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We're developing open source industrial machines that can be made at a fraction of commercial costs, and sharing our designs online for free. gvcs-all-50 We are developing a lifesize, scalable, modular LEGO construction set. The GVCS in itself consists of many other Construction Sets - as we build not individual machines, but construction sets of machines. As an example, the Fabrication Construction Set component can be used to build any of the other machines. Our goal is lifetime design, and low maintenance so only a few hours of maintenance per year are required to keep any machine alive. We have built the first machine in 2007 - the Compressed Earth Brick Press. Since then, we have been moving forward steadily, improving the performance and production efficiencies of our machines. We have achieved a landmark One Day production time of the Compressed Earth Brick Press in 2012, and we intend to bring down the production time down to 1 day for each of the other machines. In 2013, we used our tractor, brick press, and soil pulverizer to build a comfortable home - the Microhouse. We continue to dogfood our tools in agriculture, construction, and fabrication - as we build our facility up to a world-class research center for open source, libre technology and decentralized production. In 2014, we will be moving to a replicable workshop model of production - integrating immersion education and production - where we intend to scale by distributing our open enterprise models far and wide. Our goal is to demonstrate how these machines contribute to creating a world beyond artificial material scarcity - by creating an open documentation, development, and production platform - towards the open source economy. Our metric of completion is demonstrating a replicable, open source, social production model for a given machine. We call this the Learning Factor-e model. The main steps are a proof of concept, first prototype, full documentation, a working prototype, and an open enterprise model. In 2018, our status of completion for the machines is about 1/3 done: [completion2018] (+) By using simple, modular, scalable design and open source collaboration, we are breaking cost barriers. Here is a sample comparison of our price point goals - compared to industry standards - for the same productivity performance machine: * * * * * * * * * 62 Comments 1. Futures: Global Village Construction Set, opensourceecology.org | This much March 19, 2014 at 4:56 pm [...] Machines: Global Village Construction Set, [...] 2. Similar projects | The Knowledge March 29, 2014 at 3:02 pm [...] he is already designing and building a cleverly interlinked set of machinery. When completed, the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) will represent open-source blueprints for a complementary assemblage of fifty machines that [...] 3. Global Village Construction Set | Tech / Science | weirdomatic.me April 14, 2014 at 8:33 am [...] ziemlich geniales Open Source Projekt ist das Global Villa Construcion Set, eine teilweise bereits fertig entwickelte Ansammlung von Maschinen und Geraten die die Errichtung [...] 4. What I'm working on lately: Practices of the minimum viable utopia (long) | Speedbird April 18, 2014 at 9:54 am [...] time, I believe that the use of relatively high-technology techniques to accomplish not merely the local, autonomous production of everyday objects, furnitures and infrastructures, but their refit and repair, will come to be an economically salient activity in the global North. [...] 5. Decentralization: Potent Nectar of 21st Century Technologies | Refine The Mind April 22, 2014 at 1:51 pm [...] $63,500 in a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2011 and has since worked on developing the 'Global Village Construction Set' [...] 6. Gold, Stockpikes, and Rebuilding after the Zombie Apocalypse | Walter's Rant-fest April 28, 2014 at 2:55 pm [...] creating its own tools (and its own power source, like steam engine generators) from raw materials might very well be the backbone of a new civilization. Solar panels, CAD-enabled computing, and other specialized modern tools will allow you to [...] 7. Open Sourcing Plant Seeds - The Open Source Seed Initiative & similar efforts << Agro-Know blog May 30, 2014 at 9:36 am [...] and for related open enterprises". One of the main outcomes of the initiative is the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) "a modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform that allows for the easy fabrication of [...] 8. Post-Scarcity in a Capitalist Economy | Controlled Chaos June 7, 2014 at 7:16 pm [...] made the designs open source. From there he, and other developers, went on to build and publish the Global Village Construction Set- call it a civilization toolkit. The Open Source Ecology picked the fifty tools most necessary to [...] 9. Our Nation of (In)dependence // Will Gebb | Tense Present June 14, 2014 at 7:12 pm [...] "Global Village Construction Set." Digital Image. 13 June 2014. http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs/ [...] 