Open Source Ecology

The lathe is perhaps the most important machine tool in a workshop. In almost every kind of machining operation, either the work piece or the cutting tool turns. – link. Read more about the practical basics of a lathe from a master of documentation, Chris Palmer of HydraRaptor. ...

In general, half of OSE technology work focuses on RepLab, and the other half focuses on open source agroecology. Both are connected, and one feeds the other. Effective food production is critical to post-scarcity, resilient communities...

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 contender. For ...

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 it. To...

Many of you may have heard of the MIT Fab Lab – a mini factory where you can make just about anything. If you have $100k to spend, you can get one for your home. What if we reduce the price of this toolset by a factor of 10? ...

Thanks to Jonas, Bojana, Rikard, Karl, Henrik, Mathias Friman, and all the others behind the scenes – who all combined for a pretty fiery Free Society Conference for 2009. You can see the Live website for the conference here, and the program here. ...

Sweden is not exactly sunny at this time of the year, but the Nordic people are lovely. So far, it’s been a mind-blowing experience at the Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit (FSCONS 2009). ...

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 a little in history. In...

As mentioned in the previous post, a soil-grate shaker is necessary to help tractor-loader buckets of soil fall through the 3/4 inch spacing of the grate on the CEB machine, The Liberator. Welcome to the open source vibrator: Open Source Vibrator from Marcin Jakubowski on Vimeo...

Time is ticking before Product Release of The Liberator. Some last minute adjustments are forthcoming, before we release Beta Version 1.0. Here are some scenes from field testing. First, we carry it over to the work place with the LifeTrac forks...

As of 10/24/09 I am no longer on site at FeF. For those keeping track, thats four days earlier than anticipated, due to a heating mishap where we went down from two stoves to one. So I’ll be cleaning up documentation off site instead. ...

Arduino is an open source electronic microcontroller. We are using it to automate our Compressed Earth Brick (CEB) press - for automatic control that doesn’t require a human operator to runthe machine. The RepRap open source 3D printer also uses Arduino to handle its controls. ...

I would like to share today’s letter to our True Fans with the greater world. It provides the latest insights on the Factor e Farm experiment. Dear True Fans and Supporters, First of all, thank you all for your unwavering support. ...

I’ve been researching and musing over how open source and business go together like two slices of bread. The contraption tastes good only if the stuff in between meshes well. ...