Universities tend to be care-free places during the summer, where schedules relax and those in academia find themselves with a little bit more time to fill.
So, what did the IT Department at George Fox University in Newberg, Ore., do? They built a giant wheel out of 36 iMac boxes. The project, with the staff gleefully going for a spin, has gone viral since they posted it last week.
According to a blog post on the University’s site about the project, the story has humble beginnings, where the “iWheel” was just a glimmer — and a pile of 36 empty iMac boxes — in systems administrator Mike Campadore’s eye.
With a little packing tape and some friends, Campadore finally realized his dream of constructing the “iWheel,” a 120-pound, nearly 9-foot-tall contraption built for nothing other than fun.
Once the George Fox team rolled it out, and took some photos and videos, the iWheel quickly went viral. They posted it to Facebook where a former student picked it up and put it on Reddit. Within hours, they report that it was viewed 3.4 million times on Imgur and was posted on Twitter by Chris Espinosa, Apple’s longest tenured employee, where it was retweeted 8,000 times.
https://twitter.com/cdespinosa/status/627290421438210048/photo/1
Who says academia is boring?
