One of the original reasons I became inspired to learn how to make things, and to have a workshop, was so that I could make furniture. I was in a furniture store in 2006 where I spied a beautiful high-backed upholstered chair with a really simple geometry yet an astronomical price. I was pretty sure that I could build it for about half the cost in materials, and thought I might have fun doing it, too. I never did build it, but ever since then I've had the dream of outfitti

As you can probably guess, I'm a proud geek..... and I totally geeked out in college when I learned about control theory. I go more into this in my later post (Idea Foundry Origin Story), but as a kid, I was inspired by visions of the future I had read about in sci fi books and seen in movies (Star Wars, Bladerunner, Aliens, etc). A future where robots could do our bidding, machines could make nearly anything we wanted, and computers were more than fancy calculators - they c

So - the last ten years have been a whirlwind... Got my PhD. Moved to Columbus and joined a tech company. Started a small hobby business called the Columbus Idea Foundry (ref: "Origin Story" post on this blog...) Managed that business while still maintaining the day job (which meant years of 80-100 hour work weeks). Hustled, danced, guessed, gambled, and did a thousand other things to make ends meet. Worked a few more years of insane hours. Discovered that I could put i