User:Wolfrick
My name is Rick Berry, though I've been "Wolfrick" or "Ulfrikr" online for some twenty years now.
At present, I'm an engineering technician and designer (a fancy version of a CAD draftsman) for a large corporation which produces consumer goods out of glass. I was a student at Texas State Technical College in Marshall Texas, where I earned an AS degree in Computer Integrated Manufacturing, an AS degree in Computer Aided Drafting & Design, and a business management mini-degree called the Worplace Productivity Certificate. I graduated in December 2009.
Previously, I was in the IT industry for ten years, starting at Apple's award-winning Customer Care helpdesk, and ending up at Ratheon's. I quit the industry in disgust, and decided to go back to school so I could learn to MAKE things. I've since moved to the country, where I'm improving a smallholding. We have about 15 acres, mostly wooded, with a few goats and some poultry, and plans for more as time goes on.
I've been interested in CNC and small machine shop tools ever since I found David Gingery's series "Build Your Own Machine Shop from Scrap". I'm also interested in permaculture and alternative, environmentally appropriate housing and technology, alternative energy sources and systems, and just about everything else.
I was quite pleased to find this site linked in the MAKE magazine article about the tractor. I'm feeling a little lost, not knowing quite where to start. Maybe by writing this, I'll attract a little attention and get pulled into the mix :) Feel free to email me, or comment here to give me some direction.
2011 UPDATE: I wrote the above when I found the site back in 2009, and since I was still in school, I got distracted by busting my arse to finish my degree programs in time. Which I did, with straight 4.0GPA :D
At the moment, I'm working on documenting the Compressed Earth Block Press machines with 3D CAD models and eventually 2D drawings, exploded drawings of the assemblies, bills of material, cut lists and instructions on how to put it all together. I think I'm in a perfect position to "make it look pretty" as well as create clear instructions so anyone can build a Liberator CEB. I'm proud to be contributing, and look forward to visiting FeF sometime soon.----Wolfrick 12:34, 10 February 2011 (PST)
