Speaker - Vik Olliver

Vik is a longhair hacker and maker from Masterton, where he works at the local Fab Lab community makerspace. His main claim to fame is kludging this thing called a "3D Printer" together as a core dev with The RepRap project, which turned out to be quite popular. Brought up making 8-bit home micros in the 80's, there was no hope for Vik. He worked on CP/M, 'boring old Z80 crates', embedded heart monitors, Ethernet chips, satellites, Linux, closed environmental life support systems, and all three main branches of the emergency services - for which he was also a major customer. In his spare time between trips to Accident & Emergency, Vik makes keyboards for people with dexterity issues, plays around with assorted micro-controllers, grows olive trees and thistles, and makes small pieces of metal move very, very quickly.