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	== Overview ==		== Overview ==
			[[Image:GVCS.jpg\|thumb\|600px\|The Global Village Construction Set]]

	The [[GVCS]] has been developed with a core set of guiding principles. This is elaborated more in detail in [[OSE Spec]].		The [[GVCS]] has been developed with a core set of guiding principles. This is elaborated more in detail in [[OSE Spec]].

	== Concepts ==		=== Concepts ===

	~~[[Image:GVCS.jpg\|thumb\|600px\|The Global Village Construction Set]]~~

	*'''Open Source''' - we freely publish our 3d designs, schematics, instructional videos, budgets, and product manuals on our open source wiki and we harness open collaboration with technical contributors.		*'''Open Source''' - we freely publish our 3d designs, schematics, instructional videos, budgets, and product manuals on our open source wiki and we harness open collaboration with technical contributors.

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== Overview ==

The [[GVCS]] has been developed with a core set of guiding principles. This is elaborated more in detail in [[OSE Spec]].

== Concepts ==

[[Image:GVCS.jpg|thumb|600px|The Global Village Construction Set]]

*'''Open Source''' - we freely publish our 3d designs, schematics, instructional videos, budgets, and product manuals on our open source wiki and we harness open collaboration with technical contributors.

*'''Low-Cost''' - The cost of making or buying our machines are, on average, 8x cheaper than buying from an Industrial Manufacturer, including an average labor cost of $15 hour for a GVCS fabricator.

*'''Modular''' - Motors, parts, assemblies, and power units can interchange, where units can be grouped together to diversify the functionality that is achievable from a small set of units.

*'''User-Serviceable''' - Design-for-disassembly allows the user to take apart, maintain, and fix tools readily without the need to rely on expensive repairmen.

*'''DIY''' - (do-it-yourself) The user gains control of designing, producing, and modifying the GVCS tool set.

*'''Closed Loop Manufacturing''' - Metal is an essential component of advanced civilization, and our platform allows for recycling metal into virgin feedstock for producing further GVCS technologies - thereby allowing for cradle-to-cradle manufacturing cycles

*'''High Performance''' - Performance standards must match or exceed those of industrial counterparts for the GVCS to be viable.

*'''Flexible Fabrication''' - It has been demonstrated that the flexible use of generalized machinery in appropriate-scale production is a viable alternative to centralized production.

*'''Distributive Economics''' - We encourage the replication of enterprises that derive from the GVCS platform as a route to truly free enterprise - along the ideals of Jeffersonian democracy.

*'''Industrial Efficiency''' - In order to provide a viable choice for a resilient lifestyle, the GVCS platform matches or exceeds productivity standards of industrial counterparts.

== See Also ==
* [[GVCS]]
* [[OSE Spec]]

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