Recruiting – Master Prototyper & Machine Designers
Open Source Ecology is currently recruiting two key members to our team: a Master Prototyper and a Machine Designer. The pay is $4k/month for fully qualified candidates. This is part of our work on the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS). To apply,...
Open Source Cold Saw – First Prototype Test
Posted in 2012. We have developed an open-source Cold Saw – a cutting machine that produces rapid, precise, dust-free, burr-free cuts that leave the material cool to the touch. Cold Saw Intro: The Cold Saw’s CAD (computer-aided design)...
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...
Open Source Ironworker Machine – Prototype II Completed
Hello World, it’s Brianna again, with the final update on Ironworker Prototype II. You can see former work on Prototype I from 2 years ago. See the wiki for more details. The build of the Prototype II has been completed with great success on some...
CEB Press v4 Flash Mob and Production Director
CEB Press v4 – Flash Mob – Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) We are organizing a Flash Mob of contributors familiar with machine design and/or access to CAE/Finite Element Analysis technology. The Flash Mob will be on Friday August 3, at 3:00...
Factor e Farm Update: June to July
Hello everyone, sorry for the delay between blog posts lately. I’m Parker Bonnell, one of OSE’s newer staff members, working primarily with Marcin and Aaron on organizational development. The last month has been a busy one at the Factor E Farm. Our...
TED Global: Radical Openness
I just got back from TED Global. This was the best of the 3 TED conference that I attended so far – 2 of them at Long Beach. I have a chance to attend 2 more TED Conferences next year as the privilege of being a 2012 TED Senior Fellow. I like TED Global...
Call Out for Inverter Project
Hey all, Vann here. If you have a background in Power Electronics, and are interested in acting as a consultant, mentor, or remote developer of our Power Inverter project, please contact me at vann.miller@gmail.com. We’re just starting and thus...
Recruiting Documentation Team
We are recruiting 6 documenters: Videographer, Communications Director, Documentation Director, CAD Director, Documentation Community Manager, and Director of Learning. See the Role Descriptions, and pass this announcement on through your networks. This...
Thiel Fellow
Yoonseo Kang, one of our core crew of 8 at Factor e Farm – recently received $100k to keep out of school. He won the prestigious Thiel Fellowship. This fellowship is also known as the 20 Under 20 program – which is awarded to superstars under...
