Made from recycled scrap metal and old truck engines, the open-source Multimachine can drill press, lather and mill. It originally started as a project by Pat Delaney as a way to easily create a machine that was cheap to create and accurate enough for metal work. The project, now hosted at its own Yahoo group, can be used in developing countries as a way to create jobs and assist in the fields of agriculture, transportation, education and food preparation. The very making of the machine imparts the skills needed to use it.
“Right now if a NGO gives a well pump to a village in Africa, what does the village do when it breaks? With a multimachine, or tools like it, they can fix it themselves.”
All the documentation required to build it can be found at the website linked below. Don’t you just love human ingenuity?
i came to see this machine, and i am really amazed to realised how great is the human being, how wonderfull is to know that there are a lot of great people, whit a superb inteligence and also outstanding capacity to think great and to made things so wonderfull SIMPLE. this tool will meant a lot to so many people.
my congtratulations and admiration. raul garza