Archive for January, 2010
Sunday, January 31st, 2010
Homebrew Industrial Revolution, Political Ponerology, and Kymatica
Kevin Carson, Research Asociate at the Center for a Stateless Society, just published a book called The Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low Overhead Manifesto. This is a progressive review of industrial history, culminating in the present option of post-scarcity economics. Open Source Ecology is featured as one of the Case Studies in the Coordination …
3 Comments » - Posted in Community Supported Manufacturing,Digital Fabrication,Documentation,Education,Global Swadeshi,Open Source Ecology,Permafacture,Reviews by Marcin
Sunday, January 31st, 2010
Dedicated Project Visits Continued
William Cleaver will be joining us at Factor e Farm on May 1 for a Dedicated Project Visit. He’s coming from across the big pond – from the United Kingdom – and we are planning for a 3 month stay.
William is not a novice to creative dexterity – he’s involved in repair and demolition …
14 Comments » - Posted in Biotecture,CAD,Compressed Earth Block Press,Dedicated Project Visits,Factor e Farm,Factor e Team,Global Village Construction Set,Greenhouse,Infrastructure,LifeTrac,MicroTrac,Natural Building,Open Collaboration,Open Everything,Open Source Sawmill,People,Permafacture,Post-scarcity,Power Cube,Solar Village 2010,Steam Engine Construction Set,Viral Village,Winter Gardening,Workshops by Marcin
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
CEB House Tour – Missouri
It turns out that there’s a CEB contractor by Lathrop, Missouri – which is within 30 miles from us. Meet Floyd Hagerman, who has built a couple of very interesting CEB houses. The first one shown here is a hybrid – or a combination of CEB and standard construction. It has a Trombe wall …
8 Comments » - Posted in Compressed Earth Block Press,Construction,Documentation,Education,Infrastructure,Open Collaboration,Permafacture by Marcin
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Open Source Manual CEB Press and Open Source Prefab Strawbale House
Hats off to our collaborators from Poland for open-sourcing a manual, dual-block CEB press. It is in the pre-alpha v0.1 release stage.
Open Source MANUAL CEB PRESS beta I from Cohabitat Platform on Vimeo.
You can download the existing CAD files here. The files are in Polish, so they still need to be translated for the …
6 Comments » - Posted in Bale Spike,CAD,Collaborators,Compressed Earth Block Press,Documentation,Education,Free Business Models,Infrastructure,Open Collaboration,Open Engineering,Open Source Economic Development,Post-scarcity by Marcin
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Initial CEB CAD Drawings
Here are the initial CAD drawings for the CEB press, The Liberator Beta v2.0. You can download these drawing interchange format (dxf) files at the Open+Pario project repository. You can view dxf files with QCad, AutoCAD, Lx-Viewer, or many other applications. Note that this is work in progress, and the drawings will be updated …
No Comments » - Posted in CAD,Collaboration Platform,Compressed Earth Block Press,Documentation,Free Business Models,Global Village Construction Set,Open Source Product Development Pipeline,Permafacture,Product Release by Marcin
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
CEB Automation Strategy
Currently, we are still working on getting our first order of The Liberator high performance, open source, Compressed Earth Brick (CEB) press out the door. We are now upgrading the automatic controls.
We have published a technical paper on the automation problem statement. We are managing the project at the Open+Pario project management site, where …
6 Comments » - Posted in Arduino,Automation,Compressed Earth Block Press,Technical Papers by Marcin
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
RepTab – Open Source Torch Table in MAKE Zine
RepTab, our open source torch table – was featured in the January edition of MAKE Zine. Read the full article online at MAKE. You can follow the history of this development in former blog posts. Read more about RepLab – the Open Source Fab Lab – of which RepTab is a part.
8 Comments » - Posted in Digital Fabrication,Flexible Fabrication,Open Source Fab Lab,Personal Fabrication,RepLab,RepTab,Torch Table by Marcin
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Initial Steps to the Open Source Multimachine
You may have read the proposition of turning the LifeTrac tractor auger to a lathe in this post. Here are the initial results of putting together an open source lathe, plus drill and mill combination.
The bill of materials is:
Total – $800 for lathe, mill, and drill function – for 20 horsepower, and 5000 inch-pounds …
9 Comments » - Posted in Multimachine,Open Source Fab Lab,Open Source Lathe,RepLab by Marcin
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Winter Scene
This winter has been colder and more snowy than normal.
1 Comment » - Posted in Natural History by Marcin
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
Happy New Year!
From post-scarcity communities, open business models, open source tractors, land stewardship, to starting some serious building this year – here’s the latest:
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