Reviewing OSE Strategic Plan
My name is Aaron Makaruk, and I am the Director of Development for Open Source Ecology. I recently gave a speech representing OSE at a TEDx event, and I’d like to invite you to watch the video: Strategic Plan We are preparing a strategic plan, and...
First Installment – OSEmail
We have begun writing a biweekly newsletter. While the blog posts tend to cover specific topics in depth, our newsletter aims to paint a broader update about our projects, partnerships, and other news about happenings at Factor e Farm in collaboration...
Global Village Construction Set – 66 Prototypes Built to Date
Factor e Farm has been building Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) machines since 2008. That year, I announced the Global Village Construction Set concept for the first time in a presentation at the U. Missouri, Columbia. As of today, at least 62...
Collaborative Production Run Video – The Liberator – Prototype IV
In the last blog post – we summarized the Collaborative Production Run results for The Liberator – our open source, automated, Compressed Earth Brick Press. Here is a video. CEB Production Run. from Open Source Ecology on Vimeo. We are planning...
Collaborative Production Results
We have demonstrated initial results of open source, social production applied to hardware. It took us 4 days to produce a complete Compressed Earth Block (CEB) Press in a Collaborative Production Run. A mixture of 7 unskilled and skilled people swarmed...
More Machines – Open Source Keyline Plow
“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.” -Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution Open Source Keyline Plow from Open Source Ecology on Vimeo. Open Source Ecology attracted me...
