Maker Faire Bay Area 2009
Quickupcamper ™

Location:   Outside Grass  H   

A hand-made pickup truck- based RV that is roomy, stable, handles well and gets 20 mpg at 70 mph, about double the fuel mileage than conventional designs.

Web site: http://www.quickupcamper.com

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About the Maker(s)

Jay Baldwin [
Currently Senior Adjunct Professor of Industrial Design at CCA; CEO of Jay Baldwin Design; Inventor of the lightweight, high-performance Pillow Dome solar greenhouse; Author of Buckyworks, Buckminster Fuller's Ideas for Today, (and working on a new book addressing the dark side of any technology); was Senior editor of the Whole Earth Catalog; Land Steward of a 3500 acre nature preserve; Researcher at Rocky Mountain institute and New Alchemy Institute; and taught Sustainable Design at ten colleges and universities (and one high school) since 1963.

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