Archive for June, 2011
Sunday, June 26th, 2011
Maker Faire
OSE is at Maker Faire!
http://www.makerfairekc.com
Watch the center stage live!
http://www.makerfairekc.com/live/
Yesterday we were taking online questions for the speakers from the IRC and MakerFaire Live channels. Come watch some awesome speakers and contribute to the discussion.
Good things are happening at OSE. More details soon!
-Chris
No Comments » - Posted in Open Source Ecology by Chris
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
Steam Engine Technical Drawings
I completed the first pass on the Steam Engine technical drawings a bit over a week ago. These are 2D drawings that specify each of the parts that make up the engine.
This is a fairly major milestone in the steam engine project, since it enables CAD drawings to be created that match the …
7 Comments » - Posted in Open Source Ecology by Mark J Norton
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Internet Relay Chat
Want to get involved in Open Source Ecology, but don’t know how?
Join us on IRC
With this online chatroom, we’ll try to have onsite Factor e Farm people on throughout the day dishing out updates from Factor E Farm, along with tasks ranging from CAD to video editing to research to sourcing parts. This will …
5 Comments » - Posted in Collaboration Platform by Chris
Friday, June 10th, 2011
Submission to the Open Hardware Summit
The second annual Open Source Hardware Summit is scheduled for Sept. 15, 2011 in New York City. The summit examines open hardware and its relation to other issues, such as software, design, business, and law. Since I can’t make it out to Factor e Farm that weekend and New York City …
11 Comments » - Posted in Steam Engine Construction Set by Mark J Norton
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
OSE Europe Launch and Jeremy Blum – OS Electronics London Interview
Hi all. It’s been a while since my last post but I’m proud to be able to make a return with great news. There are now plans for an “Open Source Ecology Europe” project (also visit the OSEE facebook page) and to kick start the idea I have combined it with a very informative …
6 Comments » - Posted in Open Source Ecology by William
Monday, June 6th, 2011
Dedicated Documentation Project Visits
The next main phase at Factor e Farm is renewed focus on documentation. This emerged from our production run, where we learned that we could get perhaps 30-50% more accomplished if we had professional-quality fabrication drawings, detailed fabrication procedures on the wiki, CAM files available, and quality video Instructionals for preview by any participants. …
4 Comments » - Posted in Documentation,Fabrication Procedures,Instructional Videos by Marcin
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
June 1 Production Run Update
Here is a quick update.
Production Run Update – June 1, 2011 from Open Source Ecology on Vimeo.
Here are some notes from Vann Miller on his 2 weeks stay:
Vann Miller Project Visit from Open Source Ecology on Vimeo.
Mike Hill is our Fabricator In Training – interested in scaling enterprise to other independent, allied locations. Here’s …
