Open Source Ecology
Description
Open Source Ecology is Network of Farmers, Engineers, and Supporters Building the Global Village Construction Set.
The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is a modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts.
The goal of Open Source Ecology is to create an open source economy – an efficient economy which increases innovation by open collaboration.
Links
Site: https://www.opensourceecology.org/ Wiki: https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@marcinose
Key Features of the GVCS
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Open Source - we freely publish our 3d designs, schematics, instructional videos, budgets, and product manuals on our open source wiki and we harness open collaboration with technical contributors.
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Low-Cost - The cost of making or buying our machines are, on average, 8x cheaper than buying from an Industrial Manufacturer, including an average labor cost of $15 hour for a GVCS fabricator.
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Modular - Motors, parts, assemblies, and power units can interchange, where units can grouped together to diversify the functionality that is achievable from a small set of units.
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User-Serviceable - Design-for-disassembly allows the user to take apart, maintain, and fix tools readily without the need to rely on expensive repairmen.
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DIY - (do-it-yourself) The user gains control of designing, producing, and modifying the GVCS tool set.
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Closed Loop Manufacturing - Metal is an essential component of advanced civilization, and our platform allows for recycling metal into virgin feedstock for producing further GVCS technologies - thereby allowing for cradle-to-cradle manufacturing cycles
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High Performance - Performance standards must match or exceed those of industrial counterparts for the GVCS to be viable.
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Flexible Fabrication - It has been demonstrated that the flexible use of generalized machinery in appropriate-scale production is a viable alternative to centralized production.
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Distributive Economics - We encourage the replication of enterprises that derive from the GVCS platform as a route to truly free enterprise - along the ideals of Jeffersonian democracy.
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Industrial Efficiency - In order to provide a viable choice for a resilient lifestyle, the GVCS platform matches or exceeds productivity standards of industrial counterparts.
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Hello! Great to have you here, sorry for the delay in responding :D
We can talk about:
Personally, I'm going to try to start posting helpful resources starting with the more developed projects and proceeding to the less developed projects. I know that the way the wiki is, that it can be overwhelming for new people, even though it's really an amazing resource. I hope to make it less intimidating by helping people understand how to navigate the project.
But certainly by no means must all posts be absolutely directly/officially related to OSE.
There needs to be a guide on how to use that wiki. Finding the files to download is such a pain in the ass. Unfortunately a majority of the links I clicked on were dead as well.
Do we know if the original OSE community is active? They have been silent on social media for the better part of 6 months.
I live in a literal desert as well as a food desert and would love to build a co-op to for a community garden or other things.
I am a member of our local hacker space, I regrettably do not get out there enough.
If it isn't too much trouble, can you tell me the pages with the broken links?
Haha, I mean yeah that is a lot of trouble. However, I will do it over the next couple of days. Have some outside projects I want to do, and work starts again tomorrow. So, hang tight and I'll update you.
I don't remember what I was looking at but it was one of the 100 percent complete projects.
Totally understandable.
Btw in response to your other question about current OSE activities, the team has been heads down building the Seed Eco Home 4. Heres an image from their recent FB post.
The Seed Eco Home project is the one I wanted to post about next
I haven't been on Facebook in almost two years. Completely deactivated FB. So, it makes sense as to why I hadn't seen any new info if that is where it's being posted! Thanks for letting me know! Still compiling broken links on the OSE.WIKI
I did see Marcin posting updates to the wiki on July 3rd and July 6th. I still need to go in and see what they are about.
I'd love to get in on the eco home, I've been pouring through the designs and I absolutely love it.
Even though I'm on Facebook, I use it rarely, and I wasn't even in this particular subgroup where he posted it until he shared the update with me directly 😂. So I totally get ya.