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Welcome to Fire the Inventor

Fire the Inventor is a not-for-profit company set up to

encourage the hands-on practice of making, crafting, inventing, tinkering and repairing;

run practical workshops that combine art, science and technology using automata, mechanical devices and puppets;

provide informal learning opportunities for people to learn new craft, technical and engineering skills;

help people to (re)discover their creativity and potential through making, hacking and fixing things.

Patron

Tim Hunkin
Engineer, cartoonist, broadcaster, artist. and creator of Channel Four’s “The Secret Life of Machines”. Wikipedia Biography of Tim Hunkin

The aims and objectives of Fire the Inventor are supported by:

The Exploratorium Tinkering Studio

Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre

Cabaret Mechanical Theatre

Why ‘Fire the Inventor’?

Well, we liked the image of the fired-up inventor-maker, a risk-taker, someone likely to be working away out of the mainstream, perhaps in secret, pursuing their creative objective undeterred by what others might think. One such is LED inventor, Nick Holonyak. While employed by General Electric he secretly experimented with semi-conductors to see if they could produce light and in so doing invented the LED. He says his colleagues thought he was a bit ‘nutty’, and that had the management found out, he would have ‘have been in trouble and gotten fired!’.*

* Source: Juice: the creative fuel that drives today’s world-class inventors, by Evan I. Schwartz.