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From YouTube: Personal Fabrication Machines - Open Source Ecology
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This is part of our explanatory series on Open Source Ecology. This episode covers personal fabrication.
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A
Welcome
factory
live
distillation,
x'
part
six.
We
talk
about
post-industrial
economies
distributed
personal
fabrication,
pure
based
economies
in
general.
The
fact
that
is
that
we're
talking
about
an
emerging
emerging
phenomenon
we
found
out
that
talking
about
the
possibilities
of
a
transformative
economy
is
controversial
and
quickly
turns
sensible
discussion
into
irrational
babble.
This
is
distracting
so
to
avoid
this,
we
thus
accept
that
we
should
not
talk
about
religion
or
politics
at
the
dinner
table,
nor
about
transformative
economics
in
general.
A
With
this
said,
we
will
stick
to
simply
describing
our
program
and
letting
you
make
most
of
the
conclusions
on
societal
outcomes.
Today
we
will
talk
about
the
program
of
personal
fabrication,
which
is
a
state
of
art,
flexible
production
facility,
that
we
will
house
in
a
workshop
that
you
saw
in
the
last
video.
In
this
workshop,
we
will
produce
tractors,
CB
presses
steam
engines
just
about
anything
else
needed
for
the
infrastructure
of
globally
interlink
communities.
A
A
How
we're
open
sourcing
all
the
techniques
then
bringing
down
the
cost
to
the
lowest
possible
for
either
DIY
production,
as
well
as
developing
business
models
that
can
work
within
a
market
economy.
We
will
help
people
build
the
necessary
infrastructure
first
by
open
sourcing,
the
related
tooling,
and
by
providing
training,
materials
and
hands-on
courses.
The
basic
goal
is
the
trained
producers.
A
We
will
also
sell
parts
and
kits
I
have
not
mentioned
this
yet,
but
our
workshop
is
open
to
our
true
fans.
That's
one
of
the
ways
of
giving
back.
So,
if
you're
travelling
you
can
consider
visiting
us
as
part
of
a
productive
vacation,
we
will
also
be
offering
master
fabricator
training
free
to
fans
and
at
a
fee
to
non
supporter
to
make
the
economics
work
out.
The
trainees
will
actually
produce
real
products
as
part
of
their
training,
and
these
products
can
be
exchanged
for
value.
A
This
is
why
you
should
subscribe
with
a
trivial
amount
of
ten
dollars
per
month
to
see
this
happen
sooner
rather
than
later,
we're
sharing
the
development
risk,
and
we
actually
believe
that
we
can
gather
as
little
as
one
ten
thousandth
of
1%
of
the
world's
population
or
about
6,000
people
that
believe
enough
in
this
work
to
become
supporters.
Okay,
this
is
a
mouthful.
We
know
we're
not
going
to
be
able
to
do
that
by
ourselves
and
in
fact,
one
critique
that
we
do
receive
quite
a
bit
is
we're
talking
about
these
future
things.
A
No,
this
is
not
a
future
thing.
This
is
to
be
done
right
now.
If
we
find
the
volunteers,
if
we
find
the
people,
what
you
see
described
below
is
all
to
be
now
done
now,
as
opposed
to
piecemeal
by
our
small
team
of
three
at
present,
we're
using
proven
technologies,
most
of
which
are
already
open
source
to
a
significant
degree
back
to
the
topic,
personal
fabrication,
flexible
workshop.
A
Here's
our
program
listed
in
logical
steps,
install
a
metal
melting
furnace
with
about
300,
pound
melting
capacity
per
hour,
cast
structural
steel
frame
tubing
for
life
track,
cast
frame,
parts
for
CB
press
cast,
seam
steam
engine
blocks,
use
the
RepRap
3d
open-source,
printer
and
plastic
both
to
recycle
plastics
and
to
create
molds
for
casting
of
fine
parts
such
as
bushings
and
hydraulic
motors
and
pumps.
Brief
economic
analysis
shows
that
our
labor
in
this
is
worth
about
that
a
$1000
per
person
per
day
in
a
basic
foundry
in
turning
scrap
metal
to
useful
parts.
A
We
are
really
talking
of
reducing
the
cost
of
the
CB
machine
tractor
down
to
the
cost
of
scrap
metal
plus
labor
plus
fuel,
which
is
only
about
2
gallons
per
hour.
For
this
particular
case,
above
our
foundry
budget
is
about
$100
to
$1,000
for
the
above
case,
in
terms
of
materials
to
build
the
foundry
itself,
we
can
use
the
Babbington
burner
to
provide
the
furnace
heat
for
structural
steel.
