OSE Immersion Program Curriculum

The OSE immersion curriculum is a deep dive into soft and hard skills of making a better world, framed within the work of open source ecology.

Schedule Overview

The course is a deep learning immersion based on experiential learning. The weekly schedule involves class time, hands-on builds, and participation in public Extreme Manufacturing (XM) Workshop on site or at other locations. As a result, immersion program trainees will gain extensive experience in preparing and running the XM workshops. Successful completion - or graduating to become OSE Fellows - means that the OSE Fellows will run these workshops on in different locations, while engaging in full time development work with OSE.

• Week 1 - survey of OSE development techniques - the OSE Boot Camp.
• Week 2 -

Learning Outcomes

Builds

• Capacity to build a cartesian 3D printer of any size and shape using the Universal Axis system, and to design the same in FreeCAD
• Capacity to design and build a CNC circuit mill from the Universal Axis system.
• Capacity to design and build a 4W laser cutter using the Universal Axis system.
• Capacity to design and build a filament maker and plastic shredder

Design

• Understanding the calculations and design principles of the modular Universal Axis system and resulting machines.
• Understanding admissible parts for design
• Ability to use FreeCAD part libraries and design guides to make design iterations and upgrades to the existing machines

Development Process

• Understanding and executing core processes for open source product development while maintaining documentation.
• Mastering collaborative workflows in virtual meetings with Realtime Cloud Collaborative documents
• Ability to manage a development process at a basic level in order to lead the development of any GVCS module
• Ability to identify and reaching out to Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)
• Ability to assess the development status of other existing open source projects

Communications and Teaching

• Ability to articulate the vision of OSE, it's current status, and main development points, and its challenges
• Ability to teach Extreme Manufacturing Workshops to a group of participants
• Ability to invite SMEs to a development process
• Ability to produce explainer videos and teaching videos with title screen, subtitles, and links.

Week 1 - OSE Boot Camp

See Open Source Microfactory Boot Camp

Week 2

• Open and Public 101 - starting in Greece, ideals of freedom have carried on to democracy, transparency, public interest, and in the 21st century - Distributive Enterprise.
• Building a 3D Printer 1
• FreeCAD + 3D Printer Design
• OSPD - modularity etc
• Marlin
• Octoprint
• Cura
• Open Source Microfactory - Index of Possibilities. OSE Rules of Engagement - no whining. Pragmatic approach.
• You 101. Before transforming the world, youust transform yourself. Habits of happiness. Positive psychology - learned optimism. Personal and political ponerology. Health, sleep, food. Human augmentation. Augmented learning: speed reading, memory boost, book summaries, emptying the mind, smart drugs, understanding world class quality in all disciplines. Integrated humans. Busyness paradox. Happiness. You 101 - all types of assessments for ability, mindset, capacities, personality, disposition, etc. Saying 'impossible' is nonnegotiable - you can only judge whether something is worth it - and to make that assessment requires more thought than a lazy 'it's impossible'.
• World 101. Green history of the world. Medium of transformation. What has humanity learned to date about peace and prosperity, to allow people to thrive in balance with natural life support systems? What are the best proven institutions to date? Scientific method. If we attain that, where are we likely to go from here? The Better Angels of Our Nature. Homo Deus. Leviathan. Tax. War. Death. Freedom. Economy. Health & Medicine. Law. Cooperation. Governance. Getting along with one another: worldly education, responsibility (self vs God, cause and effect), science vs fiction, Homo Deus. Tipping Point. Seasteading.
• One Day MBA. Leadership 101 - you can't be an asshole including to yourself, and two, you need a skill set - which is not born but learned. Influence and personal power. Tipping point. Basic rules of communication: As King, and NVC. Personal to political transformation. Institutions of the economy and survey of economic thought. Size of the economy. The open source economy. Accounting, legal, operations, recruiting, marketing. Open ledgers. Open source product development. Vivid Vision. IQ, emotional intelligence, entrepreneurial quotient (EQ]
• Psychology, Self-Determination Theory. Logic - mental models and general Semantics, information theory, numeracy, mental models. How people think and how they behave. Esteem. Empathy. Peak performance. Mastery. Growth mindset. Top grading. Debunking myths in different sectors. Generally accepted as true. Energy, environment, resources, and society.
• Week 1 Workshop - Saturday

Week 2 - Microfactory I: 3D Printing + Small Machines

Session includes day visit from outsiders who can also participate in the workshop, for added energy.

This period includes the technology basics for rapid prototyping and the open source microfactory.

• Building a 3D printer
• Building a CNC Ciruit Mill
• Building a Laser Cutter interchangeable tool head
• Building a Filament Maker
• Building a plastic shredder, similar to the Precious Plastic version.
• Week 2 Workshop - Saturday

Week 3

This week will include workshop preparation and some prototyping, mixed with teaching on open source product development.

• Designing in FreeCAD - the basic OSE workflow.
• FreeCAD 3D Printing Design - towards a workbench.
• FreeCAD Programming 101
• Exploded part animations, language agnostic instructional, fabrication drawings in FreeCAD
• Finite element analysis in FreeCAD
• Collaborative design using Google Docs
• Development template 101
• Documentation Best Practice - from Building Open Source Hardware.
• Creating wiki templates
• Parsing wiki pages
• Setting up and running a 3D Printing Cluster
• How to Design a 3D prinreeCAD_for_3D_Printingter of any size from scratch
• Marlin 101 - custom operation, advanced bed leveling, filament width sensor
• 3D printer tuning, troubleshooting, and modification
• 2D toolpath software toolchain for Laser Cutter - Inkscape to dxf to gcode for drawing, engraving, and cutting. LaserWeb.
• Circuit Design 101 - from KiCAD to milling, populating, and 3D printed enclosures.
• Miling circuits - open source power supply for the 3D printer.
• Collabodative Rapid Prototyping - full team exercise that includes printing, cutting, and
• Cutting time and printing time calculations.
• Grinding waste plastic and producing 3D printing filament
• Designing new Filaments and producing them
• Manufacturing 101. Survey of manufacturing technology. The bearing. Manufacturing, and history of technology. Wood, steel, silicon. Water, rocks, sand (silicon, glass), carbon, sunlight, soil food web. Integration and distribution vs new technology. Summary of the 18 Dan Gelbart lectures.
• Week 3 Workshop

Week 4 - Enterprise Development of the Open Source Everything Store

• Products: (1) 3D printer; (2) CNC circuit mill; (3) laser cutter; (4) filament maker with grinder; (5) power supply;
• Mastering product BOMs
• Masering the build procedure
• Practice Workshops - Running a 3D printer workshop - 2 locations on the same day. 2 or 3 teams
• Announcement Preparation - week 1
• Week 4 Workshop

Week 5

• Refining Technology, Instructionals, Material Checklists, Quality Control Checklist
• Spawning a submission to HeroX for crowd funded crowd development
• Managing the HeroX - special course
• Preparing for a 90 day Development Sprint - on the large 3D printer

Links

• OSE Immersion Program