Do you remember those turn-based strategy games in which you build your civilization from scratch? Like Age of Empires, Civilization or freeciv. This is the same but, for real life. Plus ecological and economical benefits.
Global Village Construction Set
It would be great if someone actually wrote computer game that simulates real-life process of building village using the same technical processes. It could serve as learning game.
Open source farming
- https://farmbot.io/
- https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rafiusa/growing-innovation-online-library-and-book/description
- http://openag.media.mit.edu/
- http://farmos.org/
Open source houses
- http://www.wikihouse.cc/about/
- http://paperhouses.co/
Open source energy
- https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/43717383/airenergy-3d-a-3d-printed-opensource-mobile-wind-t/description
- http://solarflower.org/
- https://openenergymonitor.org/emon/
- http://www.pureenergysystems.com/os/
- https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alex9000/the-solar-pocket-factory-an-invention-adventure/description
Open source water filter
http://faircap.org/
Open source materials
http://openmaterials.org/
Open source CNC, laser cutter
- https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nortd/lasersaur-open-source-laser-cutter-0/description
- http://mr-beam.org/
- https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1417197574/the-creation-station-open-source-cnc-router/description
- http://linuxcnc.org/
Open source robotics, drones
- http://www.osrfoundation.org/osrf-projects/
- http://3dprinting.com/how-to/3d-print-drone/
- http://px4.io/applications/cargo-drones/
- https://www.dronecode.org/dronecode-software-platform
Open source IoT
http://www.kaaproject.org/overview/
But before hopping to this super-trendy-media-buzz train read some of @internetofshit
DIY household chemistry
- books
- http://www.davidsuzuki.org/publications/downloads/2011/QueenOfGreen-Green-cleaning-recipes.pdf
- http://www.theecologycenter.org/resources/diy-non-toxic-cleaning-products
3D printing
- https://www.tinkercad.com/
- http://materialsandmethods.wix.com/hacking#!i-did-316/f6t03
- http://www.keep-art.co.uk/Self_build.html
- http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Bioplastics
- http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Bioplastic_Extruder
- https://github.com/jonnor/projects/tree/master/bioplastic