thoughts on open source ecology?

i recently came across this website or more of an organization from a ted talk, called open source ecology, https://www.opensourceecology.org/, has anyone come across this before? apologies if it's a known name, in that case mod/admin you can delete this thread, but let notice me before hand, so that i don't search for it in the catalog for hours. for the ones who don't know what ose is, it's basically a diy organization that teaches people to build their own tractors, farming gears, welding machines, 3d printers etc etc. i haven't vetted it since it's been only 2 days of me discovering about it, if anyone here knows about other such diy organizations please share them

On paper, this is an idea I support. There's been a massive loss of skill in society over the past half century and too much dependency. I'll check out this link.

>>13178 Oh damn this is actually very interesting, has anyone archived the site/relevant blueprints yet?

>>13183 yeah i share similar opinions on the subject, i very much like the diy philosophy do you think it's good idea to form some sort of online diy community focused primarily on the manufacturing front rather than soft services based? do you know any such communities? i think it's really useful to form one which discusses on the creations of daily use tools, electronic appliances, farming, off-grid living etc. >>13184 glad you liked it, i haven't checked if it is, did you check?

>>13178 Very interesting, looks like a more moderate (and feasible) form of this: https://autopia.neocities.org/sssexposition

>>13178 meh sorta interasting

I ran accross the founder's TED Talk back in ~2007. Following up on the site over the ensuing decade and it seemed to me like they never made significant progress. Much worse, many of the builds remained impractical or alltogether pipedreams for many independent builders. The tractor seems to be the exception to this, but building one still requires larger than ground floor pieces of infrastructure and too buggy to be reliable for a genuine farming operation unless you suppose one builds two at once to avoid downtime.

using pastebin again because this site thinks I'm a spammer https://pastebin.com/raw/rP6HiF6E

>>13178 So open source industrial hardware? Neat. It seems like the author just got excited about designing things in CAD and didn't go much further than that

>>14303 I think for any of these solutions to be even kind of modern there's the implicit assumption that all the necessary hardware is "bootstrapped" into whatever society/economy/whatever you are trying to implement this in. No one likes asking the question of where the spool of PETG will come from, let alone the 3D printer

>>14304 >no one wants to ask whence the spool or petg will come letalone the 3d printer honestly I feel like I'd have greater confidence in my ability to build a 3d printer from material I have sitting around right now, and that includes making a nozzle, than to make a good spool of any filament. Which is just to say I'd reverse those two lines. I do think there's something to be said though for having tools and having skills. Obviously if industrial society collapses things will change a lot, as far as what you can build and maintain in huge way, but having working stuff is useful to buy you time to reskill and retool, and live decently in the transfer period. Also nice if you can have cheap, open source, maintainable equipment where you can at least get the specs and instructions and stuff for how to fix the dang thing.