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Really cool idea: the Global Village Construction Set
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Nov 2, 2012 at 9:08 pm #1295748
Just stumbled across this; it seems like the kind of open-minded thinking that is possible in our networked world now.
http://opensourceecology.org/index.php
From the site:
"Open Source Ecology is a network of farmers, engineers, and supporters that for the last two years has been creating the Global Village Construction Set, an open source, low-cost, high performance technological platform that allows for the easy, DIY fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a sustainable civilization with modern comforts. The GVCS lowers the barriers to entry into farming, building, and manufacturing and can be seen as a life-size lego-like set of modular tools that can create entire economies, whether in rural Missouri, where the project was founded, in urban redevelopment, or in the developing world."
Nov 2, 2012 at 9:44 pm #1926098What an incredible link and idea, Steven. Thanks so much for introducing this!
Nov 2, 2012 at 10:04 pm #1926101Very interesting. The milker was a bit of a surprise, at first.
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