Open Source Tractor

Re:Open Source Tractor by srmatto on Monday October 11, 2021 @11:29AM (#28829453)

The modular power unit is able to be swapped in and out of the various projects that require it that this team creates. Beyond that I don't know anything about it. There's also a compressed earth block machine and other things that use it. This team has been working on this since approximately 2011? It was started by a former nuclear engineer named Marcin Jakubowski. They're based out of Missouri and they dog-food their tools to build and maintain a small "village" there.

He had a ted talk sometime ago as well: https://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski_open_sourced_blu...

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Re:Open Source Tractor by machiaweliczny on Monday October 11, 2021 @11:38AM (#28829555)

I just wanted to comment today that beside OSS, SciHub and Library Genesis we need Blueprint Hub to move Civilizarion forward. Happy that some people work on it.

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Re:Open Source Tractor by nannal on Monday October 11, 2021 @12:54PM (#28830351)

What are modern blueprints, PDF?

Sounds like a fairly simple project.

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Re:Open Source Tractor by puzzledobserver on Monday October 11, 2021 @01:07PM (#28830507)

Maybe CAD models for 3D printers? Something like Thingiverse, at the very least.

I'd imagine you also need repositories of processes and assembly instructions.

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Re:Open Source Tractor by timschmidt on Monday October 11, 2021 @02:05PM (#28831092)

All the designs we're drawing for https://wiki.replimat.org/wiki/Main_Page are done using our branch of https://github.com/nophead/NopSCADlib which contains some work yet to be upstreamed here: https://github.com/timschmidt/replimat

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Re:Open Source Tractor by nannal on Monday October 11, 2021 @01:49PM (#28830944)

That seems like the kind of things we ought to know inside and out before starting.

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