Liberator 2 Production Rate Calculations
The basic design rationale for MicroTrac hydraulic pump (and engine) size requirements is the ability to power the Liberator 2 CEB press to the extent that it can produce 6 bricks per minute. See calculations. This indicates 360 bricks per hour, or about...
Hexahatch Incubator Prototype Construction and Testing
In the last few weeks I’ve constructed the Hexahatch egg incubator and am now testing it. Here are some pictures of how to make it: It started with Marcin drawing up the basic idea. Then I worked the sketch into a design. When we were satisfied...
OSE Tour in Austria
As already mentioned in this blog, Open Source Ecology will have a booth in the Subversive Fair event in Linz. This was arranged during the Invisible Intelligence conference organized by Peter Weibel and Franz Nahrada in November 2008 in Graz , where...
Augering
LifeTrac is back out in agriculture action. We mounted the power take-off motor on the front loader arms, and attached the post-hole digger. The post-hole digger was from our former, now defunct D17 tractor. We dug post holes for staking our grapes, and...
Industry Standard Cooking Video
This is a video that Molly made when she was here a few weeks ago. We have plenty of eggs from our chickens, and here’s the standard of what we do with them. You can call it Depression Cooking Lesson 1, in the style of this.
Kidding at Factor e Farm
There was some kidding going on at factor e Farm on April 15: The goat exloded once then twice. After the first baby was born, mama goat stood up, and the second goat dropped right on the ground with a sloshing thump. What an event. I felt abundance as...
Moving Forward: Solar Village
Jeremy and I had some serious discussion on the goals for this year, and here are our conclusions for the Core Team from the conversation: CEB Press and LifeTrac taken to product release by end of 2009 – led by Marcin Hexahatch taken to product...
Facility Sanitation Improvement (by a factor of ‘e’)
To our colonic relief, we added a second composting toilet, a public outhouse with privacy. Now no one needs to wonder who is going to enter the vestibule while performing defecation maneuvers. Albeit temporary, it satisfies our immediate needs. Thanks...
Last Frost Date
Two days ago marked the last frost date. I took a video walkthough – on the plant life and landscape of Factor e Farm. This is to record the natural history and evolution of our place – not only for seasonal, but yearly, changes. Fruit trees...
