Dan Meyer

Wed Jun 24, 2020

1. Intros - dan is a manufacturing technologist. Die casting, high speed metal casting, and foundry. Cycle times of minute for an engine! Sand casting. Al, zinc - million castings for mold, mg, copper. Stainless steel has 100 cycle lifetime. Stainless steel it would
   1. Institutional racism
   2. Trained 300 fab lab teachers. White belt to black belt in tech.
2. Marcin updates Dan on OSE recent activities
   1. Dan updates Marcin on recent Chicago Fab activities
   2. How the IL PPE network was created and runs, and future plans
   3. Setup a time for Marcin to meet the IL PPE group on one of the end of day zoom calls
3. MSI Fab Lab and OSE collaboration
4. Chicago Hacker, Maker and Fab Lab network and learning from OSE to maybe start a version of a Chicago OSE collective. Maybe at the Plant or at The #Chicago Sustainable Mfg Center or even at MxD Goose Island.

Notes

• Dan is our Founddry guy
• Teachers - from lesson to full-blown makerspaces
• Hackerspace - south side hacker space
• Hackerspace work -
• Made things professionally before this
• Heavy automation for die casting - total misconception that we don't have mfg in this country
• We don't have educated workers to run plants
• 100% job placement - for skilled people
• Mike Rowe - big welding guy - where are people for 'dirty jobs' - like welding
• Potential to 100% job placement for welders
• Fablab Mad Max
• Andreas - started in theretical physics, to leadership. Interested in resource flows and quality of opportunity. Maximizing eco and opportunity: open source circular economies.
• All kind of bullshit - tends to be pahsed out
• https://fabacademy.org/2020/labs/incitefocus/students/daniel-meyer/projects/01FabShop/
• https://youtu.be/2lx77K_9dCQ
• Knows Bart Dring - Ordbot designed in one day
• Open Source Laser - from Bart
• Dan has ADHD.
• Nucalm.com