Today, an Open Everything event will take place at the Paraflows Festival in Vienna, Austria. Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation is the main speaker. Franz Nahrada and Ralf Schlatterbeck will follow up with the hardware side of open production, with Factor e Farm and Open Source Ecology as a case in point. We prepared a short video - which Ralf will present - on creating a post-scarcity village on the scale of 30 acres. The essence of such a village is open technology and knowhow. This video … [Read more...]
CEB Prototype II Finished
After 16 days of active build, the Compressed Earth Block (CEB) press prototype II is finished. You can compare this to Prototype I video in a previous post. We are well on our way to our first significant product release. See the progress from the concept drawing by Jeremy: To the actual build: A 12 minute video shows the steps: CEB Prototype II Build from Marcin Jakubowski on Vimeo. The main changes in Prototype II include: Rail guides which allow frictionless motion of the loading … [Read more...]