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More FabLabbery, and Siert’s windmill

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Rather than going back and editing my earlier post about that Icelandic guy, here’s some salient linkage on the subject. This is so exciting I almost skipped breakfast to watch it.

Iceland’s FabLab wiki, which is run by Smári, from a previous post.

A Dutch video with music about a FabLab workshop. Video unpacking and demoing plotter and CNC mill.

Mediamatic has an overview page of FabLab technology.

I met a guy called Siert at Reboot this year. He runs a FabLab in Holland. Siert’s windmill project (Dutch text, and a demo video).

FSCONS: Smári McCarthy on abundance

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Smári McCarthy Originally uploaded by Wrote

The man in the picture is Icelandic, outlandish, with lots of fancy words.

FabLabs (a set of machines to make any plastic object up to 1 meter in size) point to a future, and McCarthy talked about that future. No scarcity, everything “non-exotic” (which is not imbued with aura, like say, the Eiffel tower) is… available.

The intersection of hackers and anarchists: substantial, but not complete.

Freeganism got a mention in the talk. And “turkey sandwich”.

He got a government grant to run his FabLab. He said he’d looked around him, seeing only fishing industry. Digital fabrication might be a future for a place like that. A clean break with tradition.

Open Farm Tech was mentioned. OS tractors. Smari is credited with the prototype code for CNC (you know, extruders and such) on the website. The tractor is called LifeTrac. Design-for-disassembly. I’m very taken with this project. Update: See comments for direct links to videos and such.