Two months since my last post. What happened to January? Familial illness, mostly - three different maladies have worked their way through Clan Holt, necessitating days off work, school and nursery (and days off work to look after children who are off school and nursery), which combined with exam marking, launching new modules, running Applicant Days, as well as writing grants and papers, and supporting PhD students coming up to the finish line on their PhDs have all pushed blogging to the bottom of the pile. The arrival of the Raspberry Pi 2 didn't help either.
Still, things are calming down at last, and opportunities to write blog posts are starting to bubble up again, so hopefully you'll be hearing more from me in the coming weeks!
It's also worth saying that 2014 came to a sad end, with Bipin Bhakta (the driving force behind the rehabilitation bit of our rehabilitation robotics bit, and the man who first got me working on user-centred design with children, and so effectively shaped my entire career from 2006 onwards) and Gert Jan Gelderblom (leader of the working group I belong to in LUDI, and a prominent figure in that network), both passing away during December. I'll miss them both. God rest.
