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3D Printer Workshops

2018-09-06T21:13:05Z

Zbynek: /* Example Workshops */

=Industry Standards for DIY Build Workshops=
23 RepRap Assembly Workshops mapped in spreadsheet: [[File:Assembly_workshops_data_collection_through_web_search.ods]]
Part of spreadsheet presented prettier in Appendix C of [[File:Thesis.pdf]]

=Example Workshops=
*BotBuilder - [http://botbuilder.net/classes/] (broken link; dns)
*Tinkerine drone build - but link goes to hovercraft build, not drone - [http://tinkerine.com/workshop-build-a-3d-printed-micro-drone/] (broken link; 404)
*Open 3D Engineering - discontinued? - 52 built to date - $1200 - [http://www.open3dengineering.org/en/workshop/#newWS] (broken link; 503)
*3D4edu.org - when is next workshop? - [http://www.3d4edu.com/#workshop] (almost no info on the page)

3D Printed Drill

2018-09-03T13:32:49Z

Zbynek: /* Requirements */

=Vision=
The USA alone throws away at least 2M broken cordless drills per year (see market research below, and develop the market research further by contacting sources). A lifetime design, modular, 3D Printed cordless drill is a perfect solution here, and builds upon the current 3D printing craze.'''

=Requirements=
*Made of 3 main modules:
:*body
:*battery interface to connect to any existing battery pack
:*battery pack

Problem statement - drills, and especially cordless drills, are throwaway devices. They break and you can't fix them readily because they are not appropriate technology. Here we design the world's first appropriate technology cordless drill.

The goal is to select an appropriate @[[Depth of Modularity]] to make any cordless drill motor, battery, speed trigger, gear set, and Chuck interoperable with any other.

This converts any drill to one about 10-100 times cheaper (lifetime extends from 1 to 100 years, and cost drops from 100 to about 50 for a professional grade drill - for the initial purchase, so all things considered, the open source version is about 100x cheaper over the lifetime.

==Requirements==
*Modular Architecture
*Motor, Gearbox, Chuck, Battery pack, Charger, and Trigger are sourced components off shelf.
*Initial is clutchless, later phase includes clutch - mechanical or electronic (current limiting)
*Professional grade - 18V or higher
*Based on a widely accessible battery pack

==Hacking Requirements==
*Afteropensourcemarket battery adapters - allow any battery from any other drill to be used.

==Later Phase Requirements==
*Deepened modularity architecture
*Open source drill motor, and gear box, etc
*Battery pack is modular, and battery build is modular - made of common available cells + electronic, instead of monolithic.
*Modular gearbox means any amount of torque can be generated.
*Different toolheads, including hydraulic high pressure pump for dump trailers, jacks, etc.
*Battery pack is stackable - 18 or 36v battery if one or two modules are used

=BOM and Parts Extraction=
*57 teardown 18v motor - [http://m.ebay.com/itm/170-RPM-6-18V-Econ-Gearmotor-1-57-Ratio-Part-638254-By-ServoCity-/272180893306?_trkparms=aid%253D222007%2526algo%253DSIC.MBE%2526ao%253D1%2526asc%253D20150519202348%2526meid%253D3cfb5cec3c7c405687a865b46a1814c9%2526pid%253D100408%2526rk%253D3%2526rkt%253D3%2526sd%253D281974943310&_trksid=p2056116.c100408.m2460]
*3D printed battery holders - [http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:456900]
*extracting a gear motor from a drill - [http://m.instructables.com/id/Hacking-Drills-CheapPowerful-GearboxMotors-for-/]
*Making a hub for a cordless drill - [http://www.teamrollingthunder.com/Kitbots/Cordless_Hubs/body_cordless_hubs.html]
*Good video of extraction for a robot. There are standard motor sizes that can be used. Clutch consists of ball bearings that are pressed down with a spring which catch on a motor disk. [https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DOJMoh2C2Hdo&ved=0ahUKEwjwlNHdqpXMAhVJmoMKHeC4Cv4QtwIIKjAC&usg=AFQjCNHdtvvABZBfRqS1gM8rtpL_vJ_0Sg]
*3D Printed Gears - [http://m.instructables.com/id/Gear-Set-for-3D-Printing/]
*Standard Motors - 550 size motor.
*Standard gearboxes - Dewalt example - [http://www.robotmarketplace.com/store_dewalt_gearboxes.html]
*Standard chucks
=Market Research=
*Market share report - [https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://d2oqb2vjj999su.cloudfront.net/users/000/072/024/043/attachments/CordlessDrills_MktRpt_2010.pdf&ved=0ahUKEwiEgJ7nzNXKAhXIWh4KHR6VAR4QFggaMAA&usg=AFQjCNE0B3-r4-TlZFKbkDveRC1epN5OgQ]
*Harbor Freight recalls 1.7M cordless Drill Master drills -[http://www.dispatch.com/content/blogs/product-recalls/2015/12/cordless-drills.html]
*The two above imply that there is at least 10M cordless drills sold in the USA every year, assuming the 1M is all that Harbor Freight sold (gross underestimate). That is about a $1B market in the USA alone, or 6B globally.

=Lifetime of a Cordless Drill=
*1-2 years in a contractor scenario, check out the guy who spends $5k/year on drill replacements for 40 cordless drills/saws - [http://www.walleyecentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21746#/forumsite/20518/topics/21746?page=1]
*4 years, woodworking business - [http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/cr/B00J9S1BCU/ref=mw_dp_cr]

=Links to 3D Printed Cordless Drills=
*Small one - [http://www.3dp-expo.com/yw/xwzx_show.asp?nid=1525]
*Stratasys - [http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/slideshow/527874/pictures-18-supercool-objects-made-3d-printers]
*Taking a DC motor out of a cordless drill -@[http://m.instructables.com/id/Hacking-Drills-CheapPowerful-GearboxMotors-for-/?ALLSTEPS]
*Alibaba cordless drill motors - [http://m.alibaba.com/showroom/dc-motor-for-cordless-drill.html]

=Links=
*'''[[Useful 3D Prints]]'''

3D Printed Drill

2018-09-03T13:29:26Z

Zbynek: /* Later Phase Requirements */

=Vision=
The USA alone throws away at least 2M broken cordless drills per year (see market research below, and develop the market research further by contacting sources). A lifetime design, modular, 3D Printed cordless drill is a perfect solution here, and builds upon the current 3D printing craze.'''

=Requirements=
*Made of 3 main modules:
:*body
:*battery interface to connect to any existing battery pack
:*battery pack

Problem statement - drills, and especially cordless drills, are throwaway devices. They break and you can't fix them readily because they are not appropriate technology. Here we design the world's first appropriate technology cordless drill.

The goal is to select an appropriate @[[Depth of Modularity]] to make any cordless drill motor, battery, speed trigger, gear set, and Chuck interoperable with any other.

This converts any drill to one about 10-100 times cheaper (lifetime extends from 1 to 100 years, and cost drops from 100 to about 50 for a professional grade drill - for the initial purchase, so all things considered, the open source version is about 100x cheaper over the lifetime.

==Requirements==
*Modular Architecture
*Motor, Gearbox, Clutch, Battery pack, Charger, and Trigger are sourced components off shelf.
*Initial is clutchless, later phase includes clutch - mechanical or electronic (current limiting)
*Professional grade - 18V or higher
*Based on a widely accessible battery pack

==Hacking Requirements==
*Afteropensourcemarket battery adapters - allow any battery from any other drill to be used.

==Later Phase Requirements==
*Deepened modularity architecture
*Open source drill motor, and gear box, etc
*Battery pack is modular, and battery build is modular - made of common available cells + electronic, instead of monolithic.
*Modular gearbox means any amount of torque can be generated.
*Different toolheads, including hydraulic high pressure pump for dump trailers, jacks, etc.
*Battery pack is stackable - 18 or 36v battery if one or two modules are used

=BOM and Parts Extraction=
*57 teardown 18v motor - [http://m.ebay.com/itm/170-RPM-6-18V-Econ-Gearmotor-1-57-Ratio-Part-638254-By-ServoCity-/272180893306?_trkparms=aid%253D222007%2526algo%253DSIC.MBE%2526ao%253D1%2526asc%253D20150519202348%2526meid%253D3cfb5cec3c7c405687a865b46a1814c9%2526pid%253D100408%2526rk%253D3%2526rkt%253D3%2526sd%253D281974943310&_trksid=p2056116.c100408.m2460]
*3D printed battery holders - [http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:456900]
*extracting a gear motor from a drill - [http://m.instructables.com/id/Hacking-Drills-CheapPowerful-GearboxMotors-for-/]
*Making a hub for a cordless drill - [http://www.teamrollingthunder.com/Kitbots/Cordless_Hubs/body_cordless_hubs.html]
*Good video of extraction for a robot. There are standard motor sizes that can be used. Clutch consists of ball bearings that are pressed down with a spring which catch on a motor disk. [https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DOJMoh2C2Hdo&ved=0ahUKEwjwlNHdqpXMAhVJmoMKHeC4Cv4QtwIIKjAC&usg=AFQjCNHdtvvABZBfRqS1gM8rtpL_vJ_0Sg]
*3D Printed Gears - [http://m.instructables.com/id/Gear-Set-for-3D-Printing/]
*Standard Motors - 550 size motor.
*Standard gearboxes - Dewalt example - [http://www.robotmarketplace.com/store_dewalt_gearboxes.html]
*Standard chucks
=Market Research=
*Market share report - [https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://d2oqb2vjj999su.cloudfront.net/users/000/072/024/043/attachments/CordlessDrills_MktRpt_2010.pdf&ved=0ahUKEwiEgJ7nzNXKAhXIWh4KHR6VAR4QFggaMAA&usg=AFQjCNE0B3-r4-TlZFKbkDveRC1epN5OgQ]
*Harbor Freight recalls 1.7M cordless Drill Master drills -[http://www.dispatch.com/content/blogs/product-recalls/2015/12/cordless-drills.html]
*The two above imply that there is at least 10M cordless drills sold in the USA every year, assuming the 1M is all that Harbor Freight sold (gross underestimate). That is about a $1B market in the USA alone, or 6B globally.

=Lifetime of a Cordless Drill=
*1-2 years in a contractor scenario, check out the guy who spends $5k/year on drill replacements for 40 cordless drills/saws - [http://www.walleyecentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21746#/forumsite/20518/topics/21746?page=1]
*4 years, woodworking business - [http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/cr/B00J9S1BCU/ref=mw_dp_cr]

=Links to 3D Printed Cordless Drills=
*Small one - [http://www.3dp-expo.com/yw/xwzx_show.asp?nid=1525]
*Stratasys - [http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/slideshow/527874/pictures-18-supercool-objects-made-3d-printers]
*Taking a DC motor out of a cordless drill -@[http://m.instructables.com/id/Hacking-Drills-CheapPowerful-GearboxMotors-for-/?ALLSTEPS]
*Alibaba cordless drill motors - [http://m.alibaba.com/showroom/dc-motor-for-cordless-drill.html]

=Links=
*'''[[Useful 3D Prints]]'''

3D Printed Drill

2018-09-03T13:25:07Z

Zbynek: /* Requirements */

=Vision=
The USA alone throws away at least 2M broken cordless drills per year (see market research below, and develop the market research further by contacting sources). A lifetime design, modular, 3D Printed cordless drill is a perfect solution here, and builds upon the current 3D printing craze.'''

=Requirements=
*Made of 3 main modules:
:*body
:*battery interface to connect to any existing battery pack
:*battery pack

Problem statement - drills, and especially cordless drills, are throwaway devices. They break and you can't fix them readily because they are not appropriate technology. Here we design the world's first appropriate technology cordless drill.

The goal is to select an appropriate @[[Depth of Modularity]] to make any cordless drill motor, battery, speed trigger, gear set, and Chuck interoperable with any other.

This converts any drill to one about 10-100 times cheaper (lifetime extends from 1 to 100 years, and cost drops from 100 to about 50 for a professional grade drill - for the initial purchase, so all things considered, the open source version is about 100x cheaper over the lifetime.

==Requirements==
*Modular Architecture
*Motor, Gearbox, Clutch, Battery pack, Charger, and Trigger are sourced components off shelf.
*Initial is clutchless, later phase includes clutch - mechanical or electronic (current limiting)
*Professional grade - 18V or higher
*Based on a widely accessible battery pack

==Hacking Requirements==
*Afteropensourcemarket battery adapters - allow any battery from any other drill to be used.

==Later Phase Requirements==
*Deepened modularity architecture
*Open source drill motor, and gear box, etc
*Battery is modular, and battery build is modular - made of rechargeable AA batteries or other common available unit, instead of monolithic.
*Modular gearbox means any amount of torque can be generated.
*Different toolheads, including hydraulic high pressure pump fot dump
trailers, jacks, etc.
*Battery is stackable - 18 or 36v battery if one or two modules are used

=BOM and Parts Extraction=
*57 teardown 18v motor - [http://m.ebay.com/itm/170-RPM-6-18V-Econ-Gearmotor-1-57-Ratio-Part-638254-By-ServoCity-/272180893306?_trkparms=aid%253D222007%2526algo%253DSIC.MBE%2526ao%253D1%2526asc%253D20150519202348%2526meid%253D3cfb5cec3c7c405687a865b46a1814c9%2526pid%253D100408%2526rk%253D3%2526rkt%253D3%2526sd%253D281974943310&_trksid=p2056116.c100408.m2460]
*3D printed battery holders - [http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:456900]
*extracting a gear motor from a drill - [http://m.instructables.com/id/Hacking-Drills-CheapPowerful-GearboxMotors-for-/]
*Making a hub for a cordless drill - [http://www.teamrollingthunder.com/Kitbots/Cordless_Hubs/body_cordless_hubs.html]
*Good video of extraction for a robot. There are standard motor sizes that can be used. Clutch consists of ball bearings that are pressed down with a spring which catch on a motor disk. [https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DOJMoh2C2Hdo&ved=0ahUKEwjwlNHdqpXMAhVJmoMKHeC4Cv4QtwIIKjAC&usg=AFQjCNHdtvvABZBfRqS1gM8rtpL_vJ_0Sg]
*3D Printed Gears - [http://m.instructables.com/id/Gear-Set-for-3D-Printing/]
*Standard Motors - 550 size motor.
*Standard gearboxes - Dewalt example - [http://www.robotmarketplace.com/store_dewalt_gearboxes.html]
*Standard chucks
=Market Research=
*Market share report - [https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://d2oqb2vjj999su.cloudfront.net/users/000/072/024/043/attachments/CordlessDrills_MktRpt_2010.pdf&ved=0ahUKEwiEgJ7nzNXKAhXIWh4KHR6VAR4QFggaMAA&usg=AFQjCNE0B3-r4-TlZFKbkDveRC1epN5OgQ]
*Harbor Freight recalls 1.7M cordless Drill Master drills -[http://www.dispatch.com/content/blogs/product-recalls/2015/12/cordless-drills.html]
*The two above imply that there is at least 10M cordless drills sold in the USA every year, assuming the 1M is all that Harbor Freight sold (gross underestimate). That is about a $1B market in the USA alone, or 6B globally.

=Lifetime of a Cordless Drill=
*1-2 years in a contractor scenario, check out the guy who spends $5k/year on drill replacements for 40 cordless drills/saws - [http://www.walleyecentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21746#/forumsite/20518/topics/21746?page=1]
*4 years, woodworking business - [http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/cr/B00J9S1BCU/ref=mw_dp_cr]

=Links to 3D Printed Cordless Drills=
*Small one - [http://www.3dp-expo.com/yw/xwzx_show.asp?nid=1525]
*Stratasys - [http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/slideshow/527874/pictures-18-supercool-objects-made-3d-printers]
*Taking a DC motor out of a cordless drill -@[http://m.instructables.com/id/Hacking-Drills-CheapPowerful-GearboxMotors-for-/?ALLSTEPS]
*Alibaba cordless drill motors - [http://m.alibaba.com/showroom/dc-motor-for-cordless-drill.html]

=Links=
*'''[[Useful 3D Prints]]'''

3D Printed Drill

2018-09-03T13:20:46Z

Zbynek: /* Requirements */

=Vision=
The USA alone throws away at least 2M broken cordless drills per year (see market research below, and develop the market research further by contacting sources). A lifetime design, modular, 3D Printed cordless drill is a perfect solution here, and builds upon the current 3D printing craze.'''

=Requirements=
*Made of 3 main modules:
:*body
:*battery interface to connect to any existing battery pack
:*battery pack

Problem statement - drills, and especially cordless drills, are throwaway devices. They break and you can't fix them readily because they are not appropriate technology. Here we design the world's first appropriate technology cordless drill.

The goal is to select an appropriate @[[Depth of Modularity]] to make any cordless drill motor, battery, speed trigger, gear set, and Chuck interoperable with any other.

This converts any drill to one about 10-100 times cheaper (lifetime extends from 1 to 100 years, and cost drops from 100 to about 50 for a professional grade drill - for the initial purchase, so all things considered, the open source version is about 100x cheaper over the lifetime.

==Requirements==
*Modular Architecture
*Motor, gearbox, Chuck, Battery, Charger, and trigger are sourced components off shelf.
*Initial is clutchless, later phase includes clutch - mechanical or electronic (current limiting)
*Professional grade - 18V or higher
*Based on a widely accessible battery

==Hacking Requirements==
*Afteropensourcemarket battery adapters - allow any battery from any other drill to be used.

==Later Phase Requirements==
*Deepened modularity architecture
*Open source drill motor, and gear box, etc
*Battery is modular, and battery build is modular - made of rechargeable AA batteries or other common available unit, instead of monolithic.
*Modular gearbox means any amount of torque can be generated.
*Different toolheads, including hydraulic high pressure pump fot dump
trailers, jacks, etc.
*Battery is stackable - 18 or 36v battery if one or two modules are used

=BOM and Parts Extraction=
*57 teardown 18v motor - [http://m.ebay.com/itm/170-RPM-6-18V-Econ-Gearmotor-1-57-Ratio-Part-638254-By-ServoCity-/272180893306?_trkparms=aid%253D222007%2526algo%253DSIC.MBE%2526ao%253D1%2526asc%253D20150519202348%2526meid%253D3cfb5cec3c7c405687a865b46a1814c9%2526pid%253D100408%2526rk%253D3%2526rkt%253D3%2526sd%253D281974943310&_trksid=p2056116.c100408.m2460]
*3D printed battery holders - [http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:456900]
*extracting a gear motor from a drill - [http://m.instructables.com/id/Hacking-Drills-CheapPowerful-GearboxMotors-for-/]
*Making a hub for a cordless drill - [http://www.teamrollingthunder.com/Kitbots/Cordless_Hubs/body_cordless_hubs.html]
*Good video of extraction for a robot. There are standard motor sizes that can be used. Clutch consists of ball bearings that are pressed down with a spring which catch on a motor disk. [https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DOJMoh2C2Hdo&ved=0ahUKEwjwlNHdqpXMAhVJmoMKHeC4Cv4QtwIIKjAC&usg=AFQjCNHdtvvABZBfRqS1gM8rtpL_vJ_0Sg]
*3D Printed Gears - [http://m.instructables.com/id/Gear-Set-for-3D-Printing/]
*Standard Motors - 550 size motor.
*Standard gearboxes - Dewalt example - [http://www.robotmarketplace.com/store_dewalt_gearboxes.html]
*Standard chucks
=Market Research=
*Market share report - [https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://d2oqb2vjj999su.cloudfront.net/users/000/072/024/043/attachments/CordlessDrills_MktRpt_2010.pdf&ved=0ahUKEwiEgJ7nzNXKAhXIWh4KHR6VAR4QFggaMAA&usg=AFQjCNE0B3-r4-TlZFKbkDveRC1epN5OgQ]
*Harbor Freight recalls 1.7M cordless Drill Master drills -[http://www.dispatch.com/content/blogs/product-recalls/2015/12/cordless-drills.html]
*The two above imply that there is at least 10M cordless drills sold in the USA every year, assuming the 1M is all that Harbor Freight sold (gross underestimate). That is about a $1B market in the USA alone, or 6B globally.

