Community Microfactory

Design

• Remote Dev Team contributes to open source 3D printed product and enterprise development. Can produce 1000 startups in one year.
• Freeloader dilemma solution - brand is protected. Anyone who starts one of these enterprises is free to do so, but additional is accessible only to contributors who collaborate.
• Can generate a community of entrepreneurs, who also show up to develop
• Part of revenue goes to incentive challenge prizes
• Website - email capture to sign up for the Open Source Microfactory Incubator
• Website - custom open source 3D printing software must be available, or we just print from approved models.
• Has ongoing hackathons in the community where people contribute effort to further product development
• Produces more machines eventually - grows to a full service microfactory, but starts with 3D printed goods.
• Starts with weekly design sprints, and improvement of OSE collaboration architecture
• Revenue funds continuing product R&D - via incentive challenges.

Services

• Products
• Classes- including full STEAM Camps for open source product development
• Hackathons - scaled with all locations at the same time working on a single product to attain high development velocity.
• Membership (you can 3D print things and make filament)
• Cost structure is 5% service fee to keep location alive and to grow it. Price structure is determined by a nonprofit with a board of directors

Operations

• Revenue model - you pay a subscription of $25/month membership. BYO filament or buy it from us at cost + 5% maintenance fee.
• It has 3D printers, shredders, and filament makers - as the starting equipment. It functions as a tool library.
• Ongoing programming develops open source products, and products are sold in the store.
• Store has recycling capacity. Store recycles plastics
• It runs off-grid from a rooftop PV system, 16 kW strong.
• It builds products sold in the local community
• PVC fittings, 3D Printers, 3D printing filament
• It's an online 3D printshop store where people can order things online using a 3D printing website - where participants are vetted. Custom 3D Printing Vetting

Stocking

• Raw materials only are to be stocked. Production is done on-demand to meet orders.
• Production starts within 24 hours for timely delivery
• Production is quality controled via Recipes.
• Individuals can train in all recipes.