Archive for February, 2010
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Fabrication Ergonomics Continued
Here we continue to document the fabrication ergonomics from where we left off on the Compressed Eearth Brick (CEB) press.
Transfer punch and drill holes for frame – 3 hours. Mount the arms – 1.5 hours. Build soil-loading drawer – 3 hours. Build hopper interface plate and hopper – 4 hours. Mount main cylinder – …
No Comments » - Posted in Compressed Earth Block Press,Documentation,Flexible Fabrication,Global Village Construction Set,Industrial Swadeshi by Marcin
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Doctor of Philosophy Programs
OSE is teaming up with Gaia University to offer Ph.D. programs related to post-scarcity, resilient communities. As you may have read in a previous post, Gaia University is beginning its Ph.D. program offerings this year.
The OSE-Gaia program is geared at developing the rigorous theory and practice necessary to support the development of post-scarcity economics. …
3 Comments » - Posted in Education,Global Village Construction Set,Open Collaboration,Open Engineering,Open Everything,Ph.D. Programs,Proposals,Viral Village by Marcin
Sunday, February 14th, 2010
Open Source Induction Furnace Continued
The open source induction furnace project discussed previously is moving forward. We are currently evaluating bids, as you can see at the induction furnace project management site. This marks a point in our organizational history where we are beginning to outsource work, consistent with the proposed open source development pipeline process. Outsourcing is an …
4 Comments » - Posted in Induction Furnace,Open Source Economic Development,Open Source Product Development Pipeline,Open Source Technology,Organizational Development,Pattern Language by Marcin
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
Fabrication Ergonomics
We’re now in production of the open source, Compressed Earth Block (CEB) press. Here we document the fabrication ergonomics for the first steps in the build. This is for those of you considering replication.
It took 11.5 hours to cut the steel for The Liberator Beta v2.0 CEB press according to this cut list. This …
8 Comments » - Posted in Compressed Earth Block Press,Documentation,Fabrication Optimization,Flexible Fabrication,Industrial Swadeshi,Torch Table by Marcin
Monday, February 8th, 2010
Gaia University
One perk of life at Factor e Farm is that you run into some really interesting people. Liora and Andrew Langford, co-founders of Gaia University and also True Fans, visited yesterday.
We covered lots of ground on collaboration between OSE and Gaia U. First, I should explain what Gaia University is about, because its uniqueness …
3 Comments » - Posted in Collaboration Platform,Collaborators,Documentation,Education,Open Collaboration,Organizational Development by Marcin
Friday, February 5th, 2010
Ubuntu 9.10 on Dell Latitude D820 Laptop
The PowerBook G4 Mac in the house finally quit working. We splurged $300 on a brand new laptop recently. We got a 3 year old Dell Latitude D820 from Craigslist. With 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo, and 1920×1200 screen resolution – that makes for an impressive system with Ubuntu 9.10 installed.
The install was straightforward. …
22 Comments » - Posted in Documentation,Linux,Ubuntu by Marcin
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Winter Orchard Damage
This winter, we had 1-2 feet of snow, and the cover lasted for about a month. This was harsh on the orchard – because an army of rabbits thus had a 1-2 foot pedestal and could reach above the existing tree guards. There was significant damage, but the trees will grow back – from …
7 Comments » - Posted in Animals,Challenges,Factor e Farm,Natural History,Open Source Agroecology (OSA),Permaculture,Winter Gardening by Marcin
Monday, February 1st, 2010
Open+Pario Project Collaboration Platform
We are now officially using Open+Pario as our project management and design repository for Open Source Ecology. The most active project at present is the CEB press, and we are beginning project management of the Open Source Induction Furnace. Anybody can view any of the projects – including design files, technical discussions, etc. The …
