NO TECH MAGAZINE https://www.notechmagazine.com We believe in progress and technology Tue, 13 Oct 2015 16:40:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9 Abandoned Flour Mill in Spain https://www.notechmagazine.com/2013/01/abandoned-flour-mill-in-spain.html Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:18:29 +0000 http://notechmagazine.com/2013/01/abandoned-flour-mill-in-spain.html Abandoned factories in spainLugares Abandonados is a fascinating blog documenting abandoned buildings in Spain.

There are quite some photo reportages about factories, and this one in particular is noteworthy: a forgotten flour mill with part of the machinery still in excellent condition.

The author does not reveal any location for any of the buildings on the blog.

 

]]> How To Build Your Own Industrial Civilization https://www.notechmagazine.com/2011/05/how-to-build-your-own-industrial-civilization.html Sun, 15 May 2011 23:44:30 +0000 http://notechmagazine.com/2011/05/how-to-build-your-own-industrial-civilization.html how to build your own industrial civilization“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.

Related: How to make everything ourselves: open modular hardware.

]]> The Conquering Factory System https://www.notechmagazine.com/2010/12/the-conquering-factory-system.html Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:35:34 +0000 http://notechmagazine.com/2010/12/the-conquering-factory-system.html “It is necessary explicitly to call attention to my full recognition of the useful part which the essential factories play in supplying us a plenitude of these things at low prices so as to anticipate the charge, certain to be made, that I see no good in any factories at all”

Read more: This Ugly Civilization, Ralph Borsodi (1929). Via Ran Prieur.

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