Eric T. Roy's Blog

RE: colaboration, ownership and your drawings

no1toolmkr — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:33:35 GMT

thats exactly how its done.
Now just take it a step further and turn your CAM software on to the server's and now you can create code without duplicating your customers drawings.

RE: colaboration, ownership and your drawings

MYP — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:18:34 GMT

I have an FTP for my files as well but I created and maintain my own FTP thru my website host account. I can create as many ftp accounts as a need. If need be I can create one for each customer. That way each customer can see only the files you want them to see.

Mike
www.myprecision.ca

RE: supplementing cash flow with open sourcing????

no1toolmkr — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:02:26 GMT

well lets get on with it allready then.
www.ericstoolroom.com/DA-200.html

RE: supplementing cash flow with open sourcing????

aj — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:48:46 GMT

Eric, this is really interesting. There are many large corporations thinking the same things you are about Open Source - just on a bit grander scale. They too are looking to reduce their technology spend, as well as dramatically reduce their time to realize their ROI on high ticket investments. Your big challenge may be in promoting the tooling - but you're getting into some really interesting, visionary territory.

RE: solve these problems

no1toolmkr — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:50:10 GMT

The "inflatable room" sounds perfect. it's just what I was envisioning. I'm thinking tubular in shape though, with a rigid center piece where sliding watering and harvesting devices could be mounted. possibly several of the tubular terariums side by side covering a huge amount area.

as far as the space drops. I guess it could only be tried to see if it could work. As much difficulty as the US Navy had getting to the early space capsules of gemini and apollo I think its very possible to get the delivery somewhere quicker than what intervention from the ground could respond. I'm thinking we could be nearly pin point exact on a delivery point where that wasn't quite as realistic as they wanted in the 60's. satelite information of today could reveal both target and foe for a near perfect delivery.
Thanks so much for getting in the discussion.

RE: solve these problems

dlandsman — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:18:54 GMT

When I was visiting Johnson Space Center for MFG.com I got a behind the scenes tour of some of the labs. One of the projects they showed me was an inflatable "room" they had thought about adding to the space station because livable space is hard to come by in space. It was basically a square balloon. No reason your terrariums couldn't be a significantly enlarged inflatable carbon fibre and transparent composite material balloon. This would significantly reduce the payload required to get started. The "room" the NASA guys showed me in its deflated state wasn't much larger than a backpack.

One of the larger problems about food distribution is that sustenance aid often does not get where it is going. Corruption and profiteering is rampant and the people most in need end up victimized while donated food rots or is illegally rerouted. Self determination for the starving is in reach technologically but the impoverished and oppressed will continue to pay the ultimate price as those in power continue to profit off those in pain. I am not sure if food drops from space help the issue.

RE: Its a BLOGGGGGGGG

aj — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:40:25 GMT

I think that with "eat my dust" in your tags, you just can't go wrong! Nice job. This takes patience, but you'll definitely get noticed.

RE: solve these problems

no1toolmkr — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:41:02 GMT

THX for the compliment.
Its still just an idea though. For some reason though I think the profit margin could be there.
A terarium would be so light and easily designed and built. could be very large with a minimal amount of weight and cost. golly I've used sandwich bags as a terarium and it worked very well.
Like you said this isn't new technology its very old. The more we could grow up there the more sun could be blocked and the less fuel we might use on farmland and food distribution. Kind of a snowball effect if you will.

RE: solve these problems

joabarrera — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:04:33 GMT

I love the creativity of your idea. And I will tell you that my attitude is not to punch holes in your theory but to dream up its execution. The payload to get thing up there will require some innovation,I hope the paypal guy and x-price people come up with something soon, the growing with out soil and recycled water has been done. We could analyze this to death and take along time to execute the idea and find out our analysis was way off because we don't know about x and y.

You brought a good point about land use, and there are proven solutions to growing food in smaller plots of land closer to or at home. The problem is that it's only in the individual best interested and not of a larger group. Why do you think mono culture spreads out like crazy and tractors become large and GPS driven. Somebody is paying for all that..because they care about profit margins.

Food it not getting the attention it deserves because it to political