Farm infrastructure build out
Day 25 In the morning, interns continued to revise their instruction manuals for the modules and overall assembly of the CEB brick press to clarify and streamline future builds. When individual module manuals are completed (CEB Press modules), the team...
FeF has visitors
Day 24 While OSE interns aren’t building any machines this week, they still had plenty of work to do yesterday at Factor e Farm. The first part of the morning was spent continuing edits to CEB Press modules. Before breaking up for...
Improvements to FeF dorms continue
Day 23 After returning from their Wisconsin road trip Sunday evening, OSE interns got straight back to work on Monday. Their morning started off with a discussion about how the workshop went and what could be improved for future workshops....
Interns come home
Days 20-22 OSE interns who travelled to host the CEB Press-building workshop this past week stayed in Custer, Wis., until Sunday morning to enjoy more of the Midwest Renewable Energy Fair. At the fair, they visited workshops on everything...
OSE goes to Wis.
Days 16-19 Interns at Factor e Farm took a road trip to mid-state Wisconsin this week to host a CEB Press-building workshop and attend the Midwest Renewable Energy Fair, where Founding Director Marcin Jakubowski spoke. Most of the interns...
Interns learn welding, natural building
Days 13-15 The second week of Factor e Farm’s Summer of Extreme Design-Build ended with final preparations for the upcoming CEB Press workshop in Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., and continued work on several other projects. As usual, Founding...
FeF infrastructure improves
Days 11-12 Interns have been working around the clock to perfect 3D-prints and complete other tasks. While not all projects have been successful, they have gotten much closer to finishing most of what they set out to do this week. Founding...
First 3D-prints of summer made
Day 9-10 Interns at Factor e Farm managed to make several 3D-prints over the past two days after working hours on configuring the printers with the programs they’re using for 3D-designs. Not all glitches have been smoothed out yet, but it...
Week ends with finished projects
Days 6-8 The first week of OSE’s Extreme Summer of Design-Build ended last Friday with the completion of several projects and new plans for the coming week. Last week Friday Marcin and the interns started their morning meeting by Skyping...
Creativity, cooperation stay strong
Day 5 Interns at Factor e Farm started a couple new projects and made more progress on the others they started earlier in the week. As usual, some stragglers kept working on their projects after the workday officially ended determined to finish up as...
