday’. 11 said no, for various reasons after receiving my drawings or because they don’t do...

Another UK reply

One went into my spam folder but at least they sent a decent reply “Unfortunately your requirements are outside of our fabrication capabilities and would have to decline on this occasion.” They advise me to look for a ‘pressings’ company, which...