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GVCS - Key Features

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 onaverage 49% cheaper than buying from an industrial manufac-

turer.

Modular- Motors, parts, assemblies, and power units can in-terchange, 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 userto take apart, maintain, and fix tools readily without the need to

rely on expensive repairmen.

DIY- The user gains control of designing, producing, and modi-fying the GVCS tool set.

Closed Loop Manufacturing - Metal is an essentialcomponent of advanced civilization, and our platform allows for

recycling metal into virgin feedstock for p roducing further GVCS

technologies - thereby allowing for cradle-to-cradle manufactur-

ing cycles.

High Performance - Performance standards must matchor exceed those of industrial counterparts for the GVCS to be

viable.

Flexible Fabrication - It has been demonstrated that theflexible use of generalized machinery in appropriate-scale pro-

duction is a viable alternative to centralized production.

Distributive Economics- We encourage the replication

of enterprises that derive from the GVCS platform as a route totruly free enterprise - along the ideals of Jeffersonian democracy.

Industrial Efciency- In order to provide a viable choicefor a resilient lifestyle, the GVCS platform matches or exceeds

productivity standards of industrial counterparts.

Open Source EcologySurdna FoundationLetter of Inquiry - Detailed Narrative Description

Global Village Construction Set

We are a network of farmers, engineers, fabri-

cators, and multi-skilled supporters engaged

in creating the Global Village Construction Set

(GVCS), a low-cost, high-performance, open-source, do-it-yourself platform that allows for

the easy fabrication of the 50 industrial ma-

chines that it takes to build a small civilization

with modern comforts.

The GVCS includes machinery, equipment,

tools, components, and other infrastructures

for creating a complete economy: food, fuel,

energy, building materials, transportation, and

fabrication. The platform lowers the barriers of

entry into farming, building, and manufacturing,

and can be seen as a life-size lego-like set of

modular tools that can create entire economies,

whether in rural Missouri, where the project

was founded, in urban redevelopment, or in the

heart of Africa.

Context Impact

Activities Ind

Problem

America faces long-term structural chal-

lenges.* Factory automation and the glo-

balization of the labor market have funda-

mentally changed the American economy,

resulting in high rates of long-term unem-

ployment.

The climate crisis threatens to disrupt so-

ciety on every level. Centralization anddependence on petroleum for the distribu-

tion of goods have brought an increasing

amount of instability to the international

economy.

Opportunity

Unprecedented levels of technological ef-

ficiency and global cooperation motivated

by a wealth of economic and cultural op-

portunities.

Outputs

We create extens

standard manufac

sist independent r

- Design Ration

- 3D CAD Files

- Fabrication Dr

- Exploded Par

- Bills of Materi- A-Z Instruction

- Assembly Vid

- etc.

Outcomes

- manufacturing

- small business

- clean energy m

- 21st century in

- local economi

Global Village Construction Set

- Designing

- Prototyping

- Field Testing

- Documentation

Business Model Incubation

The GVCS machinery works together in

micro-ecologies creating a vast array of

production opportunities beyond the out-

puts of a single machine. We create open

source business models for the develop-

ment ofdistributive enterprise.

Trainings- OSE Fellows&Distance Learning

We facilitate independent replication of our

work (technology and business plans) free-

ly and openly. At Factor e Farm, we provide

hands on skills training in machine fabrica-

tion and enterprise development, and our

online tools are already in use internation-

ally.

Questions

How many people

licating our design

What are our OSE

they starting busin

ship is finished? W

What are the most

ness models using

How many jobs are

Are the renewable

placing convention

How long do GVCneeding repair?

How many people

preneurs in their o

nities?

Solar Concentrator

Biomass Gassifier/Burner

*New Policy Institute

DistributedRenewable Energy

(examples)

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Compressed Earth Brick Press

Soil Pulverizer

Power Cube

LifeTrac

Documentation:(links)

1. Design Raonale*2. Assembly Video

3. Fabricaon Manual

4. Bill of Materials

5. Fabricaon Drawings

6. Master CAD Files

7. User Manual

Documentation:(links)

1. Design Raonale*

2. Assembly Video

3. Fabricaon Manual

4. Bill of Materials

5. Fabricaon Drawings

6. Master CAD Files

7. User Manual

Documentatio(links)

1. Design Raonal2. Assembly Video

3. Fabricaon Man

4. Bill of Materials

5. Fabricaon Dra

6. Master CAD File

7. User Manual

Documentatio(links)

1. Design Raonal

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5. Fabricaon Dra

6. Master CAD File

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Open Source EcologySurdna FoundationLetter of Inquiry

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