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Global Village Construction Set

Green materials & manufacturing website.

The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is a modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts. The project is to develop open-source industrial machines that can be made at a fraction of commercial costs, and share the designs with the world.


Keywords
Open source machines, small scale industry
United States of America
Website
www.opensourceecology.org/gvcs
Location
909, SW Willow Road, Camden, MO, United States of America


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