CEB Press: Building on RepRap and Arduino
The CEB automation for the Liberator Beta 2.0 open source CEB press builds on other open source projects. We are using: (1), power drivers from the RepRap project for driving the solenoid valves; (2), Arduino as the controller-brain for the brick-pressing...
CEB Automation Strategy
Currently, we are still working on getting our first order of The Liberator high performance, open source, Compressed Earth Brick (CEB) press out the door. We are now upgrading the automatic controls. We have published a technical paper on the automation...
Initial CEB Automation Results
The FSCONS conference was awesome, discussion on RepLab is evolving, and I have a feeling we haven’t seen anything yet. At the same time – the core of building a pattern for replicable, post-scarcity, resilient communities is actually building...
Best Arduino Programming Primer in the World
Arduino is an open source electronic microcontroller. We are using it to automate our Compressed Earth Brick (CEB) press – for automatic control that doesn’t require a human operator to runthe machine. The RepRap open source 3D printer also...
Automatic CEB Controls v1.0
The last remaining step of our open source CEB Press Prototype II development is installation of automatic controls. This means that instead of a person actuating the hydraulic cylinders in the proper sequence as seen before, we will do this with electric...
