'Community Gardening' at Salisbury Hotel
June 13, 2012 from 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Open-sourced blueprints for civilization: Marcin Jakubowski
Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch. And that's only the first step in a project to write an instruction set for an entire self-sustaining village (starting cost: $10,000).
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Comment by Alex Cornish on April 20, 2011 at 21:42
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11th Jan 2012: The animation from the 2011 East Herts Eco Filmfest is up on the site
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