Wetique: Co-founded, built site to rate your friends and receive better recommendations

Dirtnail Pedicab: Designed, built, and operated a fleet of 25 bicycle taxis

Make Magazine: wrote about sustainability for Make's blog

Garduino: invented an automated garden controller

Bazaarvoice: partnerships director; focused on strategic integrations

I've traveled extensively (every continent but Antarctica) and written a book about my adventures thus far.

Here are some of my favorite pictures from the trips:

• UPenn Wharton'05 cum laude. Concentrations in Entrepreneurship and Information Systems.
• Oldest of 5 children
• Avid cyclist (steel, distance)
• Philosophy: act utilitarianism
• Funniest thing I have ever seen: a potato I shot 50 yards straight into the air landing squarely on my uncle's upturned face
• Food: spicy, lots
• Beer: dark, strong
• Frequent runner (runnee?) of Puck, my big red dog

• Make Magazine: The Garduino Garden Controller (pdf)
• KUT (Austin NPR station): Maker Faire radio coverage (mp3)
• Insite Austin Magazine: Maker Faire coverage (pdf)
• Austin Chronicle: "Making It, Weirdly: DIY pedicab hits the street" (pdf)
• Wired: "How-To: End Bike Thefts With a DIY Stun Gun and Get Yourself in Trouble" (pdf)
• Boingboing: "Man makes cell-phone activated stun gun to punish bike thieves" (pdf)

I run the technology side of re:char, a biochar startup.

We've launched 2 products, each available in the U.S. and Canada.
Our climate kiln is a low-cost appropriate technology device that lets farmers convert crop waste into carbon-sequestering soil improvement.
We're currently fulfilling orders for our successful Kickstarter launch of Black Revolution, the first carbon-negative alternative to potting soil.

growerbot is a plug-and-play gardener: connect growerbot, and your garden takes care of itself.

growerbot will also update your friends on what you're growing. Like Farmville, but in the real world and actually useful:)
coming very soon

I've designed and deployed a shipping-container-based, off-grid-capable, open-source factory to produce re:char's technologies. The capabilities are focuses on digital fabrication, with the heart being a 4'x4' plasma CNC. We can accurately cut and structurally join a variety of metals up to 1/2 inch in thickness.
2 people working in one shop-in-a-box can create in excess of 300 climate kilns per month; this couples with carefully sourced components to make each shop capable of achieving ROI within 3-6 months.
You can view our equipment list here; any and all suggestions for improvements are greatly appreciated. We're currently evaluating which CNC mill and 3d printer to add to the arsenal.
2 containers are currently in operation: one in Bungoma, Western Kenya and the second in West Oakland. Because the tooling capabilities are identical, we're able to deploy hardware nearly as easily as software: my colleagues in Kenya can design a new product and I can be producing it in West Oakland the same day.

Luke Iseman | 

velomobile

containerhouse

roboroaster

tall/long bike