Young hardware entrepreneurs are building a manufacturing community at Prototown, a Texas campus designed like a frontier outpost with oak groves and a swimming hole. They're drawn to Texas for its culture of mechanical aptitude and hands-on collaboration, where personal projects and shared infrastructure coexist to revive American manufacturing.
We want this to always feel like a frontier campus-like place. As much as we want to see speed and like hardware development, I think the strength of Prototown is the fact that you're so connected to like the landscape here. So this is a sweet— this is one of the cooler like oak groves on the property.
Oh yeah, this is a nice thing to build.
It's like the outskirts of the city where like your weird uncle who's like really excited about drone testing lives in this campus. This is our swimming hole that Bedrock's actually helped us build just kind of on their off time. We are excited about that. It's going to take some rain to fill it and then hope that our well cranks. Well, I—
Joyce, no, Texas was going to be the spot where you wanted to end up. When you started thinking about this, it could have been anywhere.
There's that kind of meme in Texas that's like, if you're not born here, then you try and get here as soon as you can. But I think there's a love for hardware here. Like everyone just is so mechanically inclined and works on their equipment. Equipment all the time, and so there's a real intuitive understanding for hardware and like all these like capability sets that we need here.
