STEAM Camp Business Plan

Keys to Success

1. Strong and irresistable positioning related to transition from consumerism to open source product designers. or shifting the economic playing field from competition to collaboratiton to create an economy of abundance, creating the world we all want to live in with the open source, circular economy. The OSE brand stands for this, and has a clear and unparalleled value proposition based on ethics and practice
2. Fill workshops by hiring the best in the world as instructors

Executive Summary

The Open Source Microfactory STEAM Camp empowers novices and experts alike to learn the basics of collaborative product design using advanced, open source tools. Curriculum covers 4 days of using tools and techniques that allow an individual to contribute meaningfully to collaborative, open source product design. These tools include collaborative literacy and development techniques, open source CAD software, open source 3D printers for on-demand prototyping, and documenting everything according to best practices of open hardware documentation. We focus on using Universal Axis - an open source construction set for precision motion - to create open source manufacturing tools - such as 3D printers, CNC mills, and laser cutters - and then apply these tools to building real products that contribute to a public design effort for creating the open source economy.

Using open source techniques and guidance from our team of expert instructors, students build real products that they can then take home with them: 3D printers, a functional cordless drill, a Raspberri Pi tablet, an aerial drone, and many others. All participants are then encouraged to start their own business producing 3D printed electromechanical products and to create the open source equivalent of Amazon.

Stragegy

Focus on getting the most interesting people that others want to pay for. Challenge may be aligning their interests with OSE - so the ideal candidate may be a superstar open to open source economic development. For those in competing businesses, it may be good publicity for them.

OSE Dev Kit

Dev Kit gets you started in design and prototyping using Arduino, Simple 3D Printer, Universal Controller, and Sensors.

• Arduino kit - with temperature and humidity sensor, camera, and solenoids. Mega comes with the D3D Simple.
• LCD screen - Basic programming on LCD screen - display and selection. LCD screen included in 3D printer kit.
• D3D Simple - a basic 3d printer for beginning to prototype like a pro. With the D3D Simple, you can start prototyping usable components.
• OSE Linux bootable disk. Has FreeCAD tutorials and other critical assets. Comes with front page of browser configured to load the OSE Part Library, and show the OSE Crash Course - Collaborative Literacy and 12 top design lessons building upon the Open Source Microfactory STEAM Camp Recordings
• OSE Part Library USB - download all of our designs.
• Hacksaw blade with 3D printed holder.

Finances

• Revenue per person - $1250 per seat, 9 days
• $5k baseline OR 50% of net
• Dev Kit B0M - $200
• 9 Day STEAM Camp. Focus on 4 first days Boot Camp in OSE methods.
• Invite the others who are already doing cutting edge stuff to present, with the last 5 days of STEAM Camps being Project Days dedicated specifically to creating a simple, viable 3D printed product of some sort.
• budget of $12k gross, $5k for the Superstar Instructor for 5 days
• $1k venue - or if free, this goes into the 50/50 share of savings
• , $1k video and publicity, $1k admin staff, $1500 (12.5% of gross goes to OSE) + anything above baseline budget is shared 50/50 with Instructor. Superstar Instructor attracts their audiences to the Camp - 12 people need to register for above costs to be met ($1k per seat).

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Curriculum

Practical producer training for the concerned citizen, leading to Distributed Market Substitution of common goods, and thereby the circular economy and lifetime design.

Meta

Business model starts with Extreme Manufacturing - which then reduces the size of other sectors: financial, legal, spiritual, transportation, hospitality, education. The model foundation is XM - ie - Distributed Market Substitution of physical goods - that meet or exceed industry standards. From there, prosperity follows into other sectors. This is the old debate between materialism and idealism. Within the human economy, it seems clear that materialism is the preferred foundation, and idealism is derivative, not source.

The target market is people who are looking for self-determination, with financial independence coming from production.

We can break the product into a 4 day OSE Core Skills training - which can also be turned into an online course. This formalizes the first 4 days and makes this training scalable. Revenue model comes from the services (exams, webinar, learning community) around the STEAM Camps - and products (edu kits).

Day 1 - 8 hours

Note: need to open ends of Motor and Carriage Piece to simplify belt threading.

OSE Intro, Collaboration, FreeCAD, and Universal Axis.

1. 9-10AM - 1 hr - OSE introduction
2. 10-10:30 AM People Intros and Learning Goals - 30 min
3. 10:30 AM How to Start an open source project to change the world - 30 min
4. Stretch break
5. 11:15 - 11:45 - OSPD. The OSE open source project infrastructure: work log, wiki, FreeCAD, Google Presentations, Gitlab
6. Stretch break.
7. 12-12:30 - Intro to OSE Dev Kit - OSE Linux, FreeCAD 16 and 18, Cura, Arduino IDE, OBS Studio, Kdelive, KiCAD
8. 12:30-1 - FreeCAD Intro - 1/2 hour to the first Complex Shape
9. 1-2 - Lunch and Stretch
10. 2-2:30 PM - Collaboration - Setting up Work Log and Part Libraries. Exporting WebGL 3D graphics - 1/2 hr. Embedding work log entries - FB.
11. 2:30-3 PM - Intro to KiCAD. Arduino Part Library and designing your own Arduino.
12. 3-3:30 PM - D3D Simple Build: Theory. OSE 3D Printer Intro - Universal Axis Parts (15 minutes) - building D3D Simple - 15 minutes
13. Stretch Break
14. 3:45 - 4:45 - Workshop time: D3D Simple Build from Kit. Universal Axis 1-3 build.
15. Stretch Break
16. 5-6 - Universal Controller Build
17. 6-7 - Screw everything together and first run: Plotter!

Day 2

Plotting, Electronics, and Arduino Welder.

Day 2 - 8 Hours

Electronics and 3D printing -

Links

• STEAM Camp Curriculum
• STEAM Camp Projects
• STEAM Camp Candidates
• Steve.