Health and the Future of Factor e
Molly and I built a hand washing station and I put together a shower Factor e Farm. This post is an analysis of the sanitation issues rooted in geography, infrastructure, and human use following Christopher Alexander’s guidelines for design analysis....
Liberator 2 CEB Design
Over the past few days, Marcin and I have been working on the design of The Liberator 2 – the second prototype of our high-performance CEB press. The design is now up for review. The main changes are an enlarged, stationary hopper structure, guide...
Upcoming Presentations: Illinois and Austria
You can see our past presentation from the Oekonux Conference here. Edward Miller, one of our True Fans, has organized a university lecture for us at Monmouth College in Illinois on April 22, 2009. If you’re in the surrounding area, please consider...
Hands-on Hexacube Review
What follows is my personal experience and my evaluation of the design, if you want a quick read jump ahead to the evaluation at the end. According to Marcin and Jeremy I’m the only person to have slept in the Hexacube in below freezing conditions.
RepRap. The End of Walmart.
If you can proint 3D objects at home, that may be the end of Walmart. Yes – RepRap – the DIY open source 3D printer – is a major political statement. You can actually use RepRap to recycle – by reusing plastics as feedstocks for...
The Next Phase of Civilization
To give you more flavor of the memorable Oekonux 4 conference of last weekend in Manchester, UK – here is a presentation given by Charles Collis that I reposted at the OSE wiki. Charles presented and supported several contrarian views – namely...
Hexahatch Revolution Incubator Design
Six revolving tubes filled with eggs; the Hexahatch Revolution Incubator design is done and we will be building it tomorrow as part of a workshop. The design is open source on the wiki, complete with bill of materials and implementation plan. The cost...
OSE Presentation at the 4th Oekonux Conference
Here is my talk from the 4th Oekonux Conference. You can download the slides and see a transcript here. Start with an introduction by Franz Nahrada, leader of the Globally Integrated Village Environment: Click To Play Move on to the video on our CEB Story...
Extraordinary fourth Oekonux conference marks milestone for P2P movement
That’s the title of Michel Bauwens’ post on the P2P Foundation blog regarding the recent conference, where I discussed our program for building the world’s first, replicable, open source, off-grid, Global Village. Read the rest of Michel’s...