We
may
be
able
to
use
castings
castings
directly,
such
as
for
the
frame
of
life-track
for
a
steam
engine.
A
We
would
have
to
use
a
lathe
to
bore
out
the
cylinder.
The
multi
machine
is
an
existing
open
source
tool.
The
multi
machine
is
a
universal
machining
tool
which
relies
on
the
fact
that
in
any
machining
operation
either
the
tool
or
the
workpiece
rotates.
The
multi
machine
allows
this
and
thus
is
very
flexible.
A
This
covers
the
industrial
lathe
20
horsepower
of
motor
is
enough
to
turn
railcar
wheels.
We
can
make
our
shaft
pretty
heavy,
such
as
2
and
a
quarter
inch
with
bearings
from
soap
surplus,
Center
$21,
each
two
of
those
some
metal,
a
$70
cross-slide
and
for
$300.
You
have
a
heavy-duty
12
inch
lathe,
see
Bill
of
Materials
on
our
steam
engine
page
where
the
steam
engine
will
be
the
first
application
of
the
lathe.
A
Next,
we
move
on
to
the
torch
table
for
oxy,
acetylene
or
plasma
torch,
cutting
instructables.com
already
featured
a
homemade
plasma
cutter
on
our
torch
table.
Progress
is
still
lacking
as
we're
still
building
the
workshop
to
house
this.
The
torch
table
is
designed
for
us
to
cut
all
the
metal
from
stock
and
in
conjunction
with
casting,
provides
robust
fabrication
capacity.
Now,
with
the
above,
we're
looking
at
20
our
fabrication
times
for
the
CB
machine
and
40
our
fabrication
times
for
the
tractor
kits.
This
is
exciting.
A
Optimizing
production
open
sourcing
designs
so
that
someone
could
build
the
same
fab
infrastructure,
download
a
design
and
cast
or
cut
all
the
same
parts.
This
is
distributed
manufacturing
in
its
best
and
we
think
it's
just
around
the
corner
for
everybody,
everybody
who
wants
to
do
this
last
on
the
fabrication
front.
There's
electronics
take
a
small,
very
precise
version
of
the
XYZ
table
like
the
torch
table,
and
you
can
etch
circuit
boards
from
copper
coated
circuit
blanks
then
use
a
micro
drill,
press
to
drill
holes
for
components,
and
you
can
fabricate
circuits
of
all
sorts.
A
This
is
relevant
to
solar
turbine
controls,
steam
engine
controls,
inverters
Chargers,
Wireless,
bridges
and
many
other
devices.
Also,
the
micro
drill
press
is
used
for
drilling
the
itty-bitty
hole
in
a
Babbington
burner,
which
we
aim
to
use
with
the
solar
turbine
steam
power
vehicles,
boundary
and
space
heating.
A
Good
open-source
3d
drawing
software
with
a
manageable
learning
curve
is
still
needed
as
far
as
I
know
blenders,
perhaps
the
best
one
for
3d
drafting
and
modeling.
But
it's
hard
to
learn.
We
do
our
sawmill
design
with
blender
and
are
now
looking
for
a
simpler
3d
alternative
good
software
for
machine
control
such
as
Linux
CNC,
already
exists,
but
the
missing
link
seems
to
be
the
3d
drawing
great.
To
recap.
A
Briefly:
if
we
perfect
our
ability
to
melt
metal
efficiently
to
print
casting
molds
and
to
cast
useful
parts,
then
we
will
have
created
the
capacity
of
producing
about
$1,000
worth
of
value
per
person
per
day
quite
significant.
We
combine
that
with
subsequent
computer
system
machine
shop
as
well
as
circuit
fabrication,
to
produce
just
about
anything
that
another
foundry
master,
fabricator
assembly
plant
and
extra
electronics
fabricator
can
produce.
A
We
can
thus
make
anything
from
plows
to
cars,
engines
and
pumps,
bridges
to
wire
wireless
bridges
and
so
forth.
We
are
pioneering
not
the
concept,
but
the
implementation.
Once
this
is
done,
open-source
designs
become
available
to
everybody
and
such
a
fab
workshop
itself
can
be
reproduced
at
the
cost
of
scrap
metal
plus
labor.
Then
any
person
who
wants
to
do
this
can
engage
in
effective
production
with
minimum
barriers
to
entry
among
the
crew
at
factory
farm.
We
call
this
casting
a
new
civilization
at
the
cost
of
scrap
metal.