Want to start your own civilization? GVCS can help!

Marcin Jakubowski decided to investigate the process that turns a pre-industrial society into a post-industrial society. Inconspicuously, the process is industry. Industry is the economic activity concerned with taking raw materials and turning them into something useful. Marcin discovered that most machinery is only designed and manufactured for a post-industrial consumer. This results in high-tech machinery that often becomes obsolete in a few years or less, and it costs way more than any third-world citizen could afford. Marcin started the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS). According to their wiki it is defined as the following:

http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Global_Village_Construction_Set

In other words, GVCS freely provides the means for people to make their own industrial machines that are at the core of an industrial society. The best part of GVCS is that it is all open source forever, but the sad part is that it's still got a long ways to go. The team behind Marcin and GVCS (Open Source Ecology) still need more funding and innovative thinkers to make the GVCS a full blown reality.

GVCS's open source tractor prototype (LifeTrac)

Site:

http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Global_Village_Construction_Set

Crowd Funding Project:

The Liberator | Compressed Earth Brick Press

PROS:

• Open source everything (CAD, Video Tutorials, and more)
• Low-Cost
• User-Serviceable
• DIY (also a CON)
• Closed Loop Manufacturing
• High-Performance Machines
• Flexible Fabrication (each machine can be scaled to meet needs)

CONS:

• DIY
• Strictly Instructional (provides only the knowledge to build these machines)
• Only 1 product is close to full release (CEB Press)
• They need more money and innovative thinkers

Would I Buy It ?

There's nothing to buy here, but I buy into their vision. :)