Talk:CEB Press Development

Designed collaboratively. Factor e Farm team did the builds. Sam Rose took care of funding.

Funded by the crowd - Potential buyers, potential makers, potential entrepreneurs, people who support the vision

Explain different versions

Blog category on The Liberator

Development was guided by our desire to develop appropriate technology to create sustainable and equitable living, to localize production and work towards abolishing poverty.

At OSE, we believe that local manufacturing has the capacity to create a more equitable and pleasant world. We chose a CEB press, because it could help localize production in three ways: by allowing schools, houses etc. to be built easily, by selling the bricks and by selling the presses.

Buildings that have been built with it


 * 1) Assemble team
 * 2) Ecology review
 * 3) Define product
 * 4) Design and build prototype
 * 5) Review
 * Bid
 * 1) Recruit fundraisers
 * 2) Fundraise
 * 3) Deliver
 * 4) Test

This was repeated (twice? three times?) to arrive at the current version.

The torch table will be used to automate the fabrication of the CEB machine, reducing fabrication time by an estimated 20 hours, and thus, also reducing the cost of the final product.


 * 1) More powerful machines. More speed may be achieved by
 * 2) A dual machine, which features 2 compression chambers operating in parallel
 * 3) Faster machine by virtue of redesign to allow faster cycling through the steps