I was really excited to hear, over the weekend, that our friends at Hackrod have launched a successful crowd-funding campaign and that there’s still time to participate. The campaign is being hosted on MicroVentures, which means investors should receive interest on their investment as well as equity in the project, assuming things work out. This admittedly seems a nicer model than getting a T-shirt or coffee mug saying you supported their Kickstarter. 😉
I haven’t yet decided whether I’m personally going to get in on the action (so to speak) but I thought I’d post about it in case others are interested by the project (in fact I’m somewhat surprised I haven’t posted about it before). The campaign is not specifically around building cars, but around a “digital manufacturing platform” that will bring together VR, machine learning, generative design, additive manufacturing and IoT.
This project is about way more than launching a fancy new buzzword-compliant platform,…