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Can Open Source Hardware Feed the World?

Posted by Soulskill on from the i-bet-it'd-feed-unicron dept.

jfruhlinger writes "When it comes to food scarcity in the developing world, one of the major problems is production capacity: land that could be arable using modern techniques goes underutilized because locals don't have the ability to build or buy equipment. A group calling itself Open Source Ecology is trying to solve that problem. They've developed a set of open source hardware specs for 50 different industrial machines, which they're calling the Global Village Construction Set."

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  1. Re:Missed an opportunity... by chill · · Score: 3, Funny

    No,

    Garden of Eden Creation Kit - Open Source

    G.E.C.K.O.S.

    See if you can get the Geico critter as a spokes-lizard.

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