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
Ilona Berger was at Haiti Communitere during the building of the Ubuntublox house in their compound. She sent us this short clip of collecting and cleaning some of the plastic trash that was used to build the Ubuntublox house. … 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
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