Summer School Planning

Intro

We design and build open source industrial machines, and publish the plans on the internet for free.

This summer, we are offering a one month immersion into hands on skills that take you from your laptop into the world of physical hardware. We will be building of real infrastructure: tractors, houses, and other machines.

Over the years, we've been developing open source, community-based building techniques that bring tangible skills back to people. See the OSE founder's TED Talk:

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Then we discovered how to build a tractor, or 3D printer - in one day. Or a house - in 5 days. This is what we call Extreme Manufacturing.

Schedule

In this summer school, we will take students through an immersion of skills necessary for collaborative design and builds of significant products. This is an opportunity for hands-on experience with efficient productivity - on a small scale - unlike that offered anywhere else. The schedule is packed with 8 hour days of classroom and hands-on experience, where we do swarm builds of large and impressive things.

Week 1: Design and Collaboration

• Monday

• Morning: Introduction: OSE Introduction and Introduction to Collaborative Literacy. Learning how to work in large and distributed teams on complex design problems by breaking them down into small chunks, and documenting everything as we go. :*Afternoon: Build beginning: 3D printer.