Open Source Manufacturing Bibliography

A collection of general resources selected by Eric Hunting.

This is a companion page to the directory of Open Source Manufacturing Tools

Books

• Bolo`Bolo - P.M.
• Cohousing - Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett
• How to Survive Without a Salary: Learning How to Live the Conserver Lifestyle - Charles Long
• The Velvet Monkeywrench - John Muir and Peter Aschwanden
• How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive - Muir, Gregg, and Aschwanden
• The Septic System Owner's Manual - Kahn, Allen, Jones, and Aschwanden
• How To Make Your Own Living Structures - Ken Isaacs
• The Box Beam Sourcebook - Richard Jergensen
• Nomadic Furniture 1 & 2 - Hennessey and Papanek
• High-Tech: The Industrial Style and Source Book For the Home - Joan Kron and Suzanne Slesin
• Original Whole Earth Catalog, Special 30th Anniversary Issue - Peter Warshall and Stewart Brand
• Foxfire 1, 2, and 3 - Eliot Wigginton
• The Findhorn Garden - The Findhorn Community and William Irwin Thompson
• Permaculture One and Two - Bill Mollison , David Holmgren
• Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability - David Holmgren
• The Owner-Built Home - Ken Kern
• The Timeless Way of Building - Christopher Alexander
• Ceramic Houses and Earth Architecture: How to Build Your Own - Nader Khalili
• Emergency Sandbag Shelter - Nader Khalili
• Building With Earth - Paulina Wojciechowska
• Earth Construction Handbook: The Building Material Earth in Modern Architecture - Gernot Minke
• Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter - Lloyd Kahn
• Earth Building and the Cob Revival: A Reader - The Cob Cottage Company
• The Cob Builders Handbook - Becky Bee
• The Craft of Modular Post & Beam: Building log and timber homes affordably - James Mitchell
• Low-Cost Pole Building Construction - Ralph Wolfe
• Measure and Construction of the Japanese House - Heino Engel
• Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings - Edward S. Morse
• Independent Builder: Designing & Building a House Your Own Way (Real Goods Independent Living Books) - Sam Clark
• Growing Clean Water : Nature's Solution to Water Pollution - John D. Wolverton and B. C. Wolverton
• How to Grow Fresh Air: 50 House Plants that Purify Your Home or Office - B. C. Wolverton
• Application of vascular aquatic plants for pollution removal, energy and food production in a biological system

(NASA technical memorandum) - B. C Wolverton

• Aquatic plant/microbial filters for treating septic tank effluent - B. C Wolverton
• Aquatic plants for ph adjustment and removal of toxic chemicals and dissolved minerals from water supplies - B. C Wolverton
• Envisioning Information - Edward R. Tufte
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition - Edward R. Tufte
• Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative - Edward R. Tufte
• Structure in Nature is a Strategy for Design - Peter Pearce
• Fab: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop--from Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication - Neil Gershenfeld
• Shaping Things - Bruce Sterling
• Design Like You Give a Damn - Architecture for Humanity, Kate Stohr, and Cameron Sinclair
• Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century - Alex Steffen, Al Gore, and Stephan Sagmeister

Magazines

• Make - http://makezine.com/
• Ready Made - http://readymademag.com/blog/
• Desktop Engineering - http://www.deskeng.com/
• NASA Tech Briefs - http://www.techbriefs.com/
• Dwell - http://www.dwell.com/
• Growing Edge - http://www.growingedge.com/magazine/
• Mother Earth News - http://www.motherearthnews.com/
• Robot Magazine - http://www.botmag.com/

Web Sites

Blogs

• Make Blog - http://blog.makezine.com/
• Instructibles - http://www.instructables.com/
• Ready Made Blog - http://readymade.com/blogs/rmblog
• Finkbuilt - http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/
• DIY Life - http://www.diylife.com/
• Fab Prefab - http://www.fabprefab.com/
• BldBlog - http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/
• Apartment Therapy - http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/
• Inhabitat - http://www.inhabitat.com/
• Dezeen - http://www.dezeen.com/
• Design.nl - http://design.nl/
• NotCot - http://www.notcot.org/
• Design Zen - http://designzen.wordpress.com/
• MocoLoco - http://mocoloco.com/
• Treehugger - http://www.treehugger.com/index.php
• Metaefficient - http://www.metaefficient.com/
• Eco-Geek - http://www.ecogeek.org/
• Life @ Arcsanti - http://arcosanti.wordpress.com/
• KurzweilAI.net - http://www.kurzweilai.net/
• Technovelgy - http://www.technovelgy.com/
• Afrigadget - http://www.afrigadget.com/ - A blog showcasing the practical tinkerers, makers, and inventors of Africa.

Other

• Greenpages - http://www.eco-web.com/
• OIKOS Green Building Sources - http://oikos.com/
• Global Eco-Village Network - http://gen.ecovillage.org/
• Earthship Biotecture - http://www.earthship.net/
• Earth-Auroville Labs - http://www.earth-auroville.com/
• Cal-Earth - http://www.calearth.org/
• Arcosanti - http://www.arcosanti.org/
• Foresight Institute - http://www.foresight.org/index.html
• MIT Center for Bits and Atoms - http://cba.mit.edu/
• Biomimicry Institute - http://www.biomimicryinstitute.org/
• Buckminster Fuller Institute - http://bfi.org/
• DaVinci Institute - http://www.davinciinstitute.com/
• Institut für Baubiologie + Oekologie Neubeuern (IBN) - http://www.baubiologie-ibn.de/
• Dave Gingery Publishing (legendary Gingery Machines) - http://www.lindsaybks.com/dgjp/index.html
• Lindsay Technical Books (legendary DIY tech publications) - http://www.lindsaybks.com/index.html
• Small Parts (popular inventors/researcher's supply) - http://www.smallparts.com/
• American Science & Surplus (legendary tech surplus store) - http://www.sciplus.com/
• GripClips - http://shelter-systems.com/gripclips/index.html
• Wood Central woodworker's on-line portal - http://www.woodcentral.com/
• How-To Hydroponics kit plans - http://www.howtohydroponics.com/
• Hydroponics free DIY plans - http://members.mailaka.net/norm34/
• Garden of Delights exotic fruit plants supply - http://www.gardenofdelights.com/default.htm

More Information

1. Open Source Manufacturing Tools