=Lifetime of a Cordless Drill=
*1-2 years in a contractor scenario, check out the guy who spends $5k/year on drill replacements for 40 cordless drills/saws - [http://www.walleyecentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21746#/forumsite/20518/topics/21746?page=1]
*4 years, woodworking business - [http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/cr/B00J9S1BCU/ref=mw_dp_cr]

=Links to 3D Printed Cordless Drills=
*Small one - [http://www.3dp-expo.com/yw/xwzx_show.asp?nid=1525]
*Stratasys - [http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/slideshow/527874/pictures-18-supercool-objects-made-3d-printers]
*Taking a DC motor out of a cordless drill -@[http://m.instructables.com/id/Hacking-Drills-CheapPowerful-GearboxMotors-for-/?ALLSTEPS]
*Alibaba cordless drill motors - [http://m.alibaba.com/showroom/dc-motor-for-cordless-drill.html]

=Links=
*'''[[Useful 3D Prints]]'''

Useful 3D Prints

2018-09-03T13:18:06Z

Zbynek: /* Top Products */

=Top Products=
*Cordless Drill
*MIG welder - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z35BYaCRRhM] (video no longer available)
*Aerial drone -
*Camera (think open source GoPro)
*Filament maker
*3D printer
*[[3D Printed Tripod]]

=Motors and Generators=
*Nice VAWT concept - but not much power - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Licwk-dobc8&feature=youtu.be]
*Radial engine - logic details not shown - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=29&v=3oi1DlCIssU]

=Measuring Devices=
*Weather station - [https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2849562]
*Rain gauge - [https://www.amazon.com/Stratus-Precision-Mounting-Bracket-Weather/dp/B000X3KTHS/ref=sr_1_6?s=lawn-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1532782266&sr=1-6&keywords=rain+gauge $40 value]

=Tools=
*[[3D Printed Cordless Drill]]
*Rotary tool, 60k RPM, vaccuum turbine powered - [http://www.3ders.org/articles/20130622-3d-printed-vacuum-powered-turbine-tool-spins.html]
*Mini drill press - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLjbwoMCyXg]
*Hand-powered drill, works by sliding a nut over flutes vertically - [https://youtu.be/eK8k_6zu0hs?t=205]

=Electrical=
*Molex, 8 pin - [https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:984228]

=Seed Eco-Home=
*[[Leaf Eliminator]]
*DIN rail for circuit breakers- [https://pinshape.com/items/19312-3d-printed-35mm-din-rail-parametric]. [[File:Dinrail.stl]].

=Parts=
*[[3D Printed Electric Motor]]
*linear bearings - can change the design to any size in OpenSCAD, included - [https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:16813]
:*1" version - [[File:1"linear.stl]]

=Machines=
*Compost Sredder with metal insert - [http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:356580]
*MTM Snap circuit mill - [http://infosyncratic.nl/projects/mtm-snap-desktop-mill/]
*3D printed structure corners for PVC
*Cranked Water pump - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6otJ2h9lRDE]
*Handle pump - [http://3dprint.com/76787/3d-printed-water-pump/]
*Bicycle air pump
*Air Compressor - [http://www.instructables.com/id/Mobile-Bicycle-Powered-Air-Compressor/]
*Deep well hand water pump -
*500 lb Jack - [http://technabob.com/blog/2016/02/17/fully-3d-printed-scissor-jack-does-lift-bro/]
*Aerial drone quadcopter
*Aerial drone wings - 100 mph - [http://blog.cnccookbook.com/2014/12/02/3d-printing-rc-plane-modelers-drone-builders/]
*adjustable wrench
*Safety helmet with face shield.
*Welding mask
*Grafting tool
*Cordless drill
*Nut cracker
*Scissors - need blade
*Filament extruder

=Water Pumping=
*[[File:check.png]]. Peristaltic water pump - [http://makezine.com/2014/10/12/maker-3d-prints-a-parametric-peristaltic-pump-in-one-piece/]. Smart one - planetary gears - connects directly to a drill.
*Another peristaltic pump - with bearings here - too complicated - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMiXme4bMUk]
*Submersible water pump - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrAFTj-lPFw]. YouTube says files are on site, but STLs are nowhere to be found on the website. Typical absence of usefulness.
*Strainer for 1/4" hose - [https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1704323]

=Other=
*Micrometer - [https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1257186]
*Hex bit holder - [https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1359158]
*Double sided bit holder - [http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1363379]
*Mini PCB drill - [https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1140647]
*5.5 mm wrench - [http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:82045]

=Parts=
*Large Ball Bearing - [http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:520238]
*Gear thrust bearing - no cage needed - looks like a great idea - [
[https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DZghwSBiM0sU&ved=0ahUKEwjH-vGfuJXMAhXGkIMKHXCPDoUQtwIIRDAK&usg=AFQjCNENcAnkJXejOtNgkWsCYfJ0I9jsWw]

=Household Items=
*Dishwashing scrubber - [https://youtu.be/JDRv3N3PMtQ?t=104]
*Trash can - [https://hackaday.com/2015/03/27/wrapping-up-the-last-midwest-reprap-festival/]

=Plumbing Fittings=
*[[Garden Hose Fittings]]
*[[Water Fittings STLs]]
*[[Garden Hose Splitter]]

=Greenhouse, Aquaponics, Food System=
*Growing towers - [http://3dgtower.com/]
*[[Sprouting Jar Lid]]
*Blueberry rake - [http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:836416]

Modular Construction

2018-09-02T15:58:41Z

Zbynek: /* Examples */

Modular construction uses sets of standardised parts in the construction of buildings, vehicles, ... Several systems exist, each with their own parts catalogue.

==Examples==

* [[Eric_Hunting_Resource_Guide#Matrix.2FBox_Beam.2FGrid_Beam|Matrix, and Box Beam (predecessors of the GridBeam)]]
* [http://gridbeamers.com/ Grid Beams] is a system for building furniture and machines. It uses the imperial system. See [http://synergyii.com/Quikstix/index.html synergyii], [http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Grid_Beam P2PF] and [http://gridbeam.biz/ gridbeam.biz] and [http://www.gridbeamnation.com/ grid beam nation] and [http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/003822.php the book]
* [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/701662757/makerbeam-an-open-source-building-kit/posts MakerBeam and OpenBeam] are systems with mini-T-slot extrusions. They use the metric system. See [https://www.makerbeam.com/ here]
* [http://openstructures.net/ Openstructures] uses a system with metric units.
* [http://www.unistrut.co.uk/ Unistrut], [https://www.mero.de/index.php/en/exhibit-systems/meroform-modular-systems Mero], [https://www.deltastructures.com/ Deltastructures]: metric systems
* [http://www.contraptor.org/ Contraptor] and [http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2012/12/how-to-make-everything-ourselves-open-modular-hardware.html BitBeam] are systems for building mechatronics, primarily CNC machines. They use the imperial system.
* [http://www.alliedmodular.com/products/ Allied Modular Building System]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/80/20_(framing_system) T-slot extrusion] is a widely-duplicated system for building furniture and machines. See [http://www.minitecframing.com/ minitec framing] and [http://www.fastenal.com/web/search/products/raw-materials/extruded-t-slot-accessories/_/N-gj4ydi&Nty=0;jsessionid=vfz6PNmRbrFJJtvhk6YBpTJG1SXbRwgQVJdvyxyDMfGhFkpyB8p2!-34140176!-640547879 fastenal] and [http://www.tslotparts.com/ tslot parts] and [http://www.faztek.net/articles/tslot.html faztek] and [http://barrington-atn.com/tslot/default.htm frame world] and [http://www.mbsitem.co.uk/ machine building systems ltd] and [http://www.alliedmodular.com/products/ RCS Products] and many more.

==Why use standardised parts ?==
When using standardised parts (such as standardised beams, sprockets, bearings, ...) you reduce the amount of variation your structures can have. So why use them ? For example, with gridbeam you can only use beams with a size of 1,5-3 inch and a length of 2, 4, 6, or 8 foot. If you don't use any standardised set, you can make designs that use beams (and other parts) that can have any size and length.

The answer is that, the more different types of parts you use in designs, the less valuable each part becomes (as you'll use each specific type of part less often in all of your designs). So once you take the design apart (i.e. when it becomes no longer needed and thus obsolete) each part will be less usable in the other designs and thus less valuable (lower resale value). In practice, that often means that parts no longer get reused at all and ultimately destroyed.

So, using a set of standardised parts is definitely a good idea, but a balance needs to be found so that it uses the least amount of different parts, but still enough of them to allow enough variation of the designs.

==What system to use ?==
Several systems exist (see examples).
Many of these have beams in different standardised sizes. To allow to also make the different parts yourself (rather than always needing to buy them from a manufacturer), it makes sense to use a system that has beams in a size that stays close to the industry component sizes.

For wood-based beams, that means 2x2's (= 2 inch x 2 inch or 5,08 cm x 5,08 cm; actual size is more like 3,8 cm x 3,8 cm though). For metal beams, it makes sense to use whatever industry standard that is closest to the wood-based beams. That means using metal pipes with a 38 mm diameter.

Since gridbeam uses 3,8 x 3,8 cm wooden and metal beams, it's easiest to use this commercial system.
When making it yourself, you can either buy standard 2x2's (or 38 mm metal pipes) and cut them yourself (to 2, 4, 6, 8 inch length or even any length between 1 and 8 foot, with increments per 1/2 foot) or simply grow bamboo and cut that to the same lengths (2, 4, 6, 8 inch length or any length between 1 and 8 foot, with increments per 1/2 foot) once they attained the required diameter (38 mm). Holes need to be drilled, but you don't need to make these on all 4 sides, nor make holes along the entire length of the piece. Rather, just make holes where they are needed (that's easier, and makes for a stronger part), but use a gridbeam template so you can respect the gridbeam hole spacing (and hole size). You may need to use a slightly different size than the 5/16 inch bolt, such as M8 (8mm) bolt. A drill stand can be used to cut cleanly. Benefits of bamboo over trees is that it grows faster, and you don't need to do any additional labour (shaving, ...) to get the exact diameter required (38 mm).

Lastly, it also makes sense to incorporate spaceframe nodes into the set, so as to allow making domes and other spherical structures, ... This is useful for polytunnels (greenhouses), ... A system such as the Deltrastructures Axent system could be used. Alternatively, you can also make the parts using metal pipes and a pipe bender.

===Features of conventional building materials===
Conventional building materials are already somewhat modular. USA lumber and plywood come in sizes that are multiples of 2 feet, for example. But if needs change, conventional construction is not easily remodeled or recycled. Two basic features will allow for that: a standard grid and removable fasteners.

'''Standard Grid''' - This is to use multiples of a basic unit as the size of parts and the spacing of fasteners. Basic framing lumber has a thickness of 1.5 inches, which is nominally called 2 inch, but that is before drying and sanding. Then cut lengths should be multiples of 1.5 inches, and fastener spacing is also multiples of that unit size. That way pieces will automatically line up.

'''Removable Fasteners''' - Nails are fast to install, but hard to remove. If you don't think you will ever need to change or recycle what you are building, they might be suitable. For semi-permanent items, use screws on a standard grid spacing, and for items that will be changed often, use bolts. Not all holes for screws and bolts need to be drilled in advance, they can be added as needed, as long as the spacing is maintained.

'''Additional Features of modular systems'''

* Where materials are not an exact multiple, such as studs which are actually 1.5x3.5 inches in size, choose one edge and measure the grid from that edge. Choose a convention such as "the starting edge faces the outside of the building", so items will line up properly. If you are making your own materials, you can make them exact multiples from the start.

* For wood, center screw and bolt holes in each grid square. Thus for a 1.5 inch grid, they would be 0.75 inches from the edge and end. Where extra strength or rigidity is needed, metal connectors and diagonal bracing can be used. For structures where human safety matters, either building codes or engineered designs should be used. As a first approximation, though, the fasteners should not fail before the structural elements. Since ordinary lumber has a design strength of 1000 psi, and common steel is 18 ksi, the area of fastener should be 1/18th of the area of wood for maximum strength. It can be less where only moderate strength is needed.

* For roof slopes, stairs, and other angled items, choose slopes that result in even multiples of the grid unit.

==In practice==
* The system consists of bolted timber framing on a standard spacing, and bolted filler panels of standard sizes. Using bolts allows additions and modifications relatively easily.

* Timbers and other lumber are cut locally from on-site trees, then dried using an on-site solar kiln. Un-used parts of the tree are left in the forest, or returned after cutting. Some additional nutrients are added to the forest for sustainability.

* Wood is left untreated to avoid substances like creosote or metallic salts. This requires an above ground foundation to protect the wood from moisture and termites. To keep the system modular, concrete column footers can be used under each wood post. If a building is modified, the footers can be extracted and re-used elsewhere as needed.

* Truss braces are used as needed for stability, and cut steel plates and welded angles are used where needed for joint strength. Where loads are not as high, frames and filler panels are bolted directly to each other.

* Roofing, exterior covering, windows, doors, insulation, and utilities can be pre-installed into filler panels. In this case they need to be in standard locations so they line up. Edge overlap will be needed to prevent leakage. Alternately these can be added later, in which case they should be installed with bolts or screws so they can be removed.

This modular construction concept is based on standard practice from the following references:
* American Institute of Timber Construction, "Timber Construction Manual", 3rd edition, John Wiley & Sons, 1985.
New or alternative concepts can be compared to this reference design, and if found better, then become the new reference design.

=== Example: Modular Framing Panel ===

[[File:4x8_Panel.jpg|120px|thumb|Right|Example 122 x 244cm (4x8 ft) Panel]]

The 122 x 244 cm (4 x 8 ft) framing panel is an example of the modular concept. A standard plywood sheet and dimensional lumber boards are framed flush at the edges. Longer individual boards or beams are added at the top and bottom of the panels to stabilize walls. Since the panel may be installed and removed multiple times, screws and optionally glue are used to assemble the panel rather than nails in conventional house framing. For this example, two countersunk lag screws would be used at each board to board joint. Countersinking the heads of the lag screws keeps the edges of the module flush. The plywood to board fastening optionally uses construction adhesive (glue), and screws also set flush.

Panel to panel connections are bolted. Make a T shaped template the same height as the panel, with alignment holes at regular intervals on the vertical part of the T. Mark or drill through the template into the panel boards. This ensures that panels have holes in the same location and bolts will line up.

If you are cutting your own lumber with a sawmill, you can substitute individual boards at a 45 degree angle for the plywood sheet. Placing the boards diagonally triangulates the frame and makes it rigid.

Items such as doors and windows can be pre-installed into a module, and panels can be pre-drilled for utilities. Module sizes can vary according to the expected assembly crew. For exterior use, items such as tar paper and furring strips can be pre-installed on the panel, and then vinyl or metal siding screwed on after the panels are assembled. Interior finish and insulation can be similarly panelized and installed after structural assembly.

=== Another Example ===

[http://www.ics-rm.net/en/index.php?p=products#ti Insulated Component Structures] makes prefabricated architectural units, like walls and ceilings and whatnot. They have innovative ways of latching the units together so that 1) you don't need fasteners and 2) they can be taken apart again.

Here's [http://www.prefabinsulatedpanel.com/ more] about companies that make prefabricated panels.

[[Category:Housing and construction]]

Open Source Microfactory Boot Camp

2018-08-26T17:05:43Z

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=Intro Video to the 1 Week OSE Boot Camp=
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=Intro Video - 5 Week Immersion Program=

<span style="color:red">Published May 16, 2018</span>

The Open Source Microfactory Boot Camp - starting for the first time in 2018 - is part of a greater OSE immersion program for growing the OSE development effort. See this video - which covers both the 5 week Immersion Training and the 1 week OSE Boot Camp:

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=Summary=
'''An immersion, 7 day course - August 25-31, 2018, at Open Source Ecology, Kansas City area, Missouri, USA'''

Learn to design, build, and use the open source desktop Microfactory in an immersive learning environment. The Microfactory consisting of important digital manufacturing tools: a 3D printer, CNC Circuit Mill, Laser Cutter, and Filament maker. Participants will build a 3D printer to take home with them, and learn how to set up an online print cluster as a small enterprise for printing parts. Atttendees will also assist in teaching a workshop on how to build the 3D Printer - to experience the teaching side of the equation.

All together, this is a crash course in open source product design and enterprise - using accessible, open source software, and the open source Microfactory for rapid prototyping. The basic microfactory involves a modular, Universal Axis motion system - allowing anyone to take our design and modify the design to any size and shape that they like. Because our design is based on common, off-the-shelf parts - participants can use the 3D printer to print parts for additional machines of the desktop Microfactory.

And - with the Filament Maker - one can turn scrap plastic to 3D printing filament - for closed loop manufacturing - while cleaning up the environment. Together with an online print cluster, we will show how average people can begin changing the landscape of production by using open source blueprints for common consumer goods. We will show how a professional grade cordless drill can be designed in an open source fashion, and how it can be built from scratch using the open source microfactory. We will start with scrap plastic that is turned to 3D printing filament - and used to print the cordless drill body. The body will be 3D scanned from an existing drill and reverse engineered. The CNC circuit mill will be used for the cordless drill charger, and the laser cutter will be used to make the battery charger enclosure. Together with easy-to-source parts, we will build the cordless drill from scratch as an example of a professional grade tool that can be built in the open source microfactory as a potential small enteprise.

=Narrative=
3D printing and open source micromanufacturing, in its infancy, has great potential for distributing production. We start with a 3D printer, learn how to build one, and set up an online printing service for producing parts. In order to expand our enterprise - and enable the printing of large objects at low cost - we diversify into producing 3D printing filament from scrap plastic. We grind down scrap plastic, extrude it into 3D printing filament with our filament maker, and then wind it onto spools with the filament winder. Produced at a cost of only 10 cents per lb - we have inexpensive 3D printing filament that is almost free. So we can run an online 3D printing service successfully.

Can we then develop high value products that are competitive with standard consumer goods? That is our goal. So we collaborate on the Open Source Everything Store, where we design a whole catalog of products that compete with Amazon and Walmart - but are designed and produced locally. Household consumer goods total a $20T global market - so the pie is large and there is plenty of room for collaboration. It turns out that with 3D printing, a CNC Circuit Mill, and a small laser cutter/engraver - and a bunch of readily available, off-the-shelf parts - we can produce a whole range of useful products, and thus begin to effect manufacturing in a substantial way. We are excited, and want to spread the word. So we run public workshops teaching people to build these machines, and how to design products that can be made with these machines - using a completely open source toolchain. We take this to our local libraries, schools, events - and involve thousands of people in collaborative product design. We teach people about massive parallel swarm-based development techniques - and every child and grandmother begin designing their own products and publishing the plans on the internet for free. The depth of local manufacturing increases - and people begin making more of the parts that would normally be purchased - such as motors and power supplies. We democratize the face of manufacturing - converting consumers to producers...

'''That is the narrative we'd like to see happen, and the 1 week OSE Boot Camp is an introduction to how to do this in practice.''' We will learn to design and use the open source Level 1 Microfactory, consisting of important desktop manufacturing tools. These tools are: a 3D printer, CNC Circuit Mill, Laser Cutter, and Filament maker. Participants will build a 3D printer to take home with them.

Some may say that this is already happening - but 3D printing and distributed manufacturing has not taken much of a hold in terms of replacing consumer goods. The key is high quality, proven designs - not fringe things on 3D printing websites that in many cases cannot even be printed. The key is engaging enough cooperation - that all the possible products truly become best-in-class - while remaining fully open source. We not only show you that this new mindset is possible - but how to build the actual production tools - and how to leverage massive collaborative development processes - so that we democratize product development on the face of this earth. Perhaps the greatest single impact is environmental - as people learn to build their products - they also know how to fix them - thereby putting an end to the throw-away society - with lifetime design that can be modified, improved, or recycled back into feed-stocks. Our aim in the OSE Boot Camp is to introduce people to the first steps in seizing democratic control of production.

