Open Source Ecology
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Open Source Ecology (project)
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| Abbreviation | OSE |
| Headquarters | Factor e Farm, 745 SW Willow Road, Cameron, Missouri, United States .[1][2] |
| Leader | Marcin Jakubowski |
| Budget | $4,000 monthly |
| Website | Opensourceecology.org |
Open Source Ecology (OSE) is a network of farmers, engineers and supporters, whose main goal is the eventual manufacturing of the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS). As described by Open Source Ecology "the GVCS is an open technological platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small civilization with modern comforts."[3] Groups in Oberlin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and California are developing blueprints, and building prototypes in order to pass them on to Missouri.[4][5] The devices themselves are built and tested on the Factor e Farm in rural Missouri.
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History
Marcin Jakubowski, a physicist, founded the group in 2003.[6] In the final year of his doctoral thesis at the University of Wisconsin, he had the feeling that science was too closed off from the world's problems, and he wanted to go a different way. After graduation, he devoted himself entirely to OSE.
OSE was announced in 2011 during a Ted Talk that Jakubowski presented on the subject.[7]Shortly after, the GVCS won Make magazine's Green Project Contest. The Internet blogs Gizmodo and Grist produced detailed features on OSE.
Open Source Ecology is also developing in Europe as OSE Europe. [8]
Factor e Farm
The Factor e Farm is the main headquarters, where the machines are prototyped and tested. The farm itself also serves as a prototype. The residents grow their own food, collect rainwater, and produce all their electricity by solar panels.[9]
Current progress
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So far, eight of the fifty machines have been designed, blueprinted, and prototyped. [10][11] On October 2011 a Kickstarter fundraising campaign collected 63,573 USD for project expenses and the construction of a training facility.[12]
Awards and recognition
In 2011, the project won the Green Project Contest organized by the Make magazine.[13]. It was also selected as one of the 21 semi-finalists for the Buckminster Fuller Challenge, among 162 participants.[14]
List of machines
The set comprises 50 industrial machines:[15][16]
- CEB press
- Concrete mixer
- Sawmill
- Tractor
- Bulldozer
- Seeder
- Hay rake
- Backhoe
- Microtractor
- Rototiller
- Spader
- Hay cutter
- Trencher
- Bakery oven
- Dairy milking machine
- Microcombine harvester
- Baler
- Well-drilling rig
- Multimachine
- Ironworker
- Laser cutter
- Welder
- Plasma cutter
- Induction furnace
- CNC torch table
- Metal roller
- Wire and rod mill
- Press forge
- Universal rotor
- Drill press
- 3D Printer
- 3D Scanner
- CNC circuit mill
- Industrial robot
- Woodchipper / Hammermill
- Power Cube
- Gasifier burner
- Solar concentrator
- Electric motor / generator
- Hydraulic motor
- Nickel–iron battery
- Steam engine
- Steam generator
- Wind turbine
- Pelletizer
- Universal power supply
GVCS replication
During October, 2011 the first successful duplication of a Global Village Construction Set product by a third party group was completed. Jason Smith along with James Slade and his organization Creation Flame '[2] developed a functioning open source CEB press.[17] A group in Baltimore, Maryland, and a group in Dallas, Texas have also begun production of GVCS machines.[18]
See also
- Transition Towns a grassroots network of communities that are working to build resilience in response to peak oil, climate destruction, and economic instability.
- Fab lab
- List of open source hardware projects
References
- ^ Factor e farm information Accessed: 7/28/2011.
- ^ Google Maps Factor e Farm location
- ^ "Open Source Ecology", Accessed: 7-23-2011.
- ^ Rohan Pearce. Can open source save the planet?. Techworld Australia. . URL:http://www.computerworlduk.com/in-depth/open-source/3325167/can-open-source-save-planet/. Accessed: 2011-12-19. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.computerworlduk.com%2Fin-depth%2Fopen-source%2F3325167%2Fcan-open-source-save-planet%2F&date=2011-12-19)
- ^ "The Atlantic", "The Atlantic", Mar 23, 2011. Accessed: 7-19-2011.
- ^ "About", Accessed: 7-19-2011.
- ^ "Marcin Jakubowski: Open-sourced blueprints for civilization", April 2011. Accessed: 7-19-2011.
- ^ [1]
- ^ Factor e Farm Information Accessed 7-31-2011.
- ^ "Crash course on OSE" Accessed 7-19-2011.
- ^ GVCS Prototype Status, Accessed: 7-23-2011
- ^ Fundraising on Kickstarter
- ^ Make: Online | Open Source Ecology: Interview with Founder Marcin Jakubowski
- ^ The 2011 Buckminster Fuller Challenge Semi-Finalists | The Buckminster Fuller Challenge
- ^ http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs.php
- ^ http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Global_Village_Construction_Set
- ^ Creation Flame progress Accessed: 11/22/2011
- ^ Other GVCS Replications Accessed: 11/22/2011
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