My adventures in making - Luke Henderson

I'm Luke a maker from the UK. I've been living in shenzhen for four years. From a young age I loved making

you could always find me in the shed making some toy or new invention from a few pieces of wood. When I was in high school

I started to teach myself programming and 3D design. Despite the fact that I love making, I also love to learn new languages,

Hence I took linguistics in university. After graduating I started to travel around Asia, eventually settling on Shenzhen as my new home.

I first taught English here but soon realised Shenzhen was a paradise for makers, which took me into teaching 3D design to kids. After 

a short while I designed my own maker curriculum which started to cover all kinds of topics. I have attended quite a few maker faires as a 

visitor and also manning my own booths, at maker faires in Tokyo, Shenzhen and Hong Kong. In my previous company I was chosen to represent

our bluetooth robot at Tokyo Makerfaire due to my Japanese speaking ability. Last year I was tasked with setting up and running a maker space

which I gained a wealth of experience from.

我叫路克， 是来自英国的创客，已经住在深圳四年多。从小我就喜欢创造东西，把几块木头贴在一起做成小玩具就很开心。

到高中我开始自学3D设计和编程。 上大学读的是语言学，因为我热爱学习不同国家的语言。毕业以后到过亚洲旅游，

旅游完了就决定留在中国工作，刚开始时教英语，但是很快就发现了深圳是一个创客乐园，于是我跟一群中国朋友开始做创客教育。

同时因发现了3D打印技术的兴起，通过运用以前学的3D设计知识去自我探索这个高科技，最后总结出自己的3D打印教材。因个人精通日语，所以能在2015年有幸被当时任职的公司选送去东京maker faire展示我创造的蓝牙机器人。2016年我全程负责一个创客空间的工作。在此之前我参加过各地的makerfaire。