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Open Source Ecology is a network of farmers, engineers, and supporters ...

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... that for the last two years have been building ...

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The Global Village Construction Set - a set of the 40 Industrial Machines that it takes ...

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... to create a small civilization with modern day comforts.

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The Global Village Construction set is like a life-sized Lego set, in which ...

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motors

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... parts ...

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... and power units can interchange.

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Thus far, we have prototyped 8 of the 40 machines and have published all of the...

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3d designs...

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schematics...

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instructional videos...

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and budgets on our wiki.

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The cost of making or buying our machines are, on average ...

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... 8x cheaper than buying from an Industrial Manufacturer.

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The compressed earth brick press is our first product release ...

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... and is the world's first high performance, open source model.

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This machine allows one operator to load raw dirt ...

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... right from the building site.

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16 bricks a minute. 5000 bricks in a day. Enough for a home.

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The MicroTrac Walk Behind Tractor is a perfect solution ...

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... for small scale agricultural uses ...

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... or where land features require a more flexible tool than a full size Tractor.

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The front mount allows attachments for tilling, mowing, and chipping.

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The LifeTrac Multipurpose Tractor is the backbone of the Global Village Construction Set.

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The LifeTrac combines the power of a skid loader ...

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... with the functionality of an agricultural or construction tractor.

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This year we also completed prototypes for our ...

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... Drill Press ...

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... Self-replicating Torch Table ...

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... String Trimmer ...

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... and Soil Pulverizer.

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As you can see, we've got a lot more to do.