Archive for November, 2009
Saturday, November 28th, 2009
CEB Machine Production: Rocket Fuel for Post-Scarcity Economic Development?
We have our first sale of The Liberator CEB press. Maureen, one of our True Fans, will get her hands on an automated version of The Liberator – The Liberator Beta v2.0. We are expecting 8-12 bricks per minute for this machine. We’ve also discussed collaborating on hands-on CEB construction workshops – which is …
11 Comments » - Posted in Compressed Earth Block Press,Free Business Models,Open Collaboration,Open Source Ecology,Product Release by Marcin
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
Free Press Free Enterprise
Abstract: We have achieved product release of a manually-controlled, high-performance, hydraulic Compresssed Eearth Brick (CEB) press, The Liberator. The initial version is selling for $3500 – $5500. Our present state of development is automation, which will increase the brick production rate from a maximum of 4-5 bricks/min in the manual version to 8-12 bricks/min …
13 Comments » - Posted in Compressed Earth Block Press by Marcin
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Lathe Build
The lathe is perhaps the most important machine tool in a workshop. In almost every kind of machining operation, either the work piece or the cutting tool turns. – link.
Read more about the practical basics of a lathe from a master of documentation, Chris Palmer of HydraRaptor.
We are approaching the lathe in a rather …
1 Comment » - Posted in Open Source Fab Lab,Open Source Lathe,RepLab by Marcin
Saturday, November 21st, 2009
Full Local Diet
In general, half of OSE technology work focuses on RepLab, and the other half focuses on open source agroecology. Both are connected, and one feeds the other.
Effective food production is critical to post-scarcity, resilient communities. We are doing an experiment to show that it takes 12 hours per person per year for an 8 …
3 Comments » - Posted in Open Source Agroecology (OSA) by Marcin
Friday, November 20th, 2009
Freedom of Press
Subtitled: Fabrication Optimization.
We are positioning The Liberator as the world’s best, free (libre) CEB press. We are also positioning it as the world’s best CEB press – meaning that the proprietary counterparts will have a serious contender. For this to happen, it is critical that The Liberator gets out to the world as free …
2 Comments » - Posted in Compressed Earth Block Press by Marcin
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Initial CEB Automation Results
The FSCONS conference was awesome, discussion on RepLab is evolving, and I have a feeling we haven’t seen anything yet. At the same time – the core of building a pattern for replicable, post-scarcity, resilient communities is actually building it. Today we get back to the CEB automation question – and we present encouraging …
6 Comments » - Posted in Arduino,Automation,Compressed Earth Block Press by Marcin
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
RepLab – the Open Source Fab Lab
Many of you may have heard of the MIT Fab Lab – a mini factory where you can make just about anything. If you have $100k to spend, you can get one for your home.
What if we reduce the price of this toolset by a factor of 10? While we are at it, why …
46 Comments » - Posted in Open Source Fab Lab,RepLab by Marcin
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Report from FSCONS 2009
Thanks to Jonas, Bojana, Rikard, Karl, Henrik, Mathias Friman, and all the others behind the scenes – who all combined for a pretty fiery Free Society Conference for 2009. You can see the Live website for the conference here, and the program here. Between the two sites, you will find the uploaded presentations (such …
3 Comments » - Posted in Collaboration Platform,Conferences,Open Source Economic Development,Presentations,Social Contract by Marcin
Sunday, November 15th, 2009
Greetings from Sunny Sweden
Sweden is not exactly sunny at this time of the year, but the Nordic people are lovely.
So far, it’s been a mind-blowing experience at the Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit (FSCONS 2009). One cannot explain it in writing – not even by watching the videos – because it is the atmosphere of freedom …
No Comments » - Posted in Open Source Economic Development,Open Source Technology,Post-scarcity,Presentations,Social Contract,Viral Village by Marcin
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
Product
So here it is. November 1, 2009 is the day of Product Release.
Factor e Farm announces its first Product Release in the form of The Liberator high-performance, open source, Compressed Eearth Block (CEB) Press – Beta Version 1.0.
Let’s go back a little in history. In the end of December, 2007 – we …
