GVCS Overview

The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is a modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts.

We're developing open source industrial machines that can be made at a fraction of commercial costs, and sharing our designs online for free.

The Construction Set idea is strong. 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.

Here is the official list:

Here is a sample comparison of our price point goals - compared to industry standards - for the same productivity performance machine:

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