CEB House Tour – Missouri
It turns out that there’s a CEB contractor by Lathrop, Missouri – which is within 30 miles from us. Meet Floyd Hagerman, who has built a couple of very interesting CEB houses. The first one shown here is a hybrid – or a combination...
Open Source Manual CEB Press and Open Source Prefab Strawbale House
Hats off to our collaborators from Poland for open-sourcing a manual, dual-block CEB press. It is in the pre-alpha v0.1 release stage. Open Source MANUAL CEB PRESS beta I from Cohabitat Platform on Vimeo. You can download the existing CAD files here....
Initial CEB CAD Drawings
Here are the initial CAD drawings for the CEB press, The Liberator Beta v2.0. You can download these drawing interchange format (dxf) files at the Open+Pario project repository. You can view dxf files with QCad, AutoCAD, Lx-Viewer, or many other applications....
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...
Happy New Year!
From post-scarcity communities, open business models, open source tractors, land stewardship, to starting some serious building this year – here’s the latest: If you are liking what you heard in the video, don’t forget to subscribe to...
CEB Machine Production: Rocket Fuel for Post-Scarcity Economic Development?
We have our first sale of The Liberator CEB press. Maureen, one of our True Fans, will get her hands on an automated version of The Liberator – The Liberator Beta v2.0. We are expecting 8-12 bricks per minute for this machine. We’ve also discussed...
Free Press Free Enterprise
Abstract: We have achieved product release of a manually-controlled, high-performance, hydraulic Compresssed Eearth Brick (CEB) press, The Liberator. The initial version is selling for $3500 – $5500. Our present state of development is automation,...
Freedom of Press
Subtitled: Fabrication Optimization. We are positioning The Liberator as the world’s best, free (libre) CEB press. We are also positioning it as the world’s best CEB press – meaning that the proprietary counterparts will have a serious...
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...
Product
So here it is. November 1, 2009 is the day of Product Release. Factor e Farm announces its first Product Release in the form of The Liberator high-performance, open source, Compressed Eearth Block (CEB) Press – Beta Version 1.0. Let’s go back...
