Robert is a curriculum developer, writer, and designer for the App Inventor team. He previously designed and wrote ​​educational materials for NASA and for out-of-school engineering programs at PBS. In his role as a technology journalist, Robert ​​has served as a senior editor at Wired magazine, and as a contributing writer for Wired, Popular Science, and Make magazines. His 2005 publication, Makers, was the first book about the maker movement.