Distributive Enterprise Experiments
We are switching gears more directly towards economic impact of the Open Source Ecology platform as we organize our first workshop of 2016. In the first workshop, you can build a 3D printer from scratch in 8 hours and take it home with you. More than...
Open Source Product Development
On Feb. 1, 2016, we continue to clarify the 20 year horizon for OSE in terms of creating the next economy, the open source economy. This is from our Roadmap wiki page: A viable Open Source Product Development (OSPD) methododology is critical to this....
LulzBot Mini 3D Printer Review
We have received a LulzBot Mini 3D Printer for review from our friends at Aleph Objects – an open hardware company in Loveland, Colorado. We respect Aleph Objects as a company true to the open source ethic – while developing one of the best...
Open Source Hardware Development Method
We are working on a methodology for accelerating open source hardware development, and we are calling out open hardware practitioners to collaborate: (note: you can re-edit the video above to help us improve it by downloading the image/voice assets and...
Open Source Hardware Enterprise Model: Distributive Enterprise
Distribution of wealth, or poverty, is one of the most pressing global grand challenges remaining today. The 85 Richest People In The World Have As Much Wealth As The 3.5 Billion Poorest. This issue appears worth solving. What is required to make distributed...
OSE 4 Year Review
It’s been quite a ride over the last 4 years. We introduced the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) on the world stage at TED in 2011: Critics of the open source economy point out that “Open source is a system of development that doesn’t...
Velocar – the Open Source Tilting Microcar
We are collaborating with Yann Lischetti – developer of an open source, tilting, electric Microcar. See his latest progress. The site is http://en.velocar.cc.
OSE Lasersaur Build and Documentation Sprint Update
The OSE Lasersaur build of the open source, 100 Watt laser cutter is going well – see intro in last post. We have so far uploaded a few instructionals on Dozuki – The instructionals were generated in real-time from picture and step uploads...
OSE Lasersaur Build + Documentation Sprint
I am now in Innsbruck, Austria, at Nortd Labs for OSE’s build of a Lasersaur, an open source, 100W laser cutter operated by wireless control from any browser. We will use the laser cutter for rapid prototyping at Factor e Farm, and we intend to...
Architecture Lead Joins the OSE Team
This is our overview and result timelapse for the Microhouse – Our microhouse build came from dirt and open-source equipment such as the soil pulverizer, tractor: and brick press to final product: This was a major milestone of showing how an open...
