Open Source Microfactory

The Idea

On the production development front - we are taking our open source tractor, brick press, and CNC torch table to market. However, we are going into flexible fabrication where we produce in a localized, open source microfactory. That's a 4000 square foot facility for custom fabrication, digital fabrication, and electronics fabrication. See how this looked last year in practice - we build heavy machines on a one day timescale -

http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/December_18

Are you in a position to help us set up manufacturing in Brookly, at Factor e Farm, Loveland, Colorado? We are exploring the limits of relocalized production, where we end up making all of our production and automation equipment open source so that we can produce more cost-effectively than China.

Links

http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2011/03/open-source-micro-factory/

http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/microfactory-sm.jpg

Wanted: could we get a formal graph representation of the image above? by formal i mean lists of nodes and edges. with that, i can make a cleaner diagram