I agree that there needs to be some business model or at least some
remuneration for all of the time that goes into such a well-designed
product that you are talking about- licensing is one way, I'm sure there
are other ways as well. One other potential benefit of publishing plans is
to have multiple people working in parallel on the same problem and
helping solve parts of the puzzle- this is how open source software works
and why it is so successful. of course, that is assuming there are enough
people working on it and have the time and then they publish their
findings too.
We've built a couple multipurpose pedal powered machines and v-belts are an incredibly easy and universal way of pulling power off. Here's a video of one of our machines:
www.pedal-power.com
For full disclosure, I am the co-owner of the company and we are planning on posting the plans for this machine to the farmhack site (soon!)
No problem, it can live at our house until then- you are welcome to stay with us any time. Just let us know if you need it sooner. My brother also lives in Boston, so it might make its way to you via him.
It was great to meet you this weekend, I'm excited to start hacking away at electrons soon (instead of just steel).
Cheers,
Andy
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I agree that there needs to
pedal powered machine
will do- I've dreamed about
:)