What if any person, anywhere in the world, had free access to the machines that power the industrial revolution? That’s the goal of the Global Village Construction Set: empowering everyone through ...

As their charming video shows, the GVCS will let any motivated group of tree-hugging neckbeards eco-conscious global citizens build a “small sustainable civilization with modern comforts” from scratch ...

Continue reading for more information and videos. The GVCS is comparable to a life-sized Lego set with interchangeable parts, motors, and power units. The DIY Open Source network provides the ...

The Global Village Construction Set is an open hardware initiative aimed at sharing tool-building knowledge. They believe that to build civilization you need forty basic tools, eight of which they’ve ...