“We ( Ubuntu-Blox) are going to Haiti this coming Sunday thanks to The Memnosyne Foundation. We will be working with At Risk Children (http://atriskchildren.org/) The objective of the ten day trip is to assess working with atriskchildren a… nd the community to build a library and.community center http://atriskchildren.org/index.php/our-work/soveyo-village-project. There is so much potential for good in… Continue Reading
There are two reasons to consider using the polypropylene high strength pulling twine instead of 14 gauge wire for making the blocks. First is because the twine is so much easier to work with than the wire. No special tools are required and it is less physically demanding. The second reason is the cost. The… Continue Reading
Zac Crain did what he does best; he knocked one out of the park with this story.… Continue Reading
The original Ubuntu-blox was made with all kinds of plastic trash into a block with a two wire restraining feature. We realized that a third wire was needed in the middle between the two outside wires and modified the machine and process to accommodate that concept. We made the blocks then with all kinds of… Continue Reading
I took the truck to Pearson Stone and we weighed the front axle weight. 6,800 pounds. That means 3,400 pounds per front wheel weight. I went to the shop and put the front of the truck up on wood blocks. Then I jacked up one wheel and placed a ten pound plastic block under the… Continue Reading
After the camera fiasco the other day we finally found another camera. This after noon I made another block and feel we have the one we want now. It isn’t perfect and will still need some tweeking to make it work better. But it is at a point where others can copy it and start… Continue Reading
Before we bumped the table and the camera fell, fatal screw up on its part…. We were having an awesome day. After that it was just a really good day for inventing in general. This is the bottom of the new block box, alpha 2 I guess we can call it. The two pieces of… Continue Reading
Of course the very first thing we did was test it for supporting weight. It was quite a day. Remember we started off with a trailer load of number three thru number seven plastic from the recycling center. It turns out we had a lot of number one and it is more difficult to work… Continue Reading
I’m not sure just how much pressure we’ll be using to compress the blocks. So I’m spending extra time reinforcing the far end. I would hate to be wrapped up in making a block and have the end fall off. There’s a formula for figuring out the lineal pressure that is generated by the circular… Continue Reading