Showing posts with label hardware. Show all posts
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
global village construction set
Marcin Jakubowski is living in the heartland of the United States and wants to help the world live better. To that end, he founded Open Source Ecology, a network of farmers, engineers, and supporters. Together, they have designed equipment that can be easily built on-site anywhere in the world, with the versatile pieces in a kit.
That's right: build you own tractor, using parts from a kit. Build your own brick press - to construct houses - with the pieces from that same kit. And the list of industrial machines goes on and on, to fifty total.
That's right: fifty machines to build a village, from one kit.
The Global Village Construction Set.
Much cheaper than having to buy something premade and then having it shipped.
Much easier means of turning subsistence into a livable life.
From bakery ovens and bulldozers to well-drilling rigs and wind turbines - the instructions will be available to all, as well as any pieces which cannot be easily manufactured.
I want to see Factor e Farm, the place where it all comes to life.
That's the funding level I chose.
The privilege of visiting the site in Missouri. The GVCS deluxe dvd with the instructions to build the Tractor, the Compressed Earth Brick (CEB) Press, the Power Cube, and the Soil Pulverizer. The punch-out magnet, formed by the fabrication of the CEB Press and Tractor. The video thank-you.
I want to truly be part of this worthy and needed endeavor.
Maybe they'll even let me help build something when I visit.
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