First Brick Laid
Laser level plus 1/2″ treated plywood plus shallow insulated gravel foundation equals first brick laid:
Flurries on All Fronts
We experienced serious flurries today. First, we had a flurry of $482 come in today – to almost meet our materials needs on the CEB addition – on the last day of November’s funding cycle.Second, we experienced a flurry of hits on our...
CEB Field Performance Report – Factor e Live Part 11
After two weeks of brick pressing – we are done. We pressed a total of five thousand, six hundred, and ninety one open source CEB bricks. We are using The Liberator – the open source, high performance (6 brick per minute), manually-loaded...
5000 Bricks and Counting
We pressed 5000 CEB bricks by now. We have enough for 3 of 4 walls for our living-roofed flexible fabrication workshop addition. At present, we collected funds to complete the roof, but not for any insulation or windows/doors. Please consider a donation...
3000 Bricks and Counting
Upon the suggestion of Reto Stauss of the nachhaltigBeobachtet blog, we have installed the ChipIn widget here for additional transparency in our crowd funding strategy. At the time of this post, we collected $1144, and still have $856 left to go in the...
The Thousandth Brick: CEB Field Testing Report
Is The Liberator – the open source, high performance CEB machine – really worthy of its name? Absolutely. We found that out as we pressed the one thousandth brick yesterday. Bad weather, manpower, and equipment so far has restricted production...
CEB Block Production – Day 1
We are pressing CEB bricks and digging the foundation for our CEB/living roof/solar design addition. See for yourself: We’ve got thousands left to press, got to go. Support us while we go to work. $10 suggested donations. We have $1074 collected...
Open Source CEB Press Production Run Results
We have demonstrated a production rate of 4 bricks per minute in our first test production runs. We ran the CEB machine with 3 people, low-medium throttle on LifeTrac, about 12 gallon per minute hydraulic flow, a hydraulic pressure of 2200 psi, and a...
CEB Field Testing – Factor e Live – Episode 10
We are finally in the phase of field testing of the CEB press. We ran the CEB press successfully with our open source tractor, which we showed in Episode 8 of Factor e Live. Now it’s production time – pressing about eight thousand bricks –...
