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I basically do accessibility consulting, public speaking, beta testing amongst other things. I founded a not-for-profit organisation called https://robotsandcake.org/blog/ which has enabled me to fly a drone on stage at the Wired 2014 London conference from my house in the North of the UK, over the Internet using just my head and right index finger, that was cool. I've also worked with a number of universities and some very cool robotics projects, I'm open to anything that lets you play with new technology and can further the cause of bringing severely disabled people further into the world.

My partner and I have also just launched https://inventability.net/ which is a collection of all the hacks, tips and tricks that we've learnt over a decade of my being quadriplegic. Solutions that took years and thousands of pounds for us to come to, we are trying to pass along to other people with disabilities and anyone really who might find that sort of thing useful.

The public speaking is generally around the topics of accessibility, open design, open Apis and how to string together commercial solutions to solve disability problems without paying the premium the disability companies place upon disabled people. I've spoken at events like the Wired 2014 London conference, Google fire starters, a couple of UK foreign office events, great conference called Wuthering Bytes amongst others.

I got some great advice about 4 years ago just before I started all of this and it goes something like this: "say yes, show up and deliver". You're not competing against everybody in the world, you're competing against the people who said yes, showed up and actually produced something. That's basically what I've done and it's working pretty well so far!

At a certain point it matters how much you produce but as long as you produce a little as often as you can, and you have some good ideas you will probably be okay. :-)