Steam Engine Update
Time for an update on the OSE Steam Engine project. In the past month, I’ve pretty much finished up the technical aspects of what I am now calling the “Arrowhead Bump Valve” design, to distinguish it from the ball valve approach, which...
Recruiting Fabrication Manager
I have pointed out two posts ago that we are recruiting a Fabrication Manager for Factor e Farm. This is our highest current priority. That will allow me to delegate the on-site production management duties as I move on to higher-level tasks. The context...
Dream Team Sixteen
The immediate goal of the Factor e Farm experiment is to produce the GVCS 50 – a set of 50 industrial machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts. To this end – we are currently building a team. In the...
Factor e Farm Team Requirements
In the last post, I discussed the general plan of Factor e Farm for the roll-out of the 50 Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) technologies – by January, 2013. Mark Norton took the initiative to summarize this lengthy post – please read...
Towards 50 GVCS Tools by 2013
This year, especially after my TED talk on the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS), we have been expanding rapidly. At this exciting juncture in the evolution of the OSE experiment, I would like to take time to regroup and reorganize. I would like...
OSE Projects
People who are new to any established open source project are often bewildered and confused by the complexity of it all. Questions come up naturally: Where do I start? What needs doing? How can I contribute? How do I contact people? There are many ways...
Maker Faire
OSE is at Maker Faire! http://www.makerfairekc.com Watch the center stage live! http://www.makerfairekc.com/live/ Yesterday we were taking online questions for the speakers from the IRC and MakerFaire Live channels. Come watch some awesome speakers and...
Steam Engine Technical Drawings
I completed the first pass on the Steam Engine technical drawings a bit over a week ago. These are 2D drawings that specify each of the parts that make up the engine. This is a fairly major milestone in the steam engine project, since it enables CAD drawings...
OSE Europe Launch and Jeremy Blum – OS Electronics London Interview
Hi all. It’s been a while since my last post but I’m proud to be able to make a return with great news. There are now plans for an “Open Source Ecology Europe” project (also visit the OSEE facebook page) and to kick start the idea...
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...
