Fascinated with aviation since age nine, Darcy has explored many aspects of aviation art and science. With natural mentoring abilities and a physics background he delivers fun and educational workshops for educational and recreational organizations.
After volunteering in community centers and the like sharing aviation for many years, he eventually decided to make a better simpler design. In 2004 he sat down and applied a design and problem solving methodology he devised when working in the software industry. This included envisioning, brainstorming, experimentation, prototyping, testing and eventually publishing it as an open hardware design. It was quickly adopted by many people throughout the world and peer review and feedback came forward. Eventually the design was highly accepted and was published in many magazines.
More recently the Squirrel was made available as a kit. Darcy still does a lot of volunteer work for a wide variety of organizations from Chicago to Toronto to Montreal to Boston to New York City. He mentors children and adults.
His volunteer activities range from community centers to walk-in centers for homeless and vulnerable people.
