Flurries on All Fronts
We experienced serious flurries today. First, we had a flurry of $482 come in today – to almost meet our materials needs on the CEB addition – on the last day of November’s funding cycle.Second, we experienced a flurry of hits on our...
Populating the CEB Addition
We have moved a 1600 pound battery bank and a 500 pound stove into the workshop addition: Now, how about some walls and a roof? Please contribute – we are short on the building materials, and the month is coming to an end:By the way, our blog views...
CEB Field Performance Report – Factor e Live Part 11
After two weeks of brick pressing – we are done. We pressed a total of five thousand, six hundred, and ninety one open source CEB bricks. We are using The Liberator – the open source, high performance (6 brick per minute), manually-loaded...
5000 Bricks and Counting
We pressed 5000 CEB bricks by now. We have enough for 3 of 4 walls for our living-roofed flexible fabrication workshop addition. At present, we collected funds to complete the roof, but not for any insulation or windows/doors. Please consider a donation...
3000 Bricks and Counting
Upon the suggestion of Reto Stauss of the nachhaltigBeobachtet blog, we have installed the ChipIn widget here for additional transparency in our crowd funding strategy. At the time of this post, we collected $1144, and still have $856 left to go in the...
Solar Turbine Concept Up for Review
We have posted an updated conceptual drawing of the solar turbine collectors and reflectors at the OSE wiki. Please study the drawings and comment here or at the wiki. Please pass this on to others who may be knowledgeable about the topic. A discussion...
The Thousandth Brick: CEB Field Testing Report
Is The Liberator – the open source, high performance CEB machine – really worthy of its name? Absolutely. We found that out as we pressed the one thousandth brick yesterday. Bad weather, manpower, and equipment so far has restricted production...
Product Release Fund
With outstanding performance results on the CEB press, we are getting ever closer to the planned product release date of April 1, 2009. We are employing a Product Release Fund as part of our open source product release strategy, with the primary aim of...
Solar Turbine Brochure – Community Supported Manufacturing
We are taking the Solar Turbine project to the next level. Nick Raaum is our Project Manager, and he will be arriving here in about 2 weeks. He has put in his 2 week’s notice for leaving his post as a performance engineer in a coal-fired power plant....
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...
