Five projects that taught me
how things actually get made.
I build the parts of products
that have to just work.
Spencer Walker-Fooks is the founder of Creator Chaos and co-host of Founder's Voyage, the podcast for entrepreneurs fixated on impact. He has spent the last decade taking sensors, payloads, and connected products from initial concept through to global mass production.
His background spans robotic vacuum cleaners, drone reforestation payloads at BioCarbon Engineering / Dendra Systems, a social gaming console for pubs (Unseen Games, which he founded), and a number of self-directed hardware projects.
The thread running through all of it: the work that has to happen between disciplines — between mechanical, electrical, software, and the messy realities of factories, users, and the field. Most failures live in the seams, and so does most of the value.
What I'm useful for.
Systems Engineering
Whole-system trade-off analysis, requirements decomposition, and cross-disciplinary coordination — making sure the right problem is being solved at the right layer.
Sensor Development
Physics analysis, mechanical and electrical design, firmware, and the test infrastructure to qualify a sensor from PoC through DFM to factory.
Mechanical Design
CAD-led mechanism design — payloads, housings, and the kind of tight-tolerance parts that have to behave on a production line, not just on a bench.
Product Software
System architecture, API integration, CI/CD, auth, data layers — the spine that turns a working prototype into a running product.
Mass Production
DFM collaboration, test-rig design, and the on-the-ground root-cause work when a factory issue threatens a launch.
Founder Storytelling
Co-hosting Founder's Voyage — interviewing impact-focused entrepreneurs and surfacing the lessons that don't make it into the press release.
The same person,
across the rest of the internet.
- LinkedInin/spencer-walker-fooks↗
- GitHub@SpencerWF↗
- Founder's VoyagePodcast — co-host↗
- Creator ChaosFounder↗
- Email[email protected]↗
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