Media Lab Hacking Manufacturing

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In August 2017, a group of MIT Media Lab students went to Shenzhen, where they spent a month in two factories hacking manufacturing. Below is a documentary about what they experienced, made and learned.

MIT Media Lab | Tangible Media Group

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