Full Product Release
Note: We no longer consider this to be a Full Product Release because this is an older version of the machine. Further prototypes and improvements have been made, see update post of Sep. 24, 2012. We are pleased to announce the official, Full Product...
Economy in a Box
We were invited to present at the Bay Area Community Exchange (BACE) Roundtable on Tuesday, June 15, 7 PM, at Noisebridge. BACE focuses on the creation of alternative means of exchange in the San Francisco Bay Area. I will present a talk titled, Economy...
Crating
Here is a 30 second video showing how we crate up the CEB press for shipping, which we dismantled two posts ago.
Dear True Fans: Full Product Release
Dear True Fans, Thank you all for supporting us in our initial stages of open source economic development – as we move forward with the Full Product Release for The Liberator, the open source CEB press. We are now over 2 years into the CEB development,...
Design for Disassembly
One of the features of The Liberator open source CEB press is that it is designed for disassembly. Here we show how we take the machine apart in a couple of hours, down to the main frame section and all other parts. It flattens from 83 inches of height...
CEB Compressive Strength Test Results
Our compressive strength tests have revealed that we could, in principle, build a 795 foot high wall with our unstabilized compressed earth blocks. Here’s how we arrived at this. Prototype I of The Liberator lay gathering dust for over a year after...
Getting Ready to Ship
The field testing of The Liberator Beta v2.0 is complete. If you look back at the 8-12 brick per minute goals in the last link, you’ll observe that we surpassed this with 13-16 bricks per minute in practice. I love it when a plan comes together....
