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Dear Participants,

Welcome to the Future Builders Crash Course. Here is some prep notes.

If you do one thing to prepare - download FreeCAD for your computer, and study it. It is the full house. We plant to build EVERYTHING that you see in that file. So the more you know about the design, the more you will get out of the workshop. I suggest you open the file, click view/hide for each part in the part tree - and you can examine every single detail at the module level. The file has about 400 parts. These are in about 50 sub-folders. These are in 8 folders. Start by hiding and un-hiding the 8 main folders. Then hide all the folders, and view one at a time. Such as Kitchen. Unfold that folder - and go through the same exercise hiding and unhiding all of its subfolders.

You can do this ad infinitum. We suggest you spend hours doing this. At the workshop, we will ask you first - how many hours did you spend on this exercise? This is actually data for us. Do people care? Do people review the materials beforehand? If not, what are the blocks?

Please confirm with me how many people are in your group if more than one so I can verify my count. And summarize which specific parts of the build are most interesting to you. If you have build experience - let us know what your experience is and let us know what you are proficient at - and what you would like to learn more about. We are planning the event to allocate build roles as effectively as possible, so that we get the most out of the workshop and guarantee the highest level of completion possible.

Better yet - take a look at the available tech drawings in our PDF - 200 pages - and select 20 things that you want to build. This way we are allocating roles already.

Thanks,
Marcin