10. Moon Nation | zenhuman June 20, 2014 at 3:03 am [...] folks over at the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) have built plans for a basic set of machines that, as a group, can fabricate any or all [...] 11. NerdDigest Vol 1 | Ubermudet July 18, 2014 at 9:23 pm [...] http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs/ [...] 12. Detroit and America Are Ready for the Green New Deal | PlanIt4Planet August 1, 2014 at 6:53 pm [...] and sharing information across borders and lines of difference through programs like the Open Source Ecology Project to build millions of local, cooperatively owned wind turbines from recycled materials. Envision [...] 13. Open Source Design: Obrary | Robert McGrath's Blog September 5, 2014 at 4:03 pm [...] Taking a song from the Open Source Software movement, others have launched efforts to create "Open Source Hardware", "Open Source Ecology" (as in technological ecology), and even "Global Village Construction Kit". [...] 14. Gemstone Hunter and the Open Source Digger | Pragmatic Hippie October 16, 2014 at 9:28 am [...] Construction Set is a modular system that works kind of like real-world Lego. According to the website, a backhoe would only cost $4500 to construct -- a little over two days renting the [...] 15. Open Source Tiny House Plans * Tiny Sustainable October 22, 2014 at 8:10 pm [...] Open Source Ecology and their hands on approach to developing their Open Source Blueprints for Civilization. These fancy machines cost a lot less to build than their commercial counterparts, even when [...] 16. Survivor Library October 28, 2014 at 2:05 pm [...] /. just hipped me to a website that will now enjoy pride of place right next to the Global Village Construction Set in my personal post-apocalyptic bookshelf/bookmarks. It's gonna be a really hard task to not just [...] 17. Hardware librea: zertaz ari gara? - etzi.pmetzi.pm November 5, 2014 at 4:19 pm [...] harrigarriena Open Source Ecology proiektua izan daiteke, proiektu honek herri globalean erabil daitezkeen 50 makinaren diseinu [...] 18. Open Source Projects you NEED to know about - 3DPrepper3DPrepper.com | 3D Printing for Preparedness November 6, 2014 at 6:45 pm [...] publish the plans to all the things it takes to make create the infrastructure of a society/city: Global Village Construction Set . 50 different machines that it takes to build a sustainable civilization with modern comforts. [...] 19. The Abolition of Money | Exit February 28, 2015 at 12:02 pm [...] These have been started. These are permaculture driven. These seek to create the tools necessary to keep these ED Sanctuaries operational no matter the future, for any and all. [...] 20. Call for a Open Source Life Support Toolset | SustainSpace March 5, 2015 at 3:36 am [...] Link: Global Village Construction Set [...] 21. Conversations with Margurite | HeirloomTech March 15, 2015 at 1:36 pm [...] sounds good! http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs/ Machines: Global Village Construction Set opensourceecology.org These guys are [...] 22. Baja tecnologia | perspectyv May 30, 2015 at 6:11 am [...] estos proyectos me encantan. "Herramientas de codigo abierto para construir una civilizacion", que incluyen tractor, generador, cortadora laser, hormigonera, horno, la casa... [...] 23. The Bronze Age Strikes Again, OR, yet another plan which will likely get me injured. | The Quadriplegic Tortoise On Its Back May 31, 2015 at 6:03 pm [...] necessary tools, these are all advanced items, primarily made of metal. They include such things as tractors, industrial robots, and agricultural implements which are extremely necessary to any large scale project of the kind they are seeking. However, [...] 24. Fabricacion digital personal y comunitaria y ecosistemas productivos. Algunos interrogantes y desafios | Arquitectura contable September 19, 2015 at 11:20 am [...] Source Ecology, 2015, http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs/ | accedido [...] 25. Printing a New Civilisation After TSHTF | al fin next level November 22, 2015 at 6:43 pm [...] forget the Global Village Construction Set, which includes 3D printers as one of the most important tools for rebuilding civilisation. Once [...] 26. Solar OSE l'energie solaire en open source ! | La societe solidaire et durable December 1, 2015 at 7:03 pm [...] comme il se presente, qui developpe un kit de construction de materiel utile a la vie moderne, le Global Village Construction Set (50 machines de base dans le domaine industriel et agricole), fabrique en DiY et en collaboratif et [...] 27. LIBRES - Pour tous les bricolos: voici l'energie solaire en open source | Les infos de Laminedor December 1, 2015 at 11:29 pm [...] comme il se presente, qui developpe un kit de construction de materiel utile a la vie moderne, le Global Village Construction Set (50 machines de base dans le domaine industriel et agricole), fabrique en DiY et en collaboratif et [...] 28. Open Sovereignty - Daniel West January 14, 2016 at 5:18 pm [...] Source Technologies such as the Global Village Construction Set by Open Source Ecology, or Open Source Beehives, or any of these 21 technologies that are [...] 29. 17 Open Source Hardware Projects That Make Me Excited To Be Alive - Walden Labs January 19, 2016 at 3:26 pm [...] The Global Village Construction Set [...] 