Archive for March, 2011
Thursday, March 31st, 2011
Cohabitat Gathering Trailer
Greetings from Poland. Here is a trailer for tomorrow’s Cohabitat Gathering conference:
No Comments » - Posted in Conferences,Natural Building,Presentations by Marcin
Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
Strategic Development
We are pleased to announce that Adrian Hong is joining the OSE core team as Strategic Advisor.
Adrian is a Senior TED Fellow and a new friend from the TED Conference.
Mr. Hong will be advising Open Source Ecology on strategy, helping explore and structure business and non-profit legal structures, ensuring OSE’s …
No Comments » - Posted in Core Team,Development Team,TED Fellows by Marcin
Monday, March 28th, 2011
Darwin is Alive
It has been long ago that we reported on our 3D printing adventures – see Hydraraptor’s Second Child. We are pleased to report that our copy of RepRap open source 3D printer has shown its first meaningful prints, thanks to our collaborator Peter Koeleman from the Netherlands:
Two years ago, I had the pleasure of …
1 Comment » - Posted in 3D Printer,HydraRaptor,RepLab,RepRap by Marcin
Sunday, March 20th, 2011
Cohabitat Gathering
I will be speaking at the Cohabitat Gathering, a natural building conference in Poland on April 1, 2011. You can read the program here.
More info:
http://cohabitat.net/chgathering-rejestracja-otwarta.html
twitter.com/CohabitatGroup
facebook.com/CohabitatGroup
Organized by:
This will be my first time back in my home country sharing our exciting message, and I thank Pawel Sroczynski for organizing the invitation. I look forward to the …
No Comments » - Posted in Conferences,Open Source Ecology,Presentations by Marcin
Saturday, March 19th, 2011
Open Source Micro-Factory
This post in other languages: Deutsch * Español * Português
Imagine if you could build cars, industrial robots, engines, and other things in your own back yard. The only problem is, these require billions of dollars of infrastructure in the current industrial system. Not for long – if we succeed with the Open Source Micro-Factory.
We …
25 Comments » - Posted in Open Source Micro-Factory by Marcin
Thursday, March 17th, 2011
Scaling Development
We’re now moving onto the next phase of GVCS development, beyond the work at Factor e Farm to a global collaboration of remote prototyping work funded by crowd sources and resource development via the nonprofit sector. We are collecting bids from global collaborators at the same time that further development and production is occurring …
1 Comment » - Posted in CNC Precision Multimachine,Scaling Development by Marcin
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
Isaiah Saxon: OSE Media Director
After an extended winter sabbatical in California, I am back at home at Factor e Farm to continue on-the-ground development of the Global Village Construction Set. Factor e Farm is the place where this development has happened for the last 4 years, and our goal is more than ever to complete the entire Set …
2 Comments » - Posted in Accomplishments,Kickstarter by Marcin
Sunday, March 6th, 2011
Interview with TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski | Case Foundation
Click here for video interview with TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski | Case Foundation.
And here’s a report upon returning to California, with plans for returning to Factor e Farm. Pardon the skewed perspective.
For those of you in the San Francisco Bay Area, the following is my last local talk before I go back to Missouri. …
1 Comment » - Posted in TED Fellows by Marcin
Friday, March 4th, 2011
TED Day 4
That’s Salman of the Khan Academy speaking on the left. Camille (in the rightmost picture) is a TED Fellow and polar photographer, shown with Al.
The Global Village Construction Set was mentioned in Inc. Magazine as one of the start-ups bubbling up at TED. There was also this article on How the TED Fellows Program …
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Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
TED Day 2
Meet some of the TED Fellows 2011. These are pictures from some of our talks:
I met Lesa from Kauffman Foundation. She told me that Kauffman Foundation is interested in DIY, relocalization, and bringing production back to America. They are in Kansas City on top of that – so they are an hour from Factor …
