{"id":403,"date":"2011-05-15T23:44:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T23:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/2011\/05\/how-to-build-your-own-industrial-civilization.html"},"modified":"2015-10-13T18:40:42","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T16:40:42","slug":"how-to-build-your-own-industrial-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2011\/05\/how-to-build-your-own-industrial-civilization.html","title":{"rendered":"How To Build Your Own Industrial Civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/how-to-build-your-own-industrial-civilization.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2467\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/how-to-build-your-own-industrial-civilization.png\" alt=\"how to build your own industrial civilization\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/how-to-build-your-own-industrial-civilization.png 400w, https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/how-to-build-your-own-industrial-civilization-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;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 &#8211; Low-Cost &#8211; Modular &#8211; User-Serviceable &#8211; DIY &#8211; Closed-Loop Manufacturing &#8211; High Performance &#8211; Heirloom Design &#8211; Flexible Fabrication.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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 <a href=\"http:\/\/opensourceecology.org.nyud.net\/gvcs.php\" target=\"_blank\">these 50 machines<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The GVCS is a work-in-progress. See the <a href=\"http:\/\/opensourceecology.org.nyud.net\/wiki.php\" target=\"_blank\">wiki<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/openfarmtech.org\/weblog\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a> and (the best introduction) the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/marcin_jakubowski.html \" target=\"_blank\">movie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowtechmagazine.com\/2012\/12\/how-to-make-everything-ourselves-open-modular-hardware.html\" target=\"_self\">How to make everything ourselves: open modular hardware<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;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 &#8211; Low-Cost &#8211; Modular &#8211; User-Serviceable &#8211; DIY &#8211; Closed-Loop Manufacturing &#8211; High Performance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41,12,4,198,111,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2469,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/2469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}