=Overview Schedule=

*'''Day 1 - Intro + 3D Printer''' - We start with the open source design software, how to design a 3D printer using our [[Universal Axis]] system, and then build a 3D printer from scratch in the afternoon. We use common, off-the-shelf materials and 3D printed parts, so that the builds can be replicated easily anywhere in the world. This first day of the OSE Boot Camp is open to the public for one day participation with others who want to participate in the 3D printer build.
*'''Day 2 - 3D Print Cluster + Filament Maker ''' - Did you ever think about producing useful products that can be part of a circular economy? Here we teach you how you can start your own microfactory at home - which you can connect to the internet as an on-demand printing service. To reduce the cost of 3D printing filament, we will teach you how to produce your own 3D printing filament from scrap plastic. Thus, the transition to distributed, closed loop production can start right at your home.
*'''Day 3 - CNC Circuit Mill + Open Source Electronics Toolchains''' -Besides 3D printed plastic parts, many consumer goods contain circuits. We will learn how to design circuits with open source software, and how to mill them using an open source CNC Circuit Mill. We will show how to import designs from KiCad into FreeCAD. As 2 examples, we will mill an open source switch mode power supply and inverter for producing useful power. The power supply can take 120AC into an adjustable DC value - such as power supplies for the 3D printer or CNC circuit mill itself - and the inverter can take a 12 v battery and turn it into 120 AC, for example for off-grid energy systems. But that is only the beginning: we will introduce the Power Electronics Construction Set - and explain how simple, scalable power systems can be made with arduinos and transistors. This is relevant to building your own welders, plasma cutters, induction furnaces, wind turbines, electric vehicle controllers, and many other industrial and consumer applications.
*'''Day 4 - Laser Cutting + 3D Scanning + Rapid Prototyping''' - We will learn about the full laser cutter toolchain - using OSE's open source laser cutter head add-on to the Universal Axis system. And then we go deeper: building a simple CO2 discharge tube for a CO2 laser: out of PVC pipe! Then we move on to rapid prototyping and reverse engineering: using pictures of a part taken from all angles, we will reconstruct a part as a detailed 3D CAD file in FreeCAD - using an open source photogrammetry toolchain. With working knowledge of 3D printing, laser cutting, and circuit milling - we will be in a position to design and build many consumer goods.
*'''Day 5 - The Open Source Everything Store'''. Imagine the open source version of Walmart or Amazon: all products are collaboratively designed and open sourced by people all over the world, and the products designed for fabrication in the open source microfactory. Can the next generation of democratic manufacturing bring production back to communities for responsible manufacturing? The key to this lies in developing effective crowd development techniques that leverage collaboration while avoiding the hardware version of [[Brook's Law]]. We will practice this on the design and build of a 3D printed cordless drill. We will study how large-scale design and prototyping events can take place in real-time, and how to leverage incentive prizes for such development. We will show an example of collaborative development by designing and building an open source cordless drill with speed control. We will 3D scan an existing drill as a starting point for our design. Together with the 3D printer, CNC circuit mill, laser cutter, and processing scrap plastic into 3D printing filament - and a capacitor-based battery spot welder - we will prototype the cordless drill as a team. This is an experimental day designed to push the limits of collaborative design and prototyping using both onsite and virtual collaboration.
*'''Day 6 - Enterprise.''' Now that we have learned good productivity skills based on open source equipment, we are ready to make economic impact. That is done by entrepreneurship that converts ideas into products of common use. We learn the overview of running an open source hardware and education enterprise. We will learn about open source enterprise software, and how to build a team for a continued and impactful effort of changing the technosphere to open source. Can we make open source product development the norm of how products enter our lives? The reward is a greater distribution of wealth and opportunity, environmentally sound supply chains, and a newly relevant producer culture - that can hope to transcend artificial scarcity.
*'''Day 7 - Big Build Day'''. With the techniques and tools that we learned - we will apply our new skills to building a fully functioning, high performance 3D printer with a 1 cubic meter build volume. The nice thing is - we will do this from scratch and without a prior design. We will simply use the Construction Set approach and our proven design principles. We will use the part libraries, do the calculations, do the cutting, printing, and circuit milling - and build a decent product all by working as a team on the modular design. Our aim is to bring with us a library of common, admissible parts, and build the entire project from metal, transistors, raw circuit boards, and printed plastic - all in one day. We will push the limits of what can be done with the Level 1 Microfactory to build a finished product.

=Detailed Curriculum=
<span style="color:red">Note: curriculum is being finalized and may change slightly. </span>
Theory Sessions mean primarily presentation format - and Practice sessions are primarily hands-on, but include some background discussion.

==Day 1 - Intro, Big Picture + 3D Printer==
Mornings: '''8 AM Start'''
*1 hr - Introductions and OSE introduction. The world of public domain and open source.
*1 hr - Hands-On - FreeCAD - designing parts from sketches. How to Design a 3D Printer, and how to use 3D Printer design libraries in FreeCAD. Part list, build procedure.
*2 hr - Hands-On - Building a 3D Printer. We work together on all the parts, then assemble them individually into the finished product.
'''Lunch presentation:''' Marlin 101: Everything You Need to Know About Marlin 3D Printing Firmware
*2 hr - Continued: Building a 3D printer from scratch
*2 hr - Calibration, printing, slicing. [[Cura]], [[BlocksCAD]].
*Dinner - 6-7 PM
*Dinner Lecture - The Open Source Ecology Product Ecosystem
'''7 PM End'''

==Day 2 - 3D Print Cluster + Filament Maker==
'''Morning:'''
*1 hr - Theory and Practice - How to Set up a Print Cluster Server with Octoprint. Connecting a print cluster and doing production printing
*1 hr - Theory - Filament Maker and Extruders. How to design a filament maker and extruder screw. How wo design a 3D printer extruder. Heating Systems for the 3D printing ecosystem. Power supplies, heated beds, [[Nichrome Calculator]], extruder heaters, heated build chambers, filament maker heaters. Insulation, cooling, mechanics, power calculations for scalability.
*1 hr - Practice - Making 3D printing filament from scrap plastic (not commercial pellets). Grinding and extruding. Experiment in making metal-embedded 3D priting filament using bronze metal powder.
'''Lunch Lectures''' - Conversation with [[E3D]] on Extruder Design, Large Filament, and Supersized Extruders. Conversation with [[Octoprint]] on 3D Print Clusters.
*1 hr - Theory and Practice - How to build and use a filament width sensor with Marlin. This allows irregular, home-made filament to be used effectively in 3D printers, removing the necessity of high quality control during the filament production process.
*1 hr - Practice - Making nichrome heaters for the filament maker and heated bed. Printing with Home Made Filament
*1 hr - Theory - Parts requirements and part ordering for the 3D Printer and CNC Circuit Mill
*1 hr - Practice - Setting up an Online 3D Printing Service on a wiki with Octoprint.

==Day 3 - Ciruit Mill + Electronics==
'''Morning:'''
*1 hr - Practice - KiCAD workflow from basics to using part libraries and design.
*1 hr - Theory and Practice - CNC Circuit Mill Design Guide + design with FreeCAD Part Library. Design of 3D PCBs with KiCAD and import into FreeCAD for modification and Gcode generation. [[Creating a KiCAD Library File]]
*1 hr - Theory and Practice - Designing a capacitive spot welder using KiCAD and FreeCAD.
*1 hr - Thoery and Practice - Milling with a CNC circuit mill: producing Gcode files, bed leveling, soldering
'''Lunch Lecture''' - Power Electronics Construction Set: How to Design an Efficient, Scalable, Arduino-Based Power Supplies, Welders, Inverters, Converters, Plasma Cutters, Motor Controllers, Transformers, and Transmission Lines.
*1 hr - Theory and Practice - Stepper Drivers - how to use RAMPS to drive Stepper Motors of any size using external stepper drivers.
*1 hr - Practice - Understanding Power handling devices: PID Controllers, Relays, MOSFETs, rectifiers, PWM, IGBTs, heat sinks, and wiring them for sample applications. Demonstrating how power elements can be paralleled and scaled using an arduino with multiplexed drivers, for building power systems of any scale. Scalability limits.
*1 hr - Practice - Designing and making your own coreless and cored transformers.
*1 hr - Practice - milling and soldering an arduino-based power supply and inverter circuit board for 100W as an example application.

==Day 4 - Small Laser Cutter, Rapid Prototyping, Crowd Development==
*1 hr - Theory + Practice - How to Design a Small Laser Cutter with FreeCAD Libraries, hands on. Designing a magnetic mount for the laser cutter head.
*1 hr - Practice - Laser Cutter Toolchain, from design to cutting or etching. Use cases of small laser cutting.
*1 hr - Practice - Building an enclosure for the open source inverter using the Laser Cutter.
*1 hr - Practice - 3D Scanning - Reverse Engineering real life objects with Photogrammetry - case of a cordless drill.
*Lunch Guest Lecture - How to design a Carbon Dioxide Laser Tube from Scratch
'''Afternoon'''
*1.5 hr - Theory and Practice - building a 20W CO2 Laser Tube from PVC pipe. Hands-on.
*1 hr - Theory and Practice - Printing in Different Media: concrete, mud, ceramic, laser sintering, metal (sinter- and weld-based), metal plastic filament. How to make 3D printing filament with embedded metal. Metal part printing. Open source laser sintering in metal. Metal Injection Molding. We will print with bronze-embedded PLA to produce linear motion bushings for the 3D printer. We will also take a stab at mixing finely ground plastic with bronze powder in the filament maker to produce our own metal 3D printing filament.
*1.5 hr - Theory: Collaborative Development Method. Swarming on a Cordless Power Tool Construction Set tool. Collaboration ecology.

==Day 5 - The Open Source Everything Store: Collaborative Design for Economic Impact==
*1 hr - Theory - Why Production Has Not Been Democratized - Yet - and the Possibilities. ''Public awareness of the public.''
*1 hr - Practice - Setting up an incentive design challenge online - an Add-On to the Open Source Microfactory Challenge
*1 hr - Theory - Open Source Product Development - Modular Design and Collaboration Architecture
*1 hr - Practice - A Design Sprint for an Open Source Cordless Tool Add-On
'''Afternoon'''
*4 hr - Applied session of designing a cordless drill. Reverse engineering an existing drill, then using the 3D Printer, CNC circuit mill, battery spot welder, filament maker, and other small tools to build a working cordless drill. The aim is to match performance standards of an industrial-grade cordless drill. This involves parallel work in FreeCAD, KiCad, manufacturing file generation, building a battery pack, milling a control and battery charger circuit, 3D scanning, and 3D printing, and laser cutting + etching to produce a working product. We will use an off-the-shelf electric motor, clutch, and chuck this time, and invite remote collaboration support. In future Boot Camps and immersion programs, we will use a 3D printed open source electric motor and transmission, which also includes 3D printed, nylon-reinforced rubber belts.

==Day 6 - The Open Source Enterprise and Organization==
*1 hr - The Open Enterprise Software Suite: Infrastructure with Odoo Community Edition. We will discuss the needs and best practices of using Odoo: inventory management, payment processing, event registration, event announcement, sales, chatbot, customer service, customer feedback, e-commerce, email marketing, Website Builder, and other modules.
*1 hr - Managing an offline and an online 3D printing cluster. Towards a generalized microfactory open software stack for online manufacturing. Print cluster automation: part harvesting using the OSE Robotics platform.
*1 hr - Server Admin 101. Shell scripts and Unix Commands 101. Top 12 Principles for Entrepreneurs: what you need to know about installing and maintaining critical infrastructure for a scalable, open source product development process . Why encrypt?
*1 hr - Here we discuss going beyond solo development to managing a team. Leadership: best practices for building and leading an effective, open source culture. Operations Manual: How to Run an Open Source Hardware Company. Operations and Growth. This includes R&D, production, marketing, sales, HR, logistics, and finances.
'''Lunch''' - Conversation with Lulzbot on open enterprise.
*1 hr - Theory and Practice. Massive Parallel Development - setting up modular information architecture and integrated project architecture. Setting up the Development Template. Setting up wiki templates that work for you.
*1 hr - The OSE Workshops business model. Leveraging Immersion Training, Crowd Collaborative Involvement with Crowd Incentive Challenges to grow a team.
*1 hr - Preparing for a build of a scaled up 3D printer. Rapid prototyping: frame, heat bed, multiple stepper drivers, multiple axes, and 6 mm filament.
*1 hr - Final discussion, lessons learned, and open discussion about Open Source Everthing, includig the Open Building Institute with Marcin and Catarina

'''Dinner''' - Open Source Pool Party.

==Day 7 - Build Workshop==
*'''Leaving - 8 AM''' - We will build a 3D Printer with a 3' large bed and metal frame - in 1 day. With all the learnings of the 6 days, it's time for a road trip to a nearby University to experience an extreme Design/Build Workshop in practice. We start - armed with FreeCAD design knowledge and design insights on the Universal Axis System - and design and build a large 3D printer. We will both participate as a team, and guide additional participants who sign up for the workshop. This will be an experimental workshop where we show the power of the Construction Set model in building larger, more powerful machines - while collaborating as a larger team. This is possible because we are using the modular Universal Axis system - where the interfaces between the different components are clear and well-proven, and specific design principles simplify the design significantly to create a product with industry standard performance - while reducing the part count to about 1/2-1/3. We will demonstrate the scalability of the print bed to any size - axis sizes - and show how the simple 8 mm Universal Axis system can be leveraged to make quality machines on a larger scale, at a fraction of the cost of similar designs. The event is designed to be an experiment in working as a team - as we push the limits in terms of the number of participants that can work constructively not only on a design/build - but also the documentation. Our goal is to develop techniques where meaningful collaboration can happen with as many people as can fit in any room. This means that a common understanding of open sourcce design and build techniques matches the availability of open source equipment to build the open designs.
*'''Returning - 6 PM'''.

=Scheduled Presentations=
==Saturday, August 25 (CST Time Zone)==
*8-9 AM - [[OSE Introduction and Big Picture]]
*9-10 AM - [[FreeCAD Basics and Introduction to the 3D Printer Build Part 1]].
*1-1:30 PM - 3D Printer Build Part 2
*4:30-5 PM - 3D Printer Build Part 3
*10 AM-6:00 PM - build, with 1 hour for lunch - video clips of main parts.

==Sunday, August 26==
*8 AM - Extreme Manufacturing and Design Jams: how to design and build large complex projects in a day with a swarm of people
*8:30 AM - FreeCAD 101 - the basic workflow for design that can be learned in 1 hour with OSE Linux
*1 PM - Plastic Recycling to produce 3D Printing Filament Using an Open Source Toolchain

==Monday==
*8 AM - Introduction to Open Source Electronics Toolchains: From KiCad to Milling
*1 PM - The OSE CNC Circuit Mill: How to Design and Build a CNC Circuit Mill

==Tuesday==
*8 AM - The OSE Laser Cutter: Design and Build as Part of the Universal Axis System
*1 PM - Rapid Prototyping, Design Jams, and Public Product Development

==Wednesday==
*8 AM - The Open Source Everything Store - The New Democratic Surround
*1 PM - Incentive Challenges and the Cordless Drill and Cell Phone

==Thursday==
*8 AM - The Open Source Enterprise: Infrastructure
*1 PM - Open Source Product Development as the New Norm

==Friday==
* 8 AM - Scalability: Extending the Universal Axis to Large 3D Printers

=Logistics=
*Arrival - evening before, with a welcome introduction at 8 PM.
*Food - food is included in the program
*Lodging - we have 12 spots available on site in shared-room accommodations, otherwise you can get a hotel in Cameron, MO, or camp on site.
*[[Workshop_Logistics_2018]]

=Registration=
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=FAQ=
*'''Is lodging covered in the workshop fee?''' Yes and no, depending on your tastes. Please see Logistics at bottom of https://www.opensourceecology.org/open-source-microfactory-boot-camp/#registration for details.
*'''Do I need to bring anything to the workshop?''' Just an open mind. We provide all the tools and supplies.
*'''Is food included?''' - In short, yes - see details at Logistics section at https://www.opensourceecology.org/open-source-microfactory-boot-camp/#registration

=Links=
*[[OSE Immersion Program]]
*[[Microfactory Boot Camp Logistics Email]]
*[[Workshop_Logistics_2018]]
*[[Boot Camp Remote Participant Email]]

=Attendees=
18 builds total - 21 people total
*Boot Camp - Kyle Tutty, Eric Poliner, Jeremy Lehrman, Jacob Lehrman, Bill Berkowitz, Tu Ngo + Son, Alex Brown, Ryan McMackins, Andrey Bemko, Catarina Mota (documenting), Lyle Bertz
*'''Immersion - Alex Au, Sara Bajor, Harman Bains, Nat Grimm; Dixon Nahrwold (3), Bhakti Kulkarni (3), Shale Lewis (7)
*Ph.D. Research - Rian (observing + building)
*Remote - [[Diderik van Wingerden]], Matt Heidrich, Chas Murillo, Pawel Lugowski, Greg Doud, [[Zbynek Winkler]], [[Dennis Weiss]], Milind Gunjan
*Food - Sarah for 2 weeks?
*Other - 2 children and a Border Collie?Hey Marcin,

I have just signed up for the microfactory bootcamp as a remote participant.

My background lies in an MSc in business informatics, several years in the industries as well as startups and finally, I’m now into freelance Web app development. Further I‘m currently learning permaculture design and just did the PDC on a farm in Austria. I‘m enthusiastic about the whole open source movement (soft- and hardware) and recently started reading through your OSE developer crash course.

My goal with the bootcamp is to lay the foundation to bring OSE to Zurich Switzerland and install a microfactory there. Btw; if you‘ve got already some cooperators in Switzerland I would be glad if you could provide me their contacts, so I could catch up with them?

As this signup is quite shorttem and I‘m on some travels this week I probably won‘t be able to attend all of the live lectures, but looking forward to grab on the recordings afterwards.

Finally, I have to say that I‘m impressed what you have achieved in the past years and I extremely like the whole OSE idea and philosophy behind.

So then, looking forward to the bootcamp ;)

Best

=Feedback=
*Zbynek - Is it happening? I am remote participant and there is nobody at the jitsi room I was told to join. I have been waiting a couple of hours by now. Can anyone help me?
** in case anyone is wondering, the first day onsite internet failed so there was no streaming on Saturday
** Sunday should have been at a different location with working internet connection - now we should be half way through the program but again no streaming so far
*Bhakti - I would love to learn how to 3D print using different materials. Also, the CNC circuit mill is pretty cool. If you can add how to design the electrical circuit for newbies and translate them to the PCB, that would be great. ]
*Dixon - As for the topics on the schedue, I am honestly most interested in the laser cutter topics, that said the schedule looks pretty good to me anyway.
*Diderik - Learning about the OSE approach, the people and culture, more than is possible via reading the website(s), gathering input for initiating an Open Source Design R&D Hub in The Netherlands. One of the projects would be to "make a Makerspace" (or "Microfactory").

Open Source Microfactory Boot Camp

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=Intro Video to the 1 Week OSE Boot Camp=
<span style="color:red">Published June 4, 2018</span>

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=Intro Video - 5 Week Immersion Program=

<span style="color:red">Published May 16, 2018</span>

The Open Source Microfactory Boot Camp - starting for the first time in 2018 - is part of a greater OSE immersion program for growing the OSE development effort. See this video - which covers both the 5 week Immersion Training and the 1 week OSE Boot Camp:

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=Summary=
'''An immersion, 7 day course - August 25-31, 2018, at Open Source Ecology, Kansas City area, Missouri, USA'''

Learn to design, build, and use the open source desktop Microfactory in an immersive learning environment. The Microfactory consisting of important digital manufacturing tools: a 3D printer, CNC Circuit Mill, Laser Cutter, and Filament maker. Participants will build a 3D printer to take home with them, and learn how to set up an online print cluster as a small enterprise for printing parts. Atttendees will also assist in teaching a workshop on how to build the 3D Printer - to experience the teaching side of the equation.

