







A living lab for postgrowth organizing.

An over-engineered Home Lab with Docker and Kubernetes.
Setting up a personal Home Lab is not a task for lazy people: it incurrs a big cost of maintenance and issues arise even though we might use the best IT-Infrastructure practices… but we can always learn a lot out of it and make it also super fun. In this post I would like to share my journey and share some tips and tricks and issues I bumped into. Let’s jump in!

Taelin on Twitter / X
Bend2's Pitch Deck!I'm so happy about this direction. After years of deep fried research, I feel like we finally built a well-rounded product that ppl will use to solve real world problems - and it connects so nicely to the stuff we'll build later onPublic slides ↓— Taelin (@VictorTaelin) June 26, 2025

REALISTIC GRASS and vegetation - Abandoned Rail Yard #3
PRISM: Capturing the Invisible Art of Scientific Practice
A New Tool for Recording and Scaling Laboratory Expertise


Dispatch
An occasional update on the lab’s latest findings, appearances, and happenings.

The ultimate indoor plant system
Autonomous Pods - Prefab Backyard Pods for Work, Gym or Studio
Autonomous Pods are prefab backyard rooms you set up as an office, gym, studio, or guest room. No permits, no slab, pre-wired, up in 1–2 days. Three sizes, free shipping.

Tractor | Open Source Ecology
[metaslider id=7683] LifeTrac is a low-cost, multipurpose open source tractor. It serves as a workhorse backbone for many of GVCS technologies. We are currently on the 7th prototype – see LifeTrac Genealogy. The highlight of our design is that it is a modular design that allows for a high degree of modification and flexibility – […]

A Research Lab for Open Source ✸ Software Stewardship Lab
Today, we're launching a world-class research lab dedicated to Open Source sustainability with a team of some of the most experienced people in the world.

