Marcin Jakubowski at the University of Klagenfurt
Last weekend we took Marcin Jakubowski (http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Marcin_Jakubowski) from the Subversive Fair in Linz (http://subversivmesse.net/) to Carinthia. On Tuesday evening we had the event “Open Source Ecology & mobilityâ€...
Opportunity abounds at Factor e
From my initial survey I would estimate an ideal population of this site to be about 20-30 people. Rules of thumb for estimation go at 5 people per intensively cultivated acre, in practice the number is higher but that’s good for a rough estimate....
Subversive Fair Presenters
Here is a video of some of the other presenters at the Subversive Fair. There were too many interesting people to record, here is about 10 of them: Click To Play Here is more information on the presenters above. You can see further information on all...
Subversiv Messe Day 2
This is Austria Day 2. The highlight of today, in addition to more interesting people visiting our booth, was contact with one fellow presenter working on a physical production-based distribution of Linux. This means the guy, Florian Stoffelmeyr, of openartisthq.org,...
Subversiv Messe Day 1
Day one of Subversiv Messe in Linz, Austria. Linz is selected this year as the cultural capital of Europe. The European Union has funded the “subversive fair” (subversiv messe) to showcase diverse ideas that “subvert” and innovate...
RepRap in Progress
You may have seen our previous post on RepRap a few weeks ago. See the RepRap development source. Briefly, RepRap is a form of Universal Constructor. A Universal Constructor is a machine that can copy itself. The idea was originally von Neumann’s....
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...