All together, this is a crash course in open source product design and enterprise - using accessible, open source software, and the open source Microfactory for rapid prototyping. The basic microfactory involves a modular, Universal Axis motion system - allowing anyone to take our design and modify the design to any size and shape that they like. Because our design is based on common, off-the-shelf parts - participants can use the 3D printer to print parts for additional machines of the desktop Microfactory.

And - with the Filament Maker - one can turn scrap plastic to 3D printing filament - for closed loop manufacturing - while cleaning up the environment. Together with an online print cluster, we will show how average people can begin changing the landscape of production by using open source blueprints for common consumer goods. We will show how a professional grade cordless drill can be designed in an open source fashion, and how it can be built from scratch using the open source microfactory. We will start with scrap plastic that is turned to 3D printing filament - and used to print the cordless drill body. The body will be 3D scanned from an existing drill and reverse engineered. The CNC circuit mill will be used for the cordless drill charger, and the laser cutter will be used to make the battery charger enclosure. Together with easy-to-source parts, we will build the cordless drill from scratch as an example of a professional grade tool that can be built in the open source microfactory as a potential small enteprise.

=Narrative=
3D printing and open source micromanufacturing, in its infancy, has great potential for distributing production. We start with a 3D printer, learn how to build one, and set up an online printing service for producing parts. In order to expand our enterprise - and enable the printing of large objects at low cost - we diversify into producing 3D printing filament from scrap plastic. We grind down scrap plastic, extrude it into 3D printing filament with our filament maker, and then wind it onto spools with the filament winder. Produced at a cost of only 10 cents per lb - we have inexpensive 3D printing filament that is almost free. So we can run an online 3D printing service successfully.

Can we then develop high value products that are competitive with standard consumer goods? That is our goal. So we collaborate on the Open Source Everything Store, where we design a whole catalog of products that compete with Amazon and Walmart - but are designed and produced locally. Household consumer goods total a $20T global market - so the pie is large and there is plenty of room for collaboration. It turns out that with 3D printing, a CNC Circuit Mill, and a small laser cutter/engraver - and a bunch of readily available, off-the-shelf parts - we can produce a whole range of useful products, and thus begin to effect manufacturing in a substantial way. We are excited, and want to spread the word. So we run public workshops teaching people to build these machines, and how to design products that can be made with these machines - using a completely open source toolchain. We take this to our local libraries, schools, events - and involve thousands of people in collaborative product design. We teach people about massive parallel swarm-based development techniques - and every child and grandmother begin designing their own products and publishing the plans on the internet for free. The depth of local manufacturing increases - and people begin making more of the parts that would normally be purchased - such as motors and power supplies. We democratize the face of manufacturing - converting consumers to producers...

'''That is the narrative we'd like to see happen, and the 1 week OSE Boot Camp is an introduction to how to do this in practice.''' We will learn to design and use the open source Level 1 Microfactory, consisting of important desktop manufacturing tools. These tools are: a 3D printer, CNC Circuit Mill, Laser Cutter, and Filament maker. Participants will build a 3D printer to take home with them.

Some may say that this is already happening - but 3D printing and distributed manufacturing has not taken much of a hold in terms of replacing consumer goods. The key is high quality, proven designs - not fringe things on 3D printing websites that in many cases cannot even be printed. The key is engaging enough cooperation - that all the possible products truly become best-in-class - while remaining fully open source. We not only show you that this new mindset is possible - but how to build the actual production tools - and how to leverage massive collaborative development processes - so that we democratize product development on the face of this earth. Perhaps the greatest single impact is environmental - as people learn to build their products - they also know how to fix them - thereby putting an end to the throw-away society - with lifetime design that can be modified, improved, or recycled back into feed-stocks. Our aim in the OSE Boot Camp is to introduce people to the first steps in seizing democratic control of production.

=Overview Schedule=

*'''Day 1 - Intro + 3D Printer''' - We start with the open source design software, how to design a 3D printer using our [[Universal Axis]] system, and then build a 3D printer from scratch in the afternoon. We use common, off-the-shelf materials and 3D printed parts, so that the builds can be replicated easily anywhere in the world. This first day of the OSE Boot Camp is open to the public for one day participation with others who want to participate in the 3D printer build.
*'''Day 2 - 3D Print Cluster + Filament Maker ''' - Did you ever think about producing useful products that can be part of a circular economy? Here we teach you how you can start your own microfactory at home - which you can connect to the internet as an on-demand printing service. To reduce the cost of 3D printing filament, we will teach you how to produce your own 3D printing filament from scrap plastic. Thus, the transition to distributed, closed loop production can start right at your home.
*'''Day 3 - CNC Circuit Mill + Open Source Electronics Toolchains''' -Besides 3D printed plastic parts, many consumer goods contain circuits. We will learn how to design circuits with open source software, and how to mill them using an open source CNC Circuit Mill. We will show how to import designs from KiCad into FreeCAD. As 2 examples, we will mill an open source switch mode power supply and inverter for producing useful power. The power supply can take 120AC into an adjustable DC value - such as power supplies for the 3D printer or CNC circuit mill itself - and the inverter can take a 12 v battery and turn it into 120 AC, for example for off-grid energy systems. But that is only the beginning: we will introduce the Power Electronics Construction Set - and explain how simple, scalable power systems can be made with arduinos and transistors. This is relevant to building your own welders, plasma cutters, induction furnaces, wind turbines, electric vehicle controllers, and many other industrial and consumer applications.
*'''Day 4 - Laser Cutting + 3D Scanning + Rapid Prototyping''' - We will learn about the full laser cutter toolchain - using OSE's open source laser cutter head add-on to the Universal Axis system. And then we go deeper: building a simple CO2 discharge tube for a CO2 laser: out of PVC pipe! Then we move on to rapid prototyping and reverse engineering: using pictures of a part taken from all angles, we will reconstruct a part as a detailed 3D CAD file in FreeCAD - using an open source photogrammetry toolchain. With working knowledge of 3D printing, laser cutting, and circuit milling - we will be in a position to design and build many consumer goods.
*'''Day 5 - The Open Source Everything Store'''. Imagine the open source version of Walmart or Amazon: all products are collaboratively designed and open sourced by people all over the world, and the products designed for fabrication in the open source microfactory. Can the next generation of democratic manufacturing bring production back to communities for responsible manufacturing? The key to this lies in developing effective crowd development techniques that leverage collaboration while avoiding the hardware version of [[Brook's Law]]. We will practice this on the design and build of a 3D printed cordless drill. We will study how large-scale design and prototyping events can take place in real-time, and how to leverage incentive prizes for such development. We will show an example of collaborative development by designing and building an open source cordless drill with speed control. We will 3D scan an existing drill as a starting point for our design. Together with the 3D printer, CNC circuit mill, laser cutter, and processing scrap plastic into 3D printing filament - and a capacitor-based battery spot welder - we will prototype the cordless drill as a team. This is an experimental day designed to push the limits of collaborative design and prototyping using both onsite and virtual collaboration.
*'''Day 6 - Enterprise.''' Now that we have learned good productivity skills based on open source equipment, we are ready to make economic impact. That is done by entrepreneurship that converts ideas into products of common use. We learn the overview of running an open source hardware and education enterprise. We will learn about open source enterprise software, and how to build a team for a continued and impactful effort of changing the technosphere to open source. Can we make open source product development the norm of how products enter our lives? The reward is a greater distribution of wealth and opportunity, environmentally sound supply chains, and a newly relevant producer culture - that can hope to transcend artificial scarcity.
*'''Day 7 - Big Build Day'''. With the techniques and tools that we learned - we will apply our new skills to building a fully functioning, high performance 3D printer with a 1 cubic meter build volume. The nice thing is - we will do this from scratch and without a prior design. We will simply use the Construction Set approach and our proven design principles. We will use the part libraries, do the calculations, do the cutting, printing, and circuit milling - and build a decent product all by working as a team on the modular design. Our aim is to bring with us a library of common, admissible parts, and build the entire project from metal, transistors, raw circuit boards, and printed plastic - all in one day. We will push the limits of what can be done with the Level 1 Microfactory to build a finished product.

=Detailed Curriculum=
<span style="color:red">Note: curriculum is being finalized and may change slightly. </span>
Theory Sessions mean primarily presentation format - and Practice sessions are primarily hands-on, but include some background discussion.

==Day 1 - Intro, Big Picture + 3D Printer==
Mornings: '''8 AM Start'''
*1 hr - Introductions and OSE introduction. The world of public domain and open source.
*1 hr - Hands-On - FreeCAD - designing parts from sketches. How to Design a 3D Printer, and how to use 3D Printer design libraries in FreeCAD. Part list, build procedure.
*2 hr - Hands-On - Building a 3D Printer. We work together on all the parts, then assemble them individually into the finished product.
'''Lunch presentation:''' Marlin 101: Everything You Need to Know About Marlin 3D Printing Firmware
*2 hr - Continued: Building a 3D printer from scratch
*2 hr - Calibration, printing, slicing. [[Cura]], [[BlocksCAD]].
*Dinner - 6-7 PM
*Dinner Lecture - The Open Source Ecology Product Ecosystem
'''7 PM End'''

==Day 2 - 3D Print Cluster + Filament Maker==
'''Morning:'''
*1 hr - Theory and Practice - How to Set up a Print Cluster Server with Octoprint. Connecting a print cluster and doing production printing
*1 hr - Theory - Filament Maker and Extruders. How to design a filament maker and extruder screw. How wo design a 3D printer extruder. Heating Systems for the 3D printing ecosystem. Power supplies, heated beds, [[Nichrome Calculator]], extruder heaters, heated build chambers, filament maker heaters. Insulation, cooling, mechanics, power calculations for scalability.
*1 hr - Practice - Making 3D printing filament from scrap plastic (not commercial pellets). Grinding and extruding. Experiment in making metal-embedded 3D priting filament using bronze metal powder.
'''Lunch Lectures''' - Conversation with [[E3D]] on Extruder Design, Large Filament, and Supersized Extruders. Conversation with [[Octoprint]] on 3D Print Clusters.
*1 hr - Theory and Practice - How to build and use a filament width sensor with Marlin. This allows irregular, home-made filament to be used effectively in 3D printers, removing the necessity of high quality control during the filament production process.
*1 hr - Practice - Making nichrome heaters for the filament maker and heated bed. Printing with Home Made Filament
*1 hr - Theory - Parts requirements and part ordering for the 3D Printer and CNC Circuit Mill
*1 hr - Practice - Setting up an Online 3D Printing Service on a wiki with Octoprint.

==Day 3 - Ciruit Mill + Electronics==
'''Morning:'''
*1 hr - Practice - KiCAD workflow from basics to using part libraries and design.
*1 hr - Theory and Practice - CNC Circuit Mill Design Guide + design with FreeCAD Part Library. Design of 3D PCBs with KiCAD and import into FreeCAD for modification and Gcode generation. [[Creating a KiCAD Library File]]
*1 hr - Theory and Practice - Designing a capacitive spot welder using KiCAD and FreeCAD.
*1 hr - Thoery and Practice - Milling with a CNC circuit mill: producing Gcode files, bed leveling, soldering
'''Lunch Lecture''' - Power Electronics Construction Set: How to Design an Efficient, Scalable, Arduino-Based Power Supplies, Welders, Inverters, Converters, Plasma Cutters, Motor Controllers, Transformers, and Transmission Lines.
*1 hr - Theory and Practice - Stepper Drivers - how to use RAMPS to drive Stepper Motors of any size using external stepper drivers.
*1 hr - Practice - Understanding Power handling devices: PID Controllers, Relays, MOSFETs, rectifiers, PWM, IGBTs, heat sinks, and wiring them for sample applications. Demonstrating how power elements can be paralleled and scaled using an arduino with multiplexed drivers, for building power systems of any scale. Scalability limits.
*1 hr - Practice - Designing and making your own coreless and cored transformers.
*1 hr - Practice - milling and soldering an arduino-based power supply and inverter circuit board for 100W as an example application.

==Day 4 - Small Laser Cutter, Rapid Prototyping, Crowd Development==
*1 hr - Theory + Practice - How to Design a Small Laser Cutter with FreeCAD Libraries, hands on. Designing a magnetic mount for the laser cutter head.
*1 hr - Practice - Laser Cutter Toolchain, from design to cutting or etching. Use cases of small laser cutting.
*1 hr - Practice - Building an enclosure for the open source inverter using the Laser Cutter.
*1 hr - Practice - 3D Scanning - Reverse Engineering real life objects with Photogrammetry - case of a cordless drill.
*Lunch Guest Lecture - How to design a Carbon Dioxide Laser Tube from Scratch
'''Afternoon'''
*1.5 hr - Theory and Practice - building a 20W CO2 Laser Tube from PVC pipe. Hands-on.
*1 hr - Theory and Practice - Printing in Different Media: concrete, mud, ceramic, laser sintering, metal (sinter- and weld-based), metal plastic filament. How to make 3D printing filament with embedded metal. Metal part printing. Open source laser sintering in metal. Metal Injection Molding. We will print with bronze-embedded PLA to produce linear motion bushings for the 3D printer. We will also take a stab at mixing finely ground plastic with bronze powder in the filament maker to produce our own metal 3D printing filament.
*1.5 hr - Theory: Collaborative Development Method. Swarming on a Cordless Power Tool Construction Set tool. Collaboration ecology.

==Day 5 - The Open Source Everything Store: Collaborative Design for Economic Impact==
*1 hr - Theory - Why Production Has Not Been Democratized - Yet - and the Possibilities. ''Public awareness of the public.''
*1 hr - Practice - Setting up an incentive design challenge online - an Add-On to the Open Source Microfactory Challenge
*1 hr - Theory - Open Source Product Development - Modular Design and Collaboration Architecture
*1 hr - Practice - A Design Sprint for an Open Source Cordless Tool Add-On
'''Afternoon'''
*4 hr - Applied session of designing a cordless drill. Reverse engineering an existing drill, then using the 3D Printer, CNC circuit mill, battery spot welder, filament maker, and other small tools to build a working cordless drill. The aim is to match performance standards of an industrial-grade cordless drill. This involves parallel work in FreeCAD, KiCad, manufacturing file generation, building a battery pack, milling a control and battery charger circuit, 3D scanning, and 3D printing, and laser cutting + etching to produce a working product. We will use an off-the-shelf electric motor, clutch, and chuck this time, and invite remote collaboration support. In future Boot Camps and immersion programs, we will use a 3D printed open source electric motor and transmission, which also includes 3D printed, nylon-reinforced rubber belts.

==Day 6 - The Open Source Enterprise and Organization==
*1 hr - The Open Enterprise Software Suite: Infrastructure with Odoo Community Edition. We will discuss the needs and best practices of using Odoo: inventory management, payment processing, event registration, event announcement, sales, chatbot, customer service, customer feedback, e-commerce, email marketing, Website Builder, and other modules.
*1 hr - Managing an offline and an online 3D printing cluster. Towards a generalized microfactory open software stack for online manufacturing. Print cluster automation: part harvesting using the OSE Robotics platform.
*1 hr - Server Admin 101. Shell scripts and Unix Commands 101. Top 12 Principles for Entrepreneurs: what you need to know about installing and maintaining critical infrastructure for a scalable, open source product development process . Why encrypt?
*1 hr - Here we discuss going beyond solo development to managing a team. Leadership: best practices for building and leading an effective, open source culture. Operations Manual: How to Run an Open Source Hardware Company. Operations and Growth. This includes R&D, production, marketing, sales, HR, logistics, and finances.
'''Lunch''' - Conversation with Lulzbot on open enterprise.
*1 hr - Theory and Practice. Massive Parallel Development - setting up modular information architecture and integrated project architecture. Setting up the Development Template. Setting up wiki templates that work for you.
*1 hr - The OSE Workshops business model. Leveraging Immersion Training, Crowd Collaborative Involvement with Crowd Incentive Challenges to grow a team.
*1 hr - Preparing for a build of a scaled up 3D printer. Rapid prototyping: frame, heat bed, multiple stepper drivers, multiple axes, and 6 mm filament.
*1 hr - Final discussion, lessons learned, and open discussion about Open Source Everthing, includig the Open Building Institute with Marcin and Catarina

'''Dinner''' - Open Source Pool Party.

==Day 7 - Build Workshop==
*'''Leaving - 8 AM''' - We will build a 3D Printer with a 3' large bed and metal frame - in 1 day. With all the learnings of the 6 days, it's time for a road trip to a nearby University to experience an extreme Design/Build Workshop in practice. We start - armed with FreeCAD design knowledge and design insights on the Universal Axis System - and design and build a large 3D printer. We will both participate as a team, and guide additional participants who sign up for the workshop. This will be an experimental workshop where we show the power of the Construction Set model in building larger, more powerful machines - while collaborating as a larger team. This is possible because we are using the modular Universal Axis system - where the interfaces between the different components are clear and well-proven, and specific design principles simplify the design significantly to create a product with industry standard performance - while reducing the part count to about 1/2-1/3. We will demonstrate the scalability of the print bed to any size - axis sizes - and show how the simple 8 mm Universal Axis system can be leveraged to make quality machines on a larger scale, at a fraction of the cost of similar designs. The event is designed to be an experiment in working as a team - as we push the limits in terms of the number of participants that can work constructively not only on a design/build - but also the documentation. Our goal is to develop techniques where meaningful collaboration can happen with as many people as can fit in any room. This means that a common understanding of open sourcce design and build techniques matches the availability of open source equipment to build the open designs.
*'''Returning - 6 PM'''.

=Scheduled Presentations=
==Saturday, August 25 (CST Time Zone)==
*8-9 AM - [[OSE Introduction and Big Picture]]
*9-10 AM - [[FreeCAD Basics and Introduction to the 3D Printer Build Part 1]].
*1-1:30 PM - 3D Printer Build Part 2
*4:30-5 PM - 3D Printer Build Part 3
*10 AM-6:00 PM - build, with 1 hour for lunch - video clips of main parts.

==Sunday, August 26==
*8 AM - Extreme Manufacturing: how to build large complex projects in a day with a swarm of people
*1 PM - Plastic Recycling to produce 3D Printing Filament Using an Open Source Toolchain

==Monday==
*8 AM - Introduction to Open Source Electronics Toolchains: From KiCad to Milling
*1 PM - The OSE CNC Circuit Mill: How to Design and Build a CNC Circuit Mill

==Tuesday==
*8 AM - The OSE Laser Cutter: Design and Build as Part of the Universal Axis System
*1 PM - Rapid Prototyping, Design Jams, and Public Product Development

==Wednesday==
*8 AM - The Open Source Everything Store - The New Democratic Surround
*1 PM - Incentive Challenges and the Cordless Drill and Cell Phone

==Thursday==
*8 AM - The Open Source Enterprise: Infrastructure
*1 PM - Open Source Product Development as the New Norm

==Friday==
* 8 AM - Scalability: Extending the Universal Axis to Large 3D Printers

=Logistics=
*Arrival - evening before, with a welcome introduction at 8 PM.
*Food - food is included in the program
*Lodging - we have 12 spots available on site in shared-room accommodations, otherwise you can get a hotel in Cameron, MO, or camp on site.
*[[Workshop_Logistics_2018]]

=Registration=
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=FAQ=
*'''Is lodging covered in the workshop fee?''' Yes and no, depending on your tastes. Please see Logistics at bottom of https://www.opensourceecology.org/open-source-microfactory-boot-camp/#registration for details.
*'''Do I need to bring anything to the workshop?''' Just an open mind. We provide all the tools and supplies.
*'''Is food included?''' - In short, yes - see details at Logistics section at https://www.opensourceecology.org/open-source-microfactory-boot-camp/#registration

=Links=
*[[OSE Immersion Program]]
*[[Microfactory Boot Camp Logistics Email]]
*[[Workshop_Logistics_2018]]
*[[Boot Camp Remote Participant Email]]

=Attendees=
18 builds total - 21 people total
*Boot Camp - Kyle Tutty, Eric Poliner, Jeremy Lehrman, Jacob Lehrman, Bill Berkowitz, Tu Ngo + Son, Alex Brown, Ryan McMackins, Andrey Bemko, Catarina Mota (documenting), Lyle Bertz
*'''Immersion - Alex Au, Sara Bajor, Harman Bains, Nat Grimm; Dixon Nahrwold (3), Bhakti Kulkarni (3), Shale Lewis (7)
*Ph.D. Research - Rian (observing + building)
*Remote - [[Diderik van Wingerden]], Matt Heidrich, Chas Murillo, Pawel Lugowski, Greg Doud, [[Zbynek Winkler]], [[Dennis Weiss]], Milind Gunjan
*Food - Sarah for 2 weeks?
*Other - 2 children and a Border Collie?Hey Marcin,

I have just signed up for the microfactory bootcamp as a remote participant.

