Viral Replicability Criteria
We are moving forward on the first instance of a Distributive Enterprise – with the D3D Business Plan on the 3D Printer Workshop Model – a vision for innovation in the field of economics. The innovation lies in discovering a mechanism to displace...
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...
MicroHouse prep continues
Days 38-43 Factor e Farm interns did a lot of prep work for the MicroHouse workshop, which Founding Director Marcin Jakubowski decided to push back to the second week of August due to weather and scheduling conflicts. A small group of interns...
Power Cube almost built
Days 35-37 Last weekend’s Power Cube workshop was a multi-faceted learning experience. Workshop attendees Luke and Lourdes Crowley learned the ins and outs of the PowerCube v7 and the Micro Power Cube. At the same time, the interns...
