Archive for October, 2011
Monday, October 31st, 2011
Dear True Fans: Brick Pressing in Full Swing
We are now pressing 5 bricks per minute at half the rated power of the CEB machine. Big weekend coming up this Saturday, as we have a work crew of 25 coming. We hope to complete the 4000 square foot workshop – 20 columns total as shown in our Kickstarter. We will stack 5000+ …
1 Comment » - Posted in Open Source Ecology by Marcin
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
LifeTrac Control Valves Instructional
Instructional video on the connection of LifeTrac valves to motors, cylinders, and Power Cubes.
Stream & download at Archive.org
Read the transcript
In order to make our videos more accessible, going forward we will be uploading to both Vimeo and Archive.org. Archive.org automatically transcodes media into a variety of formats (quicktime, h.264 & ogg). We hope this …
2 Comments » - Posted in Documentation,Instructional Videos,Project Management by Rebecca
Sunday, October 23rd, 2011
Dear True Fans: Brick Pressing Begun
No Comments » - Posted in Open Source Ecology by Marcin
Sunday, October 23rd, 2011
Nonprofit Fundraising
Hello friends,
it is time to make a fundraising team and raise $1M from the non-profit sector, mostly foundations, till June 1, 2012. With commitment and the right people this is quite possible! Till October 28 we will find at least 50 foundations and for 1 week after that we will send 30 grant proposals. …
1 Comment » - Posted in Funding,Resource Development by Nikolay
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
CEB Controller Box Wiring Instructional Video
Video of CEB controller box electronic boards hookup:
(See transcript at the wiki)
Hi, I’m Rebecca Rojer, and I’m one week into my month-long stay at Factor e Farm for a Dedicated Project Visit in documentation. I’ll be picking up where the talented Ian Midgley left off, working on documentation for the Christmas Gift To …
4 Comments » - Posted in Documentation,Instructional Videos by Rebecca
Monday, October 17th, 2011
Dear True Fans: House Foundation Pour
The house foundation is now poured, and we hope to lay brick today.
No Comments » - Posted in Dear True Fans and Supporters by Marcin
Monday, October 17th, 2011
Instructional Video on Documentation Procedure
As my dedicated project visit comes to an end I am passing on my process for creating instructional videos on the GVCS fabrication and assembly procedures. I hope this information is useful to future documentarians at Factor E Farm and for videos editors all over the globe interested in working on this revolutionary project.
It …
5 Comments » - Posted in Open Source Ecology by Ian
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
LifeTrac All Terrain Tracks – Instructional
Thorough explanation of the fabrication and assembly of the LifeTrac wheel tracks.
Extreme Traction post from development stages of tracks.
See other completed LifeTrac videos on the wiki.
Rebbeca Rojer just arrived as a new addition to the documentation team at Factor E Farm. She’ll be starting today on another instructional video on soldering parts for the …
1 Comment » - Posted in Open Source Ecology by Ian
Monday, October 10th, 2011
Kickstarter: Going the Last Mile
Friends, we are finally kicking off our Kickstarter to go The Last Mile on the construction part of the Global Village Construction Set:
Here is a direct link to the Kickstarter page. These are exciting times as our resources continue to increase towards rapid deployment and growth.
3 Comments » - Posted in Crowd Funding,Kickstarter by Marcin
Monday, October 10th, 2011
Dear True Fans: October 9 Update
Dear True Fans and Supporters, here is an update on construction.
Transcript: Dear True Fans and Supporters, thank you for your support. We got 4 new True Fans today, so things are optimistic as always.
On the construction – update – we had a flurry of baling this week – we collected about 1000 bales from …