My background lies in an MSc in business informatics, several years in the industries as well as startups and finally, I’m now into freelance Web app development. Further I‘m currently learning permaculture design and just did the PDC on a farm in Austria. I‘m enthusiastic about the whole open source movement (soft- and hardware) and recently started reading through your OSE developer crash course.

My goal with the bootcamp is to lay the foundation to bring OSE to Zurich Switzerland and install a microfactory there. Btw; if you‘ve got already some cooperators in Switzerland I would be glad if you could provide me their contacts, so I could catch up with them?

As this signup is quite shorttem and I‘m on some travels this week I probably won‘t be able to attend all of the live lectures, but looking forward to grab on the recordings afterwards.

Finally, I have to say that I‘m impressed what you have achieved in the past years and I extremely like the whole OSE idea and philosophy behind.

So then, looking forward to the bootcamp ;)

Best

=Feedback=
*Zbynek - Is it happening? I am remote participant and there is nobody at the jitsi room I was told to join. I have been waiting a couple of hours by now. Can anyone help me?
*Bhakti - I would love to learn how to 3D print using different materials. Also, the CNC circuit mill is pretty cool. If you can add how to design the electrical circuit for newbies and translate them to the PCB, that would be great. ]
*Dixon - As for the topics on the schedue, I am honestly most interested in the laser cutter topics, that said the schedule looks pretty good to me anyway.
*Diderik - Learning about the OSE approach, the people and culture, more than is possible via reading the website(s), gathering input for initiating an Open Source Design R&D Hub in The Netherlands. One of the projects would be to "make a Makerspace" (or "Microfactory").

Open Source Microfactory Boot Camp

2018-08-25T12:02:59Z

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=Intro Video to the 1 Week OSE Boot Camp=
<span style="color:red">Published June 4, 2018</span>

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=Intro Video - 5 Week Immersion Program=

<span style="color:red">Published May 16, 2018</span>

The Open Source Microfactory Boot Camp - starting for the first time in 2018 - is part of a greater OSE immersion program for growing the OSE development effort. See this video - which covers both the 5 week Immersion Training and the 1 week OSE Boot Camp:

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=Summary=
'''An immersion, 7 day course - August 25-31, 2018, at Open Source Ecology, Kansas City area, Missouri, USA'''

Learn to design, build, and use the open source desktop Microfactory in an immersive learning environment. The Microfactory consisting of important digital manufacturing tools: a 3D printer, CNC Circuit Mill, Laser Cutter, and Filament maker. Participants will build a 3D printer to take home with them, and learn how to set up an online print cluster as a small enterprise for printing parts. Atttendees will also assist in teaching a workshop on how to build the 3D Printer - to experience the teaching side of the equation.

All together, this is a crash course in open source product design and enterprise - using accessible, open source software, and the open source Microfactory for rapid prototyping. The basic microfactory involves a modular, Universal Axis motion system - allowing anyone to take our design and modify the design to any size and shape that they like. Because our design is based on common, off-the-shelf parts - participants can use the 3D printer to print parts for additional machines of the desktop Microfactory.

And - with the Filament Maker - one can turn scrap plastic to 3D printing filament - for closed loop manufacturing - while cleaning up the environment. Together with an online print cluster, we will show how average people can begin changing the landscape of production by using open source blueprints for common consumer goods. We will show how a professional grade cordless drill can be designed in an open source fashion, and how it can be built from scratch using the open source microfactory. We will start with scrap plastic that is turned to 3D printing filament - and used to print the cordless drill body. The body will be 3D scanned from an existing drill and reverse engineered. The CNC circuit mill will be used for the cordless drill charger, and the laser cutter will be used to make the battery charger enclosure. Together with easy-to-source parts, we will build the cordless drill from scratch as an example of a professional grade tool that can be built in the open source microfactory as a potential small enteprise.

=Narrative=
3D printing and open source micromanufacturing, in its infancy, has great potential for distributing production. We start with a 3D printer, learn how to build one, and set up an online printing service for producing parts. In order to expand our enterprise - and enable the printing of large objects at low cost - we diversify into producing 3D printing filament from scrap plastic. We grind down scrap plastic, extrude it into 3D printing filament with our filament maker, and then wind it onto spools with the filament winder. Produced at a cost of only 10 cents per lb - we have inexpensive 3D printing filament that is almost free. So we can run an online 3D printing service successfully.

Can we then develop high value products that are competitive with standard consumer goods? That is our goal. So we collaborate on the Open Source Everything Store, where we design a whole catalog of products that compete with Amazon and Walmart - but are designed and produced locally. Household consumer goods total a $20T global market - so the pie is large and there is plenty of room for collaboration. It turns out that with 3D printing, a CNC Circuit Mill, and a small laser cutter/engraver - and a bunch of readily available, off-the-shelf parts - we can produce a whole range of useful products, and thus begin to effect manufacturing in a substantial way. We are excited, and want to spread the word. So we run public workshops teaching people to build these machines, and how to design products that can be made with these machines - using a completely open source toolchain. We take this to our local libraries, schools, events - and involve thousands of people in collaborative product design. We teach people about massive parallel swarm-based development techniques - and every child and grandmother begin designing their own products and publishing the plans on the internet for free. The depth of local manufacturing increases - and people begin making more of the parts that would normally be purchased - such as motors and power supplies. We democratize the face of manufacturing - converting consumers to producers...

'''That is the narrative we'd like to see happen, and the 1 week OSE Boot Camp is an introduction to how to do this in practice.''' We will learn to design and use the open source Level 1 Microfactory, consisting of important desktop manufacturing tools. These tools are: a 3D printer, CNC Circuit Mill, Laser Cutter, and Filament maker. Participants will build a 3D printer to take home with them.

Some may say that this is already happening - but 3D printing and distributed manufacturing has not taken much of a hold in terms of replacing consumer goods. The key is high quality, proven designs - not fringe things on 3D printing websites that in many cases cannot even be printed. The key is engaging enough cooperation - that all the possible products truly become best-in-class - while remaining fully open source. We not only show you that this new mindset is possible - but how to build the actual production tools - and how to leverage massive collaborative development processes - so that we democratize product development on the face of this earth. Perhaps the greatest single impact is environmental - as people learn to build their products - they also know how to fix them - thereby putting an end to the throw-away society - with lifetime design that can be modified, improved, or recycled back into feed-stocks. Our aim in the OSE Boot Camp is to introduce people to the first steps in seizing democratic control of production.

=Overview Schedule=

*'''Day 1 - Intro + 3D Printer''' - We start with the open source design software, how to design a 3D printer using our [[Universal Axis]] system, and then build a 3D printer from scratch in the afternoon. We use common, off-the-shelf materials and 3D printed parts, so that the builds can be replicated easily anywhere in the world. This first day of the OSE Boot Camp is open to the public for one day participation with others who want to participate in the 3D printer build.
*'''Day 2 - 3D Print Cluster + Filament Maker ''' - Did you ever think about producing useful products that can be part of a circular economy? Here we teach you how you can start your own microfactory at home - which you can connect to the internet as an on-demand printing service. To reduce the cost of 3D printing filament, we will teach you how to produce your own 3D printing filament from scrap plastic. Thus, the transition to distributed, closed loop production can start right at your home.
*'''Day 3 - CNC Circuit Mill + Open Source Electronics Toolchains''' -Besides 3D printed plastic parts, many consumer goods contain circuits. We will learn how to design circuits with open source software, and how to mill them using an open source CNC Circuit Mill. We will show how to import designs from KiCad into FreeCAD. As 2 examples, we will mill an open source switch mode power supply and inverter for producing useful power. The power supply can take 120AC into an adjustable DC value - such as power supplies for the 3D printer or CNC circuit mill itself - and the inverter can take a 12 v battery and turn it into 120 AC, for example for off-grid energy systems. But that is only the beginning: we will introduce the Power Electronics Construction Set - and explain how simple, scalable power systems can be made with arduinos and transistors. This is relevant to building your own welders, plasma cutters, induction furnaces, wind turbines, electric vehicle controllers, and many other industrial and consumer applications.
*'''Day 4 - Laser Cutting + 3D Scanning + Rapid Prototyping''' - We will learn about the full laser cutter toolchain - using OSE's open source laser cutter head add-on to the Universal Axis system. And then we go deeper: building a simple CO2 discharge tube for a CO2 laser: out of PVC pipe! Then we move on to rapid prototyping and reverse engineering: using pictures of a part taken from all angles, we will reconstruct a part as a detailed 3D CAD file in FreeCAD - using an open source photogrammetry toolchain. With working knowledge of 3D printing, laser cutting, and circuit milling - we will be in a position to design and build many consumer goods.
*'''Day 5 - The Open Source Everything Store'''. Imagine the open source version of Walmart or Amazon: all products are collaboratively designed and open sourced by people all over the world, and the products designed for fabrication in the open source microfactory. Can the next generation of democratic manufacturing bring production back to communities for responsible manufacturing? The key to this lies in developing effective crowd development techniques that leverage collaboration while avoiding the hardware version of [[Brook's Law]]. We will practice this on the design and build of a 3D printed cordless drill. We will study how large-scale design and prototyping events can take place in real-time, and how to leverage incentive prizes for such development. We will show an example of collaborative development by designing and building an open source cordless drill with speed control. We will 3D scan an existing drill as a starting point for our design. Together with the 3D printer, CNC circuit mill, laser cutter, and processing scrap plastic into 3D printing filament - and a capacitor-based battery spot welder - we will prototype the cordless drill as a team. This is an experimental day designed to push the limits of collaborative design and prototyping using both onsite and virtual collaboration.
*'''Day 6 - Enterprise.''' Now that we have learned good productivity skills based on open source equipment, we are ready to make economic impact. That is done by entrepreneurship that converts ideas into products of common use. We learn the overview of running an open source hardware and education enterprise. We will learn about open source enterprise software, and how to build a team for a continued and impactful effort of changing the technosphere to open source. Can we make open source product development the norm of how products enter our lives? The reward is a greater distribution of wealth and opportunity, environmentally sound supply chains, and a newly relevant producer culture - that can hope to transcend artificial scarcity.
*'''Day 7 - Big Build Day'''. With the techniques and tools that we learned - we will apply our new skills to building a fully functioning, high performance 3D printer with a 1 cubic meter build volume. The nice thing is - we will do this from scratch and without a prior design. We will simply use the Construction Set approach and our proven design principles. We will use the part libraries, do the calculations, do the cutting, printing, and circuit milling - and build a decent product all by working as a team on the modular design. Our aim is to bring with us a library of common, admissible parts, and build the entire project from metal, transistors, raw circuit boards, and printed plastic - all in one day. We will push the limits of what can be done with the Level 1 Microfactory to build a finished product.

=Detailed Curriculum=
<span style="color:red">Note: curriculum is being finalized and may change slightly. </span>
Theory Sessions mean primarily presentation format - and Practice sessions are primarily hands-on, but include some background discussion.

==Day 1 - Intro, Big Picture + 3D Printer==
Mornings: '''8 AM Start'''
*1 hr - Introductions and OSE introduction. The world of public domain and open source.
*1 hr - Hands-On - FreeCAD - designing parts from sketches. How to Design a 3D Printer, and how to use 3D Printer design libraries in FreeCAD. Part list, build procedure.
*2 hr - Hands-On - Building a 3D Printer. We work together on all the parts, then assemble them individually into the finished product.
'''Lunch presentation:''' Marlin 101: Everything You Need to Know About Marlin 3D Printing Firmware
*2 hr - Continued: Building a 3D printer from scratch
*2 hr - Calibration, printing, slicing. [[Cura]], [[BlocksCAD]].
*Dinner - 6-7 PM
*Dinner Lecture - The Open Source Ecology Product Ecosystem
'''7 PM End'''

==Day 2 - 3D Print Cluster + Filament Maker==
'''Morning:'''
*1 hr - Theory and Practice - How to Set up a Print Cluster Server with Octoprint. Connecting a print cluster and doing production printing
*1 hr - Theory - Filament Maker and Extruders. How to design a filament maker and extruder screw. How wo design a 3D printer extruder. Heating Systems for the 3D printing ecosystem. Power supplies, heated beds, [[Nichrome Calculator]], extruder heaters, heated build chambers, filament maker heaters. Insulation, cooling, mechanics, power calculations for scalability.
*1 hr - Practice - Making 3D printing filament from scrap plastic (not commercial pellets). Grinding and extruding. Experiment in making metal-embedded 3D priting filament using bronze metal powder.
'''Lunch Lectures''' - Conversation with [[E3D]] on Extruder Design, Large Filament, and Supersized Extruders. Conversation with [[Octoprint]] on 3D Print Clusters.
*1 hr - Theory and Practice - How to build and use a filament width sensor with Marlin. This allows irregular, home-made filament to be used effectively in 3D printers, removing the necessity of high quality control during the filament production process.
*1 hr - Practice - Making nichrome heaters for the filament maker and heated bed. Printing with Home Made Filament
*1 hr - Theory - Parts requirements and part ordering for the 3D Printer and CNC Circuit Mill
*1 hr - Practice - Setting up an Online 3D Printing Service on a wiki with Octoprint.

==Day 3 - Ciruit Mill + Electronics==
'''Morning:'''
*1 hr - Practice - KiCAD workflow from basics to using part libraries and design.
*1 hr - Theory and Practice - CNC Circuit Mill Design Guide + design with FreeCAD Part Library. Design of 3D PCBs with KiCAD and import into FreeCAD for modification and Gcode generation. [[Creating a KiCAD Library File]]
*1 hr - Theory and Practice - Designing a capacitive spot welder using KiCAD and FreeCAD.
*1 hr - Thoery and Practice - Milling with a CNC circuit mill: producing Gcode files, bed leveling, soldering
'''Lunch Lecture''' - Power Electronics Construction Set: How to Design an Efficient, Scalable, Arduino-Based Power Supplies, Welders, Inverters, Converters, Plasma Cutters, Motor Controllers, Transformers, and Transmission Lines.
*1 hr - Theory and Practice - Stepper Drivers - how to use RAMPS to drive Stepper Motors of any size using external stepper drivers.
*1 hr - Practice - Understanding Power handling devices: PID Controllers, Relays, MOSFETs, rectifiers, PWM, IGBTs, heat sinks, and wiring them for sample applications. Demonstrating how power elements can be paralleled and scaled using an arduino with multiplexed drivers, for building power systems of any scale. Scalability limits.
*1 hr - Practice - Designing and making your own coreless and cored transformers.
*1 hr - Practice - milling and soldering an arduino-based power supply and inverter circuit board for 100W as an example application.

==Day 4 - Small Laser Cutter, Rapid Prototyping, Crowd Development==
*1 hr - Theory + Practice - How to Design a Small Laser Cutter with FreeCAD Libraries, hands on. Designing a magnetic mount for the laser cutter head.
*1 hr - Practice - Laser Cutter Toolchain, from design to cutting or etching. Use cases of small laser cutting.
*1 hr - Practice - Building an enclosure for the open source inverter using the Laser Cutter.
*1 hr - Practice - 3D Scanning - Reverse Engineering real life objects with Photogrammetry - case of a cordless drill.
*Lunch Guest Lecture - How to design a Carbon Dioxide Laser Tube from Scratch
'''Afternoon'''
*1.5 hr - Theory and Practice - building a 20W CO2 Laser Tube from PVC pipe. Hands-on.
*1 hr - Theory and Practice - Printing in Different Media: concrete, mud, ceramic, laser sintering, metal (sinter- and weld-based), metal plastic filament. How to make 3D printing filament with embedded metal. Metal part printing. Open source laser sintering in metal. Metal Injection Molding. We will print with bronze-embedded PLA to produce linear motion bushings for the 3D printer. We will also take a stab at mixing finely ground plastic with bronze powder in the filament maker to produce our own metal 3D printing filament.
*1.5 hr - Theory: Collaborative Development Method. Swarming on a Cordless Power Tool Construction Set tool. Collaboration ecology.

==Day 5 - The Open Source Everything Store: Collaborative Design for Economic Impact==
*1 hr - Theory - Why Production Has Not Been Democratized - Yet - and the Possibilities. ''Public awareness of the public.''
*1 hr - Practice - Setting up an incentive design challenge online - an Add-On to the Open Source Microfactory Challenge
*1 hr - Theory - Open Source Product Development - Modular Design and Collaboration Architecture
*1 hr - Practice - A Design Sprint for an Open Source Cordless Tool Add-On
'''Afternoon'''
*4 hr - Applied session of designing a cordless drill. Reverse engineering an existing drill, then using the 3D Printer, CNC circuit mill, battery spot welder, filament maker, and other small tools to build a working cordless drill. The aim is to match performance standards of an industrial-grade cordless drill. This involves parallel work in FreeCAD, KiCad, manufacturing file generation, building a battery pack, milling a control and battery charger circuit, 3D scanning, and 3D printing, and laser cutting + etching to produce a working product. We will use an off-the-shelf electric motor, clutch, and chuck this time, and invite remote collaboration support. In future Boot Camps and immersion programs, we will use a 3D printed open source electric motor and transmission, which also includes 3D printed, nylon-reinforced rubber belts.

==Day 6 - The Open Source Enterprise and Organization==
*1 hr - The Open Enterprise Software Suite: Infrastructure with Odoo Community Edition. We will discuss the needs and best practices of using Odoo: inventory management, payment processing, event registration, event announcement, sales, chatbot, customer service, customer feedback, e-commerce, email marketing, Website Builder, and other modules.
*1 hr - Managing an offline and an online 3D printing cluster. Towards a generalized microfactory open software stack for online manufacturing. Print cluster automation: part harvesting using the OSE Robotics platform.
*1 hr - Server Admin 101. Shell scripts and Unix Commands 101. Top 12 Principles for Entrepreneurs: what you need to know about installing and maintaining critical infrastructure for a scalable, open source product development process . Why encrypt?
*1 hr - Here we discuss going beyond solo development to managing a team. Leadership: best practices for building and leading an effective, open source culture. Operations Manual: How to Run an Open Source Hardware Company. Operations and Growth. This includes R&D, production, marketing, sales, HR, logistics, and finances.
'''Lunch''' - Conversation with Lulzbot on open enterprise.
*1 hr - Theory and Practice. Massive Parallel Development - setting up modular information architecture and integrated project architecture. Setting up the Development Template. Setting up wiki templates that work for you.
*1 hr - The OSE Workshops business model. Leveraging Immersion Training, Crowd Collaborative Involvement with Crowd Incentive Challenges to grow a team.
*1 hr - Preparing for a build of a scaled up 3D printer. Rapid prototyping: frame, heat bed, multiple stepper drivers, multiple axes, and 6 mm filament.
*1 hr - Final discussion, lessons learned, and open discussion about Open Source Everthing, includig the Open Building Institute with Marcin and Catarina

'''Dinner''' - Open Source Pool Party.

