One of the original Glider founders and a well known figure in the local Maker movement, Robert is also a family man. He loves taking his kids - Kleo and Mike - to the Space and teaching them how to build a robot or to fix a bicycle.

While the least-present of the “core crew”, Robert is also the most responsible of them. This often leads to conflicts, when he trusts Adam or Cynic to get something done - and sees it being forgotten somewhere along the way.

He’s pretty adamant at keeping the Glider free of politics - it should be a shared workshop, a place to run classes from, not any kind of lobbyist institution.

Robert is a powerfully-built man with broad shoulders and a well-trimmed beard. He has just turned 42 and it's showing on his body - with a round belly and a forehead creeping up. He's got an honest face, usually wearing a gentle expression, and glasses he wears only when reading something. Everything about Robert seems to indicate a well-established family man with a wife to help him make the right stylistic choices.

He usually comes to the Space straight from work, wearing a well-pressed shirt and jeans. He immediately rolls his sleeves up above his elbows to work in the common area (where he won't get dirty) or changes in a-little-too-small tshirt and sweatpants to work in the Heavy Workshop.

While not wearing any jewelry except of his wedding ring, Robert sports a dozen of cloth wristbands from a dozen of Hacker / Maker conferences sample0 sample1.

He might have a small and barely-visible scar on his face, neck or hand - he's been working with various equipment - soldering stations, engines and heavy machines for years.

(following section is a proposition and might be changed in the final version)

[TODO: Research specifics, possible plots && homages] Over eight years ago Robert married an African girl with a daughter, and since then they've been living in Poland. He accepted the baby - Kleo - as his own and didn't tell her that he's not her biological father. A couple of years after marrying they had another baby - this time his own, Leon.

• Argument with Amanda on feeding his children communist propaganda, making them talk about space lesbians and wear communist tshirts.
• Tension with Adam, whose life decisions Robert doesn't approve. He thinks it's not responsible to live “just by”, putting all the work in the NGOs.