"My name's Mark and 30 odd years ago I used to sit in front of my parents’ electric fire as an 8 year old child and make robots and spaceships out of cogs and wheels and bits of wood that my dad bought back from his job as a clock repairer. Fast forward through the years and I have continued to use these skills to teach about recycling and re-appropriating old electronic equipment so it doesn’t just end up in land fill.
 
Gizmobots start life as found objects from skips, second hand shops, car boot sales and scrap yards. I carefully craft each robot so that all the parts come together to create a desirable, cute, robot. Each Gizmobot comes with a tag explaining his or her own personality, likes, dislikes, hobbies and catering requirements. As a qualified electronics engineer, I re-appropriate old electronics to give some of the robots I make a purpose, such as being an I-pod dock, a desk light or a working radio."