The MultiMachine, a humanitarian, open source machine tool project for developing countries Benefits The MultiMachine all-purpose machine tool that can be built by a semi-skilled mechanic with just common hand tools. For machine construction, electricity can be replaced with "elbow grease" and the necessary material can come from discarded vehicle parts. What can the MultiMachine be used for in developing countries?

AGRICULTURE:
Building and repairing irrigation pumps and farm implements.

WATER SUPPLIES:
Making and repairing water pumps and water-well drilling rigs.

FOOD SUPPLIES:
Building steel-rolling-and-bending machines for making fuel efficient cook stoves and other cooking equipment.

TRANSPORTATION:
Anything from making cart axles to rebuilding vehicle clutch, brake, and other parts.

EDUCATION:
Building simple pipe-and-bar-bending machines to make school furniture, providing "hands on" training on student-built MultiMachines that they take with them when they leave school.

Opensourcemachine.org is dedicated to the concept of the Open Source Initiative translated to the "physical" world, with the hope that designing and refining basic machine tools can help lift thousands, if not millions of people out of poverty, by giving valuable and useful tools with are easily built from what is commonly scrap. While the Multimachine is the starting point for this initiative, I hope that more basic machines can be added to the repository- welcome all.