A quick update over what has been happening with the documentation project and why I’ve been quiet. I’ve added some of my work to http://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_Plywood . Images to be added as I make ones I am happy with. I’ve started migrating the work onto opensource platforms. I’m learning how to use Scribus and Inkscape. Not sure if…
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Instead of repeatedly appealing for collaborators I am posting a series of my thoughts on documentation to publicise the documentation project. Part 1 – Why Document? Once again this will all be with respect to appropriate open hardware. (still deciding on what is the best label to use). Who is responsible for producing documentation about the thing?
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Instead of repeatedly appealing for collaborators I am posting a series of my thoughts on documentation to publicise the documentation project. Why am I pursuing this documentation project? I will begin from a very simple and obvious point. “A thing is useless to me if I cannot use it”. No matter how brilliant the thing is. This can…
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I originally had this as part of the previous post but after much consideration and consultation I had to redo it all. While I was working on the hexayurt Instructions I began to wonder what should I do next. I could either finally work on my initial plan of documenting how one could attempt to…
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—– NOTE: between the time I drafted this post and when I was finally ready to release it the nature of what I want to do has taken on a whole new life. I have kept this post the way it is for the most part since it serves it’s purpose but I recommend you read…
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I’ve got an exciting new project that I hope to launch within a week so stay tuned. Still need to name it. Self indulgent teaser here. In other news:
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When I attended the COP15 in Copenhagen there was a solidarity day of fasting. Due to my Muslim upbringing a 24 hour fast seemed too easy so I elected to do 3days or until I returned to the UK, dependent on what seems more appropriate at the time. I think I did 72 hours in the end. There was…
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This blog is starting to become only about the hexayurt, however I want it to be about how low tech can save the world. It is often too easy to try to fall into the trap that some new fancy technology (cold fusion) is gonna solve all of our ailments. Maybe it will but what…
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Perhaps I was too quick to judge Google Sketchup in my last post. I still dislike many things about it but it is a capable package. Well I got about creating models of the h12 and h13 hexayurt.
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This is just a preliminary writeup since it may take a long time until I can write out a proper plan. For the purposes of this post I will assume you are familiar with how to build a hexayurt out of OSB/plywood and wooden blocks. Intro I recently envisaged a way that a standard OSB hexayurt…