D3D Fusion thesis

Requirements

Conditions of satisfaction (technical)

• One day build?
• Host # number of data-collecting workshops?
• Print quality?
• ...

Requirements for approval of Distributed Enterprise goals

• It is an enterprise, generating income?
• Does it dog-food its own products?
• Is replication of the enterprise at the core of its strategy? (Does it train its own competitors?)
• Are there free licenses on all source code and design files?
• Other ethical requirements?
• Is it a productive enterprise?
• Is product produced in a short amount of time?
• Can the enterprise produce a range of different products?
• ...

Compliance with University Requirements

• Presentation with opponent?
• A written thesis following thesis guidelines?
• ...

Hopefully, we'll also be able to formulate some goals.

Goals

• Building web-based community, like a MOOC?
• Achieving actual workshop propagation?
• Getting other collaborators on board?
• Usage of OSE distro?
• Created good FreeCAD introduction for OSE distro?
• ...

Earlier Work

Troublemaker

• Proprietary formats for some of the files, AutoCAD (dwg) - [1]
• NC license - license incompatibility issues

MOST lab workshops

The MOST lab has a very similar concept. They have

• Their own kit and kit supplier
• Detailed online documentation describing both how to build the printer and how to host a workshop
• Gathered data from workshops
• Free software source code and design files
• A separate Train-the-trainer program

Seed Factory

Dani Eder had a similar initiative in 2013, called Seed Factory. He wrote a Wikibook where he introduces several useful concepts and shares lots of engineering knowledge.

Difficulties

1. Making actual potential workshop instructors in a short time. I (Tobben) have never seen a newbie that became a good instructor in < 1 year. Confirmed by MOST lab having separate (and very detailed) train-the-trainer program.