Rakesh Rootsman Rak is a self-taught electronics fixer, maker, and regenerative technology practitioner whose work is strongly influenced by permaculture principles and a lifelong curiosity for understanding how things work. From the age of 8, he began taking apart broken and everyday devices to explore their inner workings, gradually learning through trial, error, and occasional success how to put them back together again (often with humour and persistence).

Over the years, this hands-on experimentation evolved into a practical skillset in repair, reuse, and low-tech innovation. Guided by permaculture thinking around cycles, resource use, and waste reduction, Rakesh works with electronic systems in creative and educational contexts, focusing on repair, adaptation, and extending device lifecycles to reduce waste and increase accessibility, including projects such as the pedal-powered Henry Hoover mini sound system.

A key area of his work is designing and building pedal-powered generators, which transform human energy into usable electricity. These systems are used in education and entertainment, powering everything from USB lights, mobile phones, and speakers through to larger sound systems and mobile cinema setups.

His approach blends permaculture ethics, curiosity, and playful engineering, showing how simple mechanical systems and recycled electronics can create resilient off-grid solutions. Through workshops and demonstrations, he helps people see technology as repairable, adaptable, and empowering rather than disposable or mysterious.