Crowdsourcing

As the co-founder of a unique organization with a widely geographically distributed team of designers, engineers, makers, and tech enthusiasts, I spend a lot of time thinking about the resources we need to accomplish our goals. I…

Today, a revised version of our Whitepaper went live on our website. In it we outline our general approach to harnessing our capacity for innovation and driving it towards impactful engineering projects.

Three years ago, rLoop started with a thread on /r/SpaceX. Approximately 40 people responded to the thread and filled out a collaborative Google Sheet with their name, area of expertise, and number of hours they could commit weekly. Today we have one of the most advanced…

In June of 2015, SpaceX announced an open competition for independent and student engineering teams to design a Hyperloop pod, at approximately half scale, for the opportunity to be tested on a 1-mile track built at their headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Within…

When rLoop first organized, the team was focused on a single project — design and build a prototype pod for the Hyperloop Competition announced by SpaceX. Almost two years have elapsed, and the community has organically created a globally distributed network of talent and…