Archive for June, 2010
Sunday, June 13th, 2010
Full Product Release
We are pleased to announce the official, Full Product Release of The Liberator, the high-performance, open source, Compressed Earth Brick (CEB) press. We are releasing it under the OSE License for post-scarcity economics, and we are now taking orders. You can see the plans here.
Full Product Release indicates that the design is sufficiently mature …
16 Comments » - Posted in Accomplishments,Compressed Earth Block Press,Full Product Release,Open Source Economic Development by Marcin
Thursday, June 10th, 2010
Economy in a Box
We were invited to present at the Bay Area Community Exchange (BACE) Roundtable on Tuesday, June 15, 7 PM, at Noisebridge. BACE focuses on the creation of alternative means of exchange in the San Francisco Bay Area. I will present a talk titled, Economy in a Box. We will discuss how real goods can …
1 Comment » - Posted in Open Source Economic Development,Organizational Development,Presentations by Marcin
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
Crating
Here is a 30 second video showing how we crate up the CEB press for shipping, which we dismantled two posts ago.
No Comments » - Posted in Accomplishments,Compressed Earth Block Press,Documentation by Marcin
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
Dear True Fans: Full Product Release
Dear True Fans,
Thank you all for supporting us in our initial stages of open source economic development – as we move forward with the Full Product Release for The Liberator, the open source CEB press. We are now over 2 years into the CEB development, where we produced Prototype 1 at the end of …
4 Comments » - Posted in 1000 True Fans - 1000 Global Villages,Accomplishments by Marcin
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
Design for Disassembly
One of the features of The Liberator open source CEB press is that it is designed for disassembly. Here we show how we take the machine apart in a couple of hours, down to the main frame section and all other parts. It flattens from 83 inches of height to about a 1 foot …
5 Comments » - Posted in Compressed Earth Block Press,Documentation by Marcin
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
CEB Compressive Strength Test Results
Our compressive strength tests have revealed that we could, in principle, build a 795 foot high wall with our unstabilized compressed earth blocks. Here’s how we arrived at this.
Prototype I of The Liberator lay gathering dust for over a year after it served its initial purpose. We have converted it into a 20 ton …
12 Comments » - Posted in Accomplishments,Compressed Earth Block Press by Marcin
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
Getting Ready to Ship
The field testing of The Liberator Beta v2.0 is complete. If you look back at the 8-12 brick per minute goals in the last link, you’ll observe that we surpassed this with 13-16 bricks per minute in practice. I love it when a plan comes together. This deserves a veritable press release, no pun …
