Archive for July, 2010
Saturday, July 31st, 2010
Open Source Product Development Pipeline
We have proposed the scalable, Open Source Product Development Pipeline methodology over a year ago. It’s merely a formalization of an actual process, which was not high.
What are the challenges to a scalable, open product development methodology – which has the power to transform the entire globe to an open economic system – within …
11 Comments » - Posted in Collaboration Platform,Open Collaboration,Open Engineering,Open Source Product Development Pipeline by Marcin
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Strings Attached: Open Source String Trimmer
When the ragweeds grow to 12 feet at Factor e Farm, I guess it’s time to mow the lawn.
In the usual bootstrapping fashion – today’s experiment was building and using an 8-foot diameter string trimmer powered by LifeTrac, with 1/2″ wire for the cutter. Did you ever wonder what it would be like to …
7 Comments » - Posted in Open Source Agroecology (OSA),String Trimmer by Marcin
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Pipping and Growing
Here is an update on the first set of pips from Hexahatch v2.0.
Here is an update on the other peeps of Factor e Farm. In a few days, Sean and I will begin full fabrication documentation video on the next copy of The Liberator open source CEB press, where the funding basket for it …
6 Comments » - Posted in Animals,Factor e Team,Open Source Chicken Incubator,Open Source Ecology,People by Marcin
Saturday, July 24th, 2010
Getting Ready To Build: A Better Future
Things have been spectacular with William so far. We have basically managed to scale our progress twofold. Since he’s been here, we’ve seen full product release of the open source CEB press, The Liberator, and we’ve had significant progress on the open source tractor, LifeTrac Prototype II. We also deployed the first prototype …
13 Comments » - Posted in Accomplishments,Crowd funding,Production by Marcin
Friday, July 23rd, 2010
Open Source 150 Ton Hole Puncher
Our infrastructure for flexible fabrication along the lines of the Open Source Fab Lab, RepLab, is evolving nicely. We reported recently on Prototype I the heavy duty, open source, drill press, and here we are reporting on Prototype I deployment of our 150 ton hole puncher. Both of these are critical to fabrication ergonomics …
11 Comments » - Posted in Accomplishments,Community Supported Manufacturing,Fabrication Optimization,Flexible Fabrication,Ironworker Machine,Metal Hole Puncher,Permafacture,Personal Fabrication,RepLab by Marcin
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
OSE License for Post Scarcity Economics
While there are many open source licenses available, we feel that none of them address a practical and tactical approach towards creating a post-scarcity civilization – in mindset and in practice. Therefore, we are publishing v1.0 of the OSE License for Post Scarcity Economics. The license is intended to define the general …
10 Comments » - Posted in OSE License for Post-Scarcity Economics by Marcin
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
LifeTrac II: Frame
Here are some additional details from Sean’s video documentation work regarding the frame of the open source tractor – LifeTrac – Prototype II. William discusses some of the details on the frame, which was introduced in a previous post. From Sean’s videos so far, I like this one the most so far for its …
12 Comments » - Posted in Documentation,Global Village Construction Set,LifeTrac II by Marcin
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Honey Extractor Tractor: The Craziest Thing Done with LifeTrac So Far
LifeTrac, our open source tractor, features extreme flexibility by design. We just used LifeTrac as a honey extractor. We mounted our universal rotor on the front-end loader, and used it to extract honey from comb. The process starts with a hot knife to open up the comb. We made the hot knife from a …
7 Comments » - Posted in Apiculture,Open Source Agroecology (OSA),Open Source Economic Development by Marcin
Monday, July 12th, 2010
Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth
Our work focuses on the creation of open source, resilient, post-scarcity communities, which rely on resource-based economies as opposed to debt-based funnymoney systems. This has captured the attention of at least one mainstream author. Here is a short video where Juliet Schor – author and Professor of Sociology at Boston College - discusses her …
7 Comments » - Posted in Post-scarcity,Presentations,Viral Village by Marcin
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
June Agriculture Walkthrough at Factor e Farm
Here is a video produced by Sean, on the agriculture overview of Factor e Farm:
The bottom line is that resilience in food is not difficult to come by, but it presently requires more energy than we have with 2 full time people – engaged fully in open source equipment development. We are prioritizing technical …
