Archive for December, 2011
Friday, December 30th, 2011
Calling All Disruptive, Boundary-Smashing, Distributive Enterprise Heavyweights
We are recruiting a Co-Founder to join the team at Factor e Farm. This blog post describes this offer. (we are also looking for project Advisors and Mentors, see last paragraph of this post)
Open Source Ecology is a movement for creating the open source economy. The means is creating distributive enterprise based on open …
6 Comments » - Posted in Open Source Ecology,Recruiting by Marcin
Wednesday, December 28th, 2011
Civilization Starter Kit DVD v0.01
Dear True Fans and Supporters -
We are proud to release version 0.01 of the Civilization Starter Kit DVD – our OSE Christmas Gift to the World for 2011.
While we could go on for weeks with improvements - our Publish Early and Often Policy dictates that today is the cutoff. The full DVD contents are now online, and we will …
15 Comments » - Posted in Accomplishments,Civilization Starter Kit DVD,v0.01 by Marcin
Friday, December 23rd, 2011
Best of TED 2011: Global Village Construction Set is #6
The Global Village Construction Set TED talk has been selected as the Best of TED 2011 top 6 in the Huffington Post. Read Isaiah Saxon’s followup blog post. You can also comment there (407 comments as of this writing). There is also a #18ideas you can use if you want to share via Twitter. It is an honor …
3 Comments » - Posted in Accomplishments by Marcin
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
Ironworker Shear Assembly Challenge: Live at GrabCAD
The Ironworker shear assembly challenge is now live at GrabCAD. See my prior post here, and note that we are funded to get this done. We are escalating the pace, and exploring the use of open source crowd engineering in the process. This is our second entry at GrabCAD, the first entry being the …
2 Comments » - Posted in Collaboration Platform,Crowd Engineering,Ironworker Machine by Brianna
Saturday, December 17th, 2011
Professional Fabrication Drawings for the CEB Press
We need epic help on producing professional fabrication drawings for the OSE Christmas Gift to the World – full documentation of the first 4 tools of the Global Village Construction Set – the tools of construction.
See full need description – suggested pages and standards for fabrication drawings – for the CEB Press.
If you have …
No Comments » - Posted in Open Source Ecology by Marcin
Friday, December 16th, 2011
CEB Press: Generation 3 Electronics
Recently, the CEB Press electronics improved to the third major iteration, replacing Generation 2 electronics from September of this year. Generation 3 electronics consist of a revised solenoid driver board that eliminates the need for the Arduino breakout board.
Generation 3 is now under evaluation at Factor e Farm and at Creation Flame. Generation 1 electronics included …
2 Comments » - Posted in CEB Press Controller,CNC Circuit Mill,Compressed Earth Block Press by Yoonseo
Thursday, December 15th, 2011
Practical Post Scarcity – Video
This is a well-made explanation of artificial material scarcity and how it can be addressed by open source economic development:
Practical Post-Scarcity from Open Source Ecology on Vimeo.
Practical Post Scarcity from Open Source Ecology on Vimeo.
This is the core of Open Source Ecology’s work on the Global Village Construction Set. Scenes from hay baling onwards …
6 Comments » - Posted in Accomplishments,Civilization Starter Kit DVD,Construction 2011 by Marcin
Monday, December 12th, 2011
Civilization Starter Kit Progress
Progress on the Civilization Starter Kit has been steady, including fuel to fund it. This is from September this year:
and we have generated $173k in December from Kickstarter, crowds, and foundations. There is no evidence of funding deceleration. If you give nonprofit sector donations, please consider us.
TED put the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) …
11 Comments » - Posted in Accomplishments,Civilization Starter Kit DVD,v0.01 by Marcin
Sunday, December 11th, 2011
Ironworker Blade Design Help
For those of you who do not know, I’ve been hard at work on the design of the open source Ironworker Prototype II and plan on building it this winter at my grandfather’s fabrication shop, Enniss Inc. I’m calling out to fellow fabricators and engineers to help with the Ironworker design, so we can place the …
2 Comments » - Posted in Challenges,Crowd Design,Crowd Engineering,Ironworker Machine,Metal Hole Puncher,Project Reports by Brianna
Saturday, December 10th, 2011
Civilization Starter Kit DVD – Table of Contents
Dear collaborators – I am proud to announce the table of contents (ToC) of the Civilization Starter Kit DVD v0.01 – the 2011 Christmas Gift to the World from Open Source Ecology. This is the Civilization Starter Kit DVD that I mentioned first in my my TED Talk on the Global Village Construction Set. It …
