In a time when technology is rapidly changing, the MIT App Inventor provides an excellent example of how to democratize the process of creation.

The entire setup is controlled using a smartphone application developed in MIT App Inventor, a super-easy way to prototype Android applications.

After struggling for almost six months to become somewhat proficient at Python, I was extremely impressed with how much I could do using the MIT App Inventor platform.

The App Inventor source code was released by Google and MIT yesterday as part of a three-month project to create a full-fledged App Inventor server for public use.