Bio

I'm Svavar Konráðsson.

I have a BSc in Mechanical Engineering. The only thing I have left in my Master's degree is the thesis. I'm working on it now.

Here's a video where I tell Neil Gershenfeld a little bit about myself during random review.

I took part in starting Team Spark, the Icelandic Formula Student team, which designs and fabricates electric racing cars and competes against other university teams at Silverstone circuit in England every year.

Team Spark at Silverstone circuit. I'm in the middle.

I did the structural design and Lloyd's Register certification of an innovative RIB at Rafnar boatyard, a boat that is now manufactured in five countries around the world.

My desk at Rafnar boatyard. On the screen is a Finite Element Analysis of a RIB transom. I miss SolidWorks Simulation Premium.

I started a company around the design of a simple and inexpensive suspension seat for high-speed boats.

I also started the first proper 3D printing service in Iceland.

I've started several promising things. My problem has been allowing the scope of my projects grow until it's impossible to finish them! Therefore Project Management in general has been one of the most important part of Fab Academy for me, and spiral development in particular.

Now I work at Fab Lab Ísafjörður and I'm interested in ways to introduce students to computer-controlled machines.

Myself on the left and Þórarinn Bjartur Breiðfjörð Gunnarsson, my Fab Academy instructor and the director of Fab Lab Ísafjörður, on the right.

I like to think of myself as an inventor. I realize that in many people's minds the word "inventor" is almost synonymous with "crackpot", but as a child I thought Gyro Gearloose was the coolest character and I always wanted a shed full of tools and inventions like he has. Now I work in a Fab Lab! I've even referred to myself as an inventor in public:

Interview in Icelandic about my work and studies

I agree with mixtela's thoughts on being an inventor. For me it's like being a writer. You don't have to be a successful published writer to call yourself a writer. You just sit down and write.

You can decide to be an inventor. You don't need to have invented a world-changing device, all you need is to make things that you haven't seen before.

Note

I still need to add more details to the bio. I need to figure out the way to copy text documents from my father's antiquated Tandy 102 portable computer, on which I wrote more text about myself.