Immersion Program Video

In 2004 I got a PhD in plasma physics - and I discovered - that I was useless. After all my years of scholarly training the further I went in my education and in my life the more useless I felt in terms of solving pressing World issues. I realized that an integrated, systems-based approach is critical to making a better world as such I started a farm in Missouri moving to the middle of nowhere I started the global village construction set and open source ecology my project.

We design and build open source industrial machines and publish the plans on the internet for free so far we prototyped 18 of the 50 machines - everything else to are 3D printers micro tractors compressed Earth brick press and then the larger seed Eco home and the aquaponic Greenhouse. You can see my Ted Talk on on the global village construction set to get a good introduction to our project

Our next step is growth. We have achieved a number of significant Milestones such as the ability to produce our machines in a single day. We have pioneered Xtreme manufacturing - a method of social production - of rapid group-based builds where a team of people works on all the different modular Parts of a build -in parallel -and then assembles the product rapidly into it's finished form. We have seen that there is a clear revenue model in this immersion education and production method -as we can both produce real products and provide immersion training. One of our main challenges to replicating this model has been the skillset required for anyone to replicate our work. And for this reason - we are pleased to anounce our first ever immersion program. It is a 5-week immersion where we start with the open-source micro Factory tools. The program is a deep dive where candidates will learn how to build a 3D printer a CNC circuit Mill a small laser cutter, and filament maker - but also the skills of product design and development that allow them to build new versions of the machines. We focus on a construction set approach, where we use modular, scalable, interchangeable parts which allow us not to build a single machine, but many different machines of different function or scale. for producing 3D printing filament from scrap plastic.

For those who need financial aid, we identify sponsors and mentors, based on a commitment of the candidate to project success.

As such we are inviting ose fellows to apply for the program. it is a deep commitment on both sides - with the outcome is full-time work with open source ecology. This is our first program and we will continue with one or more programs every year or we continue on the open-source microfactory using are modular techniques we design construction sets such that for example are basic Machinery platform lends itself to scaling up two larger machines such as the CNC torch table or a heavy duty CNC mill and lathe. By developing the open-source microfactory we intend to create a distributed production mechanism as discussed already by many other groups such as the Fab labs and the hackerspace movement our goal is a replicable scalable open source product development paradigm which can become an open-source everything store based on collaborative product development 4 very large markets.

Our strategy is that open source ecology serves as a collaborative product development, marketing, and certification organization. Immersion workshops for approximately 25% of their time and contribute 75% of their effort to further development work on the global village construction set our goal is to create the open-source economy or collaborative development is simply the norm in the stead of proprietary research and development we believe that this is the only chance of transitioning Beyond a permanent Warfare economy in which we currently live so if you're up to the challenge pick up an application form and help and be part of a transition to a world Beyond artificial scarcity.