==Day 7 - Build Workshop==
*'''Leaving - 8 AM''' - We will build a 3D Printer with a 3' large bed and metal frame - in 1 day. With all the learnings of the 6 days, it's time for a road trip to a nearby University to experience an extreme Design/Build Workshop in practice. We start - armed with FreeCAD design knowledge and design insights on the Universal Axis System - and design and build a large 3D printer. We will both participate as a team, and guide additional participants who sign up for the workshop. This will be an experimental workshop where we show the power of the Construction Set model in building larger, more powerful machines - while collaborating as a larger team. This is possible because we are using the modular Universal Axis system - where the interfaces between the different components are clear and well-proven, and specific design principles simplify the design significantly to create a product with industry standard performance - while reducing the part count to about 1/2-1/3. We will demonstrate the scalability of the print bed to any size - axis sizes - and show how the simple 8 mm Universal Axis system can be leveraged to make quality machines on a larger scale, at a fraction of the cost of similar designs. The event is designed to be an experiment in working as a team - as we push the limits in terms of the number of participants that can work constructively not only on a design/build - but also the documentation. Our goal is to develop techniques where meaningful collaboration can happen with as many people as can fit in any room. This means that a common understanding of open sourcce design and build techniques matches the availability of open source equipment to build the open designs.
*'''Returning - 6 PM'''.

=Scheduled Presentations=
==Saturday, August 25 (CST Time Zone)==
*8-9 AM - [[OSE Introduction and Big Picture]]
*9-10 AM - [[FreeCAD Basics and Introduction to the 3D Printer Build Part 1]].
*12:30-1 PM - [[Lunchtime Lecture on Marlin]] - the open source software for controlling the 3D printer
*1-1:30 PM - 3D Printer Build Part 2
*4:30-5 PM - 3D Printer Build Part 3
*10 AM-6:00 PM - build, with 1 hour for lunch - video clips of main parts.

==Sunday, August 26==
*8 AM - Extreme Manufacturing: how to build large complex projects in a day with a swarm of people
*1 PM - Plastic Recycling to produce 3D Printing Filament Using an Open Source Toolchain

==Monday==
*8 AM - Introduction to Open Source Electronics Toolchains: From KiCad to Milling
*1 PM - The OSE CNC Circuit Mill: How to Design and Build a CNC Circuit Mill

==Tuesday==
*8 AM - The OSE Laser Cutter: Design and Build as Part of the Universal Axis System
*1 PM - Rapid Prototyping, Design Jams, and Public Product Development

==Wednesday==
*8 AM - The Open Source Everything Store - The New Democratic Surround
*1 PM - Incentive Challenges and the Cordless Drill and Cell Phone

==Thursday==
*8 AM - The Open Source Enterprise: Infrastructure
*1 PM - Open Source Product Development as the New Norm

==Friday==
* 8 AM - Scalability: Extending the Universal Axis to Large 3D Printers

=Logistics=
*Arrival - evening before, with a welcome introduction at 8 PM.
*Food - food is included in the program
*Lodging - we have 12 spots available on site in shared-room accommodations, otherwise you can get a hotel in Cameron, MO, or camp on site.
*[[Workshop_Logistics_2018]]

=Registration=
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=FAQ=
*'''Is lodging covered in the workshop fee?''' Yes and no, depending on your tastes. Please see Logistics at bottom of https://www.opensourceecology.org/open-source-microfactory-boot-camp/#registration for details.
*'''Do I need to bring anything to the workshop?''' Just an open mind. We provide all the tools and supplies.
*'''Is food included?''' - In short, yes - see details at Logistics section at https://www.opensourceecology.org/open-source-microfactory-boot-camp/#registration

=Links=
*[[OSE Immersion Program]]
*[[Microfactory Boot Camp Logistics Email]]
*[[Workshop_Logistics_2018]]
*[[Boot Camp Remote Participant Email]]

=Attendees=
18 builds total - 21 people total
*Boot Camp - Kyle Tutty, Eric Poliner, Jeremy Lehrman, Jacob Lehrman, Bill Berkowitz, Tu Ngo + Son, Alex Brown, Ryan McMackins, Andrey Bemko, Catarina Mota (documenting), Lyle Bertz
*'''Immersion - Alex Au, Sara Bajor, Harman Bains, Nat Grimm; Dixon Nahrwold (3), Bhakti Kulkarni (3), Shale Lewis (7)
*Ph.D. Research - Rian (observing + building)
*Remote - [[Diderik van Wingerden]], Matt Heidrich, Chas Murillo, Pawel Lugowski, Greg Doud, [[Zbynek Winkler]], [[Dennis Weiss]], Milind Gunjan
*Food - Sarah for 2 weeks?
*Other - 2 children and a Border Collie?Hey Marcin,

I have just signed up for the microfactory bootcamp as a remote participant.

My background lies in an MSc in business informatics, several years in the industries as well as startups and finally, I’m now into freelance Web app development. Further I‘m currently learning permaculture design and just did the PDC on a farm in Austria. I‘m enthusiastic about the whole open source movement (soft- and hardware) and recently started reading through your OSE developer crash course.

My goal with the bootcamp is to lay the foundation to bring OSE to Zurich Switzerland and install a microfactory there. Btw; if you‘ve got already some cooperators in Switzerland I would be glad if you could provide me their contacts, so I could catch up with them?

As this signup is quite shorttem and I‘m on some travels this week I probably won‘t be able to attend all of the live lectures, but looking forward to grab on the recordings afterwards.

Finally, I have to say that I‘m impressed what you have achieved in the past years and I extremely like the whole OSE idea and philosophy behind.

So then, looking forward to the bootcamp ;)

Best

=Feedback=
*Bhakti - I would love to learn how to 3D print using different materials. Also, the CNC circuit mill is pretty cool. If you can add how to design the electrical circuit for newbies and translate them to the PCB, that would be great. ]
*Dixon - As for the topics on the schedue, I am honestly most interested in the laser cutter topics, that said the schedule looks pretty good to me anyway.
*Diderik - Learning about the OSE approach, the people and culture, more than is possible via reading the website(s), gathering input for initiating an Open Source Design R&D Hub in The Netherlands. One of the projects would be to "make a Makerspace" (or "Microfactory").

Open Source Microfactory Boot Camp

2018-08-25T12:02:30Z

Zbynek: /* Wednesday -> Thursday */

{{Hint|See the OSE website for the Open Source Microfactory Boot Camp - https://www.opensourceecology.org/open-source-microfactory-boot-camp/ }}

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=Intro Video to the 1 Week OSE Boot Camp=
<span style="color:red">Published June 4, 2018</span>

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=Intro Video - 5 Week Immersion Program=

<span style="color:red">Published May 16, 2018</span>

The Open Source Microfactory Boot Camp - starting for the first time in 2018 - is part of a greater OSE immersion program for growing the OSE development effort. See this video - which covers both the 5 week Immersion Training and the 1 week OSE Boot Camp:

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=Summary=
'''An immersion, 7 day course - August 25-31, 2018, at Open Source Ecology, Kansas City area, Missouri, USA'''

Learn to design, build, and use the open source desktop Microfactory in an immersive learning environment. The Microfactory consisting of important digital manufacturing tools: a 3D printer, CNC Circuit Mill, Laser Cutter, and Filament maker. Participants will build a 3D printer to take home with them, and learn how to set up an online print cluster as a small enterprise for printing parts. Atttendees will also assist in teaching a workshop on how to build the 3D Printer - to experience the teaching side of the equation.

All together, this is a crash course in open source product design and enterprise - using accessible, open source software, and the open source Microfactory for rapid prototyping. The basic microfactory involves a modular, Universal Axis motion system - allowing anyone to take our design and modify the design to any size and shape that they like. Because our design is based on common, off-the-shelf parts - participants can use the 3D printer to print parts for additional machines of the desktop Microfactory.

And - with the Filament Maker - one can turn scrap plastic to 3D printing filament - for closed loop manufacturing - while cleaning up the environment. Together with an online print cluster, we will show how average people can begin changing the landscape of production by using open source blueprints for common consumer goods. We will show how a professional grade cordless drill can be designed in an open source fashion, and how it can be built from scratch using the open source microfactory. We will start with scrap plastic that is turned to 3D printing filament - and used to print the cordless drill body. The body will be 3D scanned from an existing drill and reverse engineered. The CNC circuit mill will be used for the cordless drill charger, and the laser cutter will be used to make the battery charger enclosure. Together with easy-to-source parts, we will build the cordless drill from scratch as an example of a professional grade tool that can be built in the open source microfactory as a potential small enteprise.

=Narrative=
3D printing and open source micromanufacturing, in its infancy, has great potential for distributing production. We start with a 3D printer, learn how to build one, and set up an online printing service for producing parts. In order to expand our enterprise - and enable the printing of large objects at low cost - we diversify into producing 3D printing filament from scrap plastic. We grind down scrap plastic, extrude it into 3D printing filament with our filament maker, and then wind it onto spools with the filament winder. Produced at a cost of only 10 cents per lb - we have inexpensive 3D printing filament that is almost free. So we can run an online 3D printing service successfully.

Can we then develop high value products that are competitive with standard consumer goods? That is our goal. So we collaborate on the Open Source Everything Store, where we design a whole catalog of products that compete with Amazon and Walmart - but are designed and produced locally. Household consumer goods total a $20T global market - so the pie is large and there is plenty of room for collaboration. It turns out that with 3D printing, a CNC Circuit Mill, and a small laser cutter/engraver - and a bunch of readily available, off-the-shelf parts - we can produce a whole range of useful products, and thus begin to effect manufacturing in a substantial way. We are excited, and want to spread the word. So we run public workshops teaching people to build these machines, and how to design products that can be made with these machines - using a completely open source toolchain. We take this to our local libraries, schools, events - and involve thousands of people in collaborative product design. We teach people about massive parallel swarm-based development techniques - and every child and grandmother begin designing their own products and publishing the plans on the internet for free. The depth of local manufacturing increases - and people begin making more of the parts that would normally be purchased - such as motors and power supplies. We democratize the face of manufacturing - converting consumers to producers...

'''That is the narrative we'd like to see happen, and the 1 week OSE Boot Camp is an introduction to how to do this in practice.''' We will learn to design and use the open source Level 1 Microfactory, consisting of important desktop manufacturing tools. These tools are: a 3D printer, CNC Circuit Mill, Laser Cutter, and Filament maker. Participants will build a 3D printer to take home with them.

Some may say that this is already happening - but 3D printing and distributed manufacturing has not taken much of a hold in terms of replacing consumer goods. The key is high quality, proven designs - not fringe things on 3D printing websites that in many cases cannot even be printed. The key is engaging enough cooperation - that all the possible products truly become best-in-class - while remaining fully open source. We not only show you that this new mindset is possible - but how to build the actual production tools - and how to leverage massive collaborative development processes - so that we democratize product development on the face of this earth. Perhaps the greatest single impact is environmental - as people learn to build their products - they also know how to fix them - thereby putting an end to the throw-away society - with lifetime design that can be modified, improved, or recycled back into feed-stocks. Our aim in the OSE Boot Camp is to introduce people to the first steps in seizing democratic control of production.

=Overview Schedule=

*'''Day 1 - Intro + 3D Printer''' - We start with the open source design software, how to design a 3D printer using our [[Universal Axis]] system, and then build a 3D printer from scratch in the afternoon. We use common, off-the-shelf materials and 3D printed parts, so that the builds can be replicated easily anywhere in the world. This first day of the OSE Boot Camp is open to the public for one day participation with others who want to participate in the 3D printer build.
*'''Day 2 - 3D Print Cluster + Filament Maker ''' - Did you ever think about producing useful products that can be part of a circular economy? Here we teach you how you can start your own microfactory at home - which you can connect to the internet as an on-demand printing service. To reduce the cost of 3D printing filament, we will teach you how to produce your own 3D printing filament from scrap plastic. Thus, the transition to distributed, closed loop production can start right at your home.
*'''Day 3 - CNC Circuit Mill + Open Source Electronics Toolchains''' -Besides 3D printed plastic parts, many consumer goods contain circuits. We will learn how to design circuits with open source software, and how to mill them using an open source CNC Circuit Mill. We will show how to import designs from KiCad into FreeCAD. As 2 examples, we will mill an open source switch mode power supply and inverter for producing useful power. The power supply can take 120AC into an adjustable DC value - such as power supplies for the 3D printer or CNC circuit mill itself - and the inverter can take a 12 v battery and turn it into 120 AC, for example for off-grid energy systems. But that is only the beginning: we will introduce the Power Electronics Construction Set - and explain how simple, scalable power systems can be made with arduinos and transistors. This is relevant to building your own welders, plasma cutters, induction furnaces, wind turbines, electric vehicle controllers, and many other industrial and consumer applications.
*'''Day 4 - Laser Cutting + 3D Scanning + Rapid Prototyping''' - We will learn about the full laser cutter toolchain - using OSE's open source laser cutter head add-on to the Universal Axis system. And then we go deeper: building a simple CO2 discharge tube for a CO2 laser: out of PVC pipe! Then we move on to rapid prototyping and reverse engineering: using pictures of a part taken from all angles, we will reconstruct a part as a detailed 3D CAD file in FreeCAD - using an open source photogrammetry toolchain. With working knowledge of 3D printing, laser cutting, and circuit milling - we will be in a position to design and build many consumer goods.
*'''Day 5 - The Open Source Everything Store'''. Imagine the open source version of Walmart or Amazon: all products are collaboratively designed and open sourced by people all over the world, and the products designed for fabrication in the open source microfactory. Can the next generation of democratic manufacturing bring production back to communities for responsible manufacturing? The key to this lies in developing effective crowd development techniques that leverage collaboration while avoiding the hardware version of [[Brook's Law]]. We will practice this on the design and build of a 3D printed cordless drill. We will study how large-scale design and prototyping events can take place in real-time, and how to leverage incentive prizes for such development. We will show an example of collaborative development by designing and building an open source cordless drill with speed control. We will 3D scan an existing drill as a starting point for our design. Together with the 3D printer, CNC circuit mill, laser cutter, and processing scrap plastic into 3D printing filament - and a capacitor-based battery spot welder - we will prototype the cordless drill as a team. This is an experimental day designed to push the limits of collaborative design and prototyping using both onsite and virtual collaboration.
*'''Day 6 - Enterprise.''' Now that we have learned good productivity skills based on open source equipment, we are ready to make economic impact. That is done by entrepreneurship that converts ideas into products of common use. We learn the overview of running an open source hardware and education enterprise. We will learn about open source enterprise software, and how to build a team for a continued and impactful effort of changing the technosphere to open source. Can we make open source product development the norm of how products enter our lives? The reward is a greater distribution of wealth and opportunity, environmentally sound supply chains, and a newly relevant producer culture - that can hope to transcend artificial scarcity.
*'''Day 7 - Big Build Day'''. With the techniques and tools that we learned - we will apply our new skills to building a fully functioning, high performance 3D printer with a 1 cubic meter build volume. The nice thing is - we will do this from scratch and without a prior design. We will simply use the Construction Set approach and our proven design principles. We will use the part libraries, do the calculations, do the cutting, printing, and circuit milling - and build a decent product all by working as a team on the modular design. Our aim is to bring with us a library of common, admissible parts, and build the entire project from metal, transistors, raw circuit boards, and printed plastic - all in one day. We will push the limits of what can be done with the Level 1 Microfactory to build a finished product.

=Detailed Curriculum=
<span style="color:red">Note: curriculum is being finalized and may change slightly. </span>
Theory Sessions mean primarily presentation format - and Practice sessions are primarily hands-on, but include some background discussion.

==Day 1 - Intro, Big Picture + 3D Printer==
Mornings: '''8 AM Start'''
*1 hr - Introductions and OSE introduction. The world of public domain and open source.
*1 hr - Hands-On - FreeCAD - designing parts from sketches. How to Design a 3D Printer, and how to use 3D Printer design libraries in FreeCAD. Part list, build procedure.
*2 hr - Hands-On - Building a 3D Printer. We work together on all the parts, then assemble them individually into the finished product.
'''Lunch presentation:''' Marlin 101: Everything You Need to Know About Marlin 3D Printing Firmware
*2 hr - Continued: Building a 3D printer from scratch
*2 hr - Calibration, printing, slicing. [[Cura]], [[BlocksCAD]].
*Dinner - 6-7 PM
*Dinner Lecture - The Open Source Ecology Product Ecosystem
'''7 PM End'''

==Day 2 - 3D Print Cluster + Filament Maker==
'''Morning:'''
*1 hr - Theory and Practice - How to Set up a Print Cluster Server with Octoprint. Connecting a print cluster and doing production printing
*1 hr - Theory - Filament Maker and Extruders. How to design a filament maker and extruder screw. How wo design a 3D printer extruder. Heating Systems for the 3D printing ecosystem. Power supplies, heated beds, [[Nichrome Calculator]], extruder heaters, heated build chambers, filament maker heaters. Insulation, cooling, mechanics, power calculations for scalability.
*1 hr - Practice - Making 3D printing filament from scrap plastic (not commercial pellets). Grinding and extruding. Experiment in making metal-embedded 3D priting filament using bronze metal powder.
'''Lunch Lectures''' - Conversation with [[E3D]] on Extruder Design, Large Filament, and Supersized Extruders. Conversation with [[Octoprint]] on 3D Print Clusters.
*1 hr - Theory and Practice - How to build and use a filament width sensor with Marlin. This allows irregular, home-made filament to be used effectively in 3D printers, removing the necessity of high quality control during the filament production process.
*1 hr - Practice - Making nichrome heaters for the filament maker and heated bed. Printing with Home Made Filament
*1 hr - Theory - Parts requirements and part ordering for the 3D Printer and CNC Circuit Mill
*1 hr - Practice - Setting up an Online 3D Printing Service on a wiki with Octoprint.

==Day 3 - Ciruit Mill + Electronics==
'''Morning:'''
*1 hr - Practice - KiCAD workflow from basics to using part libraries and design.
*1 hr - Theory and Practice - CNC Circuit Mill Design Guide + design with FreeCAD Part Library. Design of 3D PCBs with KiCAD and import into FreeCAD for modification and Gcode generation. [[Creating a KiCAD Library File]]
*1 hr - Theory and Practice - Designing a capacitive spot welder using KiCAD and FreeCAD.
*1 hr - Thoery and Practice - Milling with a CNC circuit mill: producing Gcode files, bed leveling, soldering
'''Lunch Lecture''' - Power Electronics Construction Set: How to Design an Efficient, Scalable, Arduino-Based Power Supplies, Welders, Inverters, Converters, Plasma Cutters, Motor Controllers, Transformers, and Transmission Lines.
*1 hr - Theory and Practice - Stepper Drivers - how to use RAMPS to drive Stepper Motors of any size using external stepper drivers.
*1 hr - Practice - Understanding Power handling devices: PID Controllers, Relays, MOSFETs, rectifiers, PWM, IGBTs, heat sinks, and wiring them for sample applications. Demonstrating how power elements can be paralleled and scaled using an arduino with multiplexed drivers, for building power systems of any scale. Scalability limits.
*1 hr - Practice - Designing and making your own coreless and cored transformers.
*1 hr - Practice - milling and soldering an arduino-based power supply and inverter circuit board for 100W as an example application.

