The document discusses the open source, agile, and peer-to-peer revolution moving from software to manufacturing. It notes that distributed team management, frugal engineering, and design practices from software are being applied to physical production. Examples mentioned include open source hardware projects like 3D printing and compressed earth brick presses. The document advocates stopping reinventing things and instead open sourcing solutions to scale impact and cooperation globally.
6. “If civilization in anything like
its present form is to persist,
it must take account of the
finite nature of the biosphere.”
The Macroecology of Sustainability - http://goo.gl/yrjEX
38. “It’s paradoxical that vast
populations living in poverty
are surrounded by an
abundance of natural
resources from which all the
wealth of the economy is built”
52. Extreme manufacturing
Joe Justice takes the best practices for distributed
team management, frugal
engineering and frugal design and applies
back to the physical world
56. Since we built our first prototype of The Liberator (CEB
press) four years ago, we’ve been refining the machine and
optimizing fabrication to make it the simplest, highest
performance, and most replicable, open source compressed
earth brick press in the world. The first prototype took a
month to build. We have streamlined fabrication to 4 days in
September of this year, 2 days in November, and on
December 18 – we achieved the one day build.
Marcin Jakuboski – Open Source Ecology Founder
75. special thanks to:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ideum/4711481781
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeanbaptisteparis/4188824280
http://www.flickr.com/photos/slinky2000/2175943057
http://www.flickr.com/photos/watsdesign/5969631804
Open Electronics for the Opensource HW+SW pictures