The Global Village Construction Set

[Woodrat]

Found this while browsin' the Internets. Thought some here might be interested.

The Global Village Construction Set is a project to develop a set of easy-to-produce machines that can be used to not only make one another, but other modern tools and machines and can be bootstrapped from virtually nothing.

Going from raw iron extraction to modern solar power production up to vehicles and industrial robotics, the tool set is still in development but is provided open source.

It's a fascinating read, and in need of more people to help develop these tools.

So we're one step closer to having our own self-sustaining Iwakuland.

Thoughts?

 

[October Knight]

This is freaking awesome. Hopefully they get all the support they need to further this project. I wonder how the quality of their machinery stacks up against similar 'mainstream' equipment manufacturers...Cat, John Deer and the like?