==Day 4 - Small Laser Cutter, Rapid Prototyping, Crowd Development==
*1 hr - Theory + Practice - How to Design a Small Laser Cutter with FreeCAD Libraries, hands on. Designing a magnetic mount for the laser cutter head.
*1 hr - Practice - Laser Cutter Toolchain, from design to cutting or etching. Use cases of small laser cutting.
*1 hr - Practice - Building an enclosure for the open source inverter using the Laser Cutter.
*1 hr - Practice - 3D Scanning - Reverse Engineering real life objects with Photogrammetry - case of a cordless drill.
*Lunch Guest Lecture - How to design a Carbon Dioxide Laser Tube from Scratch
'''Afternoon'''
*1.5 hr - Theory and Practice - building a 20W CO2 Laser Tube from PVC pipe. Hands-on.
*1 hr - Theory and Practice - Printing in Different Media: concrete, mud, ceramic, laser sintering, metal (sinter- and weld-based), metal plastic filament. How to make 3D printing filament with embedded metal. Metal part printing. Open source laser sintering in metal. Metal Injection Molding. We will print with bronze-embedded PLA to produce linear motion bushings for the 3D printer. We will also take a stab at mixing finely ground plastic with bronze powder in the filament maker to produce our own metal 3D printing filament.
*1.5 hr - Theory: Collaborative Development Method. Swarming on a Cordless Power Tool Construction Set tool. Collaboration ecology.

==Day 5 - The Open Source Everything Store: Collaborative Design for Economic Impact==
*1 hr - Theory - Why Production Has Not Been Democratized - Yet - and the Possibilities. ''Public awareness of the public.''
*1 hr - Practice - Setting up an incentive design challenge online - an Add-On to the Open Source Microfactory Challenge
*1 hr - Theory - Open Source Product Development - Modular Design and Collaboration Architecture
*1 hr - Practice - A Design Sprint for an Open Source Cordless Tool Add-On
'''Afternoon'''
*4 hr - Applied session of designing a cordless drill. Reverse engineering an existing drill, then using the 3D Printer, CNC circuit mill, battery spot welder, filament maker, and other small tools to build a working cordless drill. The aim is to match performance standards of an industrial-grade cordless drill. This involves parallel work in FreeCAD, KiCad, manufacturing file generation, building a battery pack, milling a control and battery charger circuit, 3D scanning, and 3D printing, and laser cutting + etching to produce a working product. We will use an off-the-shelf electric motor, clutch, and chuck this time, and invite remote collaboration support. In future Boot Camps and immersion programs, we will use a 3D printed open source electric motor and transmission, which also includes 3D printed, nylon-reinforced rubber belts.

==Day 6 - The Open Source Enterprise and Organization==
*1 hr - The Open Enterprise Software Suite: Infrastructure with Odoo Community Edition. We will discuss the needs and best practices of using Odoo: inventory management, payment processing, event registration, event announcement, sales, chatbot, customer service, customer feedback, e-commerce, email marketing, Website Builder, and other modules.
*1 hr - Managing an offline and an online 3D printing cluster. Towards a generalized microfactory open software stack for online manufacturing. Print cluster automation: part harvesting using the OSE Robotics platform.
*1 hr - Server Admin 101. Shell scripts and Unix Commands 101. Top 12 Principles for Entrepreneurs: what you need to know about installing and maintaining critical infrastructure for a scalable, open source product development process . Why encrypt?
*1 hr - Here we discuss going beyond solo development to managing a team. Leadership: best practices for building and leading an effective, open source culture. Operations Manual: How to Run an Open Source Hardware Company. Operations and Growth. This includes R&D, production, marketing, sales, HR, logistics, and finances.
'''Lunch''' - Conversation with Lulzbot on open enterprise.
*1 hr - Theory and Practice. Massive Parallel Development - setting up modular information architecture and integrated project architecture. Setting up the Development Template. Setting up wiki templates that work for you.
*1 hr - The OSE Workshops business model. Leveraging Immersion Training, Crowd Collaborative Involvement with Crowd Incentive Challenges to grow a team.
*1 hr - Preparing for a build of a scaled up 3D printer. Rapid prototyping: frame, heat bed, multiple stepper drivers, multiple axes, and 6 mm filament.
*1 hr - Final discussion, lessons learned, and open discussion about Open Source Everthing, includig the Open Building Institute with Marcin and Catarina

'''Dinner''' - Open Source Pool Party.

==Day 7 - Build Workshop==
*'''Leaving - 8 AM''' - We will build a 3D Printer with a 3' large bed and metal frame - in 1 day. With all the learnings of the 6 days, it's time for a road trip to a nearby University to experience an extreme Design/Build Workshop in practice. We start - armed with FreeCAD design knowledge and design insights on the Universal Axis System - and design and build a large 3D printer. We will both participate as a team, and guide additional participants who sign up for the workshop. This will be an experimental workshop where we show the power of the Construction Set model in building larger, more powerful machines - while collaborating as a larger team. This is possible because we are using the modular Universal Axis system - where the interfaces between the different components are clear and well-proven, and specific design principles simplify the design significantly to create a product with industry standard performance - while reducing the part count to about 1/2-1/3. We will demonstrate the scalability of the print bed to any size - axis sizes - and show how the simple 8 mm Universal Axis system can be leveraged to make quality machines on a larger scale, at a fraction of the cost of similar designs. The event is designed to be an experiment in working as a team - as we push the limits in terms of the number of participants that can work constructively not only on a design/build - but also the documentation. Our goal is to develop techniques where meaningful collaboration can happen with as many people as can fit in any room. This means that a common understanding of open sourcce design and build techniques matches the availability of open source equipment to build the open designs.
*'''Returning - 6 PM'''.

=Scheduled Presentations=
==Saturday, August 25 (CST Time Zone)==
*8-9 AM - [[OSE Introduction and Big Picture]]
*9-10 AM - [[FreeCAD Basics and Introduction to the 3D Printer Build Part 1]].
*12:30-1 PM - [[Lunchtime Lecture on Marlin]] - the open source software for controlling the 3D printer
*1-1:30 PM - 3D Printer Build Part 2
*4:30-5 PM - 3D Printer Build Part 3
*10 AM-6:00 PM - build, with 1 hour for lunch - video clips of main parts.

==Sunday, August 26==
*8 AM - Extreme Manufacturing: how to build large complex projects in a day with a swarm of people
*1 PM - Plastic Recycling to produce 3D Printing Filament Using an Open Source Toolchain

==Monday==
*8 AM - Introduction to Open Source Electronics Toolchains: From KiCad to Milling
*1 PM - The OSE CNC Circuit Mill: How to Design and Build a CNC Circuit Mill

==Tuesday==
*8 AM - The OSE Laser Cutter: Design and Build as Part of the Universal Axis System
*1 PM - Rapid Prototyping, Design Jams, and Public Product Development

==Wednesday==
*8 AM - The Open Source Everything Store - The New Democratic Surround
*1 PM - Incentive Challenges and the Cordless Drill and Cell Phone

==Thursday==
*8 AM - The Open Source Enterprise: Infrastructure
*1 PM - Open Source Product Development as the New Norm

==Thursday==
* 8 AM - Scalability: Extending the Universal Axis to Large 3D Printers

=Logistics=
*Arrival - evening before, with a welcome introduction at 8 PM.
*Food - food is included in the program
*Lodging - we have 12 spots available on site in shared-room accommodations, otherwise you can get a hotel in Cameron, MO, or camp on site.
*[[Workshop_Logistics_2018]]

=Registration=
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=FAQ=
*'''Is lodging covered in the workshop fee?''' Yes and no, depending on your tastes. Please see Logistics at bottom of https://www.opensourceecology.org/open-source-microfactory-boot-camp/#registration for details.
*'''Do I need to bring anything to the workshop?''' Just an open mind. We provide all the tools and supplies.
*'''Is food included?''' - In short, yes - see details at Logistics section at https://www.opensourceecology.org/open-source-microfactory-boot-camp/#registration

=Links=
*[[OSE Immersion Program]]
*[[Microfactory Boot Camp Logistics Email]]
*[[Workshop_Logistics_2018]]
*[[Boot Camp Remote Participant Email]]

=Attendees=
18 builds total - 21 people total
*Boot Camp - Kyle Tutty, Eric Poliner, Jeremy Lehrman, Jacob Lehrman, Bill Berkowitz, Tu Ngo + Son, Alex Brown, Ryan McMackins, Andrey Bemko, Catarina Mota (documenting), Lyle Bertz
*'''Immersion - Alex Au, Sara Bajor, Harman Bains, Nat Grimm; Dixon Nahrwold (3), Bhakti Kulkarni (3), Shale Lewis (7)
*Ph.D. Research - Rian (observing + building)
*Remote - [[Diderik van Wingerden]], Matt Heidrich, Chas Murillo, Pawel Lugowski, Greg Doud, [[Zbynek Winkler]], [[Dennis Weiss]], Milind Gunjan
*Food - Sarah for 2 weeks?
*Other - 2 children and a Border Collie?Hey Marcin,

I have just signed up for the microfactory bootcamp as a remote participant.

My background lies in an MSc in business informatics, several years in the industries as well as startups and finally, I’m now into freelance Web app development. Further I‘m currently learning permaculture design and just did the PDC on a farm in Austria. I‘m enthusiastic about the whole open source movement (soft- and hardware) and recently started reading through your OSE developer crash course.

My goal with the bootcamp is to lay the foundation to bring OSE to Zurich Switzerland and install a microfactory there. Btw; if you‘ve got already some cooperators in Switzerland I would be glad if you could provide me their contacts, so I could catch up with them?

As this signup is quite shorttem and I‘m on some travels this week I probably won‘t be able to attend all of the live lectures, but looking forward to grab on the recordings afterwards.

Finally, I have to say that I‘m impressed what you have achieved in the past years and I extremely like the whole OSE idea and philosophy behind.

So then, looking forward to the bootcamp ;)

Best

=Feedback=
*Bhakti - I would love to learn how to 3D print using different materials. Also, the CNC circuit mill is pretty cool. If you can add how to design the electrical circuit for newbies and translate them to the PCB, that would be great. ]
*Dixon - As for the topics on the schedue, I am honestly most interested in the laser cutter topics, that said the schedule looks pretty good to me anyway.
*Diderik - Learning about the OSE approach, the people and culture, more than is possible via reading the website(s), gathering input for initiating an Open Source Design R&D Hub in The Netherlands. One of the projects would be to "make a Makerspace" (or "Microfactory").

Universal CNC Axis

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=Basics=

*The Universal Axis is a modular and scalable CNC axis which can be used to create cartesian CNC machines. The core of the axis is belt drive and linear motion rods where carriages are pulled on the rods. The system is scalable to any size and number of axes, including rotary axes. THe system uses a combination of 3D printed parts, metal plates, and belt-driven shafts. Applications include 3D printers, CNC torch tables, heavy duty CNC machines, and many other production machines.

=Used For=

*[[Open Source Digital Fabrication Construction Set]]

=5/16" Universal Axis=
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=1" Universal Axis=
See [[1" Universal Axis]]
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=2" Universal Axis=

See [[2" Universal Axis]].

=Example of CNC Circuit Mill Configuration, 5/16" Axis=

'''See full documentation at [[D3D CNC Circuit Mill]]

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=Intro=

The following is a 5/16" or 8 mm version of the universal CNC axis described at http://opensourceecology.org/3d-printer-construction-set-workshop/

Larger axes will also be built, up to 2" for heavy duty CNC machining, with plastic parts sandwiched between metal plate as a plastic/metal composite structure. See calculations for beam deflection at [[Heavy_Duty_CNC_Construction_Set]].

=Universal Axis - Working Document=

*P1 - Visual Linked BOM (VLBOM)
*P2 - [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1c16frI1XSWUaqCRtWsGnv5-GaXvNl6P6fXIkUY72CdA/edit#slide=id.g1841d4b58e_0_0 extruder stepper motor mounting]

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=Concept=

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=WebGL=

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=Build=

==Carriage==

From Michel Dhoore in Belgium in 2016. Early prototype using larger carriage pieces for larger machines.

[[File:carriage.jpg]]

==Frame==

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==Axis==

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=BOM=

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=Order=

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==Frame Parts==

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=FreeCAD and STL Files for Printing=

==Originals from 2016 by Michel Dhoore==

*[[File:universal8mmaxis.zip]]

This file has the carriage belt tensioners, not shown below.

==Universal Axis with Magnet Holes 2017==

{{Hint|Under development Feb 2017}}
*[[File:universal axis carriage side.fcstd]]. [[File:universal axis carriage side.stl]].
*[[File:universal axis idler side.fcstd]]. [[File:universal axis idler side.stl]]
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*If using 6x10x3 mm flanged bearings (See BOM), then need a 1 mm spacer: [[File:idlerspacer.fcstd]]. [[File:idlerspacer.stl]]

=Fabrication=

*Print time - 3hr27min for the idler end -

[[File:8mmidlerprint.jpg]]

=One Axis Attached to Frame=

<html><iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fmarcin.jakubowski.378%2Fposts%2F10208727003469621&width=500" width="500" height="503" style="border:none;overflow:hidden" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowTransparency="true"></iframe></html>

=See Also=

*[[Open Source Digital Fabrication Construction Set]]

=Useful Links=
*'''OSE Germany appears to be doing non-coordinated development on this as well - [https://wiki.opensourceecology.de/Erg%C3%A4nzungs-Set_Lineartrieb#Kugellager-F.C3.BChrung]
*[[3D Printer Design Evolution]]
*3DP Construction Set workshops - December 2016 - [http://opensourceecology.org/3d-printer-construction-set-workshop/]

Ciclop

2018-08-20T17:51:37Z

Zbynek: Adding categories

Ciclop - open source 3D Scanner

== Links ==
* https://github.com/LibreScanner/ciclop
* https://github.com/LibreScanner/horus

[[Category: 3D Scanner]] [[Category: Open Hardware]]

Ciclop

2018-08-20T17:50:27Z

Zbynek: Just links to github.

Ciclop - open source 3D Scanner

== Links ==
* https://github.com/LibreScanner/ciclop
* https://github.com/LibreScanner/horus

OSE Crash Course

2018-08-18T10:09:22Z

Zbynek: Removed link to self.

'''<span style="color:red"> Last updated May 2018.</span>'''

Required reading for all [[OSE Developers]] and others who are interested in collaboration:
=Top 16=

To find out about OSE's work, study these top 16 resources if you are interested in becoming an OSE Developer:

#[[GVCS TED Talk]] - the talk that brought OSE to the world stage at TED.
#[[The New Yorker]] - article about the early days of OSE.
#[[Open Building Institute Kickstarter]] - effort begun in 2016, intended to make affordable ecological housing widely accessible. Builds on the GVCS tool set.
#Burndown graph of all machines completed - [http://opensourceecology.org/GVCS/]
#[[Product Ecologies]] - for how the machines fit together
#[[Construction Set Approach]] - designing the technosphere using building blocks for everything
#[[OSE Specifications]] - the design principles behind what we do
#[[Open Source Product Development]] - how traditional product design is tending to modular and open design
#[[OSE Development Process]] - the agile process that we use for open source product development
#[[Extreme Manufacturing]] - radically efficient, module based, parallel swarming model of social production for rapid builds
#[[Distributive Enterprise]] - OSE is pioneering this new economic paradigm for the open source economy
#[[Open Source Everything Store]] - the Distributive Enterprise to disrupt Walmart
#[[Open Source Technology Pattern Language]] - from 2008 and slightly dated, but still serves as a good benchmark for a comprehensive technology kernel - and will be updated as we move forward
#[[Roadmap]] - 20 year plan of OSE to transcend artificial scarcity
#[[Critical Path]] - current year's plan
#[[OSE Developers]] - invitation to people who want to help take us there

=Other Notable Content=
#[[Genealogies]] - development genealogies for 6 project with multiple prototypes
#[[Status of Completion]] - assess the state of completion of the GVCS
#[[Civilization Starter Kit]] - initial major publication, featuring the first 4 machines of the GVCS
#[[Prototypes Built and Cost]] - cost of prototyping and results up to 2013
#[[Press]] - 100s of articles from The New Yorker, Wired, Huffington Post, Inc, Time, and much more.
#[[OSE Boot Camp]] - 1 week immersion training introduced in 2018
#[[OSE Fellowship]] - 1 year full time merit-based fellowship to do something extraordinary
#[[Seed_Eco-Home_Index]] - index of all the design documents for the Seed Eco-Home
#[[Aquaponic Greenhouse Workshop]] - design and results of the 2015 Aquaponic Greenhouse build.

Talk:Github vs Wiki

2018-08-18T09:45:30Z

Zbynek: More Wiki Cons?

== More Wiki Cons? ==

In the Wiki I, as a reader, never know what is current or obsolete. There are a lot of pages in a flat namespace, laced with links to google docs. As an outsider I have a very hard time orienting myself. In a github (or git repository in general) I have multiple repositories and branches within repository, I have tags for releases (builds), I have branches for forks (replications). I can imagine a repository for 3D printer for example, where the master branch is work-in-progress towards the next build, while past builds are tagged as such. To replicate a any past build is easy in such a setup - I clone the repository and checkout the tag of the last successful build and everything is at my finger tips. It works for software, there is no reason this cannot work for hardware as well.

I see this as one of possible reasons while there are not more replications.

--[[User:Zbynek|Zbynek]] ([[User talk:Zbynek|talk]]) 09:44, 18 August 2018 (UTC)

Agrokruh

2018-08-15T21:11:49Z

Zbynek: /* Videos */

This is a automated robotic system developed by the engineer Mr. Jan Šlinský of Slovakia. It is a stationary technology for the production of vegetables whereby the gantry is attached at one end to a fixed joint and at the other has an electric motor propelling a wheel. A steel frame is used as a carrier unit for different instruments. The fields are therefore circular, and the system is also known as "Agrocircle". The centre of every circle is served by water and electricity, for irrigation and power. Due to the rotation of the arm, the implements move in a spiral from the outside of the circle towards its centre. The spanning arm can be equipped with almost a complete set of implements, appliances used in vegetable production. At the outer end there is a wheel moving the frame around and the electric motor with the input power of 0.75 kW.

The first installation of AGROKRUH® technology is in Brnov Les village Hrubý Šúr, Slovakia, about 30 km from Bratislava - the capital of the Slovak Republic. The area in question occupies 15 ha (150 000 m2) on the bank of Malý Dunaj (Small Danube) river. Approximately one half of the area consists of fields and the other half comprises flooded forest. Within the above mentioned area there are 15 cropping circles covering 2 hectares.

For further information, contact:
Ing. Jan Šlinský
Ing. Peter Balašov
agrokruh {at} agrokruh {dot} net

==Implements==
Judging from the videos, these implements have been used: plow, weeder, spader, irrigation device, ...?

==Assessment==
'''Pros:''' no need for tractor nor other heavy machinery, fully electric with no batteries needed, appropriate for small-scale agriculture (family farm), high density growing, human-scaled, highly versatile, soil benefits (claimed), one frame can be used for multiple circles (the farm in Slovakia has 15 circles served by 5 frames that are constantly swapped)

'''Cons:''' high up-front infrastructure requirements, availability unclear (is this open source?), non-standard products (e.g. ripening) due to circular design,

==Videos==

Good newer videos, but in Slovakian (with English subtitles):

<html>
<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/99343531" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>
<p></p>
</html>

<html>
<iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fiE4rruSDCY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</html>

Really old video:

<html>
<iframe width="420" height="345" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed//mYrJ0BJ4Qak" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</html>

Only in Slovakian (2009):

* https://archive.org/details/Agrokruh
* https://archive.org/details/AGROKRUH_PRE_TEBA

==Links==
* Robotic concept on a smaller scale - [[Farmbot]]
* Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/Agrokruh-341983669161013/ page about Agrokruh]
* [https://www.youtube.com/embed//ZwP3A6z4sFc TED talk by Jan Šlinský]
* Google search: [https://www.google.com/search?q=agrokruh&aq=f&oq=agrokruh&aqs=chrome.0.57j0l3.2334&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 "Agrokruh"]
* The system may (?) be available from [http://www.cepta.sk/ CEPTA]
* Detailed description (.pdf download): [http://www.ekumakad.cz/download/IVF/CEPTA%20-%20Introducing%20AGROKRUH.pdf "Introducing AGROKRUH - CEPTA"] (internal copy [http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/File:CEPTA_-_Introducing_AGROKRUH.pdf here])
* OSE Wiki page: [[Agricultural Robot]]
* https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrokruh
* http://farmlandia.sk/
* Last snapshot of [http://web.archive.org/web/20110101153216/http://www.agrokruh.net:80/ agrokruh.net] on archive.org from 2011, [http://web.archive.org/web/20131220024658/http://www.agrokruh.sk:80/ agrokruh.sk] contained the same content and went down sometime in 2014 (last update was from 2010).

