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abigail edgecliffe

Founder, RaceYa

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Joined on July 8th, 2015

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@harryraymond Hi Harry! Thankfully, I'm not the only maker, my Mechanical Engineer is a total rockstar, and helpfully, an RC car enthusiast. The biggest challenge has been to stay true to the vision. It's so easy to cut more and more corners and end up building a product you don't love. There's always that tension in any product (hardware or software) between what you'd like to do and what you can realistically do. But the things that make manufacturing easier, don't always make the user experience better. So we've had to keep coming back to the user (kids and parents) and centering our decisions on what we want for them. I keep thinking that for my next product I'll build something really simple like a paperclip. But then, where's the fun in that? ;-)

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3yr ago

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@sehreentech Thanks Sehreen! That's the awesome thing about STEM. It's that Combination of disciplines that leads to truly creative problem solving!

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3yr ago

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@jose_h_mujica Thanks Jose! I've really tried to make it fun first, and educational second so kids will actually play with it! (Or is it just my kids who never ever finish building craft kits?)

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