The goal of this post is to provide a hub to discover some powerful internet resources out there.

For example here’s one I wanted to share.

  • Open Source Ecology is a project for open source hardware that is significantly cheaper than retail costs. Some of the equipment include open source designs for CNC machines, windmills, tractors, plasma cutters, power supplies, motors, generators, and much more!

https://www.opensourceecology.org/

Additional Resources

  • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    6 months ago

    Everybody on Lemmy gets kinda weird and cagey about them for reasons I could not give less of a shit about, but I have a hopeful eye on everything FUTO is doing. Some of it’s really not public-ready yet, but they seem like a good organization to me.

    • cll7793@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5·
      6 months ago

      Oh? I didn’t know that. They seemed like a good organization to me too. Open source hardware is quite lacking compared to the software side so I hope they succeed.

    • finestnothing@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 months ago

      I haven’t seen anything bad about them (haven’t been looking though). I’ve been using the futo keyboard and like it so far, the swipe isn’t great but they’re crowdsourcing the training so I have high hopes

  • PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    6 months ago

    Not sure if it’s exactly what you mean, but the YouTube channel Project Kamp is a bunch of folks who’ve bought some land in Portugal to experiment with sustainable living.

    They have a website, in which they house “research modules” which are basically open forums for ideas about what to do and how to do it. https://projectkamp.com/

  • als@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    61·
    6 months ago

    Hundred Rabbits is a two person collective living aboard a boat, planning for the collapse of modern technology and how we will rebuild it. They have a wonderful knowledge base about off-grid living and you can view it offline with Kiwix, a wiki reader designed for situations without internet. You can download Wikipedia, medical articles, stackexchange forums etc

  • Yondoza@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    6 months ago

    Might be a stupid question, but I’d there a GNU license equivalent to patents? Could you patent something that could be used for free, but not used by a company in a for-profit matter?

    • Jojo, Lady of the West@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      71·
      6 months ago

      As long as you control the patent, you’re the one who determines who can make it. I’m not sure if there’s a license that provides a boilerplate version of that, but it’s certainly something you’d be allowed to do with your patent.

      • Yondoza@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        6 months ago

        That doesn’t really have the same rigidity. There would be no guarantee for others that it would remain available to them as long as they adhere to those principles.

        Said another way, a bad faith actor could create a patent and make it available to FOS developers, but then turn around and sell that patent to someone who will charge those same developers.

        I suppose you could have a third legally binding document that stipulates the terms of use, but kinda wish it was just handled under the patent.

        • athairmor@lemmy.world
          1·
          6 months ago

          Just don’t take a patent license anything that isn’t perpetual. The new owner can’t unilaterally change the contract.