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Cohabitat Gathering Trailer

Greetings from Poland. Here is a trailer for tomorrow’s Cohabitat Gathering conference:

Strategic Development

We are pleased to announce that Adrian Hong is joining the OSE core team as Strategic Advisor. Adrian is a Senior TED Fellow and a new friend from the TED Conference. Mr. Hong will be advising Open Source Ecology on strategy, helping explore and structure...

Darwin is Alive

It has been long ago that we reported on our 3D printing adventures – see Hydraraptor’s Second Child. We are pleased to report that our copy of RepRap open source 3D printer has shown its first meaningful prints, thanks to our collaborator...

Cohabitat Gathering

I will be speaking at the Cohabitat Gathering, a natural building conference in Poland on April 1, 2011. You can read the program here.

Open Source Micro-Factory

This post in other languages: Deutsch * Español * Português Imagine if you could build cars, industrial robots, engines, and other things in your own back yard. The only problem is, these require billions of dollars of infrastructure in the current...

Scaling Development

We’re now moving onto the next phase of GVCS development, beyond the work at Factor e Farm to a global collaboration of remote prototyping work funded by crowd sources and resource development via the nonprofit sector. We are collecting bids from...

Isaiah Saxon: OSE Media Director

After an extended winter sabbatical in California, I am back at home at Factor e Farm to continue on-the-ground development of the Global Village Construction Set. Factor e Farm is the place where this development has happened for the last 4 years, and...

Interview with TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski | Case Foundation

Click here for video interview with TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski | Case Foundation. And here’s a report upon returning to California, with plans for returning to Factor e Farm. Pardon the skewed perspective.

TED Day 4

That’s Salman of the Khan Academy speaking on the left. Camille (in the rightmost picture) is a TED Fellow and polar photographer, shown with Al. The Global Village Construction Set was mentioned in Inc. Magazine as one of the start-ups bubbling...

TED Day 2

Meet some of the TED Fellows 2011. These are pictures from some of our talks: I met Lesa from Kauffman Foundation. She told me that Kauffman Foundation is interested in DIY, relocalization, and bringing production back to America. They are in Kansas City...