A open source toolkit for building your own home
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0.000 HBDA open source toolkit for building your own home
<html> <p><img src="https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/styles/image-full-size/public/images/life/LIFE_housing.png?itok=q6XaNddR" width="520" height="292"/>The evidence is overwhelming that large scale collaboration leads to superior technology. FOSS showed us the way and now free and open source hardware is rapidly gaining traction. There is a growing list of open source hardware projects, which are bringing millions (billion?) of dollars of value to the world. Now a new initiative from the Open Building Institute (OBI) is adding "house" to the list of killer open hardware apps.</p> <p><br></p> <p>The idea of an open source house is not a new. See for example Paperhouses, Enviu, or Earth Dwellings.</p> <p><br></p> <p>OBI is taking a new approach built on the successful marriage between Catarina Mota at openMaterials and Marcin Jakubowski of Open Source Ecology. OBI is designing affordable, ecological housing accessible to everyone in such a way that even individuals can act on the designs. They are creating a library of engineered modules and a series of rapid-build procedures to quite literally help anyone build an affordable home. The basic idea is if you can follow an instructable, you should be able to follow a few of them—and if the modules are well organized and complete you could finish off a whole house with a few friends.</p> <p><br></p> <p>OBI is sharing a toolkit that is open source and available free of charge, forever. Sticking with the open source ethos they are also using the FOSS-like Sweet Home 3D to do it. The toolkit includes a library of modular designs (think of them like building blocks), detailed instructions, and software. Other projects have this to a lesser extent. However, where OBI really "blows the roof off" prior initiatives is providing the open source machines for construction and production of building materials themselves. Users can design their own house using open source software, and can also contribute designs to the project.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Source:</p> <p>https://opensource.com/life/16/7/getting-serious-about-open-source-homes</p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p> </html>