Inga the English Trainer
Inga and I have fused since she arrived to translate at one of the events on the trip through Austria. Meet Inga. She’ll be joining us at Factor e Farm, and this is growing to be a bigger story than expected. Click To Play Right now, we are begining...
Subversive Fair Presenters
Here is a video of some of the other presenters at the Subversive Fair. There were too many interesting people to record, here is about 10 of them: Click To Play Here is more information on the presenters above. You can see further information on all...
Subversiv Messe Day 2
This is Austria Day 2. The highlight of today, in addition to more interesting people visiting our booth, was contact with one fellow presenter working on a physical production-based distribution of Linux. This means the guy, Florian Stoffelmeyr, of openartisthq.org,...
Subversiv Messe Day 1
Day one of Subversiv Messe in Linz, Austria. Linz is selected this year as the cultural capital of Europe. The European Union has funded the “subversive fair” (subversiv messe) to showcase diverse ideas that “subvert” and innovate...
RepRap in Progress
You may have seen our previous post on RepRap a few weeks ago. See the RepRap development source. Briefly, RepRap is a form of Universal Constructor. A Universal Constructor is a machine that can copy itself. The idea was originally von Neumann’s....
Liberator 2 Production Rate Calculations
The basic design rationale for MicroTrac hydraulic pump (and engine) size requirements is the ability to power the Liberator 2 CEB press to the extent that it can produce 6 bricks per minute. See calculations. This indicates 360 bricks per hour, or about...
Augering
LifeTrac is back out in agriculture action. We mounted the power take-off motor on the front loader arms, and attached the post-hole digger. The post-hole digger was from our former, now defunct D17 tractor. We dug post holes for staking our grapes, and...
Industry Standard Cooking Video
This is a video that Molly made when she was here a few weeks ago. We have plenty of eggs from our chickens, and here’s the standard of what we do with them. You can call it Depression Cooking Lesson 1, in the style of this.
Kidding at Factor e Farm
There was some kidding going on at factor e Farm on April 15: The goat exloded once then twice. After the first baby was born, mama goat stood up, and the second goat dropped right on the ground with a sloshing thump. What an event. I felt abundance as...
Moving Forward: Solar Village
Jeremy and I had some serious discussion on the goals for this year, and here are our conclusions for the Core Team from the conversation: CEB Press and LifeTrac taken to product release by end of 2009 – led by Marcin Hexahatch taken to product...
