Ross Atkin

@rossatkin.bsky.social

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Designer & Engineer trying to make technology work better for disabled people and cities work better for everyone. Ex BBC2 #BigLifeFix, Dyson, RCA Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design . Also make robots as The Crafty Robot

Video about a jousting tournament workshop where participants decorated cut and folded up a little paper knight and then put it on a small pink robot unicorn with caterpillar tracks and participated in a jousting tournament, attempting to knock other paper knights off their unicorns.
Photo of a man wearing Mycan plate armour which is made from very large interconnecting cylindrical metal plates and a conical helmet which make the wearer look like a litter bin
Photo of a grey plastic figure that looks cute and a bit like David Attenborough in a safari suit, standing in a Duplo scene with grass, trees, lions and a giraffe.
A phone and a purple gun shaped thing are passed from side to side in front of a small cardboard cutout of a person. On the phone screen the person has a green box around them. A tactile pointer on the top of the gun shaped thing moves to track their position
Chris is holding a gun shaped thing and a phone and is able to follow me as I take a winding route through a big space.
Photo of a cycle only street with 60mm high kerbs between footway and cycle track and a bollards blocking access for motor vehicles with a gap of 1.4m between them
Photos of an part of a street where the road and pavement are at the same height. There is a controlled crossing point marked with blister paving and the areas adjacent to it which are level but not crossing points have corduroy paving between the pavement and road.
Photo of six people standing on a pavement with the royal exchange, mansion house and bank tube station visible in the background. Where they are standing the footway and carriageway are level but there is 800mm deep paving delineating the boundary.
Image of a spreadsheet. A column on the left hand side lists 56 street features such as type of crossing and various parameters about tactile paving, kerbs, inclines and street furniture. A row at the top shows icons representing 13 different needs segments covering types of impairment and mobility aid. The areas where columns and rows intersect have numbers between 0 and 4 and are colour-coded with the ones showing 4 being green, those showing 3 being white and those showing 2, 1 and 0 in progressively darker shades of orange.
Photo of a very grand Victorian or Edwardian building with ‘Free Library’ written in stone relief in a lovely organic font above the door. The door itself is obscured by an enormous and unruly bush which is occupying the whole of what was once the route from street to door. In front of the bush are some haphazardly arranged orange plastic barriers. The barriers are the rubbish injection-moulded kind (not the nicer blow-moulded ones)
Isometric view of 3D printed miniature pieces of tactile paving mostly in buff yellow, grey and red
Photo of a small figure of a knight made out of polymer clay. He is bald with a round face, a moustache and a goatee beard.
Photo of two smiling middle aged white men standing in front a huge star made out of colour changing LEDs and door stopper springs. One of them (Ross) is giving a thumbs up.
Photo of an elf whittled from a medium sized stick (which is visible still attached to the elf’s feet). The elf is painted with a red and white Christmas outfit and is standing in front of a Christmas tree.
Photo of a vary small boxy looking Mitsubishi car with a futuristic looking front
A box full of small baby pink plastic creatures with single horns in gold, hot pink or turquoise, large eyes, long ears and noses and mouths like a cat or rodent.
Photo of a stack of little cardboard tropical modern buildings with different coloured patterns on their walls.
Photo of a sign reading “Digital Kids: Cool Building!’ in front of two white gazebos with tables under them with children working on crafts. In the background is the classical ornamented red brick wall of the V&A museum.
The little yellow plastic figure is inside one of the little cardboard buildings with a heat lamp shining from above and a fan blowing in from the side.
Photo of a small circuit board with two buttons and a matrix of LEDs on the front (a BBC micro:bit) in a yellow plastic enclosure that looks a bit like a human figure. It's being held in the hands of a small chid who is looking down at it.
A small child draws on a white piece of card with a coloured pencil. The the foreground are two more card pieces, one with a series of folds made in it along cut dashes.
Photo of a small boy pointing to one of seven squares of white card with different patterns of holes cut in them. Also on the table are laminated A3 pages with text and images explaining the activity.
Sketch drawing showing a figure sitting inside a building. The wall to their left has many holes in it, through wind is flowing. Above them the sun shines onto the wall but its rays do not penetrate because of the walls shape.
Photo of part of a modernist building including a wall, raised outdoor corridor and staircase. The fabric of all of these are full of holes arranged in various geometric shapes.
Side elevation drawing of a simple modernist building with walls with various geometric patterns of holes, and also large openings between the walls. A stylised sun shines on the building from the top left and a fan blows from the bottom right. There are two blocky figures with BBC micro:bits (tiny computers) for torsos. One figure is inside the building in the shad and blown by the fan and one is on the roof in the sunshine. The illustration is labelled 'Cool Buildings'