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Yeah, OpenSourceEcology has been around a while, but it's really just a handful of devices that are fully built and in use: the "power cube engine", "tractor" (
by NortySpock 6y ago
Yeah, OpenSourceEcology has been around a while, but it's really just a handful of devices that are fully built and in use: the "power cube engine", "tractor" (really a skid-steer loader) and the compressed earth brick-maker are complete and have working prototypes.
https://www.opensourceecology.org/portfolio/tractor/ https://www.opensourceecology.org/portfolio/tractor/
Hopefully they get some more funding or someone else takes up the torch. Even then, these are generalist machines; I don't know how far they scale up.
- hobofan 6y agoDidn't they have quite some funding for at least some time? As you said, they've been around for a long time (almost 20 years now) and for that their output isn't really that great. I'm not sure about the exact reason, but I've always had the feeling that the people working on the projects had little prior engineering experience and were progressing via slow trial and error. I'm wondering if possibly a Youtube channel with an experienced engineer in charge and Patreon support wouldn't be a better backdrop for such a project. Something like Kliemannsland (German Youtube channel that runs their own compound) meets Stuff Made Here.