Thank you Vinay
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 7:18 PM, Vinay Gupta (Hexayurt Shelter Project) < [email protected]> wrote: > > > http://files.howtolivewiki.com/the_physical_aspects_of_distributed_infrastructure_2008.pdf > > Physical Aspects of Distributed Infrastructure > > The "lost classic" of hexayurt infrastructure design, that I've been > sitting on for a few years after some corrupt, benighted fucktards tried to > patent it out from under me when I considered raising capital to develop > some of these idea into products. We were mid-way through negotiating a > license that would have made the work available globally to small > enterprises when... deal's gone bad. > > All I can say in my own defence is that in 2008 there was no strong > equivalent of the Make movement or Open Source Ecology, there was simply no > way I could see to take these idea and develop them outside of the business > world. At the time I estimated it was going to take $100K to get started - > it's not like there were thriving hackerspaces and fab labs in every major > city in those days. > > I believe we now have the capacity to take some of these ideas forwards. > Not everything in here is ideal for the Playa (you're not going to be > digging holes, are you?!) but I think some of the stuff around solar > thermal batteries and light diodes may be quite useful. > > I hope you enjoy it. > > And if the varmits that tried to thieve this off the world every cross my > path again, I'll run 'em over with a steam-roller feet first. They may even > lurk on this list, those road slimes. > > V> > > -- > *Vinay Gupta * * [email protected] <[email protected]> * > *http://re.silience.com* <http://re.silience.com> > *Free Science and Engineering in the Global Public Interest* > UK Cell : +44 (0)7500 895568 Twitter/Skype/Gtalk: hexayurt > "In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was > in me an invincible summer" - Albert Camus > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "hexayurt" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
