Multimachine & Flex Fab

• HABITAT: CEB Press - Sawmill - Living Machines - Modular Housing Units
  
• AGROECOLOGY: LifeTrac Multi Purpose Tractor - MicroTrac - Power Cube - Agricultural Spader - Agricultural Microcombine - Hammer Mill - Well Drilling Rig - Organoponic Raised Bed Gardening - Orchard and Nursery - Modular Greenhouse Units - Bakery - Dairy - Energy Food Bars - Freeze Dried Fruit Powders
  
• ENERGY: Pyrolysis Oil - Babington Burner - Solar Combined Heat Power System - Steam Engine Construction Set - Solar Turbine - Electric Motors/Generators - Inverters & Grid Intertie - Batteries
  
• FLEXIBLE INDUSTRY: Lathe - Torch Table - Multimachine & Flex Fab - Plastic Extrusion & Molding - Metal Casting and Extrusion
  
• TRANSPORT: Open Source Car
  
• MATERIALS: Bioplastics

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Multimachine - www.multimachine.net/ shows it - a general purpose metal fabrication tool including lathe, mill, and drill press. This could be the central tool piece of a flexible workshop - and this item is already open source! I have not assessed this more fully, but it appears to be a promising candidate to address tooling needs for a community- at absolutely rock bottom cost - eliminating thousands of dollars of expenditure requirement for similar abilities. The capacities and practicality of this lower tech 'personal fabber' need to be assessed fully. The multimachine could be the centerpieces enabling the fabrication of electric motor, CEB, sawmill, OSCar, microcombine and all other items that require processes from milling to drilling to lathing. Crucial.

Development Work Template

1. CEB - Product Definition
   1. CEB - General
   2. CEB - General Scope
   3. CEB - Product Ecology
      1. CEB - Localization
      2. CEB - Scaleability
      3. CEB - Analysis of Scale
      4. CEB - Lifecycle Analysis
   4. CEB - Enterprise Options
   5. CEB - Development Approach
      1. CEB - Timeline
      2. CEB - Development Budget
         1. CEB - Value Spent
         2. CEB - Value available
         3. CEB - Value needed
   6. CEB - Deliverables and Product Specifications
   7. CEB - Industry Standards
   8. CEB - Market and Market Segmentation
   9. CEB - Salient Features and Keys to Success
2. CEB - Technical Design
   1. CEB - Product System Design
      1. CEB - Diagrams and Conceptual Drawings
         1. CEB - Pattern Language Icons
         2. CEB - Structural Diagram
         3. CEB - Funcional or Process Diagram
         4. CEB - Workflow
      2. CEB - Technical Issues
      3. CEB - Deployment Strategy
      4. CEB - Performance specifications
      5. CEB - Calculations
         1. CEB - Design Calculations
         2. CEB - Yields
         3. CEB - Rates
         4. CEB - Structural Calculations
         5. CEB - Power Requirements
         6. CEB - Ergonomics of Production
         7. CEB -Time Requirements
         8. CEB - Economic Breakeven Analysis
         9. CEB - Scaleability Calculations
         10. CEB - Growth Calculations
      6. CEB - Technical Drawings and CAD
      7. CEB - CAM Files
   2. CEB - Component Design
      1. CEB - Diagrams
      2. CEB - Conceptual drawings
      3. CEB - Performance specifications
      4. CEB - Performance calculations
      5. CEB - Technical drawings and CAD
      6. CEB - CAM files whenever available
   3. CEB - Subcomponents
3. CEB - Deployment and Results
   1. CEB - Production steps
   2. CEB - Flexible Fabrication or Production
   3. CEB - Bill of materials
   4. CEB - Pictures and Video
   5. CEB - Data
4. CEB - Documentation and Education
   1. CEB - Documentation
   2. CEB - Enterprise Plans
5. CEB - Resource Development
   1. CEB - Identifying Stakeholders
      1. CEB - Information Collaboration
         1. CEB - Wiki Markup
         2. CEB - Addition of Supporting References
         3. CEB - Production of diagrams, flowcharts, 3D computer models, and other qualitative information architecture
         4. CEB - Technical Calculations, Drawings, CAD, CAM, other
      2. CEB - Prototyping
      3. CEB - Funding
      4. CEB - Preordering working products
      5. CEB - Grantwriting
      6. CEB - Publicity
      7. CEB - User/Fabricator Training and Accreditation
      8. CEB - Standards and Certification Developmen
      9. CEB - Other
   2. CEB - Grantwriting
      1. CEB - Volunteer grantwriters
      2. CEB - Professional, Outcome-Based Grantwriters
   3. CEB - Collaborative Stakeholder Funding
   4. CEB - Tool and Material Donations
   5. CEB - Charitable Contributions