It’s Over Our Heads
The roof is coming into place quickly. We will have the entire structure closed off – including a living roof covered with soil and straw – hopefully by today. Through major catastrophe – a part of the wall collapsing because the bricks...
The Brick that Broke the Camel’s Back
I have a lot to say about where I am, about what I’m doing, about what I’m feeling and about bricks. And no pictures to say it with. So, please be persistent and listen to what I have to say and perhaps we’ll all be the wiser for it....
Torch Table: Day 1
As we go about finishing the CEB workshop addition, we are setting up our open source torch table development in the greenhouse. It’s been a long time since we started this development – but building the open source tractor and other details...
Supernatural Wall
The CEB wall is not only made from local earth, but it also has composted manure mortar. This was not our first choice, but part of emergency Plan B. The ground is pretty much frozen here, and we can no longer make earth slurry mortar. In our case, mortar...
Solar Turbine Convergence Breakthroughs
In a historic convergence of December, 2008 – Solar Turbine work of OSE merged with a UK linear concentrator development team. Both teams have arrived at essentially the identical design, down to critical details – for a breakthrough, low...
First Open Source CEB Wall Section Laid
Here is the process of laying up CEB blocks for our digital fabrication facility:
First Brick Laid
Laser level plus 1/2″ treated plywood plus shallow insulated gravel foundation equals first brick laid:
Flurries on All Fronts
We experienced serious flurries today. First, we had a flurry of $482 come in today – to almost meet our materials needs on the CEB addition – on the last day of November’s funding cycle.Second, we experienced a flurry of hits on our...
Populating the CEB Addition
We have moved a 1600 pound battery bank and a 500 pound stove into the workshop addition: Now, how about some walls and a roof? Please contribute – we are short on the building materials, and the month is coming to an end:By the way, our blog views...
CEB Field Performance Report – Factor e Live Part 11
After two weeks of brick pressing – we are done. We pressed a total of five thousand, six hundred, and ninety one open source CEB bricks. We are using The Liberator – the open source, high performance (6 brick per minute), manually-loaded...
