Spring 2012
Update, March 19. . We’re beginning Scrum for hardware development – back to our workshop this week. We are developing a novel, open source, rapid development method – to be known as Extreme Manufacturing. As people are repopulating...
Building a Village Starts with Learning from Team WikiSpeed
OSE was featured on National Public Radio today. Listen to the story. Yesterday, we were also featured on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. This has resulted in 11 new True Fans subscriptions today, which is the most for any single day so far, for...
Community Needs Survey
My name is Aaron Makaruk, and I am working full time as an on-contingency Resource Developer for Open Source Ecology. We are busy raising money, building technology across the country, and laying the foundation for the open source economy. As our organizational...
Spring Recruiting
Help us go the next step in organizational development. My name is Tom Bamford, and I just joined the OSE core team to help with recruiting. We are now developing a recruiting strategy. At this stage, an effective use of current momentum will require...
CNC Circuit Mill Prototype 1 Complete
The OSE CNC Circuit Mill Prototype I is now complete. While there are many CNC circuit mill designs available on the internet, ours aims to maximize modularity, scalability, and simplicity, and ease of fabrication – while adhering to OSE Specifications....
Ironworker Update- Ready to build!
Last week I said I’d have the complete OSE proposal and Sketchup done for the ironworker by Friday. I didn’t get it done by then, but I am prepared to start building next week. I finished the majority of the OSE Proposal, see it here. I’ll be posting...
Backhoe Design Challenge: Live at GrabCAD
The backhoe design challenge is now live at GrabCAD. This is a unique challenge because it is the first in which we are offering a cash prize to the winner: $750 goes to the winner, plus an additional $250 if less than 3 design changes need to be made....
Quick Connect Wheels Update
We have just installed the quick connect wheels on the tractor and have been testing them with success for the past week. These can be attached/released from the tractor in under 5 minutes by turning a cam lock and loosening two large bolts. The significance...
Calling All Disruptive, Boundary-Smashing, Distributive Enterprise Heavyweights
We are recruiting a Co-Founder to join the team at Factor e Farm. This blog post describes this offer. (we are also looking for project Advisors and Mentors, see last paragraph of this post) Open Source Ecology is a movement for creating the open source...
Professional Fabrication Drawings for the CEB Press
We need epic help on producing professional fabrication drawings for the OSE Christmas Gift to the World – full documentation of the first 4 tools of the Global Village Construction Set – the tools of construction. See full need description...
