True Fans Video Introductions
Adam Mitchell, one of our new True Fans, will be joining us at Factor e Farm for a one month Dedicated Project Visit on October 18. At that time, we’ll be towards the end of CEB construction, and we will also be working on developing our True Fans...
100 True Fans Reached
We are pleased to announce that we have reached 100 True Fans in our 1000 True Fans – 1000 Global Villages campaign. Are we at a tipping point, thanks to all of the support we have been getting? You can read some testimonials from existing True...
LifeTrac II Update
We are making good progress on LifeTrac – Prototype II of the open source tractor. We have managed to fund its completion via crowd funding. We’ve got just about all the parts in, including hydraulic components. We will use Power Cube Protype...
Technical Description of the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS)
We are hot on the pursuit of a powerful 2-minute Explainer Video about the GVCS, which may be used not only to clarify the concept in general, but which may also assist in: (1), our application to the Buckminster Fuller Challenge; (2), recruiting of 1000...
Buckminster Fuller Challenge
We are producing an application for the Buckminster Fuller Challenge this year. The Buckminster Fuller Challenge from Buckminster Fuller Institute on Vimeo. Brandin Watson, one of our collaborators, has volunteered to take the lead on writing the application...
100 More Fruit Trees and Update
We just planted out 100 more fruit trees – which we grafted back in spring. We upgraded the string trimmer to a chain, mowed down a path, planted, fertilized, and mulched heavily:Regarding the funding baskets deployed 2 weeks ago in our progress...
Solar Village 2010 Update
Construction should start at Factor e Farm on about September 1. Out of nowhere, one of our readers from Germany produced this 3D walk-through of the CEB house that Will and I drew up in Qcad in 2D: The 3D walkthrough is this: Solar Village 2010 in 3D...
Open Source Product Development Pipeline
We have proposed the scalable, Open Source Product Development Pipeline methodology over a year ago. It’s merely a formalization of an actual process, which was not high. What are the challenges to a scalable, open product development methodology...
Strings Attached: Open Source String Trimmer
When the ragweeds grow to 12 feet at Factor e Farm, I guess it’s time to mow the lawn. In the usual bootstrapping fashion – today’s experiment was building and using an 8-foot diameter string trimmer powered by LifeTrac, with 1/2″...
Pipping and Growing
Here is an update on the first set of pips from Hexahatch v2.0.Here is an update on the other peeps of Factor e Farm. In a few days, Sean and I will begin full fabrication documentation video on the next copy of The Liberator open source CEB press, where...
