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Submission + - Hexayurt Country: helping Haiti with Open Hardware (hexayurt.com)

Submitted by vkg on Sunday January 31, 2010 @09:04AM

vkg writes: The earthquake in Haiti has left a million people homeless. Hexayurt Country is a well-reviewed plan to use open hardware to provide water, sanitation and storm-resistant shelter in Haiti, transferring essential know-how during the process of reconstruction. It would cost about $60 per head to rebuild the basics for Haiti this way.

Submission + - Bruce Sterling reviews new Pirate Party manifesto (wired.com)

Submitted by vkg on Sunday October 11, 2009 @07:13PM

vkg writes: He's as terse as ever, but the Pirate's Platform is short, to the point, and quite interesting. What would happen if the pirate movement became more than a single issue party and moved in the direction outlined here?

Comment Hexayurt Project was up there doing housing (Score 1) 43

by vkg on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @08:25AM (#27239459) Attached to: Maker Faire Storms Newcastle

http://www.flickr.com/photos/makerfaire_uk/3355610023/

We had a ton of fun. The physical lunar lander game was really excellent, and Paka's horse was a terrifying lump of lumbering metal - really one of the most impressive animal robots I've ever seen. Great times.

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