Tag: diy

Hyperlocal manufacturing

wow. the future is indeed unevenly distributed. combine with open source blueprints, autonomous power, and you only need a feedstock.

The US Military Special Operations Command is building 8 “mobile factories” that fit into standard shipping containers. Hyperlocal manufacturing is real. Think of it as one of the economic hearts of a thriving resilient community.


this isn’t as far-fetched as it may look like:

Hyperlocal manufacturing is real. Think of it as one of the economic hearts of a thriving resilient community. It’s a revolution already in motion, as you can see in the rapid spread of hackerspaces. Connect these hackerspaces, and the communities they serve, with networks that allow people to share, buy/sell, modify, customize, etc. designs for products/parts, and we are on our way to a resilient decentralized economy that can survive the economic dislocation to come.

2024-05-07: Rheinmetall is another example

The MSF consists of 2 mobile shipping containers, one serving as an office and the other for production. The office container houses a workstation and storage space, as well as a polymer AM machine and handheld scanner for quality control. The production container is equipped with a Metrom P700, a 6-axis hybrid machine combining Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) with an integrated CNC milling facility. This enables on-site finishing and postprocessing, giving Battle Damage Repair personnel additional options for repairing and overhaul.

The machine can produce components with a maximum size of 700 mm in diameter and 450 mm in height, with a metal deposition rate of up to 600 cm3/h.

Open Prosthetics

Open Prosthetics (OP) is a web-based education and collaboration initiative of the Shared Design Alliance, a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. We are dedicated to facilitating crowd-sourced curation of information and collaboration in the field of prosthetics and coping with missing body parts in general. OP was created and has been maintained with the hope of producing useful innovations, and of creating an environment conducive to the creation of such innovations: the “adjacent possible”

open source comes to body mods

Home-built CPU

I had stumbled onto the world of the homebrew CPU. To create such a computer required a detailed microarchitectural design, custom instruction set design, custom software tools like assemblers and compilers, and of course a custom circuit board. I decided to build a homebrew CPU computer of my own. It was a big mess o’ wires.

Suborbital Balloons

SABLE-3 was launched on August 11th, 2007 with a payload, consisting of a Nikon Coolpix P2 digital camera set to take 1 image every minute and a Byonics MicroTrak 300 APRS Tracker, that the Kaysam 1200 gram balloon carried to 36km. The last payload camera photo from the ground was just before it was launched, and the last photo before the balloon burst was the photo above, exactly 2½ hours or 150 images later. And what a photo. The composition couldn’t have been better or the horizon more level and out of the 196 images taken during the flight, only 1 other image is as good. What are the chances?

totally awesome. there’s a few more of these:

My project launched a payload with GPS, camera, sensors and communications to an altitude of 30km.

Pictures taken with a Pentax k10d from a high-altitude sounding balloon. Experiment conducted by Oklahoma State University while testing a new cosmic radiation detector.