Agrokruh

2018-08-15T21:11:04Z

Zbynek: /* Videos */ more Slovakian videos

This is a automated robotic system developed by the engineer Mr. Jan Šlinský of Slovakia. It is a stationary technology for the production of vegetables whereby the gantry is attached at one end to a fixed joint and at the other has an electric motor propelling a wheel. A steel frame is used as a carrier unit for different instruments. The fields are therefore circular, and the system is also known as "Agrocircle". The centre of every circle is served by water and electricity, for irrigation and power. Due to the rotation of the arm, the implements move in a spiral from the outside of the circle towards its centre. The spanning arm can be equipped with almost a complete set of implements, appliances used in vegetable production. At the outer end there is a wheel moving the frame around and the electric motor with the input power of 0.75 kW.

The first installation of AGROKRUH® technology is in Brnov Les village Hrubý Šúr, Slovakia, about 30 km from Bratislava - the capital of the Slovak Republic. The area in question occupies 15 ha (150 000 m2) on the bank of Malý Dunaj (Small Danube) river. Approximately one half of the area consists of fields and the other half comprises flooded forest. Within the above mentioned area there are 15 cropping circles covering 2 hectares.

For further information, contact:
Ing. Jan Šlinský
Ing. Peter Balašov
agrokruh {at} agrokruh {dot} net

==Implements==
Judging from the videos, these implements have been used: plow, weeder, spader, irrigation device, ...?

==Assessment==
'''Pros:''' no need for tractor nor other heavy machinery, fully electric with no batteries needed, appropriate for small-scale agriculture (family farm), high density growing, human-scaled, highly versatile, soil benefits (claimed), one frame can be used for multiple circles (the farm in Slovakia has 15 circles served by 5 frames that are constantly swapped)

'''Cons:''' high up-front infrastructure requirements, availability unclear (is this open source?), non-standard products (e.g. ripening) due to circular design,

==Videos==

Good newer videos, but in Slovakian (with English subtitles):

<html>
<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/99343531" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>
<p></p>
</html>

<html>
<iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fiE4rruSDCY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</html>

Really old video:

<html>
<iframe width="420" height="345" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed//mYrJ0BJ4Qak" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</html>

Only in Slovakian:

* https://archive.org/details/Agrokruh
* https://archive.org/details/AGROKRUH_PRE_TEBA

==Links==
* Robotic concept on a smaller scale - [[Farmbot]]
* Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/Agrokruh-341983669161013/ page about Agrokruh]
* [https://www.youtube.com/embed//ZwP3A6z4sFc TED talk by Jan Šlinský]
* Google search: [https://www.google.com/search?q=agrokruh&aq=f&oq=agrokruh&aqs=chrome.0.57j0l3.2334&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 "Agrokruh"]
* The system may (?) be available from [http://www.cepta.sk/ CEPTA]
* Detailed description (.pdf download): [http://www.ekumakad.cz/download/IVF/CEPTA%20-%20Introducing%20AGROKRUH.pdf "Introducing AGROKRUH - CEPTA"] (internal copy [http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/File:CEPTA_-_Introducing_AGROKRUH.pdf here])
* OSE Wiki page: [[Agricultural Robot]]
* https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrokruh
* http://farmlandia.sk/
* Last snapshot of [http://web.archive.org/web/20110101153216/http://www.agrokruh.net:80/ agrokruh.net] on archive.org from 2011, [http://web.archive.org/web/20131220024658/http://www.agrokruh.sk:80/ agrokruh.sk] contained the same content and went down sometime in 2014 (last update was from 2010).

Agrokruh

2018-08-15T21:03:45Z

Zbynek: /* Links */ add agrokruh.sk

This is a automated robotic system developed by the engineer Mr. Jan Šlinský of Slovakia. It is a stationary technology for the production of vegetables whereby the gantry is attached at one end to a fixed joint and at the other has an electric motor propelling a wheel. A steel frame is used as a carrier unit for different instruments. The fields are therefore circular, and the system is also known as "Agrocircle". The centre of every circle is served by water and electricity, for irrigation and power. Due to the rotation of the arm, the implements move in a spiral from the outside of the circle towards its centre. The spanning arm can be equipped with almost a complete set of implements, appliances used in vegetable production. At the outer end there is a wheel moving the frame around and the electric motor with the input power of 0.75 kW.

The first installation of AGROKRUH® technology is in Brnov Les village Hrubý Šúr, Slovakia, about 30 km from Bratislava - the capital of the Slovak Republic. The area in question occupies 15 ha (150 000 m2) on the bank of Malý Dunaj (Small Danube) river. Approximately one half of the area consists of fields and the other half comprises flooded forest. Within the above mentioned area there are 15 cropping circles covering 2 hectares.

For further information, contact:
Ing. Jan Šlinský
Ing. Peter Balašov
agrokruh {at} agrokruh {dot} net

==Implements==
Judging from the videos, these implements have been used: plow, weeder, spader, irrigation device, ...?

==Assessment==
'''Pros:''' no need for tractor nor other heavy machinery, fully electric with no batteries needed, appropriate for small-scale agriculture (family farm), high density growing, human-scaled, highly versatile, soil benefits (claimed), one frame can be used for multiple circles (the farm in Slovakia has 15 circles served by 5 frames that are constantly swapped)

'''Cons:''' high up-front infrastructure requirements, availability unclear (is this open source?), non-standard products (e.g. ripening) due to circular design,

==Videos==

Good newer videos, but in Slovakian:

<html>
<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/99343531" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>
<p></p>
</html>

<html>
<iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fiE4rruSDCY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</html>

Really old video:

<html>
<iframe width="420" height="345" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed//mYrJ0BJ4Qak" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</html>

==Links==
* Robotic concept on a smaller scale - [[Farmbot]]
* Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/Agrokruh-341983669161013/ page about Agrokruh]
* [https://www.youtube.com/embed//ZwP3A6z4sFc TED talk by Jan Šlinský]
* Google search: [https://www.google.com/search?q=agrokruh&aq=f&oq=agrokruh&aqs=chrome.0.57j0l3.2334&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 "Agrokruh"]
* The system may (?) be available from [http://www.cepta.sk/ CEPTA]
* Detailed description (.pdf download): [http://www.ekumakad.cz/download/IVF/CEPTA%20-%20Introducing%20AGROKRUH.pdf "Introducing AGROKRUH - CEPTA"] (internal copy [http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/File:CEPTA_-_Introducing_AGROKRUH.pdf here])
* OSE Wiki page: [[Agricultural Robot]]
* https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrokruh
* http://farmlandia.sk/
* Last snapshot of [http://web.archive.org/web/20110101153216/http://www.agrokruh.net:80/ agrokruh.net] on archive.org from 2011, [http://web.archive.org/web/20131220024658/http://www.agrokruh.sk:80/ agrokruh.sk] contained the same content and went down sometime in 2014 (last update was from 2010).

Agrokruh

2018-08-15T20:54:07Z

Zbynek: wayback link to agrokruh.net

This is a automated robotic system developed by the engineer Mr. Jan Šlinský of Slovakia. It is a stationary technology for the production of vegetables whereby the gantry is attached at one end to a fixed joint and at the other has an electric motor propelling a wheel. A steel frame is used as a carrier unit for different instruments. The fields are therefore circular, and the system is also known as "Agrocircle". The centre of every circle is served by water and electricity, for irrigation and power. Due to the rotation of the arm, the implements move in a spiral from the outside of the circle towards its centre. The spanning arm can be equipped with almost a complete set of implements, appliances used in vegetable production. At the outer end there is a wheel moving the frame around and the electric motor with the input power of 0.75 kW.

The first installation of AGROKRUH® technology is in Brnov Les village Hrubý Šúr, Slovakia, about 30 km from Bratislava - the capital of the Slovak Republic. The area in question occupies 15 ha (150 000 m2) on the bank of Malý Dunaj (Small Danube) river. Approximately one half of the area consists of fields and the other half comprises flooded forest. Within the above mentioned area there are 15 cropping circles covering 2 hectares.

For further information, contact:
Ing. Jan Šlinský
Ing. Peter Balašov
agrokruh {at} agrokruh {dot} net

==Implements==
Judging from the videos, these implements have been used: plow, weeder, spader, irrigation device, ...?

==Assessment==
'''Pros:''' no need for tractor nor other heavy machinery, fully electric with no batteries needed, appropriate for small-scale agriculture (family farm), high density growing, human-scaled, highly versatile, soil benefits (claimed), one frame can be used for multiple circles (the farm in Slovakia has 15 circles served by 5 frames that are constantly swapped)

'''Cons:''' high up-front infrastructure requirements, availability unclear (is this open source?), non-standard products (e.g. ripening) due to circular design,

==Videos==

Good newer videos, but in Slovakian:

<html>
<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/99343531" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>
<p></p>
</html>

<html>
<iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fiE4rruSDCY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</html>

Really old video:

<html>
<iframe width="420" height="345" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed//mYrJ0BJ4Qak" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</html>

==Links==
* Robotic concept on a smaller scale - [[Farmbot]]
* Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/Agrokruh-341983669161013/ page about Agrokruh]
* [https://www.youtube.com/embed//ZwP3A6z4sFc TED talk by Jan Šlinský]
* Google search: [https://www.google.com/search?q=agrokruh&aq=f&oq=agrokruh&aqs=chrome.0.57j0l3.2334&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 "Agrokruh"]
* The system may (?) be available from [http://www.cepta.sk/ CEPTA]
* Detailed description (.pdf download): [http://www.ekumakad.cz/download/IVF/CEPTA%20-%20Introducing%20AGROKRUH.pdf "Introducing AGROKRUH - CEPTA"] (internal copy [http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/File:CEPTA_-_Introducing_AGROKRUH.pdf here])
* OSE Wiki page: [[Agricultural Robot]]
* https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrokruh
* http://farmlandia.sk/
* Last snapshot of [http://web.archive.org/web/20110101153216/http://www.agrokruh.net:80/ agrokruh.net] on archive.org

Talk:Agrokruh

2018-08-14T12:12:48Z

Zbynek: Web presence missing?

== Web Presence ==

All webpages about agrokruh seem to be down or on sale:

* http://agrokruh.com/
* http://agrokruh.net/
* http://agrokruh.sk/

On a [http://permaweb.cz/forum/topics/agrokruh-1 czech forum] I was able to find this contact email: agrokruh@gmail.com (however it is not verified). Should it be somehow incorporated into the page?

--[[User:Zbynek|Zbynek]] ([[User talk:Zbynek|talk]]) 12:12, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

Agrokruh

2018-08-14T11:21:03Z

Zbynek: /* Links */ Add some links.

This is a automated robotic system developed by the engineer Mr. Jan Šlinský of Slovakia. It is a stationary technology for the production of vegetables whereby the gantry is attached at one end to a fixed joint and at the other has an electric motor propelling a wheel. A steel frame is used as a carrier unit for different instruments. The fields are therefore circular, and the system is also known as "Agrocircle". The centre of every circle is served by water and electricity, for irrigation and power. Due to the rotation of the arm, the implements move in a spiral from the outside of the circle towards its centre. The spanning arm can be equipped with almost a complete set of implements, appliances used in vegetable production. At the outer end there is a wheel moving the frame around and the electric motor with the input power of 0.75 kW.

The first installation of AGROKRUH® technology is in Brnov Les village Hrubý Šúr, Slovakia, about 30 km from Bratislava - the capital of the Slovak Republic. The area in question occupies 15 ha (150 000 m2) on the bank of Malý Dunaj (Small Danube) river. Approximately one half of the area consists of fields and the other half comprises flooded forest. Within the above mentioned area there are 15 cropping circles covering 2 hectares.

For further information, contact:
Ing. Jan Šlinský
Ing. Peter Balašov
agrokruh {at} agrokruh {dot} net

==Implements==
Judging from the videos, these implements have been used: plow, weeder, spader, irrigation device, ...?

==Assessment==
'''Pros:''' no need for tractor nor other heavy machinery, fully electric with no batteries needed, appropriate for small-scale agriculture (family farm), high density growing, human-scaled, highly versatile, soil benefits (claimed), one frame can be used for multiple circles (the farm in Slovakia has 15 circles served by 5 frames that are constantly swapped)

'''Cons:''' high up-front infrastructure requirements, availability unclear (is this open source?), non-standard products (e.g. ripening) due to circular design,

==Videos==

Good newer videos, but in Slovakian:

<html>
<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/99343531" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>
<p></p>
</html>

<html>
<iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fiE4rruSDCY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</html>

Really old video:

<html>
<iframe width="420" height="345" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed//mYrJ0BJ4Qak" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</html>

==Links==
* Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/Agrokruh-341983669161013/ page about Agrokruh]
* [https://www.youtube.com/embed//ZwP3A6z4sFc TED talk by Jan Šlinský]
* Google search: [https://www.google.com/search?q=agrokruh&aq=f&oq=agrokruh&aqs=chrome.0.57j0l3.2334&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 "Agrokruh"]
* The system may (?) be available from [http://www.cepta.sk/ CEPTA]
* Detailed description (.pdf download): [http://www.ekumakad.cz/download/IVF/CEPTA%20-%20Introducing%20AGROKRUH.pdf "Introducing AGROKRUH - CEPTA"] (internal copy [http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/File:CEPTA_-_Introducing_AGROKRUH.pdf here])
* OSE Wiki page: [[Agricultural Robot]]
* https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrokruh
* http://farmlandia.sk/

Agrokruh

2018-08-14T10:42:43Z

Zbynek: Another newer video added.

This is a automated robotic system developed by the engineer Mr. Jan Šlinský of Slovakia. It is a stationary technology for the production of vegetables whereby the gantry is attached at one end to a fixed joint and at the other has an electric motor propelling a wheel. A steel frame is used as a carrier unit for different instruments. The fields are therefore circular, and the system is also known as "Agrocircle". The centre of every circle is served by water and electricity, for irrigation and power. Due to the rotation of the arm, the implements move in a spiral from the outside of the circle towards its centre. The spanning arm can be equipped with almost a complete set of implements, appliances used in vegetable production. At the outer end there is a wheel moving the frame around and the electric motor with the input power of 0.75 kW.

The first installation of AGROKRUH® technology is in Brnov Les village Hrubý Šúr, Slovakia, about 30 km from Bratislava - the capital of the Slovak Republic. The area in question occupies 15 ha (150 000 m2) on the bank of Malý Dunaj (Small Danube) river. Approximately one half of the area consists of fields and the other half comprises flooded forest. Within the above mentioned area there are 15 cropping circles covering 2 hectares.

For further information, contact:
Ing. Jan Šlinský
Ing. Peter Balašov
agrokruh {at} agrokruh {dot} net

==Implements==
Judging from the videos, these implements have been used: plow, weeder, spader, irrigation device, ...?

==Assessment==
'''Pros:''' no need for tractor nor other heavy machinery, fully electric with no batteries needed, appropriate for small-scale agriculture (family farm), high density growing, human-scaled, highly versatile, soil benefits (claimed), one frame can be used for multiple circles (the farm in Slovakia has 15 circles served by 5 frames that are constantly swapped)

'''Cons:''' high up-front infrastructure requirements, availability unclear (is this open source?), non-standard products (e.g. ripening) due to circular design,

==Videos==

Good newer videos, but in Slovakian:

<html>
<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/99343531" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>
<p></p>
</html>

<html>
<iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fiE4rruSDCY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</html>

Really old video:

<html>
<iframe width="420" height="345" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed//mYrJ0BJ4Qak" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</html>

==Links==
* Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/Agrokruh-341983669161013/ page about Agrokruh]
* [https://www.youtube.com/embed//ZwP3A6z4sFc TED talk by Jan Šlinský]
* Google search: [https://www.google.com/search?q=agrokruh&aq=f&oq=agrokruh&aqs=chrome.0.57j0l3.2334&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 "Agrokruh"]
* The system may (?) be available from [http://www.cepta.sk/ CEPTA]
* Detailed description (.pdf download): [http://www.ekumakad.cz/download/IVF/CEPTA%20-%20Introducing%20AGROKRUH.pdf "Introducing AGROKRUH - CEPTA"] (internal copy [http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/File:CEPTA_-_Introducing_AGROKRUH.pdf here])
* OSE Wiki page: [[Agricultural Robot]]

Farmbot

2018-08-14T08:23:22Z

Zbynek: Fixed links.

<html>
<iframe width="560" height="315" align=right src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uNkADHZStDE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</html>

https://farm.bot/

Open Source gantry-style precision agricultural system for poly-crop application. Pioneered by Rory Aronson.

Possibly could be modified to use the D3D Axis. Also a flame/steam weeder attachment might be useful. This also may benefit greenhouses.

=Size=

Retrieved 7/16
*Machine length: Adjustable from 1.5 to 3m
*Machine width: Adjustable from 0.5 to 1.5m
*Machine height: Adjustable from 0.5 to 1.5m
*M*ax growing area: Approximately 2.9m x 1.4m
*Max* plant height: approx. 0.5m

Currently the price is $3100. I think that I could probably build my own CNC for about $1500, but that wouldn't include the heads and it'd be a process. I plan to slowly build one over many months after finishing my next computer build.

=BOM Cost=
https://farmbot-genesis.readme.io/docs/bill-of-materials

There you go - the list of materials along with sources and prices, by section.

It comes out to about $2021, but I don't think that list has the heads (weeder, planter, waterer).

The heads are all 3D printable. It has the costs, but I'm not sure that's actual cost of the plastic, or if it just accounts for their time / time on their 3d printers:
https://farmbot-genesis.readme.io/v1.0/docs/bill-of-materials#3d-prints

==Waterjet Cutting==
See how they outsource it - [https://hackaday.io/project/2552-farmbot-open-source-cnc-farming/log/26597-water-jet-cutting-with-big-blue-saw]

=Related Pages on OSE Wiki=
* [[Agricultural Robot]]
* [[Prospero: Robotic Farmer]]
* [[Agrokruh]]
* [[Drones]]

=Wiki=
*http://wiki.farmbot.org/

[[Category: Food and Agriculture]]
[[Category: Automation]]

Talk:Metal Selective Layer Sintering

2018-08-06T08:06:45Z

Zbynek:

From what I read this is how they make many high end aerospace parts (like compressors for turbines etc), and some medical implants. Granted they use titanium powders, and electron beams, but the tech is still relitevely the same, and definetly has a place.

One concern is powder waste, but most can be recycled, at least in part.

Anyways this is just what I have heard, I may post some links etc. somewhere later.

--[[User:Eric|Eric]] ([[User talk:Eric|talk]]) 01:55, 11 Febuary 2018 (CET)

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Also there is supposedly a difference between SLS or selective laser melting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_laser_sintering

, and selective laser melting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_laser_melting

Sintering doesn't completely melt the powder, and thus requires more post processing. This does allow it to use smaller lasers/electron beams though.

Also see this for the electron beam technologies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron-beam_additive_manufacturing

--[[User:Eric|Eric]] ([[User talk:Eric|talk]]) 02:00, 11 Febuary 2018 (CET)

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SLS is short for Selective Laser Sintering. Should this page be renamed?

--[[User:Zbynek|Zbynek]] ([[User talk:Zbynek|talk]]) , 2018-08-06 10:00:00