0038 - Hands-On Performance with Lorcan O'Keeffe

Hosts: Monika Lukosiute and Cian Magee We are talking with Lorcan O'Keeffe of Hands On Performance You are very welcome to the podcast Lorcan. Can you tell us a little about yourself? 1.What is your vision for both O’Keeffe Design and Hands on Performance? 2.Could you give us a brief intro to e-sports, sim-sports, racing simulators? 3.Why put so much attention to replicating road car and motor sport controls in a sim-sports driving rig? 4.Who was your inspiration? [Who do you design for?] 5.What are your design goals? [A general-purpose rig or a platform that can be configured?] 6.What is your own design process? 7.As an entrepreneur/early-stage start-up, who or what are the most valuable supports out there? 8.What tips would you give to someone starting down this road, taking an idea from concept to initial prototype. 9.More questions? Well, we’ll wrap up there. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experiences today. Notes: Lorcan O’Keeffe on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorcan-o-keeffe-386b7b220/ Working in Automotive Technology, Product Design, Parametric modelling Participant in the New Frontiers entrepreneurship programme – validating the market - https://www.wit.ie/schools/business/new_frontiers Acknowledgements Music (EzaOne - Supernova: youtu.be/xZDYu5azS-c) Title: Eza One - Supernova Artist: Argofox (record label) Source: “https://soundcloud.com/argofox/ezaone-supernova” License: “CC BY” Argofox is a record label releasing royalty free music for creators to use in monetized videos and streams in exchange for credit. Cover Art Title: The Driver - Humanscale Blueprint - Space Envelope for a Compact Automobile Artist: Graphic design by Allen Higgins Source: file License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 The graphic is under Fair Use and adapted from “Space Envelope for a Compact Automobile” from Humanscale 7/8/9 booklet by Niels Diffrient, Alvin R. Tilley and David Harman; Henry Dreyfuss Associates, M.I.T. Press (1981) Podcast License Design Talk (dot IE) CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 The license can be viewed at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 By taking part you give permission for your voice to be recorded, for the recording to be edited, and for it to be posted and published as a podcast.