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Build Your Own Open Source Powered Air-Purifying Respirator in c/diy@slrpnk.net
[–] Goldfishlaser@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

During emergencies, such as the pandemic, access to PPE can become difficult. Providing an open source design for the respirator allows for decentralized manufacturing to take place, mitigating the bottlenecks of centralized production and increasing accessibility. The filtered air provided by the fan is for comfort; it is much more comfortable to receive the flow of air from this mask than using an N95, as your lungs have to do less work. Also, the pressurization means that a perfect fit isn't required, such as with an N95; for this reason, PAPRas can work more reliably for people with beards, for example.

Recreator3D turns plastic bottles into filament for a 3D Printer in c/technology@slrpnk.net
[–] Goldfishlaser@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Plenty of folks are using them regularly and the project is just getting started in building awareness. I am currently making one myself. I was also given some sample filament to try out, and plan to share my experience. If anyone wants to see what people are doing with these, definitely check out the discord...

I'm familiar with the other methods of PET recycling you've mentioned, and projects such as Precious Plastic's or Brothers Make, but as you mention, they are great methods, but much more expensive and less accessible to everyone.

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Recreator3D turns plastic bottles into filament for a 3D Printer (www.recreator3d.com)
 

The Recreator3D is a low-cost DIY Pultrusion Project; tailored to upcycle aging and salvaged 3D printer parts you're already acquainted with, empowering you to construct your very own pultrusion unit.

​Help reshape our future's recycling methods, one bottle at a time!

Reduce, Reuse, Recreate…with The Recreator 3D!

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Build Your Own Open Source Powered Air-Purifying Respirator (tetrabiodistributed.github.io)
 

Many people are at risk for exposure to the COVID-19 virus and cannot afford to get infected. These people can isolate themselves, but often, their professions or requirements for daily life will take them in contact with other people, and they need some form of protection. Masks definitely help, but can become uncomfortable to wear, especially over long periods of time. This guide will walk you through creating a Powered Air-Purifying Respirator, which will protect the wearer and those around them from airborne viruses and bacteria, while at the same time providing positive airflow to the wearer’s face. That airflow makes sure that the wearer has a supply of fresh, clean air that has gone through a filtration process, and, in our tests, is the equivalent of wearing an N95 mask.

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Playlist of Talks from the 2025 Open Hardware Summit (youtube.com)
 

The Open Hardware Summit took place in place in Edinburgh on May 30th & 31st, 2025.

Since 2010, the Open Source Hardware Association, a 501(c)(3) not for profit charity, has hosted the Open Hardware Summit- a comprehensive conference for the open hardware community and the ever changing open source hardware movement.

Speakers include world renowned leaders from industry, academia, the arts and maker community. Talks cover a wide range of subjects from electronics, mechanics to related fields such as digital fabrication, fashion technology, self-quantification devices, and IP law. As a microcosm of the Open Source Hardware community, the Open Hardware Summit provides an annual, friendly forum for the community.

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UAB Solar House Team discusses their project with Marcin (Open Source Ecology) (www.uab.edu)
 

In this video Marcin talks with members of the UAB Solar House team.

In 2017, they designed and built a 1,000 sq. ft. off-grid solar house for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon. After the competition, it was relocated to UAB’s campus, where it now serves as part of a sustainability demonstration project.

The UAB Solar House is fully powered by solar energy and “islanded”, completely disconnected from the city’s electrical grid. It was built to maximize energy efficiency while maintaining comfort and usability. The space includes a fully equipped kitchen, living/dining area, jack-and-jill bathroom, individual climate control in each room, and a smart TV for presentations. It also features a large porch and outdoor gathering area, surrounded by native gardens.

Full documentation of the project is available. The design is replicable, and there’s potential for adaptation to modular or open-source construction methods (e.g. OSE’s toolkit and build system).

For more information see https://www.uab.edu/sustainability/solar-house-community

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Accelerating Knowledge Transfer with Open Hardware - Dr. Joshua Pearce (www.youtube.com)
 

From the description:

Dr. Joshua Pearce discusses how to accelerate knowledge transfer with open hardware with examples from his FAST lab at Western University, London, Ontario, Canada - as well as business models the open source scientific hardware companies can use. https://www.appropedia.org/FAST

OSE is teaming up with FAST to accelerate open hardware development. I (Marcin) am applying to be a visiting Thompson Fellow at Western. In this collaboration - my main duties would be to give guest lectures and mini-seminars on OSE primarily through TCELI (https://www.eng.uwo.ca/tc/); establish research collaborations between UWO and OSE starting to focus on open source scaling - set up a path to get more of OSE work in the scientific literature so we can create more career paths of open hardware ; make a path for OSE to leverage Canadian government funding through FAST - set up OSE Canada, and plan an something like a big showcase of OSE awesomeness in the Winter term.

This would contribute to a student pipeline from Western University feeding into the OSE Apprenticeship and Fellowship programs, and is a win-win for open source acceleration towards the open source economy. This will also contribute to OSE College Tour 2025, where we visit top universities in search for open source opt-outs. Ripe territory, for example as 1 in 8 students at Western do not fit and do not finish. This means that there is a significant population of people for whom the integrated, convergent collaboration of the OSE program is potentially a good fit.

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Beatrice Erkers speaks with Marcin (OSE) about Existential Hope (www.youtube.com)
 

From the description:

Existential hope is a thing. Foresight Institute (https://foresight.org/technologies/fo...) is working on it. Foresight is a sensemaking, futurist, mid-course correction, appropriate technology, metacrisis, existentical hope institution. Check out discussion with Beatrice Erkers - https://www.existentialhope.com/team/.... They have a Fellowship that covers Existential Hope, and Open Source Ecology work may fit in that paradigm. Check out their library - "From Existential Angst to Existential Hope" - https://www.existentialhope.com/exist.... And "Meta-Tools for Progress" - https://www.existentialhope.com/meta-.... Definitely big picture thinking.

The OSE opinion is that social technology is more important. At a time of exploding hardware tech and retarded social tech - namely the lack of a collaborative abundance mindset - the key threat to society is not technology but humanity's incapacity to steward this technology properly. Stewarding technology properly is more of a personal development issue, less of a technology issue.

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Marcin (Open Source Ecology) speaks with Big Skills Tiny Homes about potential collaboration (www.youtube.com)
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In this video, Marcin speaks with Big Skills Tiny Homes. Big Skills Tiny Homes has an education program similar to what OSE is launching for the Apprenticeships and Fellowships. They are also a Factory Build Modular Home producer and have training hubs for producing Accessory Dwelling Units .

Hi! Welcome to the Open Source Ecology community in c/open_source_ecology@slrpnk.net
[–] Goldfishlaser@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

I'm back after a bit of a hiatus, and I fell behind on OSE content. So as not to spam, I am going to post a few each day until I catch up. Looking forward to the discussion!

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Open agriculture experiments in the Global Village Construction Set (www.youtube.com)
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Marcin speaks with participants about open agriculture experiments in the Global Village Construction Set and autonomous open software and open hardware add-ons for a commercial tractor. Looking towards automation of agriculture and foundation grading, and autonomous materials logistics in the framework of zero marginal cost economics. Future plans to talk to Agrilab regarding open source hydraulic tractors such as OSEs.

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Marcin (Open Source Ecology) speaks with The Story Studio on promoting the Apprenticeship program (www.youtube.com)
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From the video description:

Talking to Emily Aiken ( / emilyaiken ) and Brian Blair from The Story Studio https://www.thestorystudio.com/ about getting the word out on the OSE Apprenticeship and announcing today, the OSE Fellowship - A $100k work-study grant for young people to rebuild civilization. It's a 4 year commitment to build yourself an abundance mindset.

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Ready to Re-Design Civilization? - Apprenticeship Announcement (www.youtube.com)
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Open Source Ecology announces apprenticeship and fellowship programs. The first cohort of Fellows begins on September 1, 2025.

From the YouTube Video Description:

Ladies and gentlemen, we are taking the next major step towards scaling the work of OSE. We are starting a 4 year program for civilization re-design/build. Forget about trade school or college - we are offering a radical, transformative alternative.

In 4 years or less - you will learn to build seed eco-homes as 24 person crew - in only 5 days from start to finish. This part will pay the bills - but the skill set you will learn is much broader. Apply today - http://bit.ly/43YMlkw

See our blog for all the ways you can build or acquire a Seed Eco-Home - (https://www.opensourceecology.org/seed-eco-home-builds/)

This announcement was posted about a month ago. Since then there are a couple other videos relevant to the apprenticeship fellowship:

SLRPNK Community Discussion - May 2025 in c/meta@slrpnk.net
[–] Goldfishlaser@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

awesome thanks!

SLRPNK Community Discussion - May 2025 in c/meta@slrpnk.net
[–] Goldfishlaser@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Hello! For a little while I wasn't posting to the community open_source_ecology that I created and it looks like the community was removed. It may have even been by me who removed it in an attempt to prevent spammers from using an unmodded board. I am wondering if it can be reopened as now there is news I would like to share with the community and am happy to mod again. Thanks!

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Why is Labor Force Productivity So Low? (youtu.be)
 

@roberteldersoftware on youtube has started speaking out against Michael Klein, shitty greedy landlord in Canada who is notorious for using the "renoviction" tactic on tenants, many who are low income, after he himself is becoming a victim of this guy. Victims are joining together and trying to put pressure on this guy. I cant do much from the US, so trying to boost awareness. More info: https://acorncanada.org/news/new-report-connects-ontarios-biggest-renovictor-michael-klein-to-renovictions-happening-in-21-buildings-in-7-cities/

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Ecotricity Founder to Launch "World's First" Electric Airline, Serving Only Plant-Based Meals - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine (vegconomist.com)
 

Love to see it

SLRPNK community discussion - August 2023 in c/meta@slrpnk.net
[–] Goldfishlaser@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This thread is just becoming people arguing about what type of vegan speech is effective and failing to understand the concept of the seriousness with which vegans promote and believe in animal rights. To vegans, animals are individuals and their sentience is respected and taken very seriously.

I can't speak to "off topic" or "bundled insults" but if something is "off topic" or "bundled with insults" then it can be moderated accordingly.

A lot of vegans who have had enslaved ancestors are still ok with the analogy and a lot of vegans who ancestors in the holocaust are still ok with the holocaust analogy. Since there is a wide spread of people with this very common opinion, if you censor it, you're ok censoring vegan speech which is hostile to vegans.

I've already said - people compare animal agriculture to slavery because we captivate, force impregnate, mutilate, steal their children, and economically exploit animals. We violate their rights for mere taste pleasure because today, in most parts of the world, it isn't required to do this to them.

People compare it to the holocaust because every year billions are killed, in gas chambers and in abattoirs. They're led to their deaths packed on top of each other in trucks, breaking their legs on floors of shit, dehydrated, and terrified.

When people say this, it's not TRYING to get an emotional response, this is just WHAT happens and WHAT you contribute to if you consume animal products. And some people really wish you'd stop and sometimes emotions get in the way and ok, if someone crosses a line, moderate that shit.

It looks like what's really going to happen here is that because vegans are a minority, even here, the sensibilities of people who get offended by the animal rights point of view is going to blind them to the fact that they're being incredibly censorious. Enjoy your echo chamber if you want, I guess. Disappointing.

SLRPNK community discussion - August 2023 in c/meta@slrpnk.net
[–] Goldfishlaser@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Context matters here when we're talking about what speech you're going to outlaw on this platform. You can have whatever opinion you want on whether its ok to exploit a backyard chicken but if you ban someone for this, that's quite censorious. Why don't you just say to them what you said here and let the people suss it out.

SLRPNK community discussion - August 2023 in c/meta@slrpnk.net
[–] Goldfishlaser@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

Forbidding the comparison of animal captivity, forced reproduction and child stealing, and economic exploitation to slavery would be a clear example of indulging a censorious impulse.

I rarely use this comparison personally because it's subject to this kind of confusion (thinking comparison to human slavery is equating to human slavery). Nevertheless it's my personal opinion that when you account for the massive scale of the suffering, billions of animals yearly, a comparison of severity can still be drawn, even with any inspecies prejudices about the richness of human lives and experience potential compared to animals.

SLRPNK community discussion - August 2023 in c/meta@slrpnk.net
[–] Goldfishlaser@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

So it seems you're automatically defensive about wanting to moderate vegan speech (preempting with "don't feel personally attacked) and deep down I think you know why.

I understand you're just trying to make a space where everyone feels welcome. But harrassment policy and other conduct policy should cover people getting out of bounds and requires no vegan specific clause. Making a vegan specific clause is a little hostile.

Unless you are truly aiming to ban people for having the opinion that it's not ok to not be vegan. That would be tone policey and censorious, in my opinion. If a vegan is actually harassing someone that calls for moderation, but its already a rule to refrain from harassing. If you want to make a rule on harassment and include several examples, and one of them is a vegan example, that would be fine.

It just reminds me of other contentious issues like racial justice or gender issues. Sometimes people didn't like getting called racist, but do you censor a racial minority because their message is intense and makes someone a little uncomfortable? People have the right to decline interactions that arent going well but they shouldnt expect to always be perfectly comfortable when writing in the public square.

I’ve been introduced to OSE. Now what do we talk about? in c/open_source_ecology@slrpnk.net
[–] Goldfishlaser@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago

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.

I’ve been introduced to OSE. Now what do we talk about? in c/open_source_ecology@slrpnk.net
[–] Goldfishlaser@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

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

screenshot of fb post showing solar panel work on seed eco 4

I’ve been introduced to OSE. Now what do we talk about? in c/open_source_ecology@slrpnk.net
[–] Goldfishlaser@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

If it isn't too much trouble, can you tell me the pages with the broken links?

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