LifeTrac Design Challenge: Live at GrabCAD
The LifeTrac Design Challenge is now live at GrabCAD: Pass this on to any engineer friends. This is our first attempt to solve a technical issue by means of a crowd engineering platform. I am hoping that this platform will be a significant contributor...
$100k from The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
We have just received a $100k award letter from The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. This means significant acceleration of prototype deployment of the Global Village Construction Set – making open blueprints accessible to everybody. Terra Foundation...
OSE Christmas Gift to the World: Civilization Starter Kit DVD v0.01
Dear True Fans, Supporters, and Backers – here is an update on December 5, 2011.
LifeTrac Design Challenge
The LifeTrac open source Tractor is our weak link in the OSE Christmas Gift to the World for 2011. As we prepare to publish the Civilization Starter Kit DVD v0.01, we will include a Beta release of Prototype IV of LifeTrac, and Full Product Release of...
Dear True Fans and Supporters: Emergence
Dear True Fans Backers, and Supporters, I finally have a chance to emerge from full construction duty – 17,000 bricks pressed and countdown in our last week of brick pressing with cold weather producing diminishing returns. With Floyd recruited as our...
Historic Significance
October of 2011 marks the first ever replication of a complete Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) machine by an independent third party – the manual version of The Liberator CEB Press. This is a time of historical significance for the GVCS....
Kickstarter Update: The Context
Dear Supporters, thanks for your explosive support on our Global Village Construction Set Kickstarter Campaign, we have reached our goal of $40k, with 15 days left. There is also no sign of slowing down, so pass this on to your friends: Update...
Distributive Enterprise
I am applying for the Shuttleworth Foundation fellowship. If successful, this brings in $360k of resources to the project by March, 2012. Listen to this personal intro for the Fellowship, discussing the concept of Distributive Enterprise:
Dear True Fans: Brick Pressing in Full Swing
We are now pressing 5 bricks per minute at half the rated power of the CEB machine. Big weekend coming up this Saturday, as we have a work crew of 25 coming. We hope to complete the 4000 square foot workshop – 20 columns total as shown in our Kickstarter....
