Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Regina Dugan + Jason Chua at the World Maker Faire New York 2013”.
Google bought motorola and google is a company about thinking. Big motorola is the scrappy underdog. That means we get to take bold risks and try new things. Crazy. Things like driving a velcro van across the country stuffed with maker tools to see what people will make.
Our goal is to create a hardware ecosystem that rivals the software ecosystem in speed and the number of participants. That’S why we’re driving this velcro wrapped van full of maker tools, together with our unlocked phones across the country, so the difference between a hardware ecosystem and a software ecosystem now is that the software ecosystem tools exist to create a code and compile the whole code and See if it works in the hardware ecosystem, our design tools operate along functional lines. It’S been that way for five decades, for 50 years, we cleave the system by the electrical system, the structural system, the embedded software system, and then we put them back together. We re-integrate them when we build prototypes or do design reviews, that’s not the most efficient way to do it and it doesn’t allow access to lots and lots of minds.
So we’ve been on the road for 10 000 miles over the course of five months. We’Ve been to lots of different schools and worked for lots of different students and there’s been such a diversity different projects. It’S really inspiring to see how different people can make things based on the same technology, same platforms with the same tools, they’ve made a glove that turns text, sign language into text, messages a skateboard that maps the ground as you roll over it here at maker faire. We’Re doing a couple different things, we’re doing something we’re calling make with x, where moto x owners can create custom phone backs for themselves on 3d printers and also some other wearable accessories.
We’Re also running what we’re calling the 20-minute app challenge on our new phone-based step platform. Protocoler and people are getting to make 20 minute apps and 20 minutes on their android phones, that are hardware and software enabled .