Open Engineering

Taking Open Product Development to the Next Level

We have previously introduced an open collaborative product development process. Developing an effective open source product pipeline – as a worthy competitor to corporate research and development (R&D) – remains one of the hottest topics...

Torch Table Day 2

We’ve returned to the torch table after a long hiatus since the December 9 blog post on the topic. CEB press digital fabrication is the goal. My goal is to spend noon to six PM every day until the thing is built. Here are some 3D pictures, which...

OSE Open Engineering Cycle

As we have recently begun parallel development of several open source Global Village Construction Set technologies (CEB, Solar Turbine, LifeTrac, Sawmill, CNC XYZ table), it is useful to formalize the OSE product development process. It is called the...

Crowdsource Funding

We finally kicked off our crowdsource funding yesterday – or online donations. You can chip in to our project here. We are migrating towards full direct support by such small online donations. The bottom line is – with the collected resources,...