Happy New Year 2013
The Christmas Gift to the World 2013 has been delivered. We are starting the year off on a good footing. I have succeeded in my re-application for the Shuttleworth Fellowship – a fellowship which supports early-stage, open enterprises. Here is my...
Christmas Gift to the World 2012
Open Source Ecology is proud to present the Christmas Gift to the World. Our gift this year is demonstrating a major milestone in production efficiency. We have streamlined the production of our open source, automated, compressed earth brick (CEB) press, The...
Towards the Open Source Economy – Presentation at the Bioneers East Conference
I have spoken recently at the Bioneers East Conference – Connecting for Change – in New Bedford, Massachusetts – evolving the messaging from the Global Village Construction Set to the creation of the open source economy. See for yourself:
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...
The LifeTrac Story
Here is a historical perspective on LifeTrac since September 2008 – the completion of LifeTrac Prototype I. The LifeTrac Story from Open Source Ecology on Vimeo. Right now we are using the LifeTrac to trench water lines for Factor e Farm. LifeTrac...
Transformed
I just got back from the SupporTED Collaboratorium. This is what it’s about: . It was my honor and privilege to attend as one of 9 TED Fellows, a peak moment. This is my debrief at minute 13:15 of this clip: . My transformation? A reminder that...
Open Source Dimensional Sawmill – First Test Run
We have built and run the Open Source Ecology Dimensional Sawmill for the first time. The Dimensional Sawmill allows you to turn logs into dimensional lumber. There are several other types of sawmills, such as the standard circular sawmill, chainsaw...
Flash Mobs – Towards Extreme Collaboration
Our process for building the Global Village Construction Set is radically collaborative. It has to be – because the task is huge: an open source set of the 50 different industrial machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with...
