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Mon 16 Jan 2012

Quick Connect Wheels Update

Posted by Marcin

We have just installed the quick connect wheels on the tractor and have been testing them with success for the past week. These can be attached/released from the tractor in under 5 minutes by turning a cam lock and loosening two large bolts. The significance is that detachable wheels allow not only easy service of the drive system – but more importantly – allow the wheels to be part of a more general equipment infrastructure. Detachable wheels can be interchanged between the tractor, microtractor, bulldozer. truck, or even car. Combined with interchangeable power units and interchangeable parts, this gets us one step closer to a life-size Lego set for real equipment.


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You can read more about the quick connect wheels on the wiki. We just ran a successful design challenge on these, discussed in the last post. We have the whole fabrication process as a series of YouTube clips totaling 15 minutes (anyone volunteering to compose them remotely into a meaningful video instructional?). Roger Olson drew up the quick attach wheel assembly in Autodesk Inventor. Here is the PDF file.

 

Categories: Open Source Ecology

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Fri 30 Dec 2011

Calling All Disruptive, Boundary-Smashing, Distributive Enterprise Heavyweights

Posted by Marcin

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 source design of products and services. The focus is clear: to introduce material post-scarcity as  a practical option via open source economic development – starting with the 50 Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) tools as a core kernel. Our tactical platform for deployment is the the GVCS – a core enabling kernel for a wide array of enterprises and infrastructures. We are attempting the impossible: opensourcing all 50 of the GVCS technologies by December 21, 2011. We already secured $1/2M to make this happen, so we guarantee that at least 18 of the 50 technologies will reach Beta product release. We are positioned to hit the ground running in 2012, while wrapping up LifeTrac impreovements, with 9 project leaders and a basic plan of prototyping 14 machines in parallel (we are busy recruiting 5 more technical project leaders). We will come out on schedule if a protype emerges on one month cycle in each project. See the OSE Enterprise Plan.

Project Co-Founder Duties

The Project Co-Founder is an individual who shares both high level executive duties and daily tasks with the Project Founder – in running Open Source Ecology development at the global headquarters – Factor e Farm in Missouri, USA. This includes strategic development, organizational development, and prototyping – both in organizational and hands-on aspects. It is a full time job, and the Co-Founder is required to live on-site during the 2012 development phase. (more…)

Categories: Open Source Ecology, Recruiting

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Sat 17 Dec 2011

Professional Fabrication Drawings for the CEB Press

Posted by Marcin

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.
If you have any time in the next week to work on this, email me at opensourceecology at gmail dot com or just start doing this by downloading the full CAD file in STEP format from the OSE file repository at Open Pario. For questions on standards, please contact Mike Apostol.
We will have full fabrication procedures documented and CAD available, and we want to release the full professional drawings by the 24th of this month. I am also open to references to others who can do this. We can spend money on this, this is important to facilitate replication.

Categories: Open Source Ecology

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Mon 5 Dec 2011

OSE Christmas Gift to the World: Civilization Starter Kit DVD v0.01

Posted by Marcin

Dear True Fans, Supporters, and Backers – here is an update on December 5, 2011.

Categories: Dear True Fans and Supporters, Open Source Ecology

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Tue 29 Nov 2011

Dear True Fans and Supporters: Emergence

Posted by Marcin

Dear True Fans Backers, and Supporters,

I finally have a chance to emerge from full construction duty – 17,000 bricks pressed and countdown in our last week of brick pressing with cold weather producing diminishing returns. With Floyd recruited as our new construction manager, the building program is now in good hands, and I can focus on documentation and delivery of the OSE Christmas Gift to the World.

On the construction front, the roofs will go on first on both the workshop and living units. We will then build CEB columns around temporary posts. Then we can fill walls and work free from rain – and upon external walls being laid – we will do finishing work free from the cold. (more…)

Categories: Accomplishments, Construction 2011, Open Source Ecology

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Mon 31 Oct 2011

Dear True Fans: Brick Pressing in Full Swing

Posted by Marcin

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+ bricks on pallets for that day.Subscribe to the Factor e Farm Google Group for further announcements.

Categories: Open Source Ecology

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Sun 23 Oct 2011

Dear True Fans: Brick Pressing Begun

Posted by Marcin

Categories: Open Source Ecology

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Mon 17 Oct 2011

Instructional Video on Documentation Procedure

Posted by Ian

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. (more…)

Categories: Open Source Ecology

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Wed 12 Oct 2011

LifeTrac All Terrain Tracks – Instructional

Posted by Ian

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 CEB controller box.

Categories: Open Source Ecology

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Fri 7 Oct 2011

Need help with Funicular Study

Posted by David

We are considering arches in our CEB construction:

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Categories: Open Source Ecology

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