Open Source Ecology - Anyone Interested?
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AdamMesser
Oct 3, 2012, 11:42:27 AM10/3/12
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Hi everyone,
I'm interested in meeting people who would like to develop the tools for the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS).
What is the GVCS?
"The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is a open source, modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform that enables fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts."
I’d recommend just watching the TED video about it here:
http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Global_Village_Construction_Set#Introduction
And here's my take on it: they're developing a bunch of cool open source machines that we could replicate ourselves. Plus some of these machines could be very useful for the Hackspace.
So I'm keen to meet anyone else who has an interest in developing the GVCS machines. Perhaps we could meet in the quiet room sometime over the next week or so - unless there are any objections.
Who is interested?
Adam
I'm interested in meeting people who would like to develop the tools for the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS).
What is the GVCS?
"The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is a open source, modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform that enables fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts."
I’d recommend just watching the TED video about it here:
http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Global_Village_Construction_Set#Introduction
And here's my take on it: they're developing a bunch of cool open source machines that we could replicate ourselves. Plus some of these machines could be very useful for the Hackspace.
So I'm keen to meet anyone else who has an interest in developing the GVCS machines. Perhaps we could meet in the quiet room sometime over the next week or so - unless there are any objections.
Who is interested?
Adam
Billy
Oct 3, 2012, 4:52:53 PM10/3/12
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Yes.
I was chatting to you about building a power cube, when you first came
down to the space.
Working on this with a bunch of other people would be great.
On Oct 3, 4:42 pm, AdamMesser <messe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm interested in meeting people who would like to develop the tools for
> the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS).
>
> What is the GVCS?
>
> "The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is a open source, modular, DIY,
> low-cost, high-performance platform that enables fabrication of the 50
> different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable
> civilization with modern comforts."
>
> I’d recommend just watching the TED video about it here:
>
Alex Cureton-Griffiths
Oct 4, 2012, 4:53:46 AM10/4/12
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I've been looking into this and I'd be interested in getting involved (when I actually get to the UK in a few months). My passion is working on tech to help humanity colonize space, and we'd need all those industrial machines if we're ever going to colonise the moon and Mars :)
More info about what I'm doing at www.spacegambit.org - I'm not the only hacker interested in taking humanity to the stars...
Tim Storey
Oct 4, 2012, 6:07:47 AM10/4/12
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I would be interested in meeting to discuss this and generally getting involved
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Eugene Nadyrshin
Oct 4, 2012, 7:12:29 PM10/4/12
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I'm interested in this too,
although realistically I think most of the stuff is too big to
effectively work on in our workshop, though there are plenty of things
to contribute on! Would be awesome if we got a hack camp out of London
somewhere to "civilise"
Mentar
On 04/10/12 11:07, Tim Storey wrote:
> I would be interested in meeting to discuss this and generally getting involved
> \t
> On 4 Oct 2012, at 09:53, Alex Cureton-Griffiths <ale...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've been looking into this and I'd be interested in getting involved (when I actually get to the UK in a few months). My passion is working on tech to help humanity colonize space, and we'd need all those industrial machines if we're ever going to colonise the moon and Mars :)
>>
>> More info about what I'm doing at www.spacegambit.org - I'm not the only hacker interested in taking humanity to the stars...
>>
>> On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 11:42:28 PM UTC+8, AdamMesser wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'm interested in meeting people who would like to develop the tools for the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS).
>>
>> What is the GVCS?
>>
>> "The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is a open source, modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform that enables fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts."
>>
>> I�d recommend just watching the TED video about it here:
although realistically I think most of the stuff is too big to
effectively work on in our workshop, though there are plenty of things
to contribute on! Would be awesome if we got a hack camp out of London
somewhere to "civilise"
Mentar
On 04/10/12 11:07, Tim Storey wrote:
> I would be interested in meeting to discuss this and generally getting involved
> \t
> On 4 Oct 2012, at 09:53, Alex Cureton-Griffiths <ale...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've been looking into this and I'd be interested in getting involved (when I actually get to the UK in a few months). My passion is working on tech to help humanity colonize space, and we'd need all those industrial machines if we're ever going to colonise the moon and Mars :)
>>
>> More info about what I'm doing at www.spacegambit.org - I'm not the only hacker interested in taking humanity to the stars...
>>
>> On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 11:42:28 PM UTC+8, AdamMesser wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'm interested in meeting people who would like to develop the tools for the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS).
>>
>> What is the GVCS?
>>
>> "The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is a open source, modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform that enables fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts."
>>
Adam Messer
Oct 5, 2012, 10:12:57 AM10/5/12
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I agree, some of the machines are too big to be built at the Hackspace but it's good for getting things started. On the other hand, some of the smaller GVCS tools could be used and installed in the space.
Anyway, so far that's 5 of us who are interested and I know a few people off list who would be interested as well. So next steps... let's organise a meet.
I'm free in the evenings anytime next week, Monday-Saturday. Let's try and schedule something that we can all attend.
If you're interested please reply to this Meetomatic thing and then I'll pick the day when we can all meet:
http://www.meetomatic.com/respond.php?id=K84ALK
Anyway, so far that's 5 of us who are interested and I know a few people off list who would be interested as well. So next steps... let's organise a meet.
I'm free in the evenings anytime next week, Monday-Saturday. Let's try and schedule something that we can all attend.
If you're interested please reply to this Meetomatic thing and then I'll pick the day when we can all meet:
http://www.meetomatic.com/respond.php?id=K84ALK
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 12:12 AM, Eugene Nadyrshin <ment...@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm interested in this too,
although realistically I think most of the stuff is too big to effectively work on in our workshop, though there are plenty of things to contribute on! Would be awesome if we got a hack camp out of London somewhere to "civilise"
Mentar
On 04/10/12 11:07, Tim Storey wrote:
I would be interested in meeting to discuss this and generally getting involved
\t
On 4 Oct 2012, at 09:53, Alex Cureton-Griffiths <ale...@gmail.com> wrote:
I've been looking into this and I'd be interested in getting involved (when I actually get to the UK in a few months). My passion is working on tech to help humanity colonize space, and we'd need all those industrial machines if we're ever going to colonise the moon and Mars :)
More info about what I'm doing at www.spacegambit.org - I'm not the only hacker interested in taking humanity to the stars...
On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 11:42:28 PM UTC+8, AdamMesser wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm interested in meeting people who would like to develop the tools for the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS).
What is the GVCS?
"The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is a open source, modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform that enables fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts."
I’d recommend just watching the TED video about it here:
Peter "Sci" Turpin
Oct 5, 2012, 11:26:22 AM10/5/12
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I'm also interested, but have too many ongoing matters currently to
actively contribute.
>
> http://opensourceecology.org/__wiki/Global_Village___Construction_Set#Introduction
actively contribute.
> <ale...@gmail.com <mailto:ale...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I've been looking into this and I'd be interested in getting
> involved (when I actually get to the UK in a few months). My
> passion is working on tech to help humanity colonize space,
> and we'd need all those industrial machines if we're ever
> going to colonise the moon and Mars :)
>
> More info about what I'm doing at www.spacegambit.org
> <http://www.spacegambit.org> - I'm not the only hacker
>
> I've been looking into this and I'd be interested in getting
> involved (when I actually get to the UK in a few months). My
> passion is working on tech to help humanity colonize space,
> and we'd need all those industrial machines if we're ever
> going to colonise the moon and Mars :)
>
> More info about what I'm doing at www.spacegambit.org
> interested in taking humanity to the stars...
>
> On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 11:42:28 PM UTC+8, AdamMesser
> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm interested in meeting people who would like to develop
> the tools for the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS).
>
> What is the GVCS?
>
> "The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is a open
> source, modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform
> that enables fabrication of the 50 different Industrial
> Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable
> civilization with modern comforts."
>
> I�d recommend just watching the TED video about it here:
>
> On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 11:42:28 PM UTC+8, AdamMesser
> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm interested in meeting people who would like to develop
> the tools for the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS).
>
> What is the GVCS?
>
> "The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is a open
> source, modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform
> that enables fabrication of the 50 different Industrial
> Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable
> civilization with modern comforts."
>
>
> http://opensourceecology.org/__wiki/Global_Village___Construction_Set#Introduction
Peter "Sci" Turpin
Oct 5, 2012, 11:39:11 AM10/5/12
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The technologies are useful for many things in the future, and certainly
useful to hackspaces seen as "build anything centres", even if the
current space is insufficient to house/use them all.
Angling developement toward the items other spaces could use interally
would seem the best option for driven development (the induction heater
for example).
I'm also glad you said colonise rather than terraform or something.
While planetary bodies may contain certain native materials, I
personally feel the drive should be toward living on ships rather than
intentionally throwing yourself back down the bottom of another
gravity-well.
Personally, I think the key to the universe is lunar mining, refining
and automated manufacturing. Self-replicate a bit, build ships and clean
up all the loose debris floating around our star-system, remove the big
random reset button in the sky.
useful to hackspaces seen as "build anything centres", even if the
current space is insufficient to house/use them all.
Angling developement toward the items other spaces could use interally
would seem the best option for driven development (the induction heater
for example).
I'm also glad you said colonise rather than terraform or something.
While planetary bodies may contain certain native materials, I
personally feel the drive should be toward living on ships rather than
intentionally throwing yourself back down the bottom of another
gravity-well.
Personally, I think the key to the universe is lunar mining, refining
and automated manufacturing. Self-replicate a bit, build ships and clean
up all the loose debris floating around our star-system, remove the big
random reset button in the sky.
Adam Messer
Oct 9, 2012, 3:13:16 PM10/9/12
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Ok, only one person used the Meetomatic thing. So instead I'll pick a date.
To those who are interested, how about this Friday, 12th October at 7pm?
To those who are interested, how about this Friday, 12th October at 7pm?
Adam Messer
Oct 11, 2012, 9:59:31 AM10/11/12
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Ok we've had some replies and so for those who are interested see you at the Hackspace tomorrow at 7pm.
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