2014 Summer of Extreme Design-Build

Interns learn welding, natural building

Days 13-15   The second week of Factor e Farm’s Summer of Extreme Design-Build ended with final preparations for the upcoming CEB Press workshop in Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., and continued work on several other projects.   As usual, Founding...

FeF infrastructure improves

Days 11-12   Interns have been working around the clock to perfect 3D-prints and complete other tasks. While not all projects have been successful, they have gotten much closer to finishing most of what they set out to do this week.   Founding...

First 3D-prints of summer made

Day 9-10   Interns at Factor e Farm managed to make several 3D-prints over the past two days after working hours on configuring the printers with the programs they’re using for 3D-designs. Not all glitches have been smoothed out yet, but it...

Week ends with finished projects

Days 6-8   The first week of OSE’s Extreme Summer of Design-Build ended last Friday with the completion of several projects and new plans for the coming week.   Last week Friday Marcin and the interns started their morning meeting by Skyping...

Creativity, cooperation stay strong

Day 5 Interns at Factor e Farm started a couple new projects and made more progress on the others they started earlier in the week. As usual, some stragglers kept working on their projects after the workday officially ended determined to finish up as...

CEB Press reassembled!

Day 4 On Wednesday, interns at Factor e Farm for the 2014 Summer of Extreme Design-Build finished putting together an early model of OSE‘s CEB Press and made significant progress on the raised garden beds, repairing the Hab Lab and programming the...

Interns learn, apply new skills

Day 3 OSE’s summer interns continued some of the projects they started yesterday, including extension cord repairs and installing an irrigation system. They also started on some new projects, like setting up the 3D-printers and planting crops. As usual,...

First work day proves productive

Day 2 OSE’s summer interns did a lot on their first Monday here, getting a feel for what meetings and shop work will be like in upcoming weeks. The plan for each day this summer is to start mornings off at 9 a.m. with a meeting and to work on designs...

OSE summer internships begin

Day 1 Sunday June 1 marked the first day of Open Source Ecology’s 2014 Summer of Extreme Design-Build. The interns, who came from all over the world and a wide variety of educational backgrounds, will help improve existing OSE designs, create prototypes...