A Truck Wrapped In Velcro Delivers Tech Inspiration Coast-to-Coast
Carrying with them the notion that people are much more than just consumers of tech devices—that we are all in some way makers, thinkers and inventors—they wanted to see what people could come up with if given the tools to create. They built a smartphone "maker truck", co-designed with a group of 20 students from L.A.'s Art Center College for Design. Wrapped with 4,000 linear feet of Velcro, loaded with industrial 3-D printers, laser cutters and hackable phone components, they set off on a six-month, coast-to-coast journey covering 12,683 miles and seemingly as many minds in a series of make-fests. Dubbed the MAKEwithMOTO project, their "maker truck" is one of a handful of mobile labs that empower people to make, create, ideate and invent -- typically via technology, and ultimately asks the question, What would you create if the world were your team?
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