Star Wars

Welcome to Force Friday, one of my favorite days of the year. I still fondly remember watching Star Wars with my dad when I was 11. As I walked out of the theater, I asked him if we could buy another ticket right then and watch it again. He denied me that night, but we went and saw it again a few days later. Sphero just released two new droids, R2-D2 and BB-9E , which now rounds out the family that includes BB-8 and the Force Band (so you can control the droids with the Force). ...

*He took his vorpal sword in hand: **Long time the manxome foe he sought — **So rested he by the Tumtum tree, *And stood awhile in thought. – from Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky Jabberwocky and the vorpal sword always makes me think of Princess Leia saying “Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi you’re my only hope.” *One, two! One, two! And through and through **The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! **He left it dead, and with its head *He went galumphing back. ...

The Force Awakens has been particularly exciting to me since we are investors in Sphero . If you haven’t seen BB-8 from Sphero yet, take a look. I watched Star Wars for the first time the week it came out in 1977. I was 11. I’ve been an unashamed Star Wars fan since then, loving almost every moment except for the ones I had to suffer through with Jar Jar Binks. It turns out that I’m about six months older than J.J. Abrams so I feel similar to him about Star Wars . ...

One of the most enjoyable things I get to do in my job is to be involved in creating amazingly fun products. If you hang around in our office at Foundry Group you see plenty of Makerbots, Fitbits, an Oblong Mezzanine, an Occipital Structure Sensor, ModRobotics Cubelets, littleBits, 3D Robotics drones, and Spheros. Now we’ve got some BB-8s (from Sphero) in our office. And if you want one, you can buy one right now . ...