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...
LifeTrac Design Challenge
The LifeTrac open source Tractor is our weak link in the OSE Christmas Gift to the World for 2011. As we prepare to publish the Civilization Starter Kit DVD v0.01, we will include a Beta release of Prototype IV of LifeTrac, and Full Product Release of...
Production Run Update
Greetings from Factor e Farm. Life has been busy around here. We’re in the middle of a production run, so we’re working pretty much round the clock. What’s cool is that as we’re building things, we’re finding all these things...
MicroTrac Challenge
We have recently shown the initial test drive of LifeTrac Prototype II. The 3D model in Blender corresponds exactly to the machine built – the point being that the models in Blender are useful as actual design drawings from which others can replicate...
LifeTrac Prototype II Test Drive
This is a rendering of Prototype II of the open source, design-for-disassembly tractor, LifeTrac. You can download the source in Blender format. This is the reality of the completed frame, with the wheels and wheel motors, minus the PowerCube engine unit....
LifeTrac II Update
We are making good progress on LifeTrac – Prototype II of the open source tractor. We have managed to fund its completion via crowd funding. We’ve got just about all the parts in, including hydraulic components. We will use Power Cube Protype...
LifeTrac II Design
These last few days we have been wotking on the second open source tractor protytype – LifeTrac II – on Blender. Here is the progress so far. The concept involves: front end loader and a back-end loader – doubles attachment flexibility...
LifeTrac II – Frame
We are working on the second prototype of the open source tractor, as discussed in the last post. We have come up with a sketch for the new LifeTrac II frame, which was drawn in Blender. The disks mark the location of the wheels, and the middle verticals...
LifeTrac II Concept
Marcin takes us into Factor-e-Farm One-Room-Schoolhouse again and this time to explain the concept behind designing and then building the open-source-tractor, LifeTrac II. This 5 minute video lays down the foundation from where we will begin. Coming next...
PowerCube on LifeTrac
A universal mechanical power source is one of the key components of the Global Village Construction Set – the set of building blocks for creating resilient communities. The basic concept is that instead of using a dedicated engine on a particular...
