The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is a game-changer, delivering the very technologies that we take for granted here to those who live on less than a dollar a day. This modular, DIY, low-cost, platform enables the construction of the “50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts”.
Below are some of the specifications that gives the greatest gift of all to the rural poor… self-sustenance:
Open Source – we freely publish our 3d designs, schematics, instructional videos, budgets, and product manuals on our open source wiki and we harness open collaboration with technical contributors.
Low-Cost – The cost of making or buying our machines is, on average, 8x cheaper than buying from an Industrial Manufacturer, including an average labor cost of hour for a GVCS fabricator.
Modular – Motors, parts, assemblies, and power units can interchange, where units can be grouped together to diversify the functionality that is achievable from a small set of units.
User-Serviceable – Design-for-disassembly allows the user to take apart, maintain, and fix tools readily without the need to rely on expensive repairmen.
DIY – (do-it-yourself) The user gains control of designing, producing, and modifying the GVCS tool set.
Closed Loop Manufacturing – Metal is an essential component of advanced civilization, and our platform allows for recycling metal into virgin feedstock for producing further GVCS technologies – thereby allowing for cradle-to-cradle manufacturing cycles
High Performance – Performance standards must match or exceed those of industrial counterparts for the GVCS to be viable.
Flexible Fabrication – It has been demonstrated that the flexible use of generalized machinery in appropriate-scale production is a viable alternative to centralized production.
Distributive Economics – We encourage the replication of enterprises that derive from the GVCS platform as a route to truly free enterprise – along the ideals of Jeffersonian democracy.
Industrial Efficiency – In order to provide a viable choice for a resilient lifestyle, the GVCS platform matches or exceeds productivity standards of industrial counterparts.
Cheap, reusable, able to perform a large variety of tasks, performs as well as or better than industrial variants, efficient…. and no IP for some large monopoly to extort money from you. Ha, I’d love to get my hands on one of these myself…
Source: Open Source ecology
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