Back in May, I wrote about Open Source Ecology’s DIY Global Village Construction Set. It’s a wicked cool idea of a handful of DIYers, farmers, and engineers, led by Marcin Jakubowski, to help create:
“A world where every community has access to an open source Fab[rication] Lab which can produce all the things that one currently finds at a Walmart cost-effectively, quickly, on demand from local resources.”
Specifically, the Global Village Construction Set is “a modular, DIY, low-cost, open source, high-performance platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different industrial machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts.” In even more simplistic terms, it’s a “life-sized lego set.”
The crew is looking to raise funds for the GVCS on Kickstarter now. So far, they’ve raised over $20,000 of the $40,000 they are looking for.
You can help out by visiting and donating on the Kickstarter page (linked above) or below:
Here’s a little more from the Kickstarter page, including a couple videos:
“So Far we’ve prototyped 8 of the 50 Machines and we’ve been expanding rapidly. We are 100% crowd-funded. We have 400 True Fans that support our work monthly.”
For much more, visit the Kickstarter page.