30. 17 Open Source Hardware Projects That Make Me Excited To Be Alive | Prepper's Survival Homestead January 19, 2016 at 4:09 pm [...] The Global Village Construction Set [...] 31. 2 - Machines: Global Village Construction Set January 24, 2016 at 4:52 pm [...] From: http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs/ [...] 32. Human Intelligence and Open Source Technologies February 1, 2016 at 4:31 pm [...] many this will mean pressed brick shelters and the fullest possible use of the Global Village Construction Set being created by Marcin Jakubowski. It will also mean broad acceptance of Peer to Peer forms of [...] 33. 17 Open Source Hardware Projects That Make Me Excited To Be Alive - Daniel West February 6, 2016 at 12:43 am [...] The Global Village Construction Set [...] 34. human intelligence - BoyDownTheLane February 6, 2016 at 1:59 am [...] many this will mean pressed brick shelters and the fullest possible use of the Global Village Construction Set being created by Marcin Jakubowski. It will also mean broad acceptance of Peer to Peer forms of [...] 35. RESILIENT LIVING: 17 Open Source Hardware Projects That Make Me Excited To Be Alive - By Dan West | RIELPOLITIK February 6, 2016 at 7:25 am [...] The Global Village Construction Set [...] 36. Revolution digitale et economie Circulaire - Forum de Bamako February 28, 2016 at 12:31 am [...] [7] voir Open Source Ecology http://opensourceecology.org/ gvcs/ [...] 37. Global Village Construction Set - Quazor March 9, 2016 at 8:11 pm [...] out to the Global Village construction set (http:// opensourceecology.org/gvcs/) by Open Source Ecology.It is a modular, open-source platform that allows you to build a [...] 38. TEOTWAWKI Survival Cache: Include 3D Printer, Survival e-Library, etc. | al fin next level April 21, 2016 at 10:41 am [...] The Global Village Construction Set for rebuilding civilisation from scratch, depends upon the initial use of 3D printers in order to construct the 50 critical industrial machines needed to reboot an industrial civilisation. [...] 39. Comienzan las visitas guiadas | Permacultura Aralar May 2, 2016 at 8:04 am [...] 3D). Desde el principio este lugar nacio con el proposito de hacer algo parecido a proyectos como Open Source Ecology pero a una escala mucho mas pequena, una escala familiar. Intentando emplear herramientas manuales [...] 40. PROJET Open Source Ecology : Presse a briques - MadeInZion :: High & Low Tech - Natural living - Dominica June 7, 2016 at 9:51 pm [...] Reste a reunir les montants necessaires... Pour la presse, 4000$ sont necessaires. Voici les budgets estimes (et les economies realisees) [...] 41. Put These 5 Open Source Projects On Your Radar | One By Me For You June 12, 2016 at 12:03 am [...] Global Village Construction Set: This project is by Marcin Jakubowski, from Open Source Ecology. With his open source blueprints you can DIY your own tracker, bull dozer or bakery oven. In fact he's got 50 industrial machines in the pipeline that will be modular in design. Work at high performance and cost a fraction of the price of any commercial machine. With all these machines you could run a small village. Watch his TED Talk to see why this project came to be. [...] 42. We Make For The Environment | Open Source Hardware Tunisia June 13, 2016 at 4:24 am [...] Open Source Ecology (Global Village Construction Set) [...] 43. What is to be done? AI and Robotics in the hands of the military and economic imperialists of capitalism and government will produce genocide. - posthumanismtranshumanism July 10, 2016 at 8:28 pm [...] Machines: Global Village Construction Set [...] 44. Video: Interview with Open Source Ecology pioneer Marcin Jakubowski - Ecologise July 14, 2016 at 8:34 am [...] scarcity, distribution and post-scarcity; the definition, mission and goals of open source ecology; the civilization starter kit of 50 irreplaceable machines; Richard Stallman's free software vs the open source software [...] 45. Transitions#1. Le numerique levier de la transition ecologique ? - Le Mag numerique | Le Mag numerique July 22, 2016 at 7:09 am [...] offre des possibilites de production participative de biens ou d'equipements. Par exemple, The global construction set, en francais boite a outils du village global, est une plateforme modulaire concue pour etre [...] 46. $25,000 Off Grid House - New Project From Open Building Institute - LPC Survival August 19, 2016 at 3:52 pm [...] who is also the founder of Open Source Ecology, first surprised the world in 2011 with his Global Village Construction Set. This project recreates the 50 machines that modern civilization is built on, using all [...] 47. Self Replicating Workshop - Science and Innovative Technology September 28, 2016 at 9:16 pm [...] Machines: Global Village Construction Set [...] 48. Age of Disintegration, Age of Promise: Opportunities of the Coming Breakup | al fin next level October 28, 2016 at 5:24 pm [...] the coming anarchy and chaos hits most of the world, anyone who can master the construction and maintenance of basic infrastructure will be at an advantage when it comes to being able to feed and shelter people in communities and [...] 49. Owned & Operated - InQuasar December 2, 2016 at 8:42 pm [...] is an organization, the GVCS, that identified the 50 most important machines and is now working to develop their designs in a [...] 50. Is the AI tech boom going to blow up in our faces? - The Real Daily December 5, 2016 at 6:47 pm [...] almost redundant to say we live in an age of unprecedented technological growth. I mean, look at this stuff. That's just since 2010 - throughout the world, and not just the privileged world, tech [...] 51. Where Do We Go From Here? Strategies for post-Trump Realities | P2P Foundation December 8, 2016 at 11:00 am [...] project, with its demo site at Factor e Farm, has designed and prototyped most of an open-source Global Village Construction Set that includes not only such manufacturing tools, but farm and construction machinery (tractor, [...] 52. Is artificial intelligence (AI) going too far, moving too quickly? - The American Genius December 27, 2016 at 3:59 pm [...] as a microscope, a robot that can run and be used by the military, a helium-filled 6TB hard drive, open-source industrial machines, and a syringe with tiny sponges that can seal a gunshot wound in [...] 53. pinboard January 8, 2017 -- arghh.net January 8, 2017 at 5:31 pm [...] Machines: Global Village Construction Set | Open Source Ecology How to rebuild civilization from scratch. Handy for Mars colonies, seasteads, global financial crises, and the like. http: //opensourceecology.org/gvcs/ https://twitter.com/balajis/status/ 817865404081053696/photo/1 [...] 54. Communism VS. Resource Based Economy - A Definitive Guide & How RBE Will Arise | The Moneyless Society January 9, 2017 at 7:42 pm [...] printing, Contour Crafting, waste recycling, and further developing open source designs such as the Global Village Construction Set. Examples of places like Regen Villages and Tamera can be used as a blueprint and their [...] 55. Barcelona Fab Market for Open Source Design | Robert McGrath's Blog February 4, 2017 at 5:01 pm [...] This effort joins existing "open source hardware" concepts, all of which are creating a global collection of artifacts for gardening, office furniture, clothing, plastic recycling and housing and homesteading. [...] 56. Open Source Ecology: Hacia una economia participativa e independiente? - Tierra_de_Nadie February 6, 2017 at 6:58 pm [...] nacio la idea de desarrollar un "Kit de Construccion de la Aldea Global" (Global Village Construction Set). Este kit consistiria en desarrollar, en codigo abierto, el numero de maquinas necesarias para [...] 57. Robert David Steele: CIA Uses 1000 of US Overseas Bases to Facilitate the Smuggling of Drugs, Cash, Gold, Guns, and Small Children for the Elite | Friends of Syria February 24, 2017 at 1:03 pm [...] of the cost of the dysfunctional industrial-donor model. I credit Marcin Jakubowski and his Global Village Construction Setwith documenting the FACT that most things we need -- from energy and water desalination to pressed [...] 58. KOMUNIZMUS VS EKONOMIKA ZALOZENA NA ZDROJOCH - CELKOVY SPRIEVODCA A NASTUP EZZ March 16, 2017 at 10:39 am [...] Global Village Construction Set. [...] 59. Komunizmus vs Ekonomika zalozena na zdrojoch - celkovy sprievodca a nastup EZZ - DAV DVA - kulturno-politicky magazin March 25, 2017 at 3:59 pm [...] To je dovod, preco sme boli povolani vybudovat udrzatelne komunity pohanane svojou vlastnou ,,zelenou" technologiou, ktora si sama vyprodukuje vlastne jedlo a vodu s technologiou ako FarmBot, akvaponia a permakultura. Musime zacat s vyrobou na lokalnej urovni, zacat vyuzivat 3D tlaciarne, Contour Crafting, recyklovat odpad a nadalej rozvijat navrhy otvorenych zdrojov ako je Global Village Construction Set. [...] 60. World War III in the Middle East and the Need for Peace in Our Time: The Open Source Way - Deqebat October 22, 2017 at 7:46 pm [...] Dr. Jakubowski's larger body of work can be seen at Open Source Ecology, and particularly at Global Village Construction Set where the comparative economic costs are at the bottom of the long online [...] 61. Howtopedia | Pearltrees December 18, 2017 at 2:20 pm [...] de tonneaux. Construction du 3eme pont sur le bosphore. Awesome folding furniture designs. Machines: Global Village Construction Set. The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is a modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform [...] 62. El libre acceso al conocimiento: ?alternativa para una sociedad post-capitalista? - OtrasVocesenEducacion.org February 15, 2018 at 9:00 am [...] Diseno abierto: los disenos compartidos a traves de estos medios serian estudiados por comunidades de tecnologos y contarian con licencias que fomenten la reciprocidad. Podrian darse dinamicas en las que se resuelven problemas de forma colaborativa y se generan productos intelectuales ajustados a necesidades especificas. Un ejemplo puede encontrarse en la web: http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs/. [...] See Also Get Involved Development Workshops Videos * Facebook * Twitter * Instagram * Vimeo * Reddit * GitHub * Email * RSS Feed All Open Source Ecology content on this website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Creative Commons LicensePowered by WordPress and Enigmatic Go Top