Nick Weldin
Nick Weldin
Nick Weldin (Senior Technologist)
Nick had many jobs including pyrotechnician, for companies like Theatre of Fire and Le Maitre, he helped set fire to the Fourth Bridge for its centenary celebrations. He ran an adventure playground for disabled children for Kidsactive and set up a project in the London borough of Westminster developing multimedia work with people with profound learning difficulties and the people who support them, and has played around with electronics since his teenage years.
Nick divides his time between working with Tinker and as a researcher at the Rix Centre based at the University of East London developing multimedia work with people with profound learning difficulties. His work in that area can be found at The Big Tree.
Nick runs most of the Tinker's public workshops in London and further afield, including Reboot 10 in Copenhagen, 2009 Yahoo Hackday in London, and the 2009 dConstruct Internet of Things masterclass in Brighton.
nick (at) tinkerlondon.com
On Twitter at @tinkernick