5000 Bricks and Counting
We pressed 5000 CEB bricks by now. We have enough for 3 of 4 walls for our living-roofed flexible fabrication workshop addition. At present, we collected funds to complete the roof, but not for any insulation or windows/doors. Please consider a donation...
3000 Bricks and Counting
Upon the suggestion of Reto Stauss of the nachhaltigBeobachtet blog, we have installed the ChipIn widget here for additional transparency in our crowd funding strategy. At the time of this post, we collected $1144, and still have $856 left to go in the...
Solar Turbine Concept Up for Review
We have posted an updated conceptual drawing of the solar turbine collectors and reflectors at the OSE wiki. Please study the drawings and comment here or at the wiki. Please pass this on to others who may be knowledgeable about the topic. A discussion...
The Thousandth Brick: CEB Field Testing Report
Is The Liberator – the open source, high performance CEB machine – really worthy of its name? Absolutely. We found that out as we pressed the one thousandth brick yesterday. Bad weather, manpower, and equipment so far has restricted production...
Product Release Fund
With outstanding performance results on the CEB press, we are getting ever closer to the planned product release date of April 1, 2009. We are employing a Product Release Fund as part of our open source product release strategy, with the primary aim of...
Solar Turbine Brochure – Community Supported Manufacturing
We are taking the Solar Turbine project to the next level. Nick Raaum is our Project Manager, and he will be arriving here in about 2 weeks. He has put in his 2 week’s notice for leaving his post as a performance engineer in a coal-fired power plant....
OSE Open Engineering Cycle
As we have recently begun parallel development of several open source Global Village Construction Set technologies (CEB, Solar Turbine, LifeTrac, Sawmill, CNC XYZ table), it is useful to formalize the OSE product development process. It is called the...
CEB Foundation and Trusses Complete
from 2008. We have finished laying gravel and insulation for the CEB addition foundation. It is a shallow insulated foundation, made with 2″ extruded polystyrene insulation going down 18 inches, plus 1 inch gravel as the fill. There is a drainage...
CEB Block Production – Day 1
We are pressing CEB bricks and digging the foundation for our CEB/living roof/solar design addition. See for yourself: We’ve got thousands left to press, got to go. Support us while we go to work. $10 suggested donations. We have $1074 collected...
Sawmill Project Manager Recruited
Here’s a ChipIn for the Sawmill Project. We have added a third project manager to the OSE team, Robert Todd. Bob has been with us at Factor e Farm since July, on and off. He decided to stay for the winter, committing more deeply to our project....
