Archive for August, 2010
Monday, August 30th, 2010
Steam Engine Prototype 1 Design
Towards the end of yesterday’s blog post, we mentioned our progress on the modern steam engine. This is part of our near-term development program (and part of Proposal 2011) towards upgrading our Power Cubes and the LifeTrac infrastructre to modern steam power. Yesterday we met with Robert Thomas, one of those rare individuals who …
27 Comments » - Posted in Proposal 2011,Steam Engine Construction Set by Marcin
Sunday, August 29th, 2010
GVCS Technical Development Process
Continuing with Proposal 2011 for the rapid deployment of the remaining 39 GVCS technologies in a rapid, parallel fashion by year-end 2011 – here is an overview of the Technical Development Process, which is applicable to the development of each of the technologies. This template is a tactical simplification and further refinement of the …
3 Comments » - Posted in Organizational Development,Proposal 2011 by Marcin
Saturday, August 28th, 2010
Organizational Development
What is this new flurry of organizational diagrams, started in the last blog post? We are planning OSE Proposal 2011, with a goal to deploy the remaining 39 technologies of the Global Village Construction Set in a radically rapid, parallel development fashion involving $2M in funding and 1 year in time. You can download …
5 Comments » - Posted in Proposal 2011 by Marcin
Friday, August 27th, 2010
GVCS Project Management
Devin from Sarapis Foundation for post-scarcity economic development has informed us of Scrum, an agile project management process for developing complex projects – which we could apply to our open source product development pipeline method.
Our response to this is this burndown graph for deploying the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS). See a larger picture …
3 Comments » - Posted in Collaboration Platform,Community,Global Village Construction Set,Information Architecture,Open Everything,Open Source Product Development Pipeline,Proposal 2011 by Marcin
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
MicroTrac Challenge
We have recently shown the initial test drive of LifeTrac Prototype II. The 3D model in Blender corresponds exactly to the machine built – the point being that the models in Blender are useful as actual design drawings from which others can replicate a build. The design may be scaled – meaning that the …
8 Comments » - Posted in Collaboration Platform,Community Supported Manufacturing,LifeTrac,LifeTrac II,MicroTrac,Permafacture by Marcin
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
Karl Hess on Alternative Technology
This clip is a very concise and well-spoken discussion on technology for meeting true human needs. Its clarity blew me away. The video should be updated to the possibility of creating modern, small scale industrial economies that can be replicated inexpensively around the world – from local resources. That’s our proposed contribution to humanity.
In …
9 Comments » - Posted in Explainer Video,Open Source Product Development Pipeline,Organizational Development,Publicity by Marcin
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
LifeTrac Prototype II Test Drive
This is a rendering of Prototype II of the open source, design-for-disassembly tractor, LifeTrac. You can download the source in Blender format.
This is the reality of the completed frame, with the wheels and wheel motors, minus the PowerCube engine unit.
(download photo shoot in hi res here)
Now hang the 18 horsepower PowerCube I on the …
Comments Off - Posted in Accomplishments,LifeTrac,LifeTrac II,MicroTrac,Power Cube by Marcin
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
Crowd Funding Update
Here is an update on the crowd funding. The LifeTrac Completion and PowerCube Prototype II funding baskets are filled. The Liberator and Soil Pulverizer Prototype II baskets are still low. On August 18, with less than a week to go, we’re at $1795 of $4700 – or at 38% of our goal. We were …
5 Comments » - Posted in Crowd Funding,Metal Hole Puncher,RepLab by Marcin
Sunday, August 15th, 2010
True Fans Video Introductions
Adam Mitchell, one of our new True Fans, will be joining us at Factor e Farm for a one month Dedicated Project Visit on October 18. At that time, we’ll be towards the end of CEB construction, and we will also be working on developing our True Fans and supporters network. We are …
3 Comments » - Posted in 1000 True Fans - 1000 Global Villages,Collaborators,Factor e Team,People by Marcin
Friday, August 13th, 2010
100 True Fans Reached
We are pleased to announce that we have reached 100 True Fans in our 1000 True Fans – 1000 Global Villages campaign. Are we at a tipping point, thanks to all of the support we have been getting? You can read some testimonials from existing True Fans here.
We are working on a 2-minute Explainer …
