Collaborative Production Run Video – The Liberator – Prototype IV
In the last blog post – we summarized the Collaborative Production Run results for The Liberator – our open source, automated, Compressed Earth Brick Press. Here is a video. CEB Production Run. from Open Source Ecology on Vimeo. We are planning...
Collaborative Production Results
We have demonstrated initial results of open source, social production applied to hardware. It took us 4 days to produce a complete Compressed Earth Block (CEB) Press in a Collaborative Production Run. A mixture of 7 unskilled and skilled people swarmed...
More Machines – Open Source Keyline Plow
“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.” -Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution Open Source Keyline Plow from Open Source Ecology on Vimeo. Open Source Ecology attracted me...
History in the Making: First Independent Replication of Open Source Tractor
Daniel and Hayden, recent graduates of the Polytechnic High School in Pasadena, CA, along with their engineering class and several students from nearby Blair High School, recently completed a build of the LifeTrac III (current version is Prototype IV). They...
Open Source Dimensional Sawmill – First Test Run
We have built and run the Open Source Ecology Dimensional Sawmill for the first time. The Dimensional Sawmill allows you to turn logs into dimensional lumber. There are several other types of sawmills, such as the standard circular sawmill, chainsaw...
Recruiting – Master Prototyper & Machine Designers
Open Source Ecology is currently recruiting two key members to our team: a Master Prototyper and a Machine Designer. The pay is $4k/month for fully qualified candidates. This is part of our work on the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS). To apply,...
Open Source Cold Saw – First Prototype Test
Posted in 2012. We have developed an open-source Cold Saw – a cutting machine that produces rapid, precise, dust-free, burr-free cuts that leave the material cool to the touch. Cold Saw Intro: The Cold Saw’s CAD (computer-aided design)...
Flash Mobs – Towards Extreme Collaboration
Our process for building the Global Village Construction Set is radically collaborative. It has to be – because the task is huge: an open source set of the 50 different industrial machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with...
CEB Press v4 Flash Mob and Production Director
CEB Press v4 – Flash Mob – Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) We are organizing a Flash Mob of contributors familiar with machine design and/or access to CAE/Finite Element Analysis technology. The Flash Mob will be on Friday August 3, at 3:00...
Factor e Farm Update: June to July
Hello everyone, sorry for the delay between blog posts lately. I’m Parker Bonnell, one of OSE’s newer staff members, working primarily with Marcin and Aaron on organizational development. The last month has been a busy one at the Factor E Farm. Our...
