Tuesday, October 18, 2011

So What if The World Doesn't END on Friday and We Only Get a Half-apocalypse? "How To Build Your Own Industrial Civilization"

After posting yesterday's "Reminder: Ig Nobel winner says world WILL end Friday" I got to thinking "What if the world doesn't completely disappear but some thing bad does happen? What will I do?".
Perusing the archives we find this handy post from May 23:

Very decent of NTM to post this, it's a bit outside their purview.
The 50 machines make for an interesting list.
From No Tech Magazine:
Low-tech bulldozer "The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is an open technological platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small civilization with modern comforts. Key features of the GVCS: Open Source - Low-Cost - Modular - User-Serviceable - DIY - Closed-Loop Manufacturing - High Performance - Heirloom Design - Flexible Fabrication."

"A modern, comfortable lifestyle relies on a variety of efficient Industrial Machines. If you eat bread, you rely on an Agricultural Combine. If you live in a wood house, you rely on a Sawmill. Each of these machines relies on other machines in order for it to exist. If you distill this complex web of interdependent machines into a reproduceable, simple, closed-loop system, you get these 50 machines."

The GVCS is a work-in-progress. See the wiki, the blog and (the best introduction) the movie.