Open Tech Forever - R&D Factory for Open Source Industrial Hardware. Open Tech Forever - R&D Factory for Open Source Industrial Hardware is sponsored by Shareable.net which supports projects that help people share.
Let's Help Create the Open Source Economy! "Open Tech Forever is essential to building the collaborative society that we should be striving for. " - Daniel Fernández de Córdova, co-founder of Machina Open Tech Forever is helping create the Open Source Economy: a collaborative society that shares its knowledge, skills, technologies, and resources to overcome artificial barriers and achieve abundance and prosperity for all. We're Building an Open Source Factory We have a 40 acre permaculture site 15 minutes from downtown Denver. Open Hardware R&D - we are collaborating with people around the world to design, prototype, field-test, and share open source technology.Open Hardware Documentation - we actively teach others how to acquire new skills and build/use open hardware. Our Values Open Source Hardware (OSHW) Statement of Principles 1.0 Our Team Perks.
Timbuktu Chronicles. Solving everyday problems with African ingenuity. Catapult Design is a global leader in product strategy and design services for clients working to develop and commercialize life-changing, human-centered products for low-income and disadvantaged end-users around the world. Foot-powered washing machine made from recycled materials costs just $4. Living in the developing world has its own perks that includes access to clean water, electricity and appliances that make our lives a lot easier. However, the conditions are just the opposite in many parts of the developing world where people have to work hard for even the most basic of facilities. According to research people living in the rural parts of Africa have to walk for many hours just to get clean water. Moreover, many such villages aren’t even connected to the electric grid, which means basic home appliances are still a futuristic dream for the natives.
While there are lots of problems that the governments of developing and underdeveloped countries have to tackle, a couple of industrial design students at the Philadelphia University, Aaron Stathum and Eliot Coven, have developed a prototype low-cost washing machine for the developing world that if mass produced will cost as less as $4. Journey to Forever. FarmHack: Collaboratively Retooling Agriculture. FarmHack is a network for sharing open source know-how amongst the distributed fringe of DIY agricultural tech aficionados and innovators.
In the same vein as Appropedia or Open Source Ecology, a collaborative digital knowledge-base facilitates the harvest of crowd wisdom to address challenges and inefficiencies in modern ecological (and economical) farm operation. It is a project of Young Farmers Coalition and somewhat angled to the exuberant and tech-savvy eco-preneurial demographic, but inclusive and supportive of all open earthy inhabitants.
A primary focus of the organization is toward intensive development meet-ups, teach-ins, and hackathons, in person, on the farm. Just after landing at my new rural summer farm home and hack-factory in Vermont, I learned of one such get-together nearby on Lake Champlain. Close to 30 attendees converged from across New England, bearing pedigrees ranging from electrical engineering to graphic novel artist. Culticycle. Sauna Box - ALL - OBJECTS. Carbonized Chicken Feathers. Mechanical Properties of Hemp Fiber Composites with Carbon Nanotubes Reinforcement.
Wood pulp extract stronger than carbon fiber or Kevlar. The Forest Products Laboratory of the US Forest Service has opened a US$1.7 million pilot plant for the production of cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) from wood by-products materials such as wood chips and sawdust.
Prepared properly, CNCs are stronger and stiffer than Kevlar or carbon fibers, so that putting CNC into composite materials results in high strength, low weight products. In addition, the cost of CNCs is less than ten percent of the cost of Kevlar fiber or carbon fiber. These qualities have attracted the interest of the military for use in lightweight armor and ballistic glass (CNCs are transparent), as well as companies in the automotive, aerospace, electronics, consumer products, and medical industries.
View all Cellulose is the most abundant biological polymer on the planet and it is found in the cell walls of plant and bacterial cells. Cellulose structures in trees from logs to molecules. Biostruct - High-Performance Building Materials for Energy Efficient, Sustainable, Passive Solar and LEED Construction. Though it is less sexy than its modern counterparts, industrial hemp has entered the conversation as a material with an exciting future. It is showing up in products with uses that range from ultra-specialized to everyday. But can industrial hemp compete in a world focused on high-tech solutions?
If you follow Amory Lovins (and the Rocky Mountain Institute) at all, you know Lovins’ new book “Reinventing Fire” (which we’ve reviewed previously ) covers many exciting technologies that could help us reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and wean our economy off oil, coal and nuclear energy. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said of the book “My friend Amory Lovins knows that the most important question of the twenty-first century is the “how” question–how we turn good ideas into working solutions. Gasification - BIOCHAR.