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Ross Atkin @rossatkin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Finally had time to make a video about the Robot Unicorn Jousting workshop the 8yo, 5yo and I ran in the family area at EMF festival. Blog and STL files to follow hopefully soonish. Thanks to @jonty.bsky.social et al for a wonderful weekend.

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Ross Atkin @rossatkin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I gave a talk to a group of Design & Technology teachers this morning and it was so much fun.

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Ross Atkin @rossatkin.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

To celebrate the centenary of Sir David Attenborough tomorrow I made this 3D printed Duplo-compatible figure of him and the children built him an African savannah scene. The file is here: www.thingiverse.com/thing:7348757 #ATTENBOROUGH100

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.

Detail image of the same image showing the figure slightly from above with the lions in the background

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Ross Atkin @rossatkin.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I helped out with a hackathon about assistive tech and AI and I made a pointing device to help blind and partially sighted people navigate using a #Smartibot board. Combined with the (8 year old) AI in the app it worked surprisingly well allowing Chris to follow me through space

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Ross Atkin @rossatkin.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

The second (and final) of these free training sessions on our street accessibility tool is tomorrow. The first went really well and it was great to hear from City of London officers how its use changed aspects of Bank Junction. Details in the thread if you want to come along👇

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.

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Ross Atkin @rossatkin.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

This street accessibility training is tomorrow but there are still a few places if you want to come. Also the tool is now at its permanent home on the @transportforall.org.uk website: www.transportforall.org.uk/tess/

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TESS - Tool for Equitable Streetscapes - Transport for All

TESS, the Tool for Equitable Streetscapes is designed to help engineers and urban planners make streets more accessible for everyone.

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Ross Atkin @rossatkin.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

We’re running free training in how to use our new improved street accessibility tool at the Guildhall in London this Friday and next Tuesday. It’ll include a case study on how it was used at Bank Junction. Open to anyone who works in street design. More details in the thread.👇

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Ross Atkin @rossatkin.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I made a new thing 🧵 Working with @transportforall.org.uk we have built an even better spreadsheet for analysing streets (actual or being designed) and showing their likely accessibility for different disabled people. It’s free to download and use www.rossatkin.com/wp/?portfoli...

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Tool for Equitable StreetScapes (TESS) – Ross Atkin Associates

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Ross Atkin @rossatkin.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

@genmon.fyi loved reading your last update on the Poem/1 and really excited about hearing about your trip to Shenzhen… please please please do a video! Here’s mine from 2018 youtu.be/u4_Vf_uyrtM?...

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Making Smartibots in Shenzhen Part1

YouTube video by Crafty Robot

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Ross Atkin @rossatkin.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Making tactile models of various street design features @johnstreetdales.bsky.social, a collage of his and I found around the UK to use in interviews with disabled people. Here’s all the mini tactile paving!

Isometric view of 3D printed miniature pieces of tactile paving mostly in buff yellow, grey and red

Top down view of 3D printed miniature pieces of tactile paving mostly in buff yellow, grey and red

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Ross Atkin @rossatkin.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The best way to reduce PIP (Personal Independence Payments) to disabled people would be to make personal independence easier by improving transport accessibility: 🏘️ improving the accessibility of our streets 🚉 Sorting out level boarding on trains 🚌 Improving bus accessibility, frequency and speeds

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Ross Atkin @rossatkin.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

@garius.bsky.social The 4yo and I made a little knight out of Fimo and he came out looking remarkably like you

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.

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Ross Atkin @rossatkin.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! Here’s the Crafty Robot Fizzbit Football video which I think is 10 years old today youtu.be/MQbUhjWJqxM?...

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Fizzbit Football

YouTube video by Crafty Robot

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Ross Atkin @rossatkin.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I’m as big a fan of the Feast of the Unconquered Sun as anyone but I still feel it would be better if Christmas was a few weeks into Jan - Not enough dark evenings to sit indoors feeling cozy whittling elves and writing cards and are too many in Jan and Feb when there’s no point making an elf.

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Ross Atkin @rossatkin.bsky.social · 06/10/2024

I made a lot of whatever these* are to go in party bags for the 4yo’s birthday. *Designed iteratively over the last few months with both kids on paper and in Fimo because none of us can draw horses.

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.

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Ross Atkin @rossatkin.bsky.social · 22/08/2024

The lovely folks at the V&A Museum asked me to design an activity for kids (and their parents) that tied in with their 'Tropical Modernism' exhibition and had a digital component. It's running every Wed/Thur/Fri in the main museum. I went to do it yesterday with the 6yo and 3yo 🧵

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'

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