Personal Fabrication Machines - Open Source Ecology

[hlbpr]

I wish I could offer your effort financial support but, I'm unemployed right now (more of a reason my wife and I want to live like you) but, as soon as our financial situation improves we'll definitely help any way we ca. We are two of your biggest fans in the whole Earth. Seriously! :-)

[hlbpr]

This gives me hope !!

[MrSpiffy702]

Love the idea of making kits for those of us that don't have tools or skills to make our own parts.

[slmrcs]

I have been reviewing your work the last week after recently discovering it. After years of following people like Alex Jones, learning about different social and economic theories, different paradigms, and finding them all lacking, and leaving me full of fear for the future collapse ... I had a sense of what needs to be done abstracting, but no idea of it's practical application...to cut to the chase, I think your work is the future ...

[slmrcs]

@slmrcs ... and whereas before I full of dread of the future, and full of thoughts about bunkering down with a gun and storagable food (like many other people), I now feel so excited for the future, and see that there are so many positive things we can do. I could write an essay just trying to grasp how exciting this is.

[TheRoninVids]

Have you tried Google Sketchup for the 3D Models? Perhaps it is too simple for your needs? All I know is that it's free and very easy to use from what I hear.

[geisterwolfsa]

awesome project. i wish i had a skill set to participate. i don't know how to work with metal. i don't know how wire things up. i'm not sure a tribe of us could easily take these designs and say build that tractor or cnc. I've googled metal work before and regrettably didn't find much for people who weren't already "into" this stuff. i think a project like this strives to be open and accessible, so some form of open education that can be translated into any language is needed . .

[Axbent]

Buy a cheap, and usualy good, chineese lathe and ure set! CNC is highly overated and mostly useful for them who cant run a manual machine. The most useful thing for a cheap CNC (that is decribed here) would be making electronic components.

[grovestreet8]

heroes!

[MarkProffitt]

!!!! ABSOLUTELY PERFECT !!!!

This is exactly how to transition from scarcity to abundance.

Build the tools to increase productivity reducing your need for money or labor. Create energy, food, and fabrication systems using available materials. Open source it so it can be distributed instead of centralized. This accelerates development and reduces risks of single point failure.

Using the best of free market economics and abundance based sharing techniques gets the results fast as possible.

[evolvetofreedom]

This is truly amazing work.

[BLITA1]

I'll give this video a thumbs up because they're doing good work, but this video is sorely lacking.

It would do well to at least get someone to introduce the video who is more comfortable in front of the camera, and who will more or less deliver the lines and not read from a card.

An attractive female, or even just someone who smiles when they talk, would help that greatly.

[sonapraj]

Great video

[walter0bz]

scrapheap-challenge(junkyard-w­ars) on steroids

doubt you can compete with centralized mass producton, but anything that reduces the depth of the worlds depandancies is a good thing.. less scope for middlemen

[sofiasmartis]

this zooming animation is annoying, especially for the plans..

great project anyway :)

[w0r1dpeace]

awesome!