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Figure 10.3 The Global Village Construction Set, a life-size, scalable, modular, low-cost
construction set that can be used to produce more than 50 different industrial machines.
The members of Open Source Ecology aim to ultimately spur a cultural revolution, by
creating accessible tools and interdisciplinary development processes that enable people
to co-develop tools, systems, and processes. The source files for machinery differ greatly
from those for electronics. Thus Open Source Ecology's documentation includes file sets
of hydraulic plans for tractors ( Figure 10.4a ) , power details for the MicroTrac ( Figure
10.4b ) , and parts builds for the compressed earth brick press ( Figure 